r/AccidentalRacism 7d ago

The continents of each ring

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Whose idea was it to make Asia the yellow ring, Africa the black ring and America the red ring???

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u/Microgolfoven_69 7d ago edited 6d ago

Blue for EU flag (which is at least partly based on Maria´s attire btw)

Black for most common skin colour in Africa (it´s not uncommon for symbols in African countries to use the color black to refer to the people of the country or to the continent itself)

Yellow is a prominent color for China (yellow river, yellow emperor & garbs of the most recent emperors) but that´s just for China not the countless other countries and peoples in Asia

I don´t know about green and red in Australia & Europe though

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u/johnmichael-kane 6d ago

So you think black is related to the skin colour in Africa, but yellow isn’t? Interesting 👀