As far as how people really think, does it really matter?
English is infamous for having only one "you", same for plural and singluar. Unless you live in the southern USA. I'm not quite sure how to phrase this test hypothesis properly, but are there any scientific studies showing that native English speakers have different concepts of other people than say, the French, where "vous" and "tu" exist?
In any case, no way you can say that English was "engineered" that way to control minds, it happened the other way around...
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