Is #NATO on course for #war because of the “foreign language effect”?
By speaking a second language, we can even become more rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal with uncertainty. This phenomenon is known as the “foreign language effect” and the benefits may be an inspiration for anyone who would like to enrich their mind with the words of another tongue.
source: theguardian.com/science/2023/s…
You react more emotionally in your mother tongue because you learned this language as a child together with many emotions that you experienced as a child. You usually learn a foreign language at school where it is not about emotions and very often more about pressure. As a result, you are often much colder and more rational when making decisions in a foreign language.
In most NATO countries, English is the second language and negotiations between NATO members are conducted in English. This allows the participants to make cold rational decisions and their emotions are left out. A bad combination when it comes to establishing a peaceful world order.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •We need them to wake the fuck up and overthrow their own oligarchs regime by their own will and means. So the only rational thing we can do is to invest our energies into opening their eyes.
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