This year the Dutch are to hold their tenth successive Roodharigendag festival, otherwise known as Redhead Day and the UK's first Ginger Pride Walk was hosted in Edinburgh - with a throng of Scottish marchers standing up against gingerism and bluey bullying.
And now England is following suit. The organiser of this event, 43-year old pizza delivery driver Stuart Parry, is spearheading this red revolution in Plymouth. Sporting a ginger mohican and a t-shirt which reads 'TEAM GINGE,' he told the Plymouth Herald: