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I'm starting to wonder, all of my eastern and western friends have chosen A for the flower test,

most of them chose blue one for that “ducks" test, most of them said the person in the center

looked happy, and no one said he looked unhappy, they said he might be happy but the photo

didn't give them enough details to make a good conclusion. yes I did a servey on my friends

they are either westerns who grow up in western society or Easters who grow up in eastern

society the result of my servey is very different than that of theirs, I wonder if they picked out

they responds they wanted so that they can make it more convincing and interesting.

As we know, the differences between Eastern and Western cultures are numerous, because
Eastern and

Western people not only live in different environments but also are educated in distinctively

different ways. The characteristics of each culture are shown in its people’s behavior; their

attitudes toward life and love, and their personalities. I guess this is why Eastern people usually

encounter the so-called “culture shock” when traveling to the Western countries. First of all,
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Eastern and Western people have different attitudes toward their life. Eastern people live in time,

which means that they follow the natural order of time to do what they ought to do and work step

by step. Eastern people don’t like their schedules to be messed up and usually hate to change

things once they decide the sequence. By contrast, Western people live in space. They prefer to

follow their dreams and do what they want to do. Sometimes they are not as pragmatic as the

Eastern people, but they often achieve great goals in their life. Secondly, Eastern and Western

people differ greatly in their personalities. Eastern people are often passive.

The term culture is typically used to describe the particular behaviors and beliefs that

characterize a social or ethnic group. Thus, by definition, culture represents a powerful

deterministic force, which is responsible for shaping the way people think and behave.

The potency of culture becomes evident when visiting foreign countries, especially if

that country lies beyond our own continent. The cultural differences we observe can
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evoke feelings of surprise, intrigue and pleasure, but also we may experience confusion

and anxiety. These intense feelings and emotions reflect the profound diversity of

culture and the power it exerts over humans throughout ontogeny. Of course, such

observations are not novel and accordingly it is uncontroversial to claim that culture

affects thought and behavior. However, more recently a steadily growing body of

literature has yielded evidence to suggest that culture also impacts upon visual perception

Although positive emotions are generally considered to be more desirable and

appropriate than negative emotions are across cultures, positive emotions are

considered to be more desirable in Western cultures than in Eastern cultures, whereas

negative emotions are considered to be more undesirable in Western cultures

In the West, 'existence' is almost the same with 'being named independently', while in
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the East (at least in the Far East), it means, explicitly or not, more 'being correlated

among stuff'. Stuff and relations are of course important facets to describe the world for

both culture. For all that, in the East, people apparently feel that named independent

stuff is something more studied than a relation between them, while such a feeling in

the West seems pretty opposite ... right? I normally hate such an argument to

emphasise difference between the East and the West with a list of stereotypes, yet, for

all that, I found this video exceptionally interesting. You might be also interested in such

a problem, if a language restricts our frame of reference or the opposite ... probably

both simultaneously, methinks, though it may sound a 'a chicken or the egg'-like silly question