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To: TobagoJack who wrote (67958)	8/23/2005 3:00:32 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

will edit it all into a feature for coconut's wedding day Many recent immigrant parents no understand why daughter who read ayn rand, watch friends tv show, listen to oprah talk show, etc etc no marry and bring them great pain no grandbabies coming. I think shades tell you before he have asian friend run asian restaurant, kids all sat 1600 types, really bright and smart and even maybe controlled by overbearing momma and papa maybe some would say - but anyways moma try to get daughter to marry shades - now momma have 4 kids - daughter go to harvard and leave shades - dating him at the time - shades go to raleigh for IBM - we talking about love and family and children, well 6 months maybe after being at harvard, shades dog meat and career come number 1 in daughter life - no more kids or family with shades or any man for that matter - hehe. It look like none of mommas kids gonna have grand kids and this bring much much suffering to momma - and I ask her what she expect? How could she see just her little tree and not the forest it was coming up in and the memes it was being exposed to everyday in so many ways - some of which she encouraged - anti marriage type memes - anti commitmant - anti sacrifice. General, prepare your wife that coconut may not get married, and if that is truly her goal, you and her are going to have to do very strict things perhaps to control the memes entering her forming mind - you already tell me divorces are up. I say this watching what was once a very bright and happy asian woman who put her life into her kids to make them better citzens, turn into very broken older asian woman who very very sad she no hear the pitter patter of grandbaby feet and who kids are too career busy to call her anymore. sciam.com Americans and Chinese Differ in Their World View--Literally A study of Chinese and American students has found that the two groups looked at scenes in photographs in distinct ways. The findings indicate that previously observed cultural differences in judgment and memory between East Asians and North Americans derive from differences in what they actually see. There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that whereas North Americans tend to be more analytic when evaluating a scenario, fixating on the focal object, East Asians are generally more holistic, giving more consideration to the context. Researchers have not known, however, whether these differences originate during the encoding, retrieval, or mental comparison stages of perceptual-cognitive processing, or whether they might even be the result of reporting bias. To try to pinpoint when these differences emerge, Richard E. Nisbett of the University of Michigan and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments in which Chinese and American students were shown a number of images, each depicting a single subject against a realistic and complex background. The participants--who wore an eye-movement tracker during the tests--were then shown pictures containing the same subjects on either old or new backgrounds and asked to judge whether they had seen the subjects before. As the team predicted, the American students homed in on the focal subject sooner and longer than did the Chinese students, who paid more attention to the background imagery. (In the image above, eye gaze patterns of an American individual appear on top; those of a Chinese individual on the bottom.) This suggests that the Americans encoded more visual details for the focal objects than did the Chinese, which would explain why the Americans fared better when it came to determining whether they had seen a given subject before, even when it was presented against a new backdrop. Nisbett and his collaborators posit that these differences in attention to object and context arise through socialization practices. "East Asians live in relatively complex social networks with prescribed role relations. Attention to context is, therefore, important for effective functioning," the scientists observe. "In contrast, Westerners live in less constraining social worlds that stress independence and allow them to pay less attention to context." The findings are being published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. --Kate Wong