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The term to search up is Linguistic Relativity

There's decent empirical evidence to show that peoples' language influences their perception of colour:

Language and Color Perception: Evidence From Mongolian and Chinese Speakers https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6426779/

Tom Scott, All The Colours, Including Grue: How Languages See Colours Differently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TtnD4jmCDQ

Similar effects for perception of time.

It's very plausible that emojis are perceived differently too, although I'm not aware of any studies on it at the moment.

Naturally it's quite hard to talk about, because people don't necessarily have the words to describe the differences between what they experience, or are even aware of a difference in the first place.



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