I got interested in this idea from a recent wikipedia crawl:
Most societies attach symbolism or connotation to a given color. What’s really interesting to me is that they often have different ideas on what a color means or stands for.
So I’d like to get some ideas on what meaning other cultures attach to colors.
I’ll start by listing a color and it’s given significance to my own culture, which is the United Sates:
I’m grabbing an easy one
Color:
Green
Society:
United States
Positive associations:
Nature, fertility, environmentalism, money, wealth
Negative associations:
Envy, jealousy, sickness
Holidays for which this is a color:
Christmas, Saint Patrick’s Day