The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why [A Book Report]

In the integrated, interconnected and inter-dependent state of the modern world order, when it comes to subjects like human nature and human thinking, we tend to conceptualise as universalists. The writer of The Geography of Thought, Professor Richard E. Nisbett, was himself a self-proclaimed universalist in the domain of cognition, in line with the traditions of Hume, Locke and Mill. However, after embarking on a careful study, across a number of related but varied fields, from sociology to neuroscience, including his own research with his students and colleagues, he came to a set of conclusions that will probably be more contentious today than they would have been at the time of the publication of this work in 2003: that there are subtle, measurable, functionally meaningful differences between the peoples of the East (Nisbett narrows this to China, Korea and Japan) and the West (Common Wealth Countries, USA and Western Europe), especially in terms of cognition.  <a href="https://medium.com/@dominic.timothy/the-geography-of-thought-how-asians-and-westerners-think-differently-and-why-a-book-report-e5861a37772c">Click Here</a>