>>76552266Oh, I know what she's talking about. Especially in the past, like thousands of years ago, different civilizations defined colors in different ways. For example, in early Greek and Latin, there wasn't exactly a color for "yellow" so when they wanted to refer to something "yellow" they would use the word for "red". So in their written records when it came to describe blonde people, they often described them as "red haired". Different cultures distinguished different colors, for example, shades of green, or shades of blue depending on if they saw those colors more often than other cultures. It seems that the most basic colors were blue, green and red, but outside of those, other colors weren't given a proper name, but something like "strong blue", "light blue", "dark green", etc.
It took a lot of time until people standardized this, for example, Isaac Newton in the 1600s did some studies on light and colors, and he was one of the first to define the rainbow as having 6 or 7 basic colors. Afterwards many other languages adopted those.
Nowadays you can say there are 7 primary colors in the electromagnetic spectrum, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet.
