The Importance Of Human Thinking

Our world today is divided in various ways. No matter if it is region, race or poverty that

divided us, there is still a huge distinction between people that came from a different

background. Humans naturally repel beings that contradict to our values and what we

believe in, this results in conflict and the creation of stereotype throughout the

development of human race. Our society today is becoming more globalized, and

countries can no longer be defined by race and the language people speak. However,

there is still a distinct difference between people that cannot be removed, for example, the

appearance of different race, tradition, and culture, and most importantly, the way we think.

A human does not easily change opinions on what

It is fair to say that, Eastern languages are more emotional and flexible and

Western languages, especially English, are more rational and practical. A language is a

tool that allows people to express their thinking using a unified system, as our thinking is

expressed through the same system, we often tend to notice the same thing. This proves

that human does not only think through their culture but also through languages.

Although culture has a huge influence on people’s thinking, but it is not the only tool

human use to understand the world around us, there is another tool that everyone born to

have, which is, our own imagination. Most of the time, the facts and theory that helped us

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understand the word do not have a solid prove that determines its true, some of the facts

are even made up just to help us understand the world a little easier. One example is

supernatural beings that cannot be proven but people believe it anyway, people believe in

aliens because they think it would just be impossible that in the whole of the universe the

Earth is the only planet with living beings. Although we cannot prove this, we use what we

believe we know to develop a theory, and the creation of such theory went through