Understanding Of La Facultad In Translating Translation By Rios

My own understanding of la facultad is an instinct reaction that we used for protect ourselves from threat or unknown. For example, people will freak out when they see a person who act wired in the bank because this person look like a robber. Something we don’t know will lead us into a situation that we try to comfort ourselves by unconscious action. Rios illustrates this concept in "Translating Translation" by the stories that he states in his essay. First story is his mom wanted the kitchen to be yellow and she said limon to those Mexican workers. But she didn’t know that limon in Spanish means green, not yellow. Those workers didn't know what limon meant in English but they knew it's meaning in Spanish, so they would choose green rather