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I do believe that language has a huge effect on the thought process; we are limited by words our language gives us to describe things.
For instance, the lingustic difference between Chinese and English is amazing. It seems very difficult to get accurate translations between the two, because of the way their language works, not just because of grammatical differences. They have concepts which seem to me to be undiscribable in English, yet simply understood when taken in Chinese, leading me to believe that language does indeed have a very large impact on the way people can think (or more likey how much people are limited by language). It seems mostly this way due to extreme philisophical differences between religions (which always seem to come up with the most abstract ideas, very similar to mathmatics). Just with a language that has no words to describe certain abstract ideas of Eastern philosophy, the language of the tribe has no words to describe what must seem to them the abstract idea of mathmatics.
As a side note, lots of people in the world starve themselves and their family even with food around, as part of religious observance.
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