Comments on: East Meets West: How the Brain Unites Us All

By: globalmind

globalmind — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:02:40 +0000

Great topic. Here's some literature about “the brain, east and west”:
How the brain unites us all, Ed Yong (article in Science),
The East-West Dichotomy, Thorsten Pattberg,
The Master and his Emissary, Iain McGilchrist.
The Geography of Thought, Richard Nisbett.

By: globalmind

globalmind — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:02:40 +0000

By: AmeriKKKa

AmeriKKKa — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:52:45 +0000

“whtieman” ??? what the hell is that? I’m assuming you’re not a Whiteman either, since you can’t even spell it correctly!

White Power!

By: AmeriKKKa

AmeriKKKa — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:51:37 +0000

“NO, dummy, Chinkology is the study of the mysteries of the Oriental race by the all-knowing whtieman. With a username like Amerikkka you couldn’t figure out what I meant? Dumbass. ”

But but but dummy…I googled it and used Wikipedia and there’s no such thing as Chinkology. Oriental Race? I didn’t know there was such a thing, where I live there’s only race boxes for White/Black/Asian/Hispanic/and Native Americans.

I think you’re just making it up, dipshit!

By: RR

RR — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:29:16 +0000

AmeriKKKa wrote:

What is pure “chinkology”?

You’ve taught thousands of Asian kids in Asia, did u refer to them as “Chinks” too?

NO, dummy, Chinkology is the study of the mysteries of the Oriental race by the all-knowing whtieman. With a username like Amerikkka you couldn’t figure out what I meant? Dumbass.

By: AmeriKKKa

AmeriKKKa — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:58:30 +0000

What is pure “chinkology”?

You’ve taught thousands of Asian kids in Asia, did u refer to them as “Chinks” too?

By: RR

RR — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:26:14 +0000

Westerners appear to perceive the world in an analytic way, narrowing their focus onto prominent objects, lumping them into categories and examining them through logic. Easterners take a more holistic view: they are more likely to consider an object’s context and analyse it through its changing relationships with its environment.

This is pure “chinkology”. What makes the Western view “analytic” and “logic”al as opposed to the Eastern view? What makes him think the Eastern view isn’t the more logical of the two? It seems the argument could easily be made that way as well. I’d also like to see his sample size of children and their backgrounds. I’ve never seen a kid lump cow and grass together instead of cow and chicken and I’ve taught thousands of Asian kids in Asia.