Your language and you

This article, from The New York Times, has been making the rounds on the internet lately, and it's one of the most thought-provoking pieces that I've read in a while.  The title, Does Your Language Shape How You Think?, tells you what the article is about.  I'm a language geek, so it's natural that I'd be interested in things like this:

When your language routinely obliges you to specify certain types of information, it forces you to be attentive to certain details in the world and to certain aspects of experience that speakers of other languages may not be required to think about all the time. And since such habits of speech are cultivated from the earliest age, it is only natural that they can settle into habits of mind that go beyond language itself, affecting your experiences, perceptions, associations, feelings, memories and orientation in the world.

Back in the "bad, old days," the assumption that one's language reinforced nationalist and sometimes racist stereotypes was all too common.  That view has been largely banished, but this article is fascinating examination of the ways in which your language does color your perceptions