How language shapes cultures, personalities

After getting introduced to a bunch of different language audiobooks, it's far easier to recognise why people in certain countries act in a certain way and how these differ between countries. A language organizes the collective mindset of a society, emphasizes particular aspects while deemphasizing others.

For example:

• the Chinese/Japanese languages stress the subjects, placing more importance on the topics and the content. Generally people speaking these languages do not have to bother with conjugation, or word gender. Why would you change a word if it already expresses what you want to say? This is quite unlike the Mediterranean (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French) and Germanic languages (Dutch, German) which stress the flow of a sentence more, and utilize conjugations and genders in order to do so.
• in fact, for Asian cultures the subject is the most important, in such a way that the action (verb) that the subject does, is implied. It's not what you do, it's who you're talking about that is easiest to mention.
• For English, Dutch and German it's seemingly more important to speak about conditions and states of a subject. The adjective comes before the noun or subject.

What this means is that the nature of your conversations, the basis for humor, and thus the foundation of relating to a particular culture, change drastically from tongue to tongue. It means that in some languages small-talk is feasible, while in others it will not be, thus impacting the manner of creating relationships. It means that some languages are better suited to describe certain abstract topics, theories.

I am only able to order a beer in ten different languages.