As you may have noticed, most people primarily speak and learn vehicular languages (also called lingua franca). This is because they want to be pragmatic and optimize their time and effort by focusing in on a “useful language”. First of all, what makes a language attractive to learn? Here are a few criteria: – Number of speakers – Average wealth…
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As many overlook it, life in northern countries was shaped by winter. That’s because people were anxious about winter and its calamities (starvation, diseases etc.) that they were eager to work hard all year long. Since almost nothing could be harvested during that season, people learnt how to save and make provisions for bad times. As we don’t experience such…
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Pride may be defined as a sense of deep respect for oneself, in another word, it is the love of oneself. Out of this feeling, we are inclined to express compassion, love and esteem towards others. We may understand that there is a direct relationship between the way we deal with ourselves and the way we treat others: internal respect…
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Is it not frustrating to notice that it is still so difficult today to empower human beings to change their behavior towards nature? What is the reason that explains this failure as well as those in relation to the massive challenges of modernity? Why do people continue to pollute, to make things dirty or harm others? The answer seems quite…
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“Vous” is a formal way to talk to people in French, it basically helps putting in some degree of distance as a sign of respect. Something that we aren’t all aware of, is that it is also a sign, a way to protect ourselves from an intrusion into our own “mental space”. Indeed, when you say “vous” to someone, you…
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This injunction sounds politically incorrect since we are asked to be at peace with everything and everyone from an early age. By saying this, I’m not telling you to cultivate hatred within your heart, but it’s another way of saying that you need to have values for which you stand and you shouldn’t compromise when those values are at risk…
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From the caveman age to the one of modernity Human beings are often described as apes to understand better their behavior in a group or in any social interactions. Some theories have emerged, especially in the field of seduction, in order to understand better the interactions between opposite sexes. The issue by doing this is that we restrict analyzing the human…
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We are tricked by the idea that, to be happy, we need to look happy always, even during the hard times of our life. Indeed, we deny our real feelings to seem happy, and we aren’t able to tackle real issues that we need address in order to grow. This behaviour is particularly true during adolescence, since we don’t want to…
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Something that characterizes each child on planet Earth is the capacity to have fun and play no matter what their cultural background. We tend to forget that games are an essential part of our journey to adulthood. Does that mean that we are no longer able to have fun while learning? Not at all, it’s just that we are told…
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At first sight, pain and suffering are quite similar concepts. However, there is a big gap between these concepts. Some may argue that pain is only a matter of the body whereas suffering is more emotional or psychological. We’ll not enter into this debate. We may address this question on both physical and psychological terms. Indeed, pain and suffering may…
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