Thread: Color meaning in cultures

Colours In Cultures

Hi all,
We periodically have discussions about the appropriateness of certain costume colors when performing for certain cultures - thought you might like this.
Christine

oh wow, interesting! thanks for sharing

i wonder who made this chart up. i disagree with a lot of the chinese ones. we don't do orange for anything. mourning is not only white it's blue and green and black too. and the wrongest thing is black for celebration. we don't like black. celebration is red red red red red red red red red and gold.

With the Chinese, seemingly you don't wear green hats because that means that your husband is being cuckolded - apparently the literal translation from the Chinese is to wearing a green hat!

Ok, nothing related to b'dancing...just thought I'd share!

Love it,thank you!

Interesting

i'm finding it hard to read, to see where each letter goes. but it's interesting nonetheless

very interesting

Alrana

Because I am a dork, I teased out all the Muslim, African, and Western/American ones. The chart only contains colors that had Muslim & African associations listed.

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It definitely is overly simplified (by necessity) and occasionally wrong (for the whole culture, parts of the culture, in certain times, etc.). For instance, yellow = peace in America? I'd say blue is the color of peace (though I only remember hearing that from Catholics...maybe blue = peace is a Catholic thing). But still pretty and kind of interesting.

Originally Posted by bul_bul_ksa

With the Chinese, seemingly you don't wear green hats because that means that your husband is being cuckolded - apparently the literal translation from the Chinese is to wearing a green hat!

Ok, nothing related to b'dancing...just thought I'd share!

hey that's right! how do you know this?

Originally Posted by Juniper

Because I am a dork, I teased out all the Muslim, African, and Western/American ones. The chart only contains colors that had Muslim & African associations listed.

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It definitely is overly simplified (by necessity) and occasionally wrong (for the whole culture, parts of the culture, in certain times, etc.). For instance, yellow = peace in America? I'd say blue is the color of peace (though I only remember hearing that from Catholics...maybe blue = peace is a Catholic thing). But still pretty and kind of interesting.

maybe they took the yellow thing from yellow ribbons for safe return of soldiers? i'd think peace would be white....