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Each language possesses a structure which must at some level influence the way its users view the world.

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The statement above is popularly referred to as Whorfian hypothesis. The hypothesis states that language directly affects the way people think about the world and the way they perceive it, thus it holds the idea that one's language determines one's conception of the world.
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