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Interesting that they chose the color red in the comparison table to determine the best score of that entry.

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Just like the stock market in China. Red means the price is going up, green means it's going down.

That's also why the stonks-going-up emoji traditionally has a red line, Japan shares that convention.

https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-does-the-chart-increasing-em...

By the way, people might think this has to do with communism but it’s cultural and way before the 20th century. Red is associated with happiness and celebration.

Almost like the communists chose what iconography to use!

The (blood-)red flag as an anti-monarchist symbol originates in the French Revolution, was adopted by the Bolshevik faction (“the Reds”) in the Russian Civil War, and spread from there.

And ironically the news networks in 2000 chose red to show Bush’s electoral votes vs Gore, and thus we retain the notion of Red States and Blue States, even though it’s backwards.

It's backwards? Republicans are actively trying to install a single party authoritarian government modelled after the Chinese system, they're as red as it gets in America.

It would be a very uninteresting choice in china. Color is partially a cultural construction. Red doesn't mean the same thing there that it does in the west.

As already mentioned, red is a positive color in east Asia. What's actually more surprising to me is that yellow is the 3rd color after green.

It's interesting to me that this breaks convention with the visual spectrum.

red ~700nm

green ~550nm

yellow ~580nm

Weird that they aren't in order.

Cultural differences, as others have pointed out; I find it fascinating. And also it doesn't impact my day at all.

You'll notice it in every piece of western propaganda too. From movies to fashion. Red is the china call

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