He is right about that though. I think different colors though, and they could see different shades of red instantly, where we have some trumble with it.
The way he presents this was off, but it also has to do with the development of language within a group of people. Blue is a very rare naturally occurring color so it’s importance to be able to distinguish is very low priority . First colors that get works are white/light bc the sun, then is black/dark bc the night, then red bc danger (blood for example) and there are a multitude of colors that come before the development of the idea/color/word for blue.
That is true women see more colors than men. Less that 1% of people ever born with color blindness were women. That means 99% or more of all colorblind people ever born were male.
I'm from the Himalayas. We are all tribals here. We have the same word for blue and green which I always found weird. Now I know why. The indus river that flows here is blue but turns turquoise blue during winters and looks greenish.
I live in South Africa… a speak a language called SEPEDI… we use one word for blue and green… ‘Tala’ meaning ‘green’ and ‘Tala leratadima’ meaning ‘green of the sky’… very interesting
Which is quite strange, because no matter where you live, in a desert, or by the sea, you can always see the blue sky and green vegetation that are clearly different colors
But what if blue in your brain is the same color as green in my brain? My trees may be blue to you, and your sky may be green to me. We can never know🤯
As a small child I had my favorite green blanket. Nobody could take it away from me. What confused my parents and older sisters was the fact that it was actually blue. I've always wondered what the hell was going on with my interpretation of color at that time.
Even in Japanese, there was no distinction between blue and green. Old people still call green blue. The Japanese did not distinguish between blue and green, so the color of traffic lights can be green or blue. In Chinese, the letter 蒼 also means sky, but it originally meant a dark color like the night sky rather than blue. The letter 青 also means blue, but there is a letter "moon" below it, which does not mean blue but means the black or indigo of the night sky, just like 蒼. I thought it was a problem with the dye, but maybe there really is a secret to the blue color. The light-emitting diode was also missing only the blue color forever.
This is similar in Zulu too. Green and Blue share the same root word (hlaza). And are differentiated by the phrases “like grass” (hlaza njengotshani) and “like the sky” (hlaza njengesibhakbhaka)…
Did you know the Mayans in Mexico gave BLUE (called mayan blue) to the world? Maya blue is a unique bright azure blue pigment manufactured by cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, such as the Mayans and Aztecs.They created that blue by mixing a rare clay (called attapulgite or palygorskite) with the dye from the indigo plant, part of the indigo family. They'd paint the body in a bright blue and their alters before sacrificing. Blue was their favorite color, they used it in art, it represented the God's, the origin of creation, the universe, water, and the wind. Diego de Landa Calderón, a bishop in colonial Mexico during the 16th century, wrote about it in a document.
That clay was mined in north georgia too. The track rock site in north georgia resembles Maya stuff. And dna has been taken of native locals and Maya dna is in there too. There's a couple of other sites. And some language for Florida and South ga that they knew about Mexico or traded with them. Once some tv people went snooping around they started cutting trees down so nobody can get bsck there easily. Dude tested the clay to Maya clay samples as all rock is unique to where's its found. Maya blue marches N ga clay. And we do have some unique clay and dirt in my state. I'm less than an hour from the track rock site.
SOOO I guess all the white people with blue eyes that come in ALL SHADES OF BLUE ... just didn’t tell each other they had ‘’blue” eyes until they maid contact with Mayans ... 😂
I have the opposite problem. I’ve always had major problems distinguishing certain greens as green because I see them as blue. Also when people say that turquoise is green, it tripped me up and I don’t understand it because I’ve always seen turquoise as also blue.
In isiZulu in South Africa, blue is called "Green like the sky" and green is "green like the grass." Blue - Hlaza okwesibhakabhaka. Green - Hlaza okwontshani. Green - kuHlaza 😅
I’ve seen some of your videos that were entertaining… however you’re just way off on this one .. kindly … I mean you should consider taking this one down … Because it really doesn’t make you look good .
