Professor Nisbett compares the Confucian-influenced Chinese thinking of the collective against the Greek-Western orientation of the individual. The ancient Greeks focused on linear methods of understanding and seeing separate objects in isolation, without much regard for the context in which they existed. Individuals are unique, with distinct attributes and goals. Confucian-driven Chinese philosophies emphasized fluctuation, holism, interdependence, and harmony. All things (e.g., people and objects) are to be understood in terms of their relationships with others, their groupnessincluding the environment in which they exist. Nisbett contrasts the Western tendency to classify objects into discrete categories based on their similarity with the Eastern preference to classify objects into categories based on their relationships" (Neuliep, 2018, p. 267). Do you find these opposed tendencies factual? If so, which is your own (cultural) orientation: classification of things based on similarity or on relationships between them? perception of things as separate objects or as an interdependent whole? Please focus your discussion and examples on perception, not collectivism vs. individualism.

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