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#49 Eastern and Western Thinking

Minding the Brain

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What's the Difference Between Western and East Asian Cultures?

Westerners have very rigid set boundaries in their heads. When you get closer to a fuzzy boundary, the bets are off kind of thing. The law in East Asia is much more flexible in the sense that it pays attention to context. And I read in your book that logic is not only less prominent in Eastern cultures, but sometimes view negatively.

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