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WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN death, evil, sin, funerals, purity, peace, elegance, happiness, joy, hope, nature, spring, new birth, trust, loyalty, authority, royalty, spirituality, faith love, romance, femininity, stop, danger, anger, blood, energy, vitality, excitement, comfort, stability, practicality, mourning, rebellion, wedding color, brides, optimism, creativity, regeneration, luck, go, conservatism, business, wealth, fame, high-ranking childhood, babies, energy, excitement, action, adventure, creativity, wholesomeness, dullness, elegance, sophistication, angels, doctors, antiseptic energy, awareness, environmental awareness, peace, calm, depression, positions of authority, nurturing, sweetness, adventure, love, passion, caution, construction, fertility, organic, formality, power, control hazards, warning, money, jealousy, greed, sadness, masculinity luxury, calm, magic Valentine's Day Valentine's Day harvest, autumn, affordability, earthiness, poverty EASTERN weakness, femininity Saint Patrick's Day Halloween (with black) EASTERN death, mourning, funerals, EASTERN EASTERN EASTERN EASTERN EASTERN wealth, prosperity, health, sadness, purity, age, EASTERN EASTERN immortality, wealth, wealth, nobility, privilege, marriage, femininity prosperity, good fortune, EASTERN earth, mourning masculinity, knowledge, unhappiness, misfortune sacredness, sovereignty, eternity, new life, self-cultivation sorrow, mourning happiness, worn by brides, love, happiness, spirituality, mystery, evil, mourning earth, power, royalty, sun, regeneration, family, EUROPE celebration, communism humility, good health, EUROPE EUROPE happiness, masculinity health, prosperity, peace EUROPE EUROPE baby girls, delicate, immortality masculinity, earth EUROPE purity, cleanliness, truth, responsibility, royalty, nobility, luxury, flirtation, sensitivity, EUROPE mourning, death, evil, emptiness, neutrality, EUROPE EUROPE fidelity, serenity power, vanity serenity, femininity visibility, cheapness, EUROPE MIDDLE EAST formality, elegance, antiseptic, surrender happiness, joy, quality, nature, fertility, confidence, loudness purity, cleanliness, good earth, comfort sophistication weakness, hazard, warning jealousy, inexperience MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EAST BELGIUM MIDDLE EAST safety, protection wealth traditionally used for MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EAST AFRICA MIDDLE EAST purity, mourning MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EAST baby boys danger, caution, evil mourning, loss earth rebirth, evil, mystery happiness, prosperity Islam, strength, fertility, BELGIUM BRAZIL luck, wealth, prestige AFRICA traditionally used for death, mourning JAPAN AFRICA AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA AFRICA victory, purity AFRICA baby girls spring, femininity, youth, death, mourning animals color of the land age, wisdom, maturity, wealth, high rank, religion, CHINA EGYPT good health, well-liked by masculinity spring, youth, birth, CHEROKEES ceremony, visibility CHEROKEES virtue, faith both males & females CHINA BRAZIL BRAZIL peace, happiness, infidelity, exorcism, defeat, trouble good fortune, environment desirability, disgrace nature BRAZIL represents the South AUSTRALIA FRANCE S. KOREA happiness, celebration, sophistication, authority, resurrection, rebirth CHINA freedom, peace trust summoning, vitality, FRANCE CHINA mourning, religion, formality CHINA EGYPT immortality, femininity prosperity, long life, earth hope, spring, fertility earth death, mourning, virginity, CHINA INDIA THAILAND wedding color CHEROKEES purity, humility, age, sacredness, sovereignty, EGYPT sorrow, unhappiness color for Tuesday INDIA INDIA problems, death, misfortune nourishment, royalty, INDIA truth, justice, virtue, faith, ENGLAND the most sacred color, Islam, hope, new beginnings, color of mourning represents the West honor, masculinity protection, reproduction ITALY power, authority, purity, courage, sacrifice, nature, harvest, virtue, government INDIA death, mourning, religious abstinence, CHINA creation, rebirth, light, EGYPT happiness death, rebellion INDONESIA FRANCE endurance of suffering, earth trust, high quality, serenity, reincarnation, soul, sun, happiness, water, reliability, trust nobility FRANCE color for young boys peace, purity, unhappiness, prosperity, mourning INDONESIA passionate love, IRELAND widow, death, funerals a forbidden color lust, virility religious color for JAPAN INDIA JAPAN earth, strength, durability INDIA FRANCE heavens, love, truth, wealth, privilege, Protestants, appears on laziness, anger, IRELAND summer, joy, jealousy IRELAND mercy, strength, bravery, power, royalty INDIA the Irish flag along with intolerance, apathy, leisure, sports, peace Ireland – the Emerald Isle, manliness, determination purity, love, sensuality, white for peace & green NICARAGUA for Catholics disapproval evil, darkness, negativity, GREECE patriotism, nationalism THAILAND fertility, beauty, wealth, lack of desirability ITALY sadness INDONESIA power, wedding color, death, mourning, widows, married woman, fear, fire virtue, purity ISLAM sadness color for Saturday JAPAN ITALY INDIA perfect faith love, happiness, courage ITALY death, mourning, humility JAPAN merchants, sacredness, IRAN light, fidelity death, mourning auspiciousness, peace, ISRAEL heaven, spirituality, NETHERLANDS JAPAN happiness, meditation, bad news mourning, immortality royalty, color of the night, unknown, nonbeing, S. KOREA mental development JAPAN Dutch royal family mystery, anger purity, innocence, JAPAN ISRAEL life, fertility, passion, strength, anger, danger, morality, birth & death, JAPAN eternal life, youth coat of arms THAILAND S. KOREA patriotism courage, nobility, beauty, self-sacrifice color for Thursday darkness, mystery, mourning refinement, aristocracy, S. KOREA ITALY cheerfulness S. KOREA THAILAND youth, energy mourning, heaven, purity THAILAND purity, auspiciousness good fortune, passion MEXICO unhappiness, bad luck, evil NORTH AFRICA S. KOREA mourning NETHERLANDS corruption integrity, mourning AUSTRALIAN nature, government, royalty ABORIGINES NETHERLANDS SAUDI ARABIA MEXICO RUSSIA ceremonial color food wealth, prestige trust, serenity, mourning communism, revolution, SAUDI ARABIA wedding color SOUTH AFRICA THAILAND strength, reliability death color for Friday THAILAND THAILAND Buddhism, THAILAND TURKEY color for Sunday Buddhism, royalty, color for Wednesday auspiciousness, healing, wealth, repels evil color for Monday TURKEY death