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Originally Posted by Mistress
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You know what's funny? The first paragraph was correct about the difference between Western and Asian thought (she's Japanese).
" There is no better way to shatter someone's "we are all the same" illusion than to show pictures of a monkey, a panda and a banana to someone from Japan and someone from Britain. Ask them which two images go together. Chances are, the Japanese will pick the monkey and the banana, because they have a functional relationship: the former eats the latter. The Brit will select the panda and the monkey, because they are both mammals."
I asked her which two go together, the monkey, the panda, and the banana, and she selected the monkey and the banana.
