Exploring Colors – White /3

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The Color White – Is this your Lucky color? /3

By Charles L Harmon

Continued from Part 2

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The Color White – pt 3

 

Reiterating some White Qualities

The color white stands for wholeness and completion. In many cultures the color white represents openness and truth. White sometimes has a cold quality. You can notice this when you look at some fluorescent lights. If I walk into my garage at night and turn on the lights several fluorescent lights come on, but there is a cold feeling and unlike sunlight the warmth you feel, and I don’t mean temperature, is just not there. However, it should be noted that there are “warm fluorescent lights” which are more like sunlight. Such lights are often used to provide artificial sunlight for plants growing indoors as indicated above.

White materials show colored stains and dirt very clearly, due to the high contrast of other colors, except real pale colors. This is the likely reason it is associated with purity and cleanness. White is Monday’s color. When someone gives you White daisies they are a symbol of love.

Here are a few other things the color white is said to do:

• to start a new or fresh beginning
• purify your thoughts or actions
• to help clear your mind
• to clear clutter and obstacles from your life

Some Other uses of White

The color white is very often used in a religious context; which could easily be a topic of its own. In some cultures white is worn at funerals. In Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Indian tradition, white is the color of mourning and death. White also represented death in ancient Egypt, representing the lifeless desert that covered much of the country. This is generally the opposite of Western traditions where black is used in such occasions. On the other end of the scale, in ancient Egypt, black was considered the color of life. It represented the mud-covered fertile lands which were created by the flooding Nile River which may have given the country its name Kemet, or “black land”.

 

White and Black Contrasts

White and Black are opposite colors. They have the biggest visual contrast of all the colors. This characteristic can easily be extended or exploited to include other opposite concepts such as good and evil and day and night. In Western Civilization White often represents purity or innocence. White clothing or any white objects are easy to stain or discolor because of the high contrast between white and most colors. In most Western countries white gowns are worn by brides at weddings. Also you’ll find Angels typically shown or painted clothed in white robes. Healing or so-called “good” magic is called White magic. The opposite of that is called “Black Magic.” According to Wikipedia, in early Western films the stereotype “good guy” wore a white hat while the “bad guy” wore a black hat. We see this used today in the “black hat” and “white hat” terms used for people who abuse and counter abuse computer systems respectively.

There is great influence in Eastern culture in Taoism where Yin and Yang is usually depicted in black and white and the two colors as opposites. In board games where they have two opponents, frequently one opponent is white, the other is black, illustrated in games such as go, chess, and checkers.

 

Want some Controversy and Confusion?

“White people* (also called Caucasian) is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin. Rather than a straightforward description of skin color, the term white denotes a specific set of ethnic groups and functions as a color metaphor for race.

The most used definition of a ‘white person’ is a person of European ancestry. However, the definition of a ‘white person’ differs according to geographical and historical context, and various social constructions of whiteness have had implications in terms of national identity, consanguinity, public policy, religion, population statistics, racial segregation, affirmative action, eugenics, racial marginalization and racial quotas. The concept has been applied with varying degrees of formality and internal consistency in disciplines including: sociology, politics, genetics, biology, medicine, biomedicine, language, culture, and law.“

* From Wikipedia

 

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