#10 - Language

An interesting idea was brought up in class over the last week. We started talking about the way in which our language wires our brain to think in certain ways and see the world in certain ways. It is not possible for us to communicate entirely accurate between cultures due to differences in meanings and an inability to translate exactly. This started me thinking about the story of the Tower of Babel. In earlier years, my thinking process was always that another incident of the same type could occur again if people simply learned the other languages. With this new idea of language shaping our thought processes, its seems as if a disconnect beyond just changing how to say a word occurred. With this in mind, is it ever possible that people could all be united in a common cause? If we cannot fully communicate, can we fully cooperate with each other?