Feb 03 2022 - Blue the Most Popular Colour - Even in China!

 

Blue is the most popular and loved colour by humans - preferred by more than 35% of the world's population. And that includes China, says one headline.  The distinction YouGovAmerica makes about China is: "colors like red, yellow and green are considered to be auspicious or lucky (though the distinction between blue and green found in English is a more modern development for the Chinese language)." I assume we could do a survey of articles to find U.S. biases and how they evolved. Subtle and not so subtle references like this that separate China out from the rest of the 10 countries surveyed as somehow not part of the crowd. That's one of my anecdotal  observations as I read articles every day.     Another survey has a hilarious description of what items might be the reference points for our colour preferences.   "According to research conducted by psychologists Stephen E. Palmer and Karen Schloss over the last seven years, the answer isn’t found in our DNA. Their study, published in 2010, posits that a person’s preference for a given color can be determined by averaging out how much that person likes all of the objects they associate with that color. Your inclination for orange, for example, depends on how you feel about pumpkins and traffic cones and Cheetos, among other things; for green, it varies according to your thoughts on grass and American dollar bills and broccoli." What do you think?  How many of the 10 countries might even recognize the word Cheetos?  I hope it is few to only one. That article is available HERE. And for a tour through the most popular colours of the decades, you can look at this article from jukebox HERE.  There is a lot of blue grunge to find everywhere - a few examples below.

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