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Reading this article, I found it fascinating how endemic prejudice is to the human experience. I don't mean prejudice in the negative sense, but in the sense of unreasonable bias.

"His professors and textbooks taught that people could only recognize a color as categorically distinct from others if they had a word for it."

"Scientists had no reason to suspect that cultures divvied it up in similar ways."

And then, the conclusion:

"Cultures seemed to build up their color vocabularies in a predictable way."

As humans, we make things up. There is no getting away from it, due to our limited perspective. Sometimes I muse on the fact that we once thought the Earth was flat because at some point, someone essentially "lied".



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