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It will be interesting to see if this works in implementation. I remember when I was younger the UN Dropped pink bottles of food to the Masai. The Masai men d

It will be interesting to see if this works in implementation. I remember when I was younger the UN Dropped pink bottles of food to the Masai. The Masai men didn't like the feminine implication and refused to consume. Will be curious to know how this is marketed to the people.

riffraff 12y ago
why would the masai consider "pink" a girl color? isn't that a western cliché?
- kefka 12y ago
  Hard to say. Studies like what color means to a people are really hard problems. It used to be in the Victorian age that red was manliness and blue was womanliness. That obviously switched for our culture. This http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/cultural-color.html http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/cultur... has a good description of 'emotional' colors when viewed around the world.
- DanBC 12y ago
  Wikipedia suggests that pink clothing, even with flowers, is not shunned by warrior male Massai. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people (the clothing section). I do know that food-aid packages had to change colour because they were the same yellow colour as bomblets dropped in cluster bombs, and these were killing children. http://www.refuseandresist.org/newwar/111701clusterbombs.html http://www.refuseandresist.org/newwar/111701clusterbombs.htm... > General Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressing the similarity between food aid packages and cluster bombs said, "It is unfortunate that the cluster bombs - the unexploded ones - are the same color as the food packets." > "We have dropped flyers that show the pictures in the proper language explaining why you want to go to one and you don't want to go to the other. We hope that helps." (That's not satire. He really said that.) http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0111a/copyright/afghanfoodbombs.html http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0111a/copyright/afghanfoodbom... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2912617.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2912617.stm Food aid packages changed to a sort of pink colour.

riffraff 12y ago

why would the masai consider "pink" a girl color? isn't that a western cliché?

kefka 12y ago
Hard to say. Studies like what color means to a people are really hard problems. It used to be in the Victorian age that red was manliness and blue was womanliness. That obviously switched for our culture. This http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/cultural-color.html http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/cultur... has a good description of 'emotional' colors when viewed around the world.
DanBC 12y ago
Wikipedia suggests that pink clothing, even with flowers, is not shunned by warrior male Massai. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people (the clothing section). I do know that food-aid packages had to change colour because they were the same yellow colour as bomblets dropped in cluster bombs, and these were killing children. http://www.refuseandresist.org/newwar/111701clusterbombs.html http://www.refuseandresist.org/newwar/111701clusterbombs.htm... > General Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressing the similarity between food aid packages and cluster bombs said, "It is unfortunate that the cluster bombs - the unexploded ones - are the same color as the food packets." > "We have dropped flyers that show the pictures in the proper language explaining why you want to go to one and you don't want to go to the other. We hope that helps." (That's not satire. He really said that.) http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0111a/copyright/afghanfoodbombs.html http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0111a/copyright/afghanfoodbom... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2912617.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2912617.stm Food aid packages changed to a sort of pink colour.