culture shock
So... tonight I had a halting discussion in Spanish with a Brazilian who only spoke Português and some Spanish and English with the aid of a Colombian who spoke fluent English and Spanish about group selection and whether certain models of sexual selection are appropriate to apply to human social models. With a background in anthropology and evolutionary biology, these are two topics that really interest me and will get me excited, no matter what the language. I can only hope that we were all on the same page and talking about the same thing, and not arguing past one another like ships in the night.