A language is a powerful tool for expressing thoughts, ideas, and feelings. Language also serves as one of the primary contextual clues in determining where any one person is from in the world or region. Moreover, language also serves as the driving force for culture development within societies. The concept that language directly affects culture development is the prominent hypothesis within the anthropological community. The primary language taught to any person during their early growth and developmental stages will ultimately determine and shape their reality. In particular, individuals who grow up speaking English as their native language end up having an altered perspective of the world around them and display a marginally different culture than those who hail from any other language.
Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf suggested that there is a direct association linking language to other conceptual processes such as thought and culture development. The approach of humans view and interpret the world around them fully relies on the language they are fully immersed around since birth. Furthermore the hypothesis strongly postulates that whatever language spoken within a region determines the associated culture found there …show more content…
For instance, a girl wanting to become an engineer when she grows up would be called “Ingeniero” in Spanish which takes on that male characteristic (Deutscher). Battling sexist social issues and breaking away from strict gender roles implemented by culture norms, especially being a woman, would be ultimately more problematic when that culture has this mindset since learning how to speak. Ultimately, growing up speaking a language other than English will contain more grammatical genders and consequently, puts up more
Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf suggested that there is a direct association linking language to other conceptual processes such as thought and culture development. The approach of humans view and interpret the world around them fully relies on the language they are fully immersed around since birth. Furthermore the hypothesis strongly postulates that whatever language spoken within a region determines the associated culture found there …show more content…
For instance, a girl wanting to become an engineer when she grows up would be called “Ingeniero” in Spanish which takes on that male characteristic (Deutscher). Battling sexist social issues and breaking away from strict gender roles implemented by culture norms, especially being a woman, would be ultimately more problematic when that culture has this mindset since learning how to speak. Ultimately, growing up speaking a language other than English will contain more grammatical genders and consequently, puts up more