As Much As What Can Be Inferred About A Fictional Culture While Also Understanding That Human Influence

As much as what can be inferred about a fictional culture while also understanding that human influence will be projected. We can take a guess for the association of at least 4 colours.

Green, white, red, and yellow. These being the colours of martians that have popped up in dc comics.

Green is obviously a well known being the colour of the main and most well known Martian. I imagine green still holds the symbolism life and prosperity as it does in a lot of earth culture

White however is not looked up in a positive sense due to the destruction the white martians. It likely doesn’t have any of the positive connotations that it does on earth ie purity, cleanliness, light, but it def has the negative connotations that earth has about “white” and “whiteness” (I say as a white person, we highkey suck)

Yellow as martians have one notable characteristic in which they tried to invade earth, otherwise there’s not much to infer.

Red being the colour of the entire planet definitely has similar symbolism to what earth has to green and blue. That being it’s common and in abundance, it may have symbolized prosperity as well before the war and disease wiped out a lot martian kind.

Then as for other colours

Orange is the most common colour of fire so I think itd be the colour rooted in fear and aversion

Blue is a rare colour for martians to find in nature, hence why it makes up a lot of Mmh suit. Also the Martian sunset appears blue (this is actual real life fact btw) so it my also be associated with renewal

Indigo likely has similar connotations that blue has if it’s a shade close to blue rather than red that is.

Violet is barely a colour on earth, humans fill in the gaps of light and boom purple. It is fully possible that the Martian comprehend violet light in a way humans can’t.

Black would be whites opposite, as it is on earth, but take on the positive connotations to whites negative connotations. It would be associated with calm and curiosity.

Hey, hey, I have a question, DC lore knowers

Do you have any canon material/headcanons about color associations in Martian culture? If not, would you like to treat this post as a long discussion to figure it out?

I got a sudden urge to know it and I don't feel like I know enough about the Martian culture in general to make it up. Plus, I have only my European perspective to aid me and I know it varies between cultures on Earth alone so it probably be better if more people worked on it.

But, you know. I think this topic has potential to be fascinating.