Driving home from soccer tonight, something crossed my mind that I had never really stopped to think about before. How does EVERYONE know that green means go and red means stop? Obviously, in the case of driving, we learn when we take driver's ed, but what about in other scenarios? I think it is fair to say that when most people see the color green they think go, even when it's not in the context of driving. How did this happen? How did something become so commonly accepted by society worldwide?
It seems so simple when you don't stop to think, but when you do, you have to wonder how we almost manage to think as a society. To me, the power of society and collaboration is amazing. I also wonder how long it takes for something like this to become ingrained in the minds of not only an entire nation, but practically the entire world. I'm sure there are many more examples of things that we don't even stop to think about anymore because, since we were young kids, we learned from the people around us that these things were true.
What do you think? Can you think of some other things that we just accept? How did it come to be and how long do you think it took to catch on?
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