Himba tribe for anyone wondering. The theory isn't that you can't see the colour, but differentiating between shades becomes harder. For the Himba tribe, the word they use for blue is either used interchangeably with green. As in a blue sky is described as green or the ocean is described as black or "night coloured", similar to how Homer describes the sea as "wine-dark". Just like many people don't see the difference between rose and pink, or turquoise and cyan, the lack of distinct wording between colours apparently makes it harder to differentiate the shades as they mix on the spectrum. The researchers also flipped the study since they have more words to describe green than English. And while the tribe was easily able to find the box with a slightly different shade of green, people in the UK couldn't or took considerably longer to find it.
@@Zed6788h I like that they inverted the test for the Tribe identifying minute variances in shades of green and it wasn't just 'hur these people don't know what blue is' as implied by the podcast.
I bet it has something to do with how much they are surrounded by green. I Believe I read something that the human eye can differentiate between more shades of green than any other shades of any other color or something like that. But because the is tribe is surrounded by so many different shades in their environment, their eyes have learned to distinguish between many many shades. Versus those of us who live especially in more urban areas, we see less green and certainly last shades of green.
The frequency of blue is 670-610 terahertz. So wrong already. Only colour? Jesus Christ man how gullible do you want to be. Bet you think it was blue lasers from heaven that started the fires too you absolute walnut.
Traditional theries are that ancient languages evolved significantly around trade goods and blue and purple paint and clothing dies were rare enough not to show up in early languages. Which is also why they were reserved for royalty.
The reason tigers are bright orange is actually because to their prey, the animals in their habitat see them as green. So for them, they are blending in perfectly to the environment. I wonder when we adapted the ability to see that distinct colour
@@djskraba9051we actually do see it better than their prey because we have 3 cones in our fovea centralis which are blue green and red which are the 3 primary colors (trichromatic vision) which allows us to see a much wider range of colors as their prey have 2 cones, (dichromatic vision) so they can see a variety of greens and reds, so like basically yellows. So they don’t see their predators as much as we can
@@morganfondse6181yeah but its extremly hard for us too its weird because you would think with the colour they have you would see them easy but no i have seen Videos where they show how hard it even is for us humans to see them when they dont want to be seen 🤔😅
In sanskrit,one of the ancient Indian languages, we clearly have descriptions for color blue and it was also related to some of our gods.. like Krishna and Siva was called Nilkanth.. one with blue throat because he drank the poison.. and kept it inhis throat.. also some birds have shades of blue in their feathers.. so it was widely used in all languages.
@@terdferguson1736 i was blind all my life beceause i dont had any word for any color. Now I know green so everything is a greenscreen now. The world is a greenscreen. Aaaaaaaah please help me
Just cause they don't have another word for it doesn't mean they can't tell the difference it's just another shade of green for them. They can still see when there's another shade of green or something that's different than other colors regardless if they have a name for it. It makes no sense
Blue is a verrrry rare color, in nature. I used to study botany, pretty heavily, out of pure nerdiness, after I got pretty advanced in Cannabis cultivation, and the pigment Anthocyanin, is very, very rare, out of the 387,000 types of plants. Last time I checked there were around 60 flowers total, throughout the world, known to be blue. Hydrangeas, are the most common, in my area.
This is interesting. Its not that they cant precieve blue from green but it explains how colors run together and they playing within an infinite field where a shade of a color can be considered a color within itself.
It just helps people realize that colora dont exist. As you shift from one color to another you will find these in between colors that alot of people wont agree on what xolor actually is. Like they used blue to green but also yellow to orange. Or you can think of knifes this way also. At some point you will get to point where people dont agree if something is a knife, a dagger, or sword. All these aeperations from infinite spectrums are done in our mind to help us navigate reality but arent necessarily inherent in nature
exactly this. the reason there isn't a word for blue is not because they cannot see it. they just consider it another shade of the colour green which they already named
@@BlackandWhitecustoms no that's not true at all. There's quite a lot of spectrums of light that humans cant see. There are colors we will probably never see because humans only have 3 color receptors.
