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4. How Political Definitions Shape Reality
WHAT IS POLITICS?
The Meaning of the Word Government
Many cultures don't have a word for the color blue. In two thousand n six, psychologist jules davidoff and his team did color experiments with himba speakers and english speakers. They showed them a bunch of squares where one is blue and the rest are ades of green, and they asked which one is different. Most of the hymba speakers spotted the different green square immediately, but had a hard time noticing the blue square in the other set. Meanwhile, for the english speakers, it was the exact opposite. They all spotted the blue square Immediately, but most of them failed to notice the different shade of green or else it took a long time to find it. Your vocabulary
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