The colors of the world unite

The colors of the world unite
The colors of the world unite
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The Information is Beautiful page strives for visual representations of various data. There we found the Colors In Cultures diagram, which finally clearly shows which expression is associated with which colors in each culture.

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We can easily read from the figure that while in America, Japan and Western Europe the color of death (16) is black, for Hindus and Chinese it is white, for Muslims it is silver, and for South Americans it is green the same. There is also a difference in the expression of grief (59), while for example it is black for us, while for the Chinese it is white, but there are also cases where yellow refers to our loss.

The color of marriage (56) in Western cultures is white, while among Hindus and Chinese it is red.

The color of evil (24) is clearly black, but the repulsion of evil is associated by cultures with completely different colors. In Western culture, among Hindus and Asian ethnic groups, yellow is a sign of rejection of evil (71), among the Japanese it is red, while among the Chinese it is green. After this, it is not surprising that they also have a completely different attitude towards peace (63), and it is not certain that everywhere would understand at first if we waved a white flag.

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