Ouch... Hurtin' my brain trying to wrap my head around the thought, "can we even imagine a color that has no name"?? Try it, but don't say I didn't warn you... 🤔🙄😬🙉🤯😂🤣🤷🙋♂️🤦♂️👍👌💯🏴☠️🎭
I read a book about basically all the ways that a first language actually shapes how your brain works, right down to the eyes. I havent been able to test if its true, but it said in Japan they see more shades of green because they have more words for shades of green. Or how there can be 50 words for snow
Te experiment also showed that the same tribe, could differenciate shades of green so similar that almost any person that knows blue wouldnt be able to point out wihtout looking for it for several minutes. But they could point it out like "oh, that one, right there is obviously different" its a very weird psycological mechanism.
@@ElSoMbRiO19 scientists are blind to their own ignorance, no fault of theirs- human limitations, so that's not the complete picture. These people are tribal people and spend their entire lives in green nature, watching the changing colour of ripening fruit, observing the seasons' effects on plants, they've got thousands of hours of practice. But they don't interact with much blue, as there's next to none in their environment, besides the big blue. So, the evidence is correct, but the interpretation, and the assumptions behind it is not all the way there. I think they went in with an assumption and proved it.
@@ElSoMbRiO19 Didnt this experiment also include the pink/red one? I read a few years back that a tribe in Africa didn't have a word for the colour pink, so they just called it red.
The big open secret is people use this phenomenon of limited awareness, indistinguishability and unspeakability for concepts to manipulate people constantly and relentlessly. Such a discrepancy in conceptualization is used to divide people and pit them against each other. You see this in religion, politics, and diplomacy all the time. It is a tragedy really.
From Vietnam, blue and green are the same word. To differentiate the color, you would have to add either " vegetable " or "sky" to the word to describe what the exact color you're talking about
You recognize several languages exist on earth right bro? They clearly weren’t speaking aramaic in the video because they expressedly didn’t have a word for blue because THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE. Fucking dumbasses in this comment section i swear.
Italian has 2 words for "blue" : azzurro and Blu, they are different but non Italian speakers have a hard time telling them appart. its a classification issue .
In North Africa the berbers call blue and green same names Amazigh. The word for blue in the Amazigh (Berber) language is azerwal. In some dialects of Amazigh, like Shilha or Kabyle, the word azegzaw is used for both green and blue
You’re actually right tho. So many people comment complaining about that woman that it actually affects the algorithm. You’d think by now they’d realize how most of their viewers don’t like her making random noises and comments but I’m pretty sure they keep including those in their clips because it gets people’s attention, like you.
It wouldnt be farfetched, since they lived in a remote village that inbreeding would occur, and somewhere down the line someone could've been colour blind
I think that’s kinda the point. Why do we see the color blue but people who live their lives outside most of the time see it as green and are color blind. Why does that happen?
That's what I was thinking actually. Both of my son's are color insensitive. Not true color blind. One has a hard time with colors that have the base color yellow, so green and yellow look the same to him, and the other has a hard time with colors based with red.. if you show him brown, it looks red, just like the red one. I'm thinking they have a color insensitivity to blue due to maybe something missing in their diet or something... 🤷♀️
Did you know the Mayans in Mexico gave BLUE (called mayan blue) to the world? Maya blue is a unique bright azure blue pigment manufactured by cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, such as the Mayans and Aztecs.They created that blue by mixing a rare clay (called attapulgite or palygorskite) with the dye from the indigo plant, part of the indigo family. They'd paint the body in a bright blue and their alters before sacrificing. Blue was their favorite color, they used it in art, it represented the God's, the origin of creation, the universe, water, and the wind. Diego de Landa Calderón, a bishop in colonial Mexico during the 16th century, wrote about it in a document.
