Language helps us learn novel categories, and it licenses our unusual ability to operate on an abstract plane, Dr. Lupyan said. The problem is that after a category has been learned, it can distort the memory of specific objects, getting between us and the rest of the nonabstract world.from The New York Times
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Each community has its own language, and each community also has its own rules, interests, and normalitis.
It was proven in a study that when bilingual (speaking CHinese and English) people took a personality test twice (the same test, once in Chinese and once in English), their personalities changed.
WIth the CHinese test, the people answered more selflessly, thinking more of a whole than of their individual selves. WHen answering in ENglish, the opposite was true. Same people, different languages, diferent personalities.
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