what is the symbolic effect of the colr red on the native African Tribes?
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Which tribe? Each has there own symbols.
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I don't have first hand knowledge of this but I had to do a similiar project. This is what I found:\n\nAN AFRICAN VALENTINE: THE BEAD CODE OF THE ZULU’S\n\nFinding a spouse is maybe the most difficult thing for people to do. In many traditional societies, marriages were arranged by parents or other elders. Sometimes the young people involved could turn down a marriage they did not want, but other times the couple had no choice at all. Most if not all cultures have kind of symbol system to show whether a person is married or single. In Canada, most common is the use of wedding and engagement rings. Among traditional Mennonites, if a door is painted green, it means there is a daughter eligible for marriage. The Zulu people of southern Africa developed a complex code using coloured beads.\n\nIn Zulu tradition adulthood comes with marriage, and married people have advantages over those who are not. This created a major incentive for young men to gather enough wealth to purchase what was required as marriage goods. Traditional wealth was measured in cattle, and only a man with enough cattle could afford to marry. \n\nYoung girls learned beadwork and the meaning of the symbols and colours used from their older sisters. The beadwork was usually worn as a head or neckband. Men depended on female relatives to explain the code. They can see whether a woman is engaged, married, unmarried, has children or unmarried sisters. The patterns and colours can also tell what region a woman comes from and what her social standing is.\n\nThe one basic geometric shape used for this kind of beadwork is the triangle and a maximum of seven colours. The three corners of the triangle represent the family: mother, father and child. The point of the triangle is facing down is the symbol for an unmarried man or boy, while a triangle with the point facing up is the symbol for an unmarried woman or girl. A married man is symbolised by two triangles joined at the point forming an hourglass shape. A married woman is shown by two triangles joined at the base making a diamond shape. \n\nThe seven colours used are black, blue, yellow, green, pink, red and white. Each colour has two meanings, one positive, and one negative, except white. White has only one meaning, purity and spiritual love. When another colour is used beside white, it takes its positive meaning. For example, a blue band with a band signifies "fidelity" or "faithful". This colour combination is commonly used to show if someone is engaged. Blue, white and black bands are a standard combination to show marriage.\n\nA Zulu valentine, called an Ibheqe, is a narrow beaded band with a rectangular flap that rests in the hollow of the throat when worn around the neck. The flap shows the design made up of triangles in various combinations. One example might be White, Red, and Blue. The red beside the white could be read as "I love you". The blue band in this case, would mean "request", that is asking for answer. Beside the white/red combination, it would ask, "Will you be my valentine?" A boy would use the girl symbol (triangle pointing up).\n\nRed for them means \npostive - promise or high status\nnegative - anger or heartache\n\nHope that fleshes things out a bit...
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those lions crown ashoka pillar.this pillar is more than 3000 years old.it resembles the might of emperor ashoka who defeated the enemies of india,who was one of the greatest indian kings.so the lions became the national symbole of the indian nation.that is why it is used in army ranks,ship crests,all millitary and official embulams.
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the Makololo people\nLuba and Lunda tribes\nby Nguni peoples
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it's a religious symbol, for the Hindu people.  the married women also have a red spot right where the hair starts in the middle of the forehead.
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White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness & valour, and Blue, the color of the Chief signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice."
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Much of the population of Africa is moving from agrarian regions to urban areas causing traditional tribal boundaries to shift and straining resources.
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The SA flag has six colors.\n\nI love the SA flag and have one on my desk at work. I even have some idea of what the colors symbolize.\n\nBlack = People (not black people, but many people together)\nWhite = Peace\nRed - Blood (in memory of people who lost their lives in war and the struggle)\nBlue = African skies\nYellow = Natural resources (gold and diamonds and such)\nGreen = Fauna and Flora (animals and forestry)\n\nThis is not set. It's only my idea of what the flag represents.
