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    Languages shape our understanding of knowledge in different ways. English emphasizes strict classification and accuracy while Chinese stresses connections between knowledges and culture. Knowledge is also influenced by social and cultural factors like values, norms, and power structures that determine what knowledge is considered valid and how it is communicated through oral traditions, apprenticeships, or formal education. Effectively sharing knowledge across cultures and languages is challenging due to idiomatic expressions rooted in different historical experiences that may not directly translate. Understanding these linguistic and cultural differences in how knowledge is conceived of and communicated is important for gaining a broader perspective of knowledge worldwide.

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    Languages shape our understanding of knowledge in different ways. English emphasizes strict classification and accuracy while Chinese stresses connections between knowledges and culture. Knowledge is also influenced by social and cultural factors like values, norms, and power structures that determine what knowledge is considered valid and how it is communicated through oral traditions, apprenticeships, or formal education. Effectively sharing knowledge across cultures and languages is challenging due to idiomatic expressions rooted in different historical experiences that may not directly translate. Understanding these linguistic and cultural differences in how knowledge is conceived of and communicated is important for gaining a broader perspective of knowledge worldwide.

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    Languages shape our understanding of knowledge in different ways. English emphasizes strict classification and accuracy while Chinese stresses connections between knowledges and culture. Knowledge is also influenced by social and cultural factors like values, norms, and power structures that determine what knowledge is considered valid and how it is communicated through oral traditions, apprenticeships, or formal education. Effectively sharing knowledge across cultures and languages is challenging due to idiomatic expressions rooted in different historical experiences that may not directly translate. Understanding these linguistic and cultural differences in how knowledge is conceived of and communicated is important for gaining a broader perspective of knowledge worldwide.

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    Are there differences in how knowledge itself is conceived of, or presented,

    indifferent languages?

    Languages plays a fundamental role in shaping our understanding of knowledge.


    While different languages have different vocabularies and gramma structure.
    Which these differences shape our understanding of knowledge. For example,
    language such as English is having strict classification and accuracy. Then for
    languages such as Chinese are emphasizing on connections on culture and
    interconnection between different knowledges.

    Knowledges are created under specific social background and rules. Values,
    culture norms and power structure influence the separation of knowledge to
    society. It’s depended which parts of knowledge are valid to everyone, and which
    parts are not. Also, in different countries the ways knowledge been told or
    teaches are different. For example, in some culture, knowledge can be told by
    telling a story, oral traditions and apprenticeship inheritance. However, in some
    other countries, knowledge may be known through written texts or formal
    education systems. These cultural differences effect on how people in the culture
    evaluate the knowledge and what is the standard of the knowledge.

    Idiomatic expression is also a big gap between different cultural. The ways people
    describe the knowledge in different language is having a huge different. It meanly
    because the culturally different and different history background from different
    places. Such as in western cultural they have an idiom called “break a leg”. It when
    someone or a group of people are about to do performance, people are wishing
    them to have a good luck. However, if you translate the idiom into other
    languages such as Chinese and told it to a Chinese people, they might think you
    are cursing them. Or for example some Chinese idiom that create from the
    influence of a historical event, if we translate the idiom into another languages.
    Peoples in other countries will not understand what you are talking about. For
    these expressions it has reflect the social value and beliefs from these cultural.
    Translate these idioms and bring the knowledge to another cultural, a group of
    people speaking different languages will be challenging. This also highlights the
    importance of cultural context in understanding and effectively communicating
    knowledge.

    In conclusion, knowledge is having some difference of understanding knowledge.


    It either through the structure of the languages and the cultural difference
    between different countries. To understand the difference between how the
    knowledge is been identify in different culture and how it has been spread will
    help us know the knowledge from everywhere in the world better by considering
    the difference of various of culture and languages in the world.

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