That's probably because of the place that they live the human eye is capable of seeing more shades of green than any other color because we have adapted that to protect herself from predators lurking in the grass. So I would assume that a similar brightness may come off as green to people who constantly see green
In ancient Chinese and Japanese there only was the word 青 for blue AND green. (modern standard Chinese pronunciation Qīng) The word means both of those colours. Today there are also different words that can be used. But it is still possible to use 青 if it’s not important whether something is green or blue.
Japan didn't have a word for "blue" until later in history also, but even now "ao" is used to describe when traffic lights turn green, even though it's the word for blue. The first year I lived there I kept trying to say "midori" for traffic lights, which is the main word for "green" but I would always hear old Japanese and old Okinawans use "ao" for green
Saying midori for the traffic light is basically wrong in Japanese. I've been here 12 years and my brain is so used to calling it "ao" (blue) that I do it without thought. It's weird how your brain gets used to it. But in English I would still call it green without thinking. It's like we say we "drink" a pill in Japanese. Just semantic differences.
@@AkamiChannel Yea that too, I remember being confused about “drinking” medicine. I also never got the numbering system down pat (like how you change the words for animals and various different objects)
Did you know the Mayans in Mexico gave BLUE (called mayan blue) to the world? Maya blue is a unique bright azure blue pigment manufactured by cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, such as the Mayans and Aztecs.They created that blue by mixing a rare clay (called attapulgite or palygorskite) with the dye from the indigo plant, part of the indigo family. They'd paint the body in a bright blue and their alters before sacrificing. Blue was their favorite color, they used it in art, it represented the God's, the origin of creation, the universe, water, and the wind. Diego de Landa Calderón, a bishop in colonial Mexico during the 16th century, wrote about it in a document.
Written language wasn't a primary form of communication back then. People would probably say shit like "Do you mean grass green or sky green. I want my beads to be more sky green."
She is just a RU-vid insurance policy so they don't get taken down, you're more likely to get views in the algorithm with a girl on the show. Affirmative action in another form hard at work
This is true. "glas" which is blue/green like the ocean or sky. Whilst the Welsh have another word "gwyrdd" to describe greens that are vibrant and alive like trees and grass. The Welsh also have 2 reds, "coch" for light or vibrant light reds shades like fresh blood, red hair and pink and the word "ruddh" which are darker shades of red or brown like dried blood, rust and red animals like stags. That's enough info dumping about Wales for today 😅
This dude isn't really doing a good job explaining it, I feel. You might say that blue and green are basically mostly perceived as different shades of the same color. If you have a word for each type of blue/green, you unconsciously train your brain to differentiate two similar colors from each other, and the colors are more easily perceived as different. So if you always just use the word green to describe a range of colors that include blue and green shades, the lines between the colors might be harder for you to define because you never defined in your head the line between blue and green, so you don't even have a concept of at what point does green start becoming blue, because you weren't taught that there was a line where "blue" begins. Also, whose to say your green isn't my red, we can't say for sure what anyone sees, but we can at least look at the evidence.
@@frayleaf bro ... people like you make no sense and over complicate something simple as hell . if there are 10 squares and one is a diffrent color , one is a diffrent color. i mean you just sounded like nasa just talking circles sounding complex and thats all it takes to get other goofys to be impressed and agree
@@prod.bycheese you totally misunderstood his comment. He explained it perfectly. Obviously the color of the sky is different than the grass. This theory suggests that before colors are given labels, the difference would just be seen as a different shade. For example, in English we have two words for red. Dark red is red, and light red is pink. (The same is in Russian with blue).
@@DG61318 lol when you think pink and red are the same colors lol. Jesus I wish RU-vid shorts never came about so I wouldn’t have to see these dumb ass takes.
He said, “so the theory is, if you can’t connect a word with a color, can you not see that color?” He’s not saying words create colors. He’s saying we only name colors that we perceive
Pattern recognition like this only applies, when we can recognize a small difference in the patterns we are already accustom too. *which means you would have to "think outside the box" to realize a difference.
Did you know the Mayans in Mexico gave BLUE (called mayan blue) to the world? Maya blue is a unique bright azure blue pigment manufactured by cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, such as the Mayans and Aztecs.They created that blue by mixing a rare clay (called attapulgite or palygorskite) with the dye from the indigo plant, part of the indigo family. They'd paint the body in a bright blue and their alters before sacrificing. Blue was their favorite color, they used it in art, it represented the God's, the origin of creation, the universe, water, and the wind. Diego de Landa Calderón, a bishop in colonial Mexico during the 16th century, wrote about it in a document.
Same for Japan. They did not have a word written down for blue...instead they use the Kanji characters for ao and aoi (Chinese qing), which refers to blue or green depending on the situation...like describing the sky, ocean, etc.
The linguistic term for this phenomenon is grue. Some Slavic languages do the same thing. The conspiracy that ancient people couldn't see blue is bunk.
Remember the "Did you know?" little side facts in textbooks? This is like that, but instead of "did you know", its "guess what i read on the Internet today".
There are languages with many common words for different shades of blue. There are also languages without relative directions like left or right, and they are very instinctively conscious of absolute directions like N/S/E/W at all times.
Genetics play a role in this, so it's no surprise some cultural regions may not be able to see as many color variations. Most people have 3 types of cone cells for detecting color, some have only 2, making it harder to distinguish between shades of similar colors. On top of that, different languages classify and group colors differently under different color words. It's not uncommon for colors that we have distinct words for in english to share a word in another language. Color is an infinite spectrum, some cultures simply draw the naming lines in different places.
I remember reading something years ago that when the European explorers came to South America, certain smaller tribes (not the Incas, Mayans, Aztecs) couldn't see the ships coming in because they had no knowledge of seafaring vessels, no concept of it, and couldn't fathom such a thing. Then these explorers materialized out of nowhere when they disembarked the ships.
That makes no sense though. A child who has never seen a certain animal or a thunderstorm in his or her life would still see them for the first time though. These tribes didn't know what guns were but they still saw and heard those too.
Researchers have studied the development of color names, and they found that there seems to be an order to when colors get labeled throughout various histories. Whether a culture has three color words or 50, the first three to develop are basically always black, white and then red (then green, yellow, blue and so on)
I feel like blue was the original clear because its so pure, and usually water or the sky is something you can see through. There wasn't plastic, which is clear.
I never knew that, that’s so weird! Although I kind of have a little experience in that area cause my dad is color blind. I don’t remember which one he has but there are certain colors he doesn’t really see so at times he needs one of us to tell him. My parents have been married for 44 years and my mother still tells him to get things that are a certain color forgetting he can’t see it. Cameras/pictures on phones help because now we can send him pictures to make it easier for him.
No one is incapable of defining women… some debate perverts have difficulty understanding the concept of gender. One of those perverts argues for the abolishment of age of consent laws and his name is Matt Walsh! 😮
@@galaxysiiq8 yes & u can look up there's a good recently where a teacher said she was going to assign Saturday school to the students if they didn't silently watch a pro pride video she was showing her class.
This is very interesting. I have for many years had an issue with the colour blue. I didn't like how everyone loved the colour blue. I had noticed that many people used the colour blue in everything like it was the best colour. I didn't wear blue for a very long time, only nearly 20 years later now am I accepting of the colour. I still don't like to buy things that have too much blue. I feel like I need to do some research into the colour now. Wow!
I believe they just considered blue a light shade of black because the sky would go from black to blue..or something like that..i remember hearing about this but cant remember the exact reasoning
There's some papers published recently about our way back ancient ancestors were unable to see the color blue. You can find the papers on Google, I forget which journals they were published in, but I'm sure you can find it.
