<story><title>Music is universal and used in strikingly similar ways across the globe: study</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-music-universal-globe-1473230</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>username90</author><text>People often say things like &amp;quot;This culture doesn&amp;#x27;t have a word for that color, how strange is that?&amp;quot;, but isn&amp;#x27;t it stranger that basically every culture has so many similarities, like words for the same very abstract things like love, marriage, colors, emotions and so on? Especially if you look at the typical persons of societies instead of the upper classes. I believe many greatly underestimate how much our culture is rooted in our genes, I see no other reason why human societies has so much in common.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>We might all have a word that gets translated as “marriage”, but the concept attached to that word is not universal. It’s not even the same concept between all people within a single nation and who share a single language and are subject to a legal definition of the word regardless of how well it matches their own personal definition.&lt;p&gt;I suspect that the parts of our culture that are rooted in language are things most of us &lt;i&gt;don’t even&lt;/i&gt; have words for, because they come too naturally for us to need to talk about.</text></comment>
<story><title>Music is universal and used in strikingly similar ways across the globe: study</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-music-universal-globe-1473230</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>username90</author><text>People often say things like &amp;quot;This culture doesn&amp;#x27;t have a word for that color, how strange is that?&amp;quot;, but isn&amp;#x27;t it stranger that basically every culture has so many similarities, like words for the same very abstract things like love, marriage, colors, emotions and so on? Especially if you look at the typical persons of societies instead of the upper classes. I believe many greatly underestimate how much our culture is rooted in our genes, I see no other reason why human societies has so much in common.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgellow</author><text>You may be interested by Chomsky’s work on Universal Grammar theory &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Universal_grammar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Universal_grammar&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>