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zardo
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Silicon Valley and Black Coders: Howard University...
There is the hypothesis that because we think in language, the structures of languages limit and shape our thoughts. Perhaps there are thoughts that are much easier to have in a language other than english, and Americans tend not to have them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
pcardh0
on Jan 22, 2016
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That would explain a lot of crazy ideas that the rest of world thinks of.
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