How Language Shapes Freedom and Tyranny — on The Glazov Gang

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In this special two-part-series, The Glazov Gang brings together two freedom fighters from totalitarian environments to unveil the links between linguistics and liberty.

In the first episode, Kai Chen, China’s Basketball Superstar and the author of One In A Billion: Journey Toward Freedom, joins the Gang to discuss How Language Shapes Freedom and Tyranny, analyzing the links between linguistics and liberty.

In the second episode, Nonie Darwish, a modern day freedom fighter and the author of The Devil We Don’t Know: The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East, joins the Gang to discuss: How Arabic Stifles Individualism and Freedomshedding light on how the Arabic language impedes psychological growth and sabotages the path to democracy:

1. Kai Chen: How Language Shapes Freedom and Tyranny.

2. Nonie Darwish: How Arabic Stifles Individualism and Freedom.

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  • reyol

    I find discussions on the differences between languages to be always interesting and enlightening. Please do more of these.

    It occurs to me that compromise and concessions, to the Arabic mind, are a form of losing. That is why Arabs will declare victory when they lose a war. When we fight a war, we expect it to end with a treaty explicating what the winner wins and what the loser gets to keep and this requires diplomacy, compromise and concessions. The Arabic mind expects to massacre or be massacred and when this doesn’t happen, it can only be because they didn’t actually lose – that they have a secret and mysterious power and their Western opponent has a secret and mysterious weakness. That the Arabic language(s) lack a word for “compromise” and have a rich vocabulary for “conquest” would make this thought process natural for everyone that thinks in Arabic.