The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap, Paperback

The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap, Paperback

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Editura
An publicare
2018
Nr. Pagini
336
ISBN
9781101972069

Descriere

As East and West become more and more entwined, we also continue to baffle one another. What's more important--self-sacrifice or self-definition? Do we ultimately answer to something larger than ourselves--a family, a religion, a troop? Or is our mantra ``To thine own self be true``? Gish Jen, drawing on a trove of personal accounts and cutting-edge research, shows how our worldviews are shaped by what cultural psychologists call ``independent`` and ``interdependent`` models of selfhood. Coloring what we perceive, remember, do, make, and tell, imbuing everything from our ideas about copying to our conceptions of human rights, these models help explain why the United States produced Apple while China created Alibaba--and what that might mean for our shared future. As engaging as it is fascinating, The Girl at the Baggage Claim is a book that profoundly transforms our understanding of ourselves and our time.

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