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by seewhatIsee 3377 days ago
The Himba tribe in Africa have an interesting perception of color which is believed to stem from their language[1]. For example, their language uses the same word for what westerners separately call green and blue. As a result, they cannot seem to distinguish the colors when presented to them.

[1] https://vimeo.com/120808489

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And Russians see two different colors where Westerners only see "Blue".

http://www.pnas.org/content/104/19/7780.full

There are more examples.

The ancient Japanese also had one word for shades of green and blue.