Ch.8

I totally forgot to make a post about ch.8!
I don't remember the details, but I reread some part and try to recall them.

I want to controvert two parts of his opinion. First, Nisbett says that Western lawyers' goal is satisfaction of justice whereas Asian lawyers usually tend to seek for compromise. Is that true? I often heard about how ridiculous Western lawsuits, especially those of America are. The most surpriseing case is that an American house wife took action against microwave company because her cat got seriously injured when she put it into microwave. She claimed that the company should have put label on microwave that says Don't put animals into the microwave. She eventually won the suit. There are a number of ridiculous cases like that I ever heard. Western lawyers' goal seems to win logically rather than satisfaction of justice.

Second, the author says Japan is where there is not widespread acceptance of their role in clarifying and advancing thought about scientific matters. However, we can see how Japanese people have achieved so many things and invented many useful gadgets. Japanese people can clarify and advance thought as well as Western people.