Monochromacy

One of the cultural myths that I have fallen into would have to be the ‘colorblindness is progress’. I’ve always seen past people and their color, or where they came from. I enclosed myself in the mindset of ‘I’m not racist because I don’t look at people’s skin color or background’. After learning about color blindness, and realizing that I was apart of it, I now know that this is the wrong way to view humans. Color blindness may seem like a good idea, and the intention might be of good intent; it does more than ‘blind’ you from color. I used to look at people and think that I wouldn’t be racist if I ignored, or looked past their color. Color blindness is not progress, it’s separation. Color blindness separates the person being looked at with color blindness from their culture, and who they are. When you strip someone of their background and put a label on them saying, “I don’t see your culture because I don’t want to be racist” you are, in fact, separating yourself from the person. Seeing a person, their color, and their background is important in a conversation to understand the other person’s culture. When we ignore a culture and begin a conversation, we tend to disregard that some things that we may say might be offensive to the other person. I believe in a conversation if you are ‘color blind’ you aren’t fully aware of the person you’re talking to which can lead to confrontations. The person may be standing in front of you, you see them, but because you are ‘color blind’…

rare autosomal dominant disorders that affect both males and females equally. Tritanomaly causes blue to appear greener due to functionally limited blue cone cells. It also makes it difficult to distinguish yellow from red and pink. Tritanopia causes blue to appear green, and yellow to appear violet or light grey due to a lack of blue cone cells. Complete Color Blindness Also known as monochromacy, complete color blindness refers to having no ability to distinguish color. Two forms of this…

people with color blindness, but there are some things that once can use to make it a little easier. They can buy special contact lenses or glasses, whichever is preferred, that can help you tell the difference between two similar colors. In September of 2009 the researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Florida publicized that gene therapy has cured color blindness in monkeys. They said their early results did look hopeful, but it would not be considered for humans until…

more close to the truth because the colors blue and yellow are usually not mixed up in this type of color blindness. Blue-yellow color blindness is very rare, one out of 10,000 people are affected at most. In opposite to red-green color blindness, blue-yellow defects are on chromosome 7; this means it is not a sex-linked feature and therefore women and men are equally affected (National Eye Institute, 2015). Total color blindness is an extreme vision abnormality, that leaves a person completely…

Individuals affected by this vision deficiency often have other vision problems such as increased sensitivity to light, involuntary band-and-forth eye movements, and nearsightedness. Blue cone monochromacy affects about 1 in 100,000 people world-wide, and also affects males more often than females (What Is a Gene, 2014). The most common form of CVD is a red-green color vision defect (What Is a Gene, 2014). Individuals affected by this deficiency have trouble distinguishing between shades of red,…

heightened sense towards my own colorblindness, and the color blindness of others. Living with it day in and day out, I don’t really realize my color blindness, nor does it affect me (apart from stop lights being hard to distinguish, identifying the ripeness of fruit, and picking out clothing). However, with the red and green filters, my color-deficiency became more heightened. The colors, hues, etc., which I normally view became severely depleted, with my surroundings predominantly appearing…