Nice example! Ambiguity in who is biased by what language constructs is fairly deep in humans’ normal communication mechanisms, and will take a lot of words to be explicit about, in order to avoid biases related to distinctions between beliefs, aliefs, and statements to different audiences.
I was asking for an example of language causing bias (as opposed to reflecting a bias). I’ve heard the (abstract) theory that language affects the way we think, but I haven’t heard (concrete) examples outside of “people with these language act this way, people with other languages act this way”.
What do we mean when we use the word “we”?
Also:
How?
Yeah, “we” is often a word that is highly ambiguous.
Because some things are easier to express than others and humans don’t have unlimited energy.
Nice example! Ambiguity in who is biased by what language constructs is fairly deep in humans’ normal communication mechanisms, and will take a lot of words to be explicit about, in order to avoid biases related to distinctions between beliefs, aliefs, and statements to different audiences.
I was asking for an example of language causing bias (as opposed to reflecting a bias). I’ve heard the (abstract) theory that language affects the way we think, but I haven’t heard (concrete) examples outside of “people with these language act this way, people with other languages act this way”.