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An Anthropologist on Mars
Submitted by jrieders on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 2:24pm.Julianne Rieders
An Anthropologist On Mars, Oliver Sacks
Cultural Cognition Theory
Submitted by jrieders on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 5:40pm.Julianne Rieders
Continuation on the Cultural Cognition Theory
In my last paper analyzing Richard E. Nisbett’s theories about Cultural Cognition, I asked if stereotypes of the East and West affect research on this topicwithout elaborating on what these stereotypes are. Furthermore I failed todiscuss why China, Korea, and Japan could be considered a cohesive group, whichI called East Asia, in which members share similar ways of thinking.
Confucius vs Aristotle
Submitted by jrieders on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 1:36am.To the contemporary American or Chinese person, it is nothing new to suggest that “Westerners” and “Easterners” act differently. As we have discussed in class, different behavior suggests different ways of thinking, and ultimately different organization of the brain itself. One would then expect to see observable differences in “Eastern” and “Western” behavior, and some underlying neurological cause for such observations.
