French lawmakers vote to outlaw discrimination against afros, braids - SABC News

France’s lower house of parliament approved legislation on Thursday to outlaw discrimination against dreadlocks, braids, afros and any other hair style, colour or texture, defeating some who called the bill an unnecessary import of U.S. ideas.

The bill, which aims to ban all discrimination against hair texture or hair cuts, will also protect blond women from sexist discrimination, Serva said.The bill was approved by 44 legislators against only two, while many MPs did not vote at all for this first reading of the text, as is often the case. It has to be approved by Senate to become a law.

Not everyone backs the proposal in France, which prides itself on a culture of universalism that states that all people are equal, and which does not allow ethnic quotas, or even collecting data based on ethnicity.

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