Homework 1

For a long time, the public consider language is a tool that we use to perceive the world. That is, people get to know the world before language forms to express what we know. Language is looked upon as a truck; and knowledge of the world is like goods in storage -- can be loaded on anything besides a truck.
Nevertheless, different culture is a reflection of different language which explains that language impacts how we perceive the world. Language is a kind of creativity. The accuracy and widespread use push us and accelerate the rate of human understanding the world. So we can see how ridiculous it is to look at language as an inflexible tool.
To me, there really exist many examples, I will pick one to talk about here. To learn English well, I read a lot and memorize idioms and slangs. During those process, I found Amricans like to use blonde as a symbol of fool. This makes me learn more about the culture of the country and turns to be new knowledge to me. In this case, language shapes the another meaning of blonde, also shapes the way we think of it.
To sum up, language shapes the way we perceive the world, and what we get to know about the world helf shape language.