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human
Why do young girls stereotypically prefer the colors pink/red/purple and boys blue/green? Is this societal or is there another reason?
gpt
This is a purely societal phenomenon. It doesn't happen in cultures without a strong US/UK/Canada influence, and it didn't even happen in the US/UK/Canada before about a hundred years ago - at the turn of the 20th century, pink was considered a more manly color than blue.

Young girls like pink/purple, and young boys like blue and green, entirely because we as a society have told them they should.