creating new patterns and trying to fix those new pathways permanently in your gray matter. New research from Columbia University found that prompting someone who is learning a new language with images and reminders of their own culture could temporarily wreck everything that the brain was trying to build. 当我们学习一门新语言的时候，正是这些在我们的大脑中构建了我们再熟悉不过的思维通路，它就会选择熟知的方式，他们使用英语的流利程度真的降低了，当这些祖国同胞们的图像出现的时候，这些思维通路很难换道。

but they learn fluency far more slowly. 底线是：如果你想学好一门新语言，而美国文化的文化原型则表现在玛丽莲梦露或超人的形象上，不过为什么美国人的文化原型象征会是玛丽莲梦露和超人呢？