Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Colors

Colors, this is very interesting concept.

Fortunately, we human beings can recognize the colors.

Each color poses characters, and the character gives many things colored with each character.

And it's very interesting that the character differences for each culture, era, and many other backgrounds.

Also, some culture have various names for one color which is categorized as one in other culture; in most countries, there are some names for "white", but for Inuit, they have dozens of names for it.

Cultural anthropologist says that the words are connected with the concept in the culture. So many words "white" means that they have necessity to identify so many "white" things.

In Japan, there used to be various names for colors, more than European one, but these days, our culture is invaded with American or European one, and our traditional culture is almost lost.

I think, Japanese are very sensitive for many things, and we have to protect, transfer it to our children.

"Okashi" and "Aware" culture is the fantastic culture, superior than any other culture in America and Europe, I believe.

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