Color

Why does everyone get called 'colored' and white people are the only ones who aren't colored.

White people are like pinky to tan, with brown, yellow, red and black colored hair and green, blue, brown and hazel eyes. They seem very colorful to me. And if its because they are named 'white' and it is a shade, how come blacks are considered colored?

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There are generally two main color systems: additive and subtractive.

Light is additive. White light is a mix of visible light spectra. No light is darkness; black. White light can be created from any many different combinations of colors (frequencies), but the most common is the primary color triad of light: red, green, and blue.

Pigments are subtractive. Primary colors combine to create black. Several systems of subtractive primary colors exist. The two most common are RYB (Red, Yellow, Blue - familiar to most people) and CYM(K) (Cyan, Yellow, Magenta (blacK) - used in printing). White is generally "no" pigment or blank canvas. (A perfect white pigment would not technically be a pigment at all, but there is no such thing.)

In terms of race, "white" would be a "lack of colour", as melanin is a pigment. But unless you're an albino, you're not really "white". "Pink" or "peach" or "cream" or "beige" or something like that would be closer.