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The two-colour combination 'black and white' occurs widely both in
nature and in the human-created world. The abundance of
black-and-white animals is probably due to the camouflage effects of the
colour combination and also its implication that the animal is
poisonous and
therefore dangerous if attacked. The use of the combination in
man-made objects and symbols may be due to the simple fact that the
heavy contrast between black
and white allows any image
drawn in one of these colours to stand out strongly from a
background of the other. More symbolically, the combination also
has connotations of two opposites being brought together to make one
whole, or of diversity. The following sections list just some
of the appearances of the colour combination black and
white.
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