Nick Gallo (ngallo@complianceline.com) and Gio Gallo (ggallo@complianceline.com) are Co-CEOs of ComplianceLine and lifelong students of healthy workplace cultures, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

That was the theory put forth by William E. Gladstone after publishing his 1858 tome analyzing all facets of the Homeric world, in which he noted that in more than 2,000 pages, Homer never uses the word blue to describe anything.^[1]

Researchers began looking into other ancient civilizations and found the same thing. From ancient Arabic scriptures and the original Hebrew Bible, to the Hindu Vedas and ancient Chinese and Icelandic texts, none of them used the word blue. Linguists found that in every culture, black and white enter languages first, then red, yellow or green, then blue. Red always first, blue always last.^[2]