What to Learn About Language Language is an important factor to the human story, even if it is underrepresented and unacknowledged. It can provide an insight into how humans think, as well as providing a snapshot of culture at any time. It changes as those who use it change, and is just as important in defining a culture as a nation or a religion.
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An interesting biological look at language
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Throughout history, and even in the modern day, language can act as both a unifying or a dividing force. It creates barriers between peoples and cultures, which can help cause conflict due to a separation between "us" and "them". At the same time, many cultures are defined by their language, using it as a way to separate themselves from the world and bring a small group of people together under a single identity. This is why it is so important to study language, be it throughout history or in the present, as it can both tie humanity together or drive it apart, and if tracked can show how and why the human world looks the way it is today. It can display how divisions formed between people over time, and can allow for a rationalization of why different groups see each other as so different from other humans. Just because language is something every person uses everyday, doesn't mean that it cannot have a profound effect on how we see the world and others. Language is how people express themselves, as well as what they use to explain and comprehend the world around them. The study of language is crucial to not only the study of culture and history, but the human mind, providing a way to examine how different people rationalize their world's differently, and for this reason, the study of language is crucial to the study of mankind itself.
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