An interesting thing I saw a while back is someone did a search on Google books for the word racism. The word itself only came into use in early 1900s....I often wonder, does the existence of the word help create the concept or not...? (to be clear, I'm not saying race-tribalism is a new thing), but have we mind-tricked ourselves into this situation?

Steven Pinker would disagree because language/speaking and thinking are two different things.

I experienced Schadenfreude before learning there was a German word for it