ThinkingPatternEastandWest中西方思维方式.ppt

Thinking Pattern East and West报告人：段建威小组成员：夏正亮、李慧、李明明Thinking Pattern East and West In the 13th century, Marco Polo was among the first ones to hint at the fact that the people from the East behave and think differently than the Europeans. The British writer Rudyard Kipling thought that the Eastern and Western mind could not be reconciled.ßIn The Ballad of East and West he wrote:“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the two shall meet,Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat” Attitudes and perception of reality ßAsian mind Western mind  When you have a diverse group of people from different cultures, you get not just different beliefs about the world, but different ways of perceiving it and reasoning about it, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why ?HOWWHYSome studies Steven Heine at the University of British Columbia performed similar transcultural studies. He recruited Canadian and Chinese students and he gave them a bogus “creativity” task after which the students were told they had done well in some parts of the task and poorly in others. When a similar test was administered, Canadian student worked harder on the items they were told they had excelled, while the Chinese students insisted more on the areas they thought they did poorly in the first attempt. The“focused vs. holistic” approach of these students was described by Heine as follows: “if you show an Easterner and a Westerner a photograph and you track their eye movements, you notice something curious. Both subjects fix on some focal point in the picture for about a second. After that, things change. The Westerner continues to gaze at that spot, on that central tree in the forest of possible places to look, while the Eastern eye isall over the place, scanning hither-thither, trying to take in the whole forest” Differences in informationprocessing between East and West ß1. Rudyard Kipling’s. The Ballad of East and West. Collected Essays. Mercury: London. 1961. p. 189.ß2. Jung CG. Psychology and Religion: West and East. Collected Works of CG Jung. 1958. p. 560. ß3. Nisbett R. The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently - and Why. London: Nicholas Brealey. 2003.ß4. Heine S. Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice. In:Steven Heine, Dale Wright, editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press.2007 References Thanks。