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To: epicure who wrote (85046)	8/8/2000 1:49:06 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I just like seeing proles get their due. Their services were under appreciated. It is hot here. It'll be 98 degrees today. Guess I'll have to spend the day in the pool...

To: epicure who wrote (85046)	8/8/2000 3:32:34 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

How Culture Molds Habits of Thought nytimes.com Well, on the off chance you might want to cool off a little, it's Science Tuesday, and this interesting article showed up in the Times. A snippet, on a topic that's been belabored a bit here, I think. Dr. Nisbett and Dr. Ara Norenzayan of the University of Illinois have also found indications that when logic and experiential knowledge are in conflict, Americans are more likely than Asians to adhere to the rules of formal logic, in keeping with a tradition that in Western societies began with the Ancient Greeks. For example, presented with a logical sequence like, "All animals with fur hibernate. Rabbits have fur. Therefore rabbits hibernate," the Americans, the researchers found, were more likely to accept the validity of the argument, separating its formal structure, that of a syllogism, from its content, which might or might not be plausible. Asians, in contrast, more frequently judged such syllogisms as invalid based on their implausibility -- not all animals with fur do in fact hibernate. While the cultural disparities traced in the researchers' work are substantial, their origins are much less clear. Historical evidence suggests that a divide between Eastern and Occidental thinking has existed at least since ancient times, a tradition of adversarial debate, formal logical argument and analytic deduction flowering in Greece, while in China an appreciation for context and complexity, dialectical argument and a tolerance for the "yin and yang" of life flourished. How much of this East-West difference is a result of differing social and religious practices, different languages or even different geography is anyone's guess. But both styles, Dr. Nisbett said, have advantages, and both have limitations. And neither approach is written into the genes: Asian-Americans, born in the United States, are indistinguishable in their modes of thought from European-Americans. Cheers, Dan.