The impression that this book talks about differences between eastern and western repeatedly has not changed yet. Indeed that is the topic of this book, but I felt like I was reading the samething over and over. However, 4th chapter interested me more compared to the first 2 chapters. I hope it will get interesting as we read to the end. If so, I would have enough vitality to read the first part of the book agian.
The reason this book seems more appeal to me is those data and researches Nisbett uses to convince the reader. It had caught my eye first at the end of chapter 3. I looked in the back of the book and found where the sourse was. I would like to check on "A cross-linguistic study of early word meaning" by Imai and Genter as soon as I get a chance. Anyway, in chapter 4, the strategies used to find the tendency of eastern and western was interesting. Maybe they are standerd way of investigating, but it was new to me. However, I was wondering if those results of showing the pictures actually connect to the fact that Japanese pay more attention to environment than Americans. I am not trying to say that Japanese do not pay attention, but it seems like a different thing when it is in a picture and it is in a real life. After watching those video of protesting and discussion on why Japanese do not protest, I get the impression of westerners taking action concerning their enviroment but not Japanese.
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