Bad omens around the world
Why is the number 4 considered first in the Chinese culture and the number 13 considered cursed in the Anglo-Saxon and western culture -> the apprehension involving #4 : Let's begin with four . four is a number that rings alarms and panic in the minds of many across the nations of China . Korea . Japan . Malaysia . Singapore . The reason why it is so , is fairly simple but you have to understand the respective languages of these societies . In order to really get it in mandarin Chinese , the word for the number four , is the term for the concept of dead or death is almost pronounced the same as su ; and so it's quite possible while speaking Chinese to accidentally speak the expression "death" while you're trying to speak the number 4 . The veto is present in both malaysia and singapore , due to the fact that both these countries speak modern chinese language ; and same is the cause ; in both the korean and ...