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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



That would explain a lot of crazy ideas that the rest of world thinks of.




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