In her article, How Our Language Shapes the Way We Think, Lera Boroditsky (2009) explains how the results of her experiments support the idea that the structure of language shapes how we think. In one of his experiments, he found that English speakers placed cards showing time progression in temporal order from left to right, Jews placed them from right to left, and that the Kuuk Thaayorre placed them from east to west. This shows that written language influences how time is represented to them. In another of his experiments, he asked German and Spanish speakers to describe certain items and found that the masculinity or femininity of the noun in their respective languages ​​influences how it is described. This can also be seen in the way artists represent the human form of abstract entities such as death. Boroditsky concludes that “Language is central to our experience as human beings, and the languages ​​we speak profoundly shape the way we think, the way we see the world, the way we live our lives.” (Primary Reader p. 49) I would like to add that language is also the foundation of a person's culture, pride, and self by exploring articles written by Eric Liu, Amy Tan, and Gloria Anzaldua. In his book, The Accidental Asian, there is a chapter titled Notes of a Native Speaker: Growing Up Across Racial and Cultural Divides, in which Eric Liu describes his assimilation. His parents “didn't tell him to do anything but be a good boy” (CR p.62), so there he was, at a crossroads between being the typical Asian and the atypical Asian. As he comments later, "neither of them was a creature with free will as a human being should be" (CR p. 69), but the promise of fitting in, courting girls and...half of paper..... .expressing his Chinese culture. Mastery of a second language allows her to articulate her thoughts and those of her mother; it is a basis for her pride and a basis for expressing herself. For Gloria Anzaldua, instead of choosing one language over the other, she chose a mix of the two and fights for it. He realized the value of his language when he lost it and now treasures it. The type of Spanish he speaks is neither English nor Spanish, but both. It is overflowing with the culture of medieval Spain, France, Germany, etc., right from the origins of the words. It is her pride and a representation of herself, that she fights and lives. In conclusion, in addition to Lera Boroditsky's article demonstrating that the structure of language influences the way we think, Eric Liu, Amy Tan, and Gloria Anzaldua's articles show how language is the foundation of culture, pride, and a person's self..