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\"\"From The Telegraph<\/a> of all places… who manage to dumb down scientific research to a point where it makes almost no sense then fail to provide a link to the original paper… :<\/p>\n

A second language ‘changes personality’<\/strong>
\nBy Robert Matthews (Filed: 03\/07\/2005)<\/p>\n

If only Basil Fawlty had learnt a little Spanish.<\/p>\n

Psychologists have discovered that people take on the characteristics of foreign nationals when they switch into their language – and such a change in the embittered hotel owner could well have improved life for the hapless Manuel.<\/p>\n

The personality changes, however, run deeper than a desire to gesticulate wildly when talking in Italian or to plunge into gloom when speaking Russian. According to research, using different languages alters basic characteristics traits such as extroversion and neuroticism.<\/p>\n

Researchers at the University of Texas made the discovery while studying the personality traits of bilingual English and Spanish speakers in the United States and Mexico. They began by establishing the attributes of native speakers, using the results of personality tests on almost 170,000 people.<\/p>\n

The results showed that English-speaking Americans are typically more conscientious, agreeable and outgoing than native Mexicans, but also less neurotic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I always feel more extraverted and less neurotic when I’m in Spanish speaking mode, happily talking to strangers, smiling and all that. But the second bit of the article makes no sense to me. Does racial profiling via 170,000 personality tests make it OK? And how the chingada do you measure “agreeability” and “conscienciousness”? Are they including undocumented immigrants in the test, I’d feel less outgoing too if I thought I was in constant danger of being deported and the government of the county I lived in was hell bent on building a 4.5 metre wall along its border with my home country with funds left over after waging a ill-thought-out and illegal war on abstract nouns and then legalising torture round the world… And then there’s the socioeconomic aspects of the respective countries…<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, somewhere in Torquay:<\/p>\n

Basil Fawlty: Manuel…
\n[Basil thwacks him on the forehead with a spoon]
\nBasil Fawlty: …You’re a waste of space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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