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Nascent Drama

Beliefs, religions and superstitions
 
In the Maasai tribes of Kenya and Tanzania, the color black is associated with rain clouds, a symbol of life and prosperity.
 
The medieval Christian sect known as the Cathars viewed black as a color of perfection.
 
The Rastafari movement sees black as beautiful.
 
Native Americans associated black with the life-giving soil.
 
The Hindu deity Krishna means "the black one".
 
To say one's accounts are "in the black" is used to mean that one is free of debt.
 
Being "in the red" is to be in debt—in traditional bookkeeping, negative amounts, such as costs, were printed in red ink, and positive amounts, like revenues, were printed in black ink, so that if the "bottom line" is printed in black, the firm is profiting.
 
Black Friday (shopping) occurs the day after Thanksgiving and is, statistically, the largest shopping day in the US.
 
The idea is that the shopping that begins on this day can put a company into the black (i.e., make a profit) for the year.
 
In Western fashion, black is considered stylish, sexy, elegant and powerful.
 
The colloquialism "X is the new black" is a reference to the latest trend or fad that is considered a wardrobe basic for the duration of the trend, on the basis that black is always fashionable.
 
The phrase has taken on a life of its own as a snowclone, and has been stretched and parodied as a rhetorical device and a cliche.
 
Black can also carry negative connotations.
 
The reasons for this are various, but the most widely accepted explanations are that night is perceived as dangerous.
 
Especially before electric lights, darkness was potentially threatening.
 
A secondary reason is that stains are most visible as dark additions to pale materials.
 
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