Culture and Language Issues: From Blue Stocking to Manhole

The language changes in history reflect our evolutional attitudes to complex of social issues. The interaction between language and culture may be both overt and covert and manifests itself in showing-up national, religious, gender, and other differences. The English language historically reveals strong bias against people of other nations, non-Christian believers, and women. Nowadays, there is a clash involved between the drive for political correctness and that for clarity of expression.