RESPONSE TO A BONDS S "KEEP OUR HEAD." The article made a very good point, that you need your emotion especially fear to keep in check with reality. Fear in general terms is recognized as flaw in some society or in people thinking but I believe that fear is a necessity to one within a limit of doing certain action by which I mean that is without feeling fear humans go to an extent of harming others and himself by crossing a limit and most definitely to keep your decision more rational by acknowledging statistics and to what degree are you fearing from the topic like the example given in the article, cancer or terrorism. Another that I agree with is the way media shows studies and how they convey this message to people creating an emotional response to it. Which intern people to take following action if they feel that their life is at a threat. But to make a rational decision in these situations needs people to separate their emotions from it like fear.the question is how we separate our emotions when we are deciding. Every decision affects our emotion in some way or another, either before or after. Most people follow their instincts to make their decisions either for a convenience or just cannot make a choice between the two, most of the time it may give you a wrong answer, but following your instinct is best suited in split of second decisions not in long run. Emotions such as fear help us to learn to make decisions through experience or through statistics because you take the following action.
RESPONSE TO "HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK?" DOES THE LANGUAGE WE SPEAK AFFECT THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD? I am not fully convinced with above statement / question. While language does help to communicate with other people, share ideas and values that may or may not change our perspective on topics, it does change the world one see. I clearly do not see the relationship between words (nouns) having a gender may change the way we think. But to some extent I do believe that id these words spoken again and again then the way we see it in our head may have a different connotation than other language with words of opposite gender. But what we see in the world are not constrained by language, our perspective still would be the same however the language is set. It may be possible tthat after a while we see the objects in a way of what we relate it to then these objects may have famine or masculine view. More than language I believe it is the society norms and culture that on is brought up in affects the way we. When the author uses the example of the Australian minority to some extent I am convinced that the way they use different words to refer space is because of the language but I believe that however they say it is still the space they are talking about. It's more like saying it another language, agree that they may have more knowledge about the direction but fail to see how it might change their perspective on the world as they what other people see and refer it in another term. So I don't think language changes the way we see the world.
The article made a very good point, that you need your emotion especially fear to keep in check with reality. Fear in general terms is recognized as flaw in some society or in people thinking but I believe that fear is a necessity to one within a limit of doing certain action by which I mean that is without feeling fear humans go to an extent of harming others and himself by crossing a limit and most definitely to keep your decision more rational by acknowledging statistics and to what degree are you fearing from the topic like the example given in the article, cancer or terrorism. Another that I agree with is the way media shows studies and how they convey this message to people creating an emotional response to it. Which intern people to take following action if they feel that their life is at a threat. But to make a rational decision in these situations needs people to separate their emotions from it like fear.the question is how we separate our emotions when we are deciding. Every decision affects our emotion in some way or another, either before or after. Most people follow their instincts to make their decisions either for a convenience or just cannot make a choice between the two, most of the time it may give you a wrong answer, but following your instinct is best suited in split of second decisions not in long run. Emotions such as fear help us to learn to make decisions through experience or through statistics because you take the following action.
RESPONSE TO "HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK?"
DOES THE LANGUAGE WE SPEAK AFFECT THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD?
I am not fully convinced with above statement / question. While language does help to communicate with other people, share ideas and values that may or may not change our perspective on topics, it does change the world one see. I clearly do not see the relationship between words (nouns) having a gender may change the way we think. But to some extent I do believe that id these words spoken again and again then the way we see it in our head may have a different connotation than other language with words of opposite gender. But what we see in the world are not constrained by language, our perspective still would be the same however the language is set. It may be possible tthat after a while we see the objects in a way of what we relate it to then these objects may have famine or masculine view. More than language I believe it is the society norms and culture that on is brought up in affects the way we. When the author uses the example of the Australian minority to some extent I am convinced that the way they use different words to refer space is because of the language but I believe that however they say it is still the space they are talking about. It's more like saying it another language, agree that they may have more knowledge about the direction but fail to see how it might change their perspective on the world as they what other people see and refer it in another term. So I don't think language changes the way we see the world.