To what extent do personal attributes affect Ways of Knowing and why, if at all, does answering this question matter in the first place?

We receive knowledge through 4 ways which are emotion, reason, language and perception. Yet these ways of knowing are highly effected by the knowledge which is gotten through them since personal attributes which have been gained prior to now filter out the knowledge which is fed to us now. I personally am a Ukrainian who has been living and studying in an International school, in China for my whole life as well as a strong patriot …

…in and as far as I consider the first people who have to do it are the presidents since I perceive them as the most ignorant people in the world!!! As seen through out the essay our personal attributes affect our ways of Knowing to a very great extent. Language, emotion, reason and perception are our ways to gain knowledge yet various attributes, especially cultural and physical, become barriers in the process of getting knowledge.