Theory of Knowledge Prompt: Culture

What is the role of culture and language in the perceptual process? Given the partially subjective nature of sense-perception, how can different knowers ever agree on what is perceived? Do people with different cultural or linguistic backgrounds live, in some sense, in different worlds?

The role played by culture and language in the perceptual process is an important role as the way that the education a young child recieves will affect the way that he sees the world. Culture and Language will also affect this proces due to the child recieving different styles of education from what he reads and what he hears will affect the perception processes. But language also affects perception as words within languages will represent different meanings (e.g. Anjing, in Indonesia, this word means dog, whereas in Chinese it means be quiet). Thus this explains how the language will affect the perceptual process of the person.
But also Culture affects perceptual process, as different cultures may have clashes because of the differences. These maybe caused as different cultures have different do’s and taboo’s which affect the “rules” of how someone may interact with another, yet another culture may have another do and taboo which can be on parallels with the other cultures.
The agreement created between different knowers will often come from the many arguments and solutions within the process of creating general knowledge which would be known by society. These pieces of knowledge may come from the compromises that may have been met or created during the creation of general knowledge.
People with different cultural or linguistic backgrounds, may live in a different world in another culture as they may not be able to understand the language or cultural processes. This may occur due to the culture clashes that have occured during the time in which, these cultural processes that you have learned during the childhood will cause a person to live in a different world when they are placed in an environment where they are not comfortable or knowledgable about the culture being interacted with.