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The color, when combined with gold, is seen as representing the fading away of youth.[30]
 
In the Celtic tradition, green was avoided in clothing for its superstitious association with misfortune and death.[31][32]
 
Green is thought to be an unlucky color in British and British-derived cultures,[33] where green cars, wedding dresses, and theater costumes are all the objects of superstition.[34]
 
In high schools in the United States during the 1960s, it was widely believed that if someone wore green on Thursdays, it meant that they were homosexual.[35]
 
Spider-Man villains were often colored green to represent a contrast to the hero's red.[36]
 
In some Asian cultures the color green is often used as a symbol of sickness and/or nausea;[37] however, in China, green is associated with the east, with sunrise, and with life and growth.[38]
 
Many Asian languages have no word distinguishing blue from green, though recently published dictionaries do make the distinction.[39]
 
(Thai: เขียว) besides meaning Green also means rank and smelly and other unpleasant associations.[40]
 
In Ancient China, green was the symbol of East and Wood, one of the main five colors.
 
The Chinese term for “cuckold” sounds similar to the Chinese for “wearing a green hat”.
 
It is because of this that it is extremely rare to see any Chinese man wearing a green hat.[41]
 
Main articles: Green politics and Green party
 
Green has become the symbolic color of environmentalism, chosen for its association with nature, health, and growth.
 
The Green Party is any of various political parties emphasizing ecology, grassroots democracy, nonviolence, and social justice.
 
Green Parties, now active in over one hundred countries, are more broadly included in the green movement, and most are members of the Global Green Network.[42]
 
The association of green with advocates of the environment has extended to other circles as well, as is the case with Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who is often referred to as the “Green Patriarch” because the new environmental focus which he brought about within the Ecumenical Patriarchate.[43]
 
Several countries use green on their flags for symbolic or cultural reasons.
 
Green, for example is one of the three colors (along with red and black, or red and gold)) of Pan-Africanism.
 
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