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busted on June 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we gave colors names and it messed with our br...

The end of the embedded video, where it shows the experiment with the African tribe and how they see colors differently, is totally amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b71rT9fU-I&feature=playe...

gurkendoktor on June 17, 2012 [–]

Beware, though, that the effect shown in the video is much stronger than the one described in the article. Several of the comments suspect that the Himba tribe actually has a genetic difference that causes the linguistic one and not the other way around.

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