Futureless Language Influence

Writer Ronnie Sharfman, wrote that she cloaked herself in another language when she left South Africa. She was leaving behind a country where she had dealt with injustice and now was immersing herself in a new culture and allowing it to heal her. Albeit that is undoubtedly excessively dramatic, I do understand that there are some people who come from places where the inconceivable transpires, who need to “leave behind and heal themselves,” as Sharfman writes. Respectively, my grandfather, who was Chinese, endured oppression and brutality in his country of birth. He came to the United States, married my grandmother and left behind his language and his culture. Whereas I fully agree that a person who comes into a country is a guest, and to integrate …show more content…
Futureless language vs futured language, languages who have assigned a gender to inanimate objects, and even languages that have no distinction between yellow and orange- all of this allegedly affects how the society views itself and even as far as how they save money. Assuming that all of that is true, I’m sure that this is an influence in some way, but I haven’t read the studies, so I can’t say whether I accept those ideas or not, but to say that my language is my character is a gross understatement. I persist as a culmination of society’s influence on me, my experiences, the lenses through which I perceived those experiences, and my education. And if I were compelled to leave the United States and emigrate to another country, I would accept my new country, embrace its culture and not waste time lamenting what I left behind. The past is the past and living in it will only stagnate your ability to progress. The future belongs to organisms that are able to evolve, and those who chose (Of course, I use this term loosely and metaphorically, as evolution of a species is not a choice.) not to evolve are doomed to