Why is WHITE represented as GOOD and BLACK as BAD?

Question

who set these standards?

Answer 1

the same people who decided that white was worn for weddings and black for funerals. Wedding (wedding nights) good....funerals bad. White represented purity and virginity. Yep back then they waited to have relations.

It all stems from Hollywood. In the good ole days when Television was first invented all they had was black & white so for audiences or home viewers to be able to tell who has the good guy and who was the bad guy they had them wear different color hats. White hat good guy. Black hat bad guy.

All kidding aside it started with religion and religious beliefs early on in our culture & society actually at the beginning of time where the light was good or was God and the dark represented bad or evil. Angels are white, devil worshippers wear black. The Bible makes reference to the light and the darkness as good vs. bad or evil.

Answer 2

This goes way back to before Biblical times. White is equated to light. Black is equated to dark. Light has been a symbol of good for thousands of years, going back to times when we did not have electricity and the lighting we do now. In the light you can see. In the light you can do your business. In the light you are safe from danger. The light will show you the way home. The light is from the sun, without which we would die. Darkness, of course, is the opposite. You bump into things. People can jump you without you seeing them. You can get lost in it. Thus, it is a symbol of evil. White and black are merely offshoots of that concept.

Answer 3

In many countries around the world white is considered the color of death.(hahahah) as for who set the standards it probably started with bad things happening at nightime or something.

Answer 4

whitwe represents light which is good and which makes things clear and visible and visible things are clean and open ,,clean and open is truer and truth=good

black means dARKNESS which is unpleasant, scary, unclear,hides a lot of thigns.u cant see through ti and thus we dont like it..its decieving and deception=bad


basically no one set these standards..its just based on general inherent human perception

Answer 5

At night, we are not able to see, so we are in fear because it is dark, and dark is black than black is bad. I don't know why on the wedding days male wear black and female wear white. May be for her it is her celebration day and for him....... that is why he wear a black.

Answer 6

well through history, supersticions etc

basically white is pure, safe, calm and sometimes considered Holy/spiritual, conected with positivity

black is mysterious therefore dangerous (so evil), conected with negativity, scary things (halloween etc)

and in a lot of places white is connected with life and black with death


hope this helps :)

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Answer 7

Umm I think it was god. I dont really know a whole lot but my parents are god-freaks. They have told me that like in revalations there is like a few horses. Each with a different color. I know that when the black horse comes bad stuff happens but when the white horse comes rapture comes. I honestly dont know too much. Take it or leave it

Answer 8

Presumably it is born out of darkness being dangerous (since you can't see all those animals with good night vision coming for you) and light being safe. Its a simple legacy of primal fears.

Answer 9

actually they arnt standards, in china and japan white is the colour of death. as for euro/western culture, white was usually attributed to purity, as it was to hard to keep white. virginity and ofcourse good.

as for black, the night is scary, so black is evil. although again in asian cultures, black, especially in combination with bordeaux red, is attributed to wisdom.

Answer 10

day is bright you can see. night is dark you cant see. white is day, black is night. if you can see its good. if its dark you cant see and thats not good. so people in the night must be bad since you cant see them. it goes way back, back before any of our great, great grand parents were ever born.