Timeline for Does speaking the same language reduce the likelihood of war?
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| May 9, 2022 at 19:59 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | @Punintended, not to mention the poor Babel fish, which by eliminating all the barriers to communication between different species, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of the Universe. | |
| May 9, 2022 at 13:38 | comment | added | Punintended | Relevant Hitchhiker's Guide section | |
| May 9, 2022 at 10:16 | comment | added | convert | As a more actual counter-example Ukraine, russian was still spoken there. | |
| May 9, 2022 at 10:08 | answer | added | Wag the mainstream media dog | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 15:34 | answer | added | Creative Choice | timeline score: -2 | |
| Nov 8, 2013 at 9:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPolitics/status/398751471527006208 | ||
| Oct 31, 2013 at 22:12 | vote | accept | Golden Cuy | ||
| Oct 31, 2013 at 22:09 | history | edited | Golden Cuy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Acknowledge the possibility it may increase the likelihood of war
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| Oct 31, 2013 at 21:27 | answer | added | I.M. | timeline score: 21 | |
| Oct 31, 2013 at 14:28 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 31, 2013 at 14:25 | comment | added | user1873 | There are a lot of confounding factors to take into account, governing structure for declaring war, what constitutes a war, economic conditions, etc.. Are either of the nations a dictatorship or are they a republic? (what influence does the number of people you need to convince to go to war have, and how do you adjust for that variable). I think you will find the greatest deterrent to war is trade not language, because everyone loves money, but I am unsure how you could test/quantify either. If your question is, does it have any role, the answer is yes (just like with AGW). | |
| Oct 31, 2013 at 14:11 | comment | added | user1873 | How would you test this hypothesis? You also have a title and body mismatch. Do you want to know if language plays any role, or if it reduces the likelihood of war? Additionally, are you asking if people in a single country are more/less likely to support war with any other country if they all speak the same language (nationalism), or if language differences between nations makes them more/less likely to go to war. (You example leads me to believe the latter) | |
| Oct 31, 2013 at 10:22 | comment | added | LateralFractal | Sounds like a spin off of the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis. I'm wonder if this answer could be better answered in the Cognitive Sciences or History stack exchanges. | |
| Oct 31, 2013 at 9:57 | history | asked | Golden Cuy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |