How does one distinguish between curly hair of different ethnic groups?

[DontFxxkWithWendy]

It seems like there’s a lot of ethnic groups that have prevalent curly hair (e.g. Irish/Celtic, African Americans, ethnic Jews, Sicilians, etc.). How can I tell the difference? Obviously, black hair is way more kinky and almost always dark. It seems like Irish/Celtic curly hair is usually lighter and more curly, and Sicilian and Jewish hair is more thick and frizzy but not necessarily kinky. Am I on the right track?

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I attached a picture of my hair and wondered what you guys thought what ‘ethnic hair’ it would fall under. (That’s my natural hair. Yeah, I know it’s frizzy as hell.)

[Ripuarian]

My father had a childhood friend from a Galician Ashkenazi family who had a cousin who had a flaming-red negro-textured Afro. That person is dead now but from my fathers description and my observation of one photo, his hair seems to be either 4b (Kinky with a weak Z-curl structure) or 4c (kinky with no curl structure). Either way he is probably one tightest haired cacausians you could come across.

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He is the third person on the right.

[Ripuarian]

It seems like there’s a lot of ethnic groups that have prevalent curly hair (e.g. Irish/Celtic, African Americans, ethnic Jews, Sicilians, etc.). How can I tell the difference? Obviously, black hair is way more kinky and almost always dark. It seems like Irish/Celtic curly hair is usually lighter and more curly, and Sicilian and Jewish hair is more thick and frizzy but not necessarily kinky. Am I on the right track?

ED12171E-DB4E-4A80-8EE3-56E01992239C.jpeg

I attached a picture of my hair and wondered what you guys thought what ‘ethnic hair’ it would fall under. (That’s my natural hair. Yeah, I know it’s frizzy as hell.)

From your picture I would place your hair at 2b/2c and at the very most 3a (wavy-slightly curly). A wide variety of ethnicities could posses such Hair. It is fairly common throught most of Western Europe, but Eastern Europeans tend to be more straight or slightly wavy.