White

White is a color made up of all colors in the spectrum.

White is the color make by mixing red, blue and green. When objects does not alter the color of light it reflect, the color is white. White is often related to purity and cleaniness. By using a prism, you can refract white light and find its color composition. Source of white light include incandescent lamp, sun , fluorescent

Asian cultures

    * In China, traditionally, white was the symbol of West and Metal, one of the main five colors.
    * In Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Indian and Japanese tradition, white is the color of mourning and death.
    * In Indian tradition, white is also the color of purity and sacredness. It is also used for depicting Peace and Purity. However it is also the color of mourning. People wear white after death of any of their family members.

Dress code

    * In a highly-formal social function, the traditional dress for men attending is white tie or "white tie and tails"-- a white bow tie and a swallowtail coat.
    * Physicians and scientists are known for wearing white coats both as a practical measure as protection against spills and infection, and as a sort of uniform showing authority.

The opposite of white is black.

Beliefs, religions and superstitions (from wikipedia)

    * Black is a symbol of mourning and bereavement in Western societies, especially at funerals and memorial services. In some traditional societies, within for example Greece and Italy, widows wear black for the rest of their lives. In contrast, across much of Africa and parts of Asia, white is a color of mourning and is worn during funerals.
    * In English heraldry, black means darkness, doubt, ignorance, and uncertainty. [3]
    * In the Maasai tribes of Kenya and Tanzania, the color black is associated with rain clouds, a symbol of life and prosperity.
    * Native Americans associated black with the life-giving soil.
    * The Hindu deity Krishna means "the black one".
    * The medieval Christian sect known as the Cathars viewed black as a color of perfection.
    * The Rastafari movement sees black as beautiful.
    * In the Japanese culture, Black is associated with honor, not death with the white color being associated with death.

Economy

    * To say one's accounts are "in the black" is used to mean that one is free of debt.
          o Being "in the red" is to be in debt—in traditional bookkeeping, negative amounts, such as costs, were printed in red ink, and positive amounts, like revenues, were printed in black ink, so that if the "bottom line" is printed in black, the firm is profiting.
    * Black Friday (shopping) occurs the day after Thanksgiving. The idea is that the shopping that begins on this day can put a company into the black (i.e., make a profit) for the year and Black Friday Ads are often put out a few days before the date.

Fashion

    * In Western fashion, black is considered stylish, sexy, elegant and powerful.
    * The colloquialism "X is the new black" is a reference to the latest trend or fad that is considered a wardrobe basic for the duration of the trend, on the basis that black is always fashionable. The phrase has taken on a life of its own as a snowclone, and has been stretched and parodied as a rhetorical device and a cliché.