This stands in stark contrast to present day linguistics which is wary of political analysis, and has tended to aspire to non-political objectivity.
There are, however, numerous political dimensions that come into play when keywords are studied in relation to cultures, societies and their histories.
Underhill and Gianninoto [5] demonstrate the way political terms like, "citizen" and "individual" are integrated into the Chinese worldview over the course of the 19th and 20th century.
Keywords like "citizen" generate various translations in Chinese, and are part of an ongoing adaptation to global concepts of individual rights and responsibilities.
Underhill and Gianninoto argue that this is part of the complex ways ideological worldviews interact with the language as an ongoing means of perceiving and understanding the world.