Ch.6

This chapter is mainly about the difference of perception of the world between Western and Asian. Western people tend to categorise and encourage induction while Asian tend not to categorise but think about relationships of objects in the world.

I was surprised to see how differently Asian and Western students categorise things. In page 140-146 there are some experiments shown and I categorised them in the very same way as the author said Asian students might do. I even don't know why Western students categorise them in such a way. I realised that the gap of perception between Western and Asian was actually very large.

The author says Asian people are not interested or don't have tradition of categorising like Western people, but I think dividing(categorising) things along relationships is one kind of categorising, too. It's just a different way of categorising(We can call so) from Western one. It seems to me that the author implies Western way of categorising is correct and Asian's is not. I just don't think so.