OPINION: SUBJECT COLORS

OPINION ON: SUBJECT COLORS

STUDENTS DEBATE WHAT COLORS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH CORE SUBJECTS

Said Soudiyane, 10 What color do you associate with core subjects?

What color do you associate with core subjects?

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Most high school students have heard of the subject color debate, maybe even a proud debater in the conversation. The premise of this ongoing popular debate is what color individuals believe a subject is. In other words, what colors of notebooks and folders they choose to represent their core classes.

Some people have a literal sense to this, such as if their textbook for English is blue, everything for the subject becomes associated with blue. Others, including myself, approach the color subject conversation as more of assigning color to the ‘personality’ or feeling towards the subject.

The beginning of the association of color-coding subjects can be traced back to our youth. According to colormeanings. com, “School subjects are often associated with colors to help kids keep track of them better at an early age. At many schools, kids used color-coded folders to keep their notes and assignments in. On the school supply list, they likely had instructions on which color folders to use for which class. Many people got so used to using the same colors over and over again that we still associate those colors with subjects to this day.” debate is very

While the debate is very prominent as of recently, this discussion has been ongoing for generations.

Within the past year, this debate got back on its feet through social media. Most notably present on Tik Tok, students of all ages would share what colors they think each subject to be. Minor TikTok celebrity @itsemilyturk provides her own opinion on the debate.

Turk has a form of synesthesia, specifi cally grapheme color synesthesia.

According to The Synesthesia Tree, “People with this type of synesthesia involuntarily associate certain colours with graphemes (letters, numbers and other written symbols such as punctuation marks or characters in languages with non-alphabetic writing systems).”

Essentially, this means Turk and many others have unique attachments or associations with colors.

While Turk represents a side of the spectrum that is heavily involved with color, there are also many people who have a form of colorblindness where your green or blue textbook may appear orange or yellow. Essentially, the opinion is your own and should be what you personally associate with each subject.

In a poll of 4 seperate classes with 100 students the most popular color association for these core subjects was determined. According to this class poll: 75 percent of students believe English is yellow, 75 percent believe math is red, 100 percent believe history is orange, and 100 percent believe science is green.

While it is not talked about enough, most people have “respectable alternatives”. This means while you do not associate a subject with the same color as another individual, you can understand and respect the idea of the color they associate with the subject. For example: I personally associate science with blue, but green is a respectable alternative. However, if I met someone who believed science is red, I would question them and never understand how they coincide. Story by Bailey Lincoln.

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