NISBETT - 6th chapter

I just found it funny when Nisbett repeats "once again" on page 139. one again we can talk about the difference. once again lets talk about Westerners and Easterners.

page- what I picked - according to Nisbett, I am more of a ..

141 - Cow and Grass - Easterner
143 - Group 2 - Westerner
145 ???? (Easterner??)
146 - ( 2 ) - Westerner
147 - ( 2 ) - Westerner

The second pictures, which were flowers, I picked Group 2. This time according to Nisbett, I chose the one which Americans would pick. Because I picked group 2 concerning the straight stem just like Nisbett has explained, I can not understand why someone would pick group 1. In the book, Nisbett just says that the target object resemble group 1 more and that it is easy to see why Koreans would pick group 1. However I can not see how the target and group 1 share the family resemblance.

Anyway, I did the questions myself as I read the book. It turned out that I have more westerner charactoristics than easterner's. This was surprising because I grew up in Japan. Even when I was in United States, I always thought I had different ways of interpretting things. Well I could be wrong on that. Maybe strong image of myself being Asian made me feel that way. However, when I looked at the persentage of result on those questions, the way Nisbett interpreted the tendency sounds unreliable. For example, the question with flowers says that Koreans chose Group 1 60 % of the times. 60 %. If the question was asked to a another group of Korean, that persentage could go other way around. 60 % is too close to 50%, which tells us that it could go whichever way, depending on who you ask.