07 October
longevity of differences
You were asked to think about these issues
When confronted with two apparently contradictory propositions, Americans tended to polarize their beliefs ...
... the "right/wrong" mentality of the West in contrast to the "both/and" orientation of the East ...
It is the Abrahamic religions that have been so inclined to religious warfare.
How do you fit into this set of descriptors?
... cognitive differences are inseparable from the social and motivational ones. People hold the beliefs they do because of the way they then and they think the way they do because of the nature of the societies they live in.
True?
If true, what can we do with this observation?
If not true, where is it deficient and why?
The two Western vices of separation of form and content and the insistence on logical approaches ...
"Vices"???
Do you agree with that? Would you not see them as strengths instead of vices?
... the results are stongly suggestive that cognitive process can be modified by dint of merely living for a time in another culture.
What is your plan for next summer?
an idea for the day
