I am not young anymore, even though I act like I am still 25yrs old, but my body has started to show changes of ageing, my hair has started to turn white or is it grey. Right so the question arises if the hairs on my scaly have started to turn white or grey? , if you are a proper English speaker you are supposed to say that the hairs have turned grey, so does the westernised English press in India, they say grey hair so does the many advertisements on television. they have plenty of remedies to stop your hair from greying and obviously there are plenty of hair dyeing products available as well.
Looking at my my hair, it is not grey but white, so why should I call it grey hair then white hair? the answer lies in the 200years of British rule and us Indians following blindly whatever the west says or does. Having lived in the United kingdom for the past 8yrs or so myself, I have found the answer to this. The hair turns grey in the west and it turns white in the east.
My explanation is people in Asia and Africa have black hair and when they grow old it turns white, where as in Europe and the Americas people have different hair colours, especially in the UK. Apart from black their hair colours range from Blond, Brown, Red etc, etc. So when the age the colour of the hair turns grey rather then black which I have seen myself, hence they say that the hair has greyed. Having said that the Blond one don't start greying till late middle age.
So in conclusion we in the east should be saying that our hair has become white and they in the west stick to their original saying.
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