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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 Culture?

China is the origin of all East Asian cultures and Confucianism is that is woven into the mentality. China is very well suited to plantation agriculture, which requires cooperation among people in order to be effective. In Greece, where Western culture originates plantation agriculture really isn't possible for the most part. Action in general in the East is dependent on your relations with other people because cooperation is the way that things get done in Greece.

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