This doctrine is called 'linguistic determinism', for those curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguist

This doctrine is called 'linguistic determinism', for those curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_determinism I don't think it's well-supported but it seems to intuitively appeal to a lot of people.