The Idea of 'Love'

Love is such a universal idea that seems to manifest itself again and again in sociology. It seems as though the very basics of human nature can be traced back to love. Love for your fellow man, your brothers and sisters, love for other cultures, love for a significant other, and love for the earth, among many others, are all different ways of describing love.  In the English language, we are so limited in the use of the term 'love'. Other cultures have dozens upon dozens of words for all of the different uses of the word 'love'. In America, it is all lumped together into one word, and that cheats us out of some amazing ways we could view the world. It seems as though America is quite a superficial and materialistic society where people don't even see a need for multiple words to mean love. They view it as only a romantic thing where there is just so much more to the word, than only that. We should however, have many words, because there are so many different kinds of love and so many way it can be used, maybe it would change our culture as a whole if we had these words. It has been proven that our language dictates the way we view life and society, and maybe western society could stray away from its' such materialistic views, and develop a more spiritual connection with existence and life as a whole, if only we had the words to describe it.