Color Blind
Buds and I have long been fascinated by the idea of how the words for color, or lack thereof, impact how color is perceived. There is a memorable story from our early life together of someone saying to us, “Why do you care so much about green anyway?!” after we had apparently talked too long about how people see color differences.
Finally, a study that supports and clarifies those discussions of long ago.
There is an embedded video that talks about a group of people in Namibia who don’t have separate colors for blue/green, and how that impacts what they can differentiate. Vice versa, they have different words for different types of green, which Westerners have a very difficult time discerning.
Words shape the brain…in so many ways.