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The Rastafarian movement gave first appeared in the early 1930s. Rastafarians were followers of Marcus Garvey who worshiped the Almighty in the person of Haile Selasssie. Rastafarians worship Haile Selassie, former emperor of Ethiopia, under his precoronation name Ras Tafari. They consider the former Ethiopian emperor to have been a divine being, the Messiah, and the champion of the black race. Rastafarians consider themselves to be the ancient Hebrews who were exiled in Babylon. Rastafarian lifestyle includes dietary rules, often vegetarianism, the wearing of uncombed locks and beards, and the smoking of ganja. \n\nMany Rastas outlaw the combing or cutting of the hair, "citing the holy directive in Leviticus 21:15: "They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh (White 12)". These long, thick, strands of hair are called dreadlocks. Rastas often compare their dreads to that of a lions mane, which also happens to be the symbol of Haile Selassie."Children often pull on a man's dreadlocks to make sure he is real.They are feeling the person out, making sure he/she is not a negative or weird person (McDaniel A1)".\n\nThe Rastafarians formulated a strict set of dietary and hygienic laws to accompany the religious doctrine. They shun the ingestion of alcohol, tobacco, all meat, especially pork, as well as shellfish, scalefish, snails, predatory and scavenger species of marine life, and many common seasonings like salt.In short, anything that is not "ital," a rasta term meaning pure, natural or clean, is forbidden (Chevannes 204). The rejection of the pig can be found in the importance of this animal in traditional life. The wild pig was for many years during slavery the only important source of food for the runaway slaves. Rastafari reject the pig, probably on the same basis that many of them also reject saltfish because it was one of those foods associated with slavery. For most Rastafari, the sight of a pig rummaging through garbage on the streets of the slums, or at the dumps in competition with the flies, is revolting.\n\nFear of contamination from the pig is extended to Rastafari fear of contamination from the dead. Rastafarians believe that they will never die as long as they remain true and faithful to Selassie. When death does come, "it is always explained away by saying that the subject had departed from the chosen path of Rastafari, had violated some divine precept, and was therefore struck by the mighty power of Jah (Selassie) (Chevannes 203)". It does not matter whether death is by accident, sickness, or by the agency of man. Rastafarians therefore do not even attend funerals.\n\nAn important contribution to Rastafarian culture is the smoking of ganja. Smoking ganja is a ritual celebration called a "duty (Chevannes 199)". Before a Rastafari sets out on a journey he performs a duty. Journeys begin with a ritual smoking and prayer in the yard of departure. The chillum pipe used in these rituals should not be called a pipe, but a cup or a chalice because Deuteronomy and other sections of the bible in speaking of sending up incense to Jah were referring to the herbs. If members of the group are smoking their own spliffs, they are put out or laid aside when the chalice is ready to be lit. One of the members prepares the herbs, cutting it up, dampening it with a few drops of water, and mixing in the tobacco from a cigarette (Rastas say the tobacco cuts down on the harshness). Caps are removed from their heads as they are about to set fire to the herbs. Everyone is silent and in prayer as the chalice is passed around counterclockwise. Journeys are taken quite seriously, if a Rasta were to stub his toe of his left foot at the start of a journey, which is a sign of bad luck, it would be enough to cause him to turn back and start again.\n\nRastafarian women are usually segregated fro
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I just learned that yesterday. In Bible Study Im learning about other religions and we were going over Hinduism. The symbol welcomes auspiciousness and drives out evil.\nI didn't know that only because of what the nazis did, although in hitlers mind he prob thought that it would help him drive out the jews.
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Not sure what you mean by tribalism. Are you talking about Neo-tribalism? I'm atheist, but I don't consider myself to belong to any tribe in the traditional sense. Whether national or racial. I would hope that we might eventually see ourselves as belonging to one tribe called humanity.\n\nAs for the mythical character of Jesus, I don't know. You'd do better to ask a christian. Though they seldom think about their messiah.
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it dates back hundred of years when different colors identified which tribes they belonged to and their beliefs
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they usually wore rich colors like red and purple. it was also considered illegal for commoners to wear purple.
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This is quoted from the website below:\n"The color red refers to the period before 1952 Revolution which brought a group of army officers to power after deposing King Farouk, then King of Egypt. This was a period characterized by the struggle against the British occupation of the country. The white symbolizes the advent of the 1952 Revolution which ended the monarchy without bloodshed. The color black symbolizes the end of the oppression of the people of Egypt at the hands of the Monarchy and British colonialism."
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well...they aren't African but: the women of the Burmese Padaung tribe wear brass coils around their necks in order to enlongate them (actually what happens is the rings compresses the collarbone and upper ribs making the neck appear longer. *note that because of military conflict many members of this tribe have migrated to Thailand.  Oh...and another thing, it's not actually true that if they take the coils off that their neck will flop over or that they will suffocate.... (common misconception) Ah, and another tribe (South African) is the Ndebele people who start wearing neck rings when they are married, around 12 years of age. However instead of brass coils, the they wear individual rings closed around their necks.
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I don't know about other religions, but in Christianity, coloras are often used as symbols.\n\n"Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be whiter than snow."\n\nwhite- purity, goodness, light\nred(scarlet)- blemished, sinful\nblack- sin, death, evil\npurple-royalty
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The red respresents the blood shed in the stuggle for this nation.... the white represents the purity of the ideas that the founding fathers set forth and the blue represents the true faith and allegience that the sodliers and patriots had for the principles of freedom