Charlie Hanabuchi

According to Sapir (1921), "There are just five languages that have had an over-whelming significance as carriers of culture. They are classical Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Greek, and Latin" of which classical Chinese alone is free from grammatical gender.  As an alien originally from the planet Mars, the grammatical gender does not make sense to me. This reduces the set of UN official languages to just English and Chinese. 

As an alien originally from the planet Mars, I have the impression that the modern human society is designed in a way that it is revealed only to those who think, in Sapir (1921)'s sense, in English.

There will always be a certain degree and a certain sense of bias in the process of an act to perceive or recognize something. It is impossible to be free from being biased in the conduct of making a point. The target of one's perception or recognition is itsself derived from one's interest which is the realization of one's bias. For example: when the media is attempting to report an issue, the media is already biased. Why is the media reporting the specific issue over others when there are countless other issues? It is because the media has and is based on its own awareness and motivation which is the realization of its bias. The difference in awareness and motivation among writers will lead to the diversity in the selection of issues as media coverage and will lead to offering a variety of points of view on the issue. Otherwise, there will be no difference among media reports in both the selection of topics and the offering of the corresponding possible interpretations. A...