Linguistic relativity

Linguistic relativity is the idea that the language you speak can influence the way you think. For example, if you speak Chinese, with its many different words for rice, you might be able to think about it in more detail than someone who only speaks English. That’s because English only has one word for rice, but Chinese has more words to describe different kinds of rice - from long grain to short grain, brown to white, and so on. So, if you speak Chinese, you can think about the different types of rice more easily than someone who only speaks English.