NISBETT - 3rd chapter

okay I'm falling behind a little. gotta catch up.

Chapter 3 had me concentrated on the reading better than 1st and 2nd chapter did. However, I feel like I'm being too critical when I read this book. Everytime Nisbett expalins about how Asians are or how Asians think, I go "phss yeah right". I read with disbelief, and I do that with no reason to it. Maybe it's similar to the situation where you make fun of what you own but you get mad if someone else makes fun of it. Do you know what I'm talking about? For example, a guy would be talking about his girl. He would complain how she doen't cook, how she makes him do everything, and that she is spoiled girl. However, when his friend explains that girl to another person just like he did, he would say "you're not allowed to say those stuff about her!". Yeah. Then, you'll know he was just NOROKEing. Okay I got off topic, but its just like that when Nisbett talks about Asia. I sometimes do say that asian people concern more about what other people think, and what their position are in a group. But when Nisbett talks, who is 100 percent a westerner and has evidences on asia only from polls he took from asian, I just want to say "you dont know enough about Asia to talk like that". hm.

well okay chapter 3. ha. Nisbett compares how Asia and Westerners today concern about independence and interdependence. From the sub-title (or however you call them) that saids "The Non-Westeern Self" on page 48, we can easily tell that Nisbett is comparing Asia to Western, and not the other way around. Western is a standard for him. He gives a lot of examples situation to explain about Asia. But it made me laugh when he said "Japanese weren't being masochistic". (p56) After reading his repeated explanation about how Asians are, who would think that the reason hard work of Japanese after failure is their masochistic behaivor? I do not think he need to add that sentence.