Color in Culture

Over at Slides that Stick they point out that it's important to take into account the culture of your audience when selecting a color for your presentation. If you want to represent eternity to a Western audience you would use black, but for a Japanese audience you would use green.

I think the most important thing here is to avoid being offensive, though. We wouldn't put a picture of a baby with a black background because of the death and mourning connotations. But that same picture in South America would be inappropriate with a green background, or with a white background in a Hindu setting.