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Originally Posted by ImthatIm
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He is speaking the truth imho.
Within the language is the culture. The way in which we view the world and learn how to function within that worldview/order - finding our place in it.
Foreign language brings foreign reality orientation with it and dysfunctionality, because the old values and ‘beliefs’ contradict these new ones.
One of them is this egalitarian vs. hierarchical social order, the celebrated one-upmanship, they call freedom. In a tribal setting one has a collective identity. Individuality is very much celebrated, but only in the context of it belonging to the totality of the tribe.
Within that belonging to totality - is unconditional inclusiveness.
You don’t find it in this ‘foreign order’.
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