The Place Where Time Flows Backwards

The video explores how humans across different cultures use spatial metaphors to represent time. It highlights that while many Western cultures depict time from left to right, other cultures, such as those speaking right-to-left languages, represent it differently. Additionally, some cultures without written language use natural landscapes to conceptualize time. The video also discusses how orientation and cultural perspectives influence the perception of past and future events.

How do English and Spanish speakers typically represent the passage of time?

• From right to left

• From top to bottom

• From bottom to top

• From left to right

What is a common way for speakers of right-to-left languages to arrange sequential images?

• From bottom to top

• From left to right

• From right to left

• From top to bottom

How do the Australian Kook Tiger people perceive the flow of time?

• From north to south

• From west to east

• From east to west

• From south to north

Which direction do Mandarin speakers traditionally use to represent time?

• From bottom to top

• From right to left

• From left to right

• From top to bottom

In the Aimara culture, how is the past perceived in relation to the individual?

• In front of them

• Above them

• Below them

• Behind them