NISBETT - 1st chapter

Books often seem to be rather boring in the beginning then the latter half of the book. Anyway, in chapter one of the book called The Geography of Thought, ancient Greece and ancient Chinese traditions of thought is being compared. As the author, Richard E. Nisbett, uses numerous examples to help readers to see the comparison, it leads to the differences between current Eastern and Western thought, which will be discussed in the next chapter.

From parts I was able to understand, I found some interesting facts that I did not know about. First, the meanings that sign of the Tao has. I have seen that sign everywhere ever since I was little, but did not care to think about what it was symbolizing. Another is that there is no word for "size” in Chinese. Although we often say that there is no perfect English word for a Japanese word, such as "mottainai", such language differences sounds new to me when it comes to other Languages.

There is one thing I realized that this book might help me on the assignment essay. It is the introduction of The Geography of Thought. It gave me a better idea of my background information for the introduction paragraph.