"Asians and North Americans really do see the world differently. Shown a photograph, North American students of European background paid more attention to the object in the foreground of a scene, while students from China spent more time studying the background and taking in the whole scene, according to University of Michigan researchers."
This article in today's Science Times is fascinating. I think this is also expressed in the way we look at our bodies, health, and medicine. Eastern Medicine more naturally takes into account the holistic picture whereas Western medicine's etiology focuses directly on the irritation/wound/external manifestation.
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