> My point is, culture has nothing to do with the choice of stop light color in China That's exactly my point as well. The article mentioned that the associati

> My point is, culture has nothing to do with the choice of stop light color in China That's exactly my point as well. The article mentioned that the association between red and "bad" stuff (stop, error, etc.) is cross-cultural. Someone replied vehemently denying that, but the fact is that red={stop, error, bad, ...} is a long-standing international convention that does supersede regional cultural effects.