- How Westerners See the Trees and Easterners See the Forests: How Differences in Thinking Emerge
- Amazon
In terms of differences in thinking by country, related books multicultural world.
Perceive the world as a collection of nouns or a collection of verbs
relevance - Japanese is logical. - There is a meme that “Japanese is not logical,” but in reality the rules of expression used are different.
There is a connection between perceiving the world as a collection of nouns and perceiving the world as a collection of objects as opposed to oneself as the observing subject.
- This is the Kegon (sect of Buddhism) way of thinking of the unenlightened circumstance.
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