Through The Language Glass: Summary #5

Deutscher mentioned how colors were formed in verbal expression. He said that in most languages the first color started with the color black, white, then red, then yellow-green, and finally blue. Many linguistic have been looking for ways to figure, if it is human nature or cultural conventions? Did people understand color after they became more civilized? Deutscher explains the discoveries of  colors and how  they were discovered, and how languages were understood by perceptions and then vocabularies. “Tested hundreds of people from different races and ethnic types, not just for vision but also for many other mental processes.” ( Deutscher 82). Psychologist and anthropology were trying to see if different race makes the people see things differently like colors and how they interpret things. They found out that “ the elementary brain activities, through differing in degree from one individual to another, are about the same from one race to another.” (Deutscher 82).  From this we can say that language and the society creates how we think about the world around us.