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Hi, In your interesting article on "Hot comb" you refer to use of the comb by African Americans and people of African descent. I feel that this part of the article fails to reach the high standard of useful information you want to impart on this subject.

My contention is that if you want to describe the people who use this hairdressing technique, then, certain facts may incline you to adjust your article so that it will not have this one major inaccuracy in it. The first of these facts is that according to modern anthropology, the first humans are believed to have emerged in Africa and increased in a dispersal from Africa. That is to say the root of all humanity is in Africa. Hence to say that someone is of African descent in this context is merely to say they are one of the many and various types of human being alive today, not all of whom engage in a frequent use of the hot comb.

Secondarily, of course it might be reasonable to say all people of African descent from after a particular date in history or prehistory. This will present you with the difficulty of the inclusion of the descendants of South Africans, Ugandans, Zimbabweans and other Africans. whose immediate forbears were from the Indian subcontinent and from Europe. These people are and were citizens of African countries. Therefore they are Africans. But they won't be users of the Hot comb A third point where I feel your article may not be saying exactly what you want it to say is when you make seperate reference to both African Americans and to people of African descent. The former of these groups is a subset of the latter but you have not include other subsets such as the Afro-Caribean community in Britain etc.

you are joking? right? i just won't believe *anybody* could be as clueless as to get on his anti-racism high horse just because someone off-handedly refers to black people as 'africans/afro-americans'

Feb 12, 2010 - I wonder about the links at the bottom of the page. They seem more like advertising than they are adding to the information of the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.198.153.194 (talk) 14:10, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I made some small changes to make this page adhere more towards standard Wikipedia style (set up references, small spelling corrections, etc) and added categories (I'm sure there are more and better ones). This page needs a major overhaul - it reads like a high school essay. I removed this quote because I could not find the work referenced: “In America shortly after the end of slavery, long straight hair was a sign of privilege and, therefore, a sign of respect and beauty.” (Lommel 56)Curtangel (talk) 21:54, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey guys this page is vandalized and used for advertisemente!!!!

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