Sorry YF, but:
opening up of:
Quite honestly, and no offense, many of us have been living here or elsewhere in Asia for a long time and don't need social anthropologists, or whoever, telling us these things . . .
Lines like:
Chinese and Americans literally view the world differently,
and
"If people are literally looking at the world differently, we think it would be natural for them to explain the world in different ways," said Richard Nisbett, a psychologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Seriously, this guy is getting paid to come up with pseudo-intellectual crap like that -
East Asians, by contrast, tend to look at the whole picture
Ah, so the Japanese and Chinese and Philippinos and Papuans are the same? Friggin' nonsense.
Very impressive credentials:
Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan
Co-Director of the UM Culture and Cognition Program
Research Professor at the Research Center for Group Dynamics of UM's Institute for Social Research
First social psychologist in a generation to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, American Psychological Association
William James Fellow Award, American Psychological Society
Guggenheim Fellowship
and while doing all this - how much time has he spent living in Asia, with Asians? Is he basing his findings on American culture and values vis-a-vis 'Asians' or is he lumping us all in the same bucket like he does with Asians?
I'm shocked that such pretentious writing is even published.
Sorry, YF.
