The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently and Why
 

The Geography of Thought

by Richard E. Nisbett


Everyone knows that while different cultures may think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. Everyone knows that whatever the skin color, nationality, or religion, every human being uses the same tools for perception, for memory, and for reasoning. Everyone knows that a logically true statement is true in English, German, or Hindi. Everyone... (read more)

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The book was timely, as at the time I had to deal with a lot of people not from my own culture.

It will be too limiting if we only use language as the means to dialogue, as people from the east do not rely on language alone to represent themselves.

Having been raised in an eastern culture, and educated by a western logic, the book taught me on how to reconcile the two. There needs to be a space and time for dialogue to take place, to delay from judging others with our...

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