Our first assignment for our class we had to go out into the world and find colors. My group figuring out that everybody was heading for the nearest Safeway, decided to head out to the party store. I found myself a tad confused with the true meaning of colors, if there is one. The color red was the most popular there, raging from Valentine's day cards, hearts, USA flags and devil stuff. It was also popular in the "Chinese" decorations section. Pointing the obvious red is a very popular color. Red I can't help but associate with the red chakra point in our bodies, this one represents our sexual organs. Red has often been used as the color of passion and can also be related to fire (fire+passion= hot passionate something?), then I wonder how is this related to the USA flag? I should research that more.
I also found the most disturbing image ever. I hate Spic and Span, for some reason I find it a bit degrading. I've been called a Spic and even the whole thing Spic and Span( you know being puertorican). And I've always wondered, maybe I'm overanalyzing this, but the bottles for this product have very bright, tropical colors, some that obviously latinos are going to like, feel attracted to and remind them of happy times home. Maybe they are bright orange, yellow and purple because they want us to feel the need to buy it and clean. I think I'm rambling but hey I might be right. For osme reason Spic and Span is not sold in Puerto Rico or Mexico (that I know of).
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