Westerners looking at the trees, Orienters looking at the forest
https://gyazo.com/11962970e2bb43e01cbffac7de923e8d
How Westerners See the Trees and Easterners See the Forests: How Differences in Thinking Emerge
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In terms of differences in thinking by country, related books multicultural world.
Perceive the world as a collection of nouns or a collection of verbs
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Japanese is logical.
There is a meme that "Japanese is not logical," but in reality the rules of expression used are different.
nishio.iconThere is a connection between perceiving the world as a collection of nouns and perceiving the world as a collection of objects as opposed to oneself as the observing subject.
This is the Kegon (sect of Buddhism) way of thinking of the unenlightened circumstance.
see Kegon Kozaneba Summary
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