There is also a weak version of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis at play - you can think different things, and are encouraged to think differently, given one language over another.

The syntactic system of a language and the perceptual system of the speakers of that language do not have the kind of interdependent relationship that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis claimed to have.

According to "the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", there are two associated principles concerning the relationship between peoples thinking and language.