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Why Do We Learn Social Norms

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Secondly, language reveals norms that a person learned while growing up in his community. People from different culture have distinct norms and they might find other culture’s norms strange. For example, although English language used to have formal and informal pronouns. Nowadays, you can be used to refer to anyone such as a teachers, parents or friends. Other languages, such as Hindi, still have social norms and rules about who is to be referred formally and informally. I refer to my teachers and elders with formal pronoun Tame but use informal pronoun Tu when speaking to my friends or someone younger than me. Additionally, to help conservations function meaningfully, people have learned social norms and internalized them to such a degree

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