TIL most cultures and peoples all over the world have historically had trouble recognizing the color blue
TIL most cultures and peoples all over the world have historically had trouble recognizing the color blue
Historical evidence reveals that humans possess the remarkable ability to render certain physical appearances invisible if they do not focus on them, including something as fundamental as a color. Specifically, the color blue. While our eyes can perceive among approximately one million colors, it re...
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They didn't have trouble recognizing blue. How would that even work? Blue things were and are blue. The article includes lots of bullshit which is to be expected for a site that has all kinds of pseudoscientific bullshit and pseudoarchaeology.
Its not about wavelength but about peoples ability to perceive and distinguish.
Blue is a rare pigment in nature so in most ancient cultures its often being categorized as a shade of green.
To give you an example of the opposite:
The Himba tribe of Namibia is known for their unique perception of color, particularly in how they differentiate shades of green. Research has shown that the Himba are more adept at distinguishing between various shades of green that many “civilized” might see as similar.
I don't actually care about the linguistic side of it; we call a green traffic signal a blue light here in Japan (and the new ones are more blueish, but the old ones were much more green). I think Vietnamese and other languages do that.
When I skimmed the article, it was arguing that people literally could not see the blue, or at least was worded thusly where I looked before noping out of there. The literal title is "Hidden Hue: Why Ancient Civilizations Failed to See the Color Blue?" Not "failed to give it its own name" but "failed to see".
Edit: punctuation.
Clickbait be clickbait and half the site is probably ai generated. I wont defend the hyperbole.
Theres is a debate you can have to what attributes to seeing in relation to perception. Our mind has a lot of tricks to get around the restrictions of our eyes.
Its a shame how enshitification erodes this conversation.
Yeah, there are definitely interesting conversations to be had. I actually saw an interesting video on the vision/linguistic side. I was just trying to find it to share but, speaking of enshitification, yoube's search is ass. Why can't I search in my subscriptions?!
I left that problem behind me a long time ago
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