Why are people so against or mocking of Rastafarians?
I think it probably has to do with the fact that most Rastafarians aren’t Rastafarians at all. They dress that way, listen to the music and smoke the ganja (which incidentally is illegal in most Western societies), but when all is said and done, it stops there. You get the same thing among Christians, too. There are many who don’t actually apply the principles at all. The result is that they are perceived as being hypocrites. With Rastas, it goes a bit further. I don’t know about SA, but in Europe, some can be quite aggressive and anti-social – for example, having noisy parties that go on all night and disturb everybody, and paying no attention when the neighbours ask them to calm down; leaving their houses and gardens in a filthy state of disrepair; seriously overcrowding their houses; spending more time on the dole than most people; bringing up their children in an ill-disciplined and disorderly way; and so on. All these reasons go against them. And the fact that they are easily reco
