A documentary with interesting studies about Eastern and Western thought, not their opinions of a specific topic, but mental schemes, reasoning and learning.
People have to stop getting offended by subjects like this, we have to admit that we are all different, these studies are important for us to understand each other, as long as we don't judge people by the difference.
Incredible video. If everyone was interested in watching it, we could all learn a lot. The reason why there is a difference is even more interesting to me. It ultimately shows how our upbringing affects our perception of the world around us.
I appreciated this video. I am a Filipino and studying Christian history as one of my subjects. It is very interesting for me to know that my culture which I learned from the northern part of Luzon in the Philippines is semblance with those in western culture. I am more of conservative in feelings but I am modernist in some areas that deal with liberalism. Thank you for sharing your video. It makes sense.
It remided me a lot of my reaction to The Arrival and how I wish I had more fluidity and awarness of how much my culture and language influences me and my actions. love the video, it's very silly for some subjects but my heart and mind are open to understand its value.
I'm so confused as to why this is not Group A for everyone, haha. I am born and raised in the U.S. with Western culture, but personally prefer a mix of Western and Eastern culture. However, I feel pretty strongly that the phenotype of A makes the most sense. Flowers in Group A could possibly reproduce the given flower whereas, with the flowers in Group B, it seems less likely.
definitely amazing documentary ..... I was searching for such one, great ! BUT WHERE IS THE SECOND PART !!!!! PLEASE RE-UPLOAD IT OR MAKE IT AVAILABLE ! I am totally amazed how differently cultures arose !! Eastern culture absolutely is blowing everyone's mind, firstly mine lol !
I'm Asian American & left my mother's country since I was 7 years old but my perspective is very Asian but I also love some of the western views too. I love asian tradition, family ties/ sacrifice for each others & tradition but I also love the etiquette & manners of my Western friends. I love how they're extremely nice, friendly, open minded and really manners.
When it comes to analyzing specific objects Westerners are unmatched. But when it comes to contextualizing and looking at the bigger picture and complex interactions between objects Westerners seem lost. Just look at Western foreign policy... They are good at analyzing, finding weaknesses, and destroying specific governments and military targets. But when you look at the big picture of Western foreign policy as a whole it is nonsensical, illogical, and even self-destructive.
"When it comes to analyzing specific objects Westerners are unmatched. But when it comes to contextualizing and looking at the bigger picture and complex interactions between objects Westerners seem lost." ill give you that. Im amazed at how extremely educated people in one field are very intelligent and yet fail to see how some things are so obviously connected that they completely miss.
I love everything I learn about the East. So much amazing history, such beautiful land, brilliant and amazing people. China, in particular, is a place that never ceases to be a source for inspiration, wisdom, awe to me. Truly. I am so thankful for the many creations of the Chinese people, that are so fundamental to our lives, worldwide today. Chinas contribution to the world is and will always be unchallenged.
Yeah me too. It looks so beautiful and peaceful as a rabbit and china man i love the country with there religions, traditions and culture and much more too and the eastern countries are just so amazing and fascinating and beautiful and i love the eastern countries more then the western countries here.
reasonable. more tea in chinese and japanese we ask like : もっと欲しい（japanese)/再喝点吗？(chinese ) 欲しいwant. 喝drink. both chinese and japanese languages are more focusing on verbs.
I am Anglo-Irish descent from England. I've lived in Asia for half of my life, and that half was my childhood. When I moved to Australia I went into a cultural shock as well. I think no matter what there will always be asian values embedded in me.
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.
@@user-od5cg4uz4x I'm western and I chose the blue one! It really depends what you're using it for... but I feel like it would be more practical to organize those "docks" by their shape.
The Cultural values are usually different as well as clothing styles and choices of eating habits on average. I think Easterner's usually have a longer life span mostly due to the diet decisions.
If you're interested in learning/pursuing this topic further, there are also starting to be discussion about how the internet has affected these cultural differences as seen from a change in the beliefs and inclinations of younger generations
this is very interesting , thanks for sharing this ~ i think i still have culture shock since i v studying in australia for one year, and this video makes me think a lot about all these culture differences~ thanks Again!
I like the idea of this documentary. I lived and worked in South Korea for 4 years recently. There is definitely a difference in perception and priorities on the individual over society. There are pros and cons, and if you ask the everyday person in Korea, they like the conformity. It's safe. There is a feeling of being together, being part of something. There is some comfort there. That's a by product of conformity. There are individuals, but they end up being the leaders LOL I myself, grew up in America, and actually battled conformity in my youth. Having experienced both types, I do like individuality better for all. Although there are faults, it can be improved on, and it naturally always is improving. Conformity however is a dead end since it's based on what happened before. And who can break the cycle of conformity? Only an individual.
I grew up in the West too (the US) but I love conformity. It unifies instead of discriminates and the community gains power instead of shattering like glass.
While EU already in EU2.0, Asia and immature Asian leaders still fighting about bunch of trivial islands and play twists on text books like 3 year old girl. That is why they will always play 2nd hurdle to the West. Xi is a disaster.
Err... You are Dumb ... you just proved my point, you are just another subhuman incapable of reasoning, and intelligent conversation, you realize 90% of the comment involve China, Japan, and South Korea end up like this, very unique. For example, you don't see these type of comments (basically thoughtless) in the comment section of Brexit. Shall we say "Culture Difference"? