In view of Akhenaten's Great Hymn to the Aten, in which ethnic differences are clearly affirmed, it is pertinent to raise the question of the colour scheme which the Kemites used in their statuary and paintings. The general opinion is that the people of Kmt were of a reddish complexion, which usually implies separation from the indigenous African populations resident in the black land for more than 25,000 years, who would be characterized as uniformly black in complexion. Before exploring this comparison further, we might look at the way different societies see themselves and others. The colour red is the most precious for Chinese peoples, who ascribe devilish connotations to the colours white and black. These connotations are not poetic or romantic; they actually relate to human beings. For the dominant Europeans, white was the colour both of purity and of precedence, while black had the connotation of being devilish. This also related to people and not to simple colour schemes unrelated to material reality. For the Kemites, the colour black expressed goodness, fertility and beauty, and the colour red related to the desert and the foreigner. White represented spiritual purity, not ethnic purity; for the purpose of depicting clothing, it was the colour which best represented transparency.