PSA: As a real life Scottish person please stop using the argument that Celtic peoples had dreadlocks when talking about the cultural appropriation of dreadlocks. We didn’t. Ever. Please don’t lie about my culture in order to validate your racism.
Little PSA from Scandinavia (I’m Danish): vikings never had dreads either. They had braids and other styles, but never dreads.
The vikings were, by the past standards, obsessed with cleanliness and bathing. Most washed daily and you can not get dreads, as a white Scandinavian, if you clean your hair daily or even weekly.!! this !!
Neither did the Irish!!
For those unaware, the distinction of cleanliness is important because actual locs are based off curl pattern and very cleanly BUT white people without the appropriate curl pattern can get matted hair from being filthy that they call “locs”.