Color, do you see what I see?

There is a full spectrum of color that is within white light. Through wave lengths, the human eye via the brains processing can see a specific color. An example of this is when we wake up to the wave length of blue, and when we see blue lights, we stay awake. What is very interesting about color is that it can influence our emotions. Red is one that affects us in many ways. For many, red can symbolize things such as love, danger, or violence. This color is so deeply rooted in our brains from evolution. It affects our fight or flight responses, and makes us very aware of our surroundings. If you compare competitors who wore red versus any other color, the change in their hormones can show that their confidence increased due to the affect of the color. The color blue can make people feel sad, and yellow can make someone feel happy. Evolution developed our cones and rods that can see certain wave lengths. Our ancestors attributed these colors to their survival and the experiences they had.
There are many theoretical aspects of color. One that I find intriguing is subtractive color theory. When artists use this, there are selective elements that are producing the specific color. This occurs because all the other colors of the spectrum are being absorbed while the color you want is not. The single color is able to be reflected back to the eye, while the others cannot be reflected back by the single light source. What is interesting is when all of these colors are mixed using the primaries, black cannot be created, only brown can. The saturation of color is diminished as they are mixed together, but there is still something missing in order to create the shade black.
From a video called Do You See What I See?, what was very interesting was how different cultures see color. I never thought that no everyone who can see color cannot see all the different hues. This is a result of language. When we develop our language and give a color a name, we can see that shade. In Western areas, we have many names for each color we can see. Places that are not as modernized do not have the same names for colors as we do. For example, the Himbu have terms for groupings of colors; blues and greens together, another green grouped with reds and browns and so fourth. Since they group different hues together, and what we see as different colors together, Westerners and the Himbu see color completely different. In a study, the Himbu were able to pick out a different green rectangle while the Westerners took longer because they all looked the same. When one of the rectangles was changed to blue, the westerners picked it out immediately, but the Himbu took a much longer time trying to find the difference. Since they group blues and greens together, what was obvious to us was not obvious to them. The thought that different cultures see color differently is so interesting all because language changes it.