How would you define culture and language? I define as a state of being. It’s a part of you. People always say that they aren’t cultured but knowing a language is part of a culture! Language is a verbalized symbol that is built in us. You can be illiterate and still learn to speak and have language is a part of who you are. In the field of education, knowledge of past and present histories and culture, tell us nature’s limitations and what the world is striving on whether it is abuses of language or benefiting language.
Someone who knows many cultures will generally find it hard to adjust to his or her own traditions. That’s the struggle of culture. For example, I am an Indian who knows Hindi and Marathi before I ever learned English. It is my third language and when I finally learned English after moving here, it was really hard to adjust to the American culture and the Indian culture and eventually I adapted to the American culture and slowly started losing my Indian culture even though my family teaches me about my traditions and values.
A scientific approach to this is that it proves the effects of problem solving, which is created by humans. We continually test our beliefs and assumptions and we conclude with the judgement’s we face every day for those beliefs and assumptions. Another example would be the belief of whether or not there is a God or if there is life after death. Religious people would say, “yes there is life after death,” but those who base their world around science believe that “no there is no such living this after death.” This is who we differentiate the world “out there” from “in here”. It’s what we believe and whether other people believe it as well. It depends on you abstract it without making an inference. Our language habits is applied to knowledge as well. Since language serves as a determining factor in how we shape the world, we look what the “real world” has to offer. Our language habits are shaped from our experience and without our experiences, how would we know about our beliefs and culture. It’s how we perceive the world from our experiences and whether the consequences are good or bad, we make that interpretation for ourselves.
This video of Big Bang Theory: Jewish Heaven is an example of assumptions and experience. Sheldon wants to meet Stephen Hawking and his friend Howard has the opportunity to work with Stephen Hawking and when Sheldon starts to persuade Howard to let him meet the genius, Howard says no. This is where Sheldon makes assumptions about Howard’s religion and culture of being Jewish. Although is pure comedy, it shows a great example of assumption and inference and how we shape our language habits.