Yellow pacific.
- Asian people are sometimes referred to as the yellow race. The use of "yellow" to refer to people of East Asian descent is usually regarded as offensive today in most contexts. In the 20th-century United States, immigrants from China and other East Asian nations were derogatorily referred to as a "yellow peril."
- The Yellowknife tribe were a Canadian First Nations tribe. The Yellowknife River and the city Yellowknife (the capital of the Northwest Territories) are named after the tribe.
- In Chinese culture, yellow is associated with royalty, as it is also in southeast Asia. In China, commoners were not allowed to wear yellow until modern times.
- In Hindu mythology it is considered that yellow has the power to influence the intellect.
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2007-07-28 14:10:00