Ch.4

I don't understand this chapter well because too many experiments were showed there. That was very complicated. In this chapter the author mainly says that Westerners focus on objects-discrete, unconnected things and Asians on subjects-continuous masses. I don't think the fact can be generalized because the each experimental scale seemed small. However, this analysis is to the point. Garden is a good example. I was wondering for long why Japanese garden was very different from western garden. One day a TV program about garden said that 'unity' of garden, I mean, how rocks, moss, trees, ponds and flowers blend is the most important thing for Japanese garden. Japanese garden expresses its theme by all of themselves like 'Kare-Sansui'. On the other hand, Western garden requires individual beauty. Each component of garden must be shaped beautifully and Each of them makes up the garden itself. The example exactly shows us Western and Asian(Japanese) characteristics mentioned in ch.4.