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The Incredible Influence of Languages on Human Behavior!

by Boye De Mente on Sep 15, 2009

To fully understand and know a people you must be intimately familiar with key words in their native language that control their thinking and behavior—a fact of incredible importance that has not yet become common knowledge even among scholars and educators, much less diplomats, politicians and the international business community.    Incredibly, the relationship between languages and cultural behavior is still only dimly perceived or is ignored altogether, with the result that the world is continuously roiled by misunderstandings, friction and violence.   America’s Cultural Failures During the 1950s when I was based in Tokyo I was astounded to discover that almost all of the dialogue that American Embassy personnel had with their Japanese government counterparts—and particularly with the Japanese public—was with and through English-speaking Japanese—not American embassy staff who spoke Japanese.    What was even...Read More >>



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