The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently and Why (Richard E. Nisbett)

This and all narrations are offered with accurate closed captions (not auto-generated).

"This is a short book with a sweeping thesis. In essence, the thesis of The Geography of Thought is that many important cognitive processes dominant in East Asian (i.e., Chinese, Japanese and Korean) cultures are substantially different from those processes in Western (i.e., American and European) cultures. This proposition explains a variety of dissimilarities in how people from each culture approach the world and each other, and it is also a partial explanation of the Great Divergence—why the modern world was created by the West, and by nobody else, to the lasting (so far) benefit of the West. While the author, Richard Nisbett, goes to great lengths to not ascribe superiority to one type of cognition over another, his cultural analyses show why the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution could not have happened in East Asia. As they say, though, past performance is no guarantee of future results, and perhaps the relative value of Western ways of thought has passed its use-by date." . . .

[adindahutabarat_sinolog]

There is no such "which one is better"....its just an enlightment😊

[LeonSKennedy]

The Worthy House is in dire need of a classical musical theme for the intros & outros. Something like Mozart’s Sonata A Major K 331 seems so fitting... though I’m not sure how the copyright laws go.

[sevenman]

I wonder whether Nisbett had read Destiny of The Mind by William Haas, a book that came to much the same conclusion a half-century prior.