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#290: Gretchen Rubin — Experiments in Happiness and Creativity

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What's the Difference Between Green and Blue?

Japanese people call blue even though they have a separate word for green and I would ask them only recently that's a very recent introduction into the vocabulary. It was really a trip for me just a mental trip to realize how socially conditioned or even our perception of color is right what you would expect is sensory input converted by these rods and cones at the back of the eye into this objective fill-in-the-blank color but it's just not the case in Japan. In Russia they have a word just like we have a word for light red is pink and we don't really say things are light red we would call it pink they have a words like that for light blue they have a whole

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