Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?

Javier BF wrote:

>>>White is an epitome of purity in all cultures.
>>>
>>>
>>Wow.
>>
>>So, somebody did a study of ALL CULTURES and determined that, in each of
>>those cultures, the "epitome of purity" meme was both present and
>>associated with the color white.
>>
>>Must've been a DARPA grant.
>>
>>
>
>Can you name a single culture where this does not hold?
>
>A nihilist stance like the one you are displaying, merely
>negating without providing any proof or argument to
>contradict mine, leads us nowhere.
>
>My argument and proof is: I know of no culture where the
>equation white=purity does not hold.
>
Don't call that proof, because it's not. Evidence, perhaps.

But Hanuman Zhang has just provided a counterexample, anyway.

Also, I think that Messrs Line and BF are getting a little too excited.
It doesn't help to go into a flame war, which you two seem dreadfully
close to doing.