Dreadlocks - About dreads and growing making starting them. Dreadlocks are really just matted hair. Dreadlocks have a lot of meanings to a lot of different people but are in no way the property of anyone, any religion or any race.
People can grow dreadlocks for whatever reasons they wish.
Many people are convinced that dreadlocks are rastafarian or african by origin. Well this is completely unfounded. One of the religions most often associated with dreadlocks is rastafarianism. Rastafarians are not required to have dreadlocks and certainly those who have dreadlocks are not required to be rasta. If I had to guess I'd say the majority of the people who start dreadlocks do it as an outward symbol of something they feel inside.