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Blond ( is a hair color found in certain people characterized by low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. The resultant visible hue depends on various factors, but always has some sort of yellowish color, going from the very pale blond caused by a patchy, scarce distribution of pigment, to reddish "strawberry" blond colors or golden brownish blond colors, the latter with more eumelanin.
In northern Europe fairy lore, fairies value blond hair in humans. Blond babies are more likely to be stolen and replaced with changelings, and young blond women are more likely to be lured away to the land of the fairies.
Changeling of legend depicted as a blonde.Blond hair was commonly ascribed to the heroes and heroines of European fairy tales. This may occur in the text, as in Madame d'Aulnoy's La Belle aux cheveux d'or or The Beauty with Golden Hair, or in illustrations depicting the scenes. Only Snow White, because of her mother's wish for a child "as red as blood, as white as snow, as black as ebony", has dark hair.
Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.Two notable bleached sex icons of twentieth-century America, who started causing an unrealistic, more or less scandalous and otherwise negative image of real blond hair, were Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe. Monroe, who was pale blond as a child though her hair darkened to a dark reddish blond, and Harlow, a natural ash blonde, both frequently portrayed stereotypical dumb blondes in their films.
It is also stereotypical that most men do prefer blondes, seeing as how the media portray blondes as "easy" or "promiscuous". Because of this, they believe that blondes "have more fun". After the movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", a sequel was followed called "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes", signifying that women with darker hair are symbolized to be more motherly in nature, or more stable when it comes to marriages.
Blonde jokes are a class of jokes based on a "dumb blonde" stereotype of blonde women (or rarely, blonde men) being unintelligent, sexually promiscuous, or both.
In the early-mid twentieth century, blond hair was associated with a Nordic race, promoted by Nordicists such as Madison Grant and Alfred Rosenberg, while the "Aryan race" was conceived as a larger group, including the non-blond "Alpine race". During World War II, blond hair was one of the traits used by Nazis to select Slavic children for Germanization.