> In America I will go outside with my beard

This looks uncannily like the first line of a lost Walt Whitman poem.

I want you to know this made me laugh very hard.

> I want you to know this made me laugh very hard.

Thank you! Then the long-ago time spent in my American Lit classes was not wasted.

In English (but also in other languages like my Italian) orange hair is called red because the color orange arrived too late with the orange fruit.

https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/33117530568/why-dont-we...

Probably because they are too polite to call you ginger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw&t=159s

That video is phenomenal! Thanks for sharing

Most of Tim Minchin's stuff is pretty good. He makes you laugh and think at the same time. The first couple of minutes of that video plays with anagrams of "ginger" and gives a second layer of meaning to the video. A bit more context: Ginger Nuts are a hard biscuit in Australia, frequency dunked in tea to soften them [1] and they are a national institution.

[1] https://www.taste.com.au/food-news/we-just-found-out-arnotts...

I mean white people are not “white”, black people are not “black”, native Americans are not “red” etc.