> Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is generally not considered to be reality.
This is true only in the strictest terms of the hypothesis, i.e. linguistic determinism. Language still encodes a lot of culture (& hence norms and values) in its grammar & diction—this isn't very controversial.
Granted, I don't think this is that related to the topic at hand. There's bias all over the decisions in how to train and what to train on; choice of language is just one facet of that.
I assumed that this was intentionally a signal that you shouldn't take this too seriously and a reference to this Simpsons clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAuR5bkIlQ
You'd think they'd include a term that signaled this is about vectors then! I foolishly assumed this was a new term for "orthogonal", but words don't really need to be meaningfully related to their roots to be meaningful themselves.
The US was never built to produce a cohesive nation on any level outside of commerce and federal military. This is particularly visible today in terms of education.
There's an attitude here of "I'm gonna do the best for my family; fuck all other people". Such a culture isn't going to be globally competitive. The money machines have dried up and there's no obvious frontier remaining....