Black Vs White - GD Monday

Sakshi Kochar

A very simple thought which comes in my mind when I read this topic black vs white is that from the very childhood we have been trained to categorize things majaorly in two categories - good or bad. This is good and that is bad. This is what you should do and that is what you should not do. However when we go up as adults this categorization loses meaning and it becomes important to understand the grey. But now understanding of this grey becomes very subjective as it will depend on what you learnt as to be good and what as to be bad. That is how different people come with different perspectives and different opinions on the same subject. And perhaps thats how different cultures evolve.

24 Jan 2017, 10.09 AM

Parshvam Jain

Black is a symbol of darkness or ignorance while white is a symbol of light or knowledge. In the modern world of technology there is a need to shift maximum number of people from darkness of illiteracy to light of education.

24 Jan 2017, 10.14 AM

Dheeraj Dadhich

Black is the truth that is presented shockingly, like a no barrel hold approach of giving feedback in business, the blatant truth. White is the truth that is soothing encouraging and to its critiques.. politically correct... both are needed. when creating a product or doing a financial assessment our feedback can be black very straight forward... while if a customer comes crying through the door.. we need to be very white, angle like, assuaging rather than cutting through the chase and coming to the point

24 Jan 2017, 10.51 AM

Rit Singh

Black vs White. As i read this things that come up to my mind are issues like racism and game of chess where both are equal no one is good or bad it depends on the ability of player to lead his side to victory.

24 Jan 2017, 10.54 AM

Jatin Adlakha

Manufacturing engineer at Applied Materials

Black vs White stands for a metaphor used pretty often to describe two opposite lines of thought. However, this does not mean that Black is wrong and White is correct. It all depends on which side appeals to us. Thus, the judgement of Black & White stands subjective. To cite an example we could look at the discrimination against Blacks that was prevalent in America. For whites the discriminatory line of thought appealed more, no matter how ethically misplaced such a judgement is. Black & White are like the two sides of a coin. The existence of a flip side is what makes us understand their necessity. Such notion of inequality still exists in the glamour industry where often beauty is equated to the color of a model's skin. There is a growing awareness among people regarding such issues & maybe soon instead of Black vs White, we would be able to see Black & White co-existing.

24 Jan 2017, 01.07 PM

HARDIK JAIN

When we are young, we are taught that there are two sides to every thing, the right side and the wrong side. As if every thing is either pure black or pure white. However, as we grow older, we understand that there is nothing that is absolutely black or white. Every black has a little white in it and every white has a little black in it. Like a Yin Yang. What we need to learn is that different perspectives make the same scenario right for some people, and wrong for some others. So there is no black vs. white; There is always black and white!

24 Jan 2017, 02.37 PM

HARDIK JAIN

Another thing that is pertinent to note here is that what makes black so prominently black is the existence of white and vice versa. The importance of one would drastically decrease in the absence of the other. The black and white, even though opposites, co-exist! And that`s how our world works too! There is always good for every evil and evil for every good.. That`s how an equilibrium or balance is maintained.

24 Jan 2017, 02.43 PM

Kushal Dhananjay

As my friend Sakshi told, I partially agree with her but I beg to differ from my friend Parshvam. I feel he should not make a statement inferring black as negative and white as positive. It is people's mind set that has carried from generations before us. If our ancestors had associated white with negative and black with positive, then we would be following the same. But on a social point of view, somewhere Parshvam is right. Also, my friend Sakshi is talking about grey which I feel is irrelevant to our discussion. Black and white are to be seen as just like other colors. That is, White is a mixture of all the colors and black is void. In astronomical sense, I can think of black holes and white holes. In political line of thought, white is considered as friendly or peace. That's why politicians wear white clothes.

24 Jan 2017, 08.10 PM

Parshvam Jain

Black is something which doesn't reflect light or it absorbs everything. In this sense we can think of black as our dark secrets which are hidden from outside world and only we know them , and white represent what personilty we reflect to the world , which is visible to outsiders.

24 Jan 2017, 11.20 PM

Srivani Ch

Hi

It is easier to think of the extremes, when tries to come to a logical conclusion. We use this approach of extremes in Math as maxima and minima, to understand the scope of the function at hand. One can choose either depending on what is at stake from their perspective. We even trained our computers to think by this logic. Understanding this argument is fundamental to understanding the Universal phenomenon, all of which exist in the scope of extremes.

25 Jan 2017, 03.34 AM

sumeet kr

"Black is Darkness, white is light" is how since the beginning of time humans have related the two. Black is where you would get lost and white is where you are likely to be found. Darkness is from which most are afraid of, colors and light are where everyone feels safe.White is hope, Black is despair. When colors are mixed we get White and when we have no color we get black. So it is us only who have identified that what black and white would relate to.

25 Jan 2017, 05.26 AM

SHOURYA JAIN

"Black and White" the two absolutes. When any color is mixed with absolute black resultant is black irrespective of amount of other color on the other hand even if a little bit of other color is mixed in white it changes. To me this can be related to personality traits Black can be associated with unwilling to change, in sensitiveness, stubborn, Dominating, hard etc on the other hand white can be associated to sensitiveness, gentle, adaptable, soft etc. Other than this these color brings out different emotion usually black is associated to fear, power, strength, death,evil, style, authority etc while white is associated to peace, purity, innocence, light goodness etc. . . Black and white reminds me of old television set where pictures were using only black and white colors but now is the time color television where a television can have millions of colors. . . usually in hindu culture people wear white cloths while mourning while christian wear white during weddings and Black for mourning.

25 Jan 2017, 02.09 PM

Debashish Mishra

Black and White are the often termed as Antonym.Two different words,a variety of meaning. We often take Black as bad and White as good as often mentioned by my good friends here.Introspecting oneself we can actually get a very vivid answer.Black and White is not a simple comparison of positive and negative, infact we can corelate it with the Chinese principle of YIN and YANG.This principle states that all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites, for example female-male, dark-light , soul-body and old-young . Thus , often identified just as OPPOSITE they are also INSEPARABLE. Both of these colors complement each other . As for Black being bad , Ain't the ZEBRA Crossing also a mixture of these two colors?

26 Jan 2017, 03.11 AM

shefalika pandey

Black and white can be associated to the extremes and stereotypes built up about any issue. It although seems to have categorised things, it actually leads to a biased opinion. The truth is that everything in the world is neither black nor white. It is grey. With perspectives vastly varying among people, it is important to take a middle ground. Every extreme opinion also reflects refusal to be accepting of the existence of the contrary. Hence, our perspectives should not be black or white, but grey

27 Jan 2017, 08.01 AM

Priyanka Shyamsukha

NA

If we consider the colour of hair: black colour signifies youth whereas white hair would signify age and experience. Also from the economy point of view, it would be black money vs white money. Black money is something that is unaccountable to the government and doesn’t pays the tax on that income.While white money makes the transparent layer between the individual’s income and the government.Though this money is accounted to the government and hence government can impose the tax for that money. Black money does not get circulated and remains in the possession of the person who earns it and thus harms the economy as it is not reinvested for productive purposes. And this may cause to inflation in the country and as a result it might be the devastate for the country’s economy.

28 Jan 2017, 11.42 AM