You don't even need to leave this planet to find and example of this. In East Asia, red symbolizes prosperity, and the stock market tickers use red to indicate gains.
I will confess I didn't believe you, which makes me ashamed since I work in finance. But then I went to the Shanghai stock exchange and their English language website uses red for losses and green for gains, but if you switch to the Mandarin website, it's the complete opposite. I appreciate that insight.
We have a site dealing with finance for a East Asia audience. It's original audience was Europe with a blue theme (signifies trust etc) and it got extended to Asia (english speaking still). So we just themed it by changing the branding colors to the East Asia organizations color. Which is... red signifying prosperity. As in 10 shades of red.
The site has the typical warning/alert/error message feedback in forms/charts etc... in different reds/oranges/etc. I spent a bit of time trying to find a Asia focused UX guide on color for alerts/errors without luck. Does anyone have suggestions? I've asked a few different culturally native Asians from various countries and just get resigned shrugs.
Note: The messages have icons/text to go with them so it's not a total disaster but it is hard to figure out
