Of course, one of the problems with colours is that different cultures have different colour values.<p>The Celtic languages like Scots and Irish Gaelic distinguish between <i>dearg</i>, which is the red of paint or blood, and <i>ruadh</i>, which is the red of hair or heather. To them these are completely different colours, and a native Gaelic speaker would be really confused to find that English translates them both as the same word.<p>Toki Pona&#x27;s limited root vocabulary really just demonstrates its cultural biases.