So.. The latter "cow-chicken-grass" test was part of a study trying to figure out how Westerners an Asians think differently, and why.
Americans, for example, preferred to group objects belonging to the same category (cow& chicken). While Chinese preferred to group objects on the basis or relationship (cow & grass or chicken & grass), because.. well.. cow eats grass.
I'm always skeptic when it comes to that kind of research, but found it interesting nevertheless.
I tried to apply that same little test on my Kuwaiti/Arab friends and I loved how their answers varied.
Where's the line between East and West anyway?
(Dear friend, I am so ashamed of my bluntness. Sam7ini)
6 comments:
Ok what if I was African?
Then you would be uncategorizable, unpredictable..
Oh wait, that is the case already.
I know anonymous, but I know who you are, so why hide :P
The world is becoming so small that no line can be drawn between east and west; each culture is affected by the ideologies of the other. As we all saw in the last test five people gave their answers and the results were three to two. If these tests were given years back I think the answers would have differed.
Purgatory,
I wasn't intentionally hiding, and you know it. :P
Nazzal,
Sheno hatha? cyber-flirting? :)
Rabab,
It saddens me how some people are willing to kill & die defending that artificial line.
Nazzal,
Ya bakhti :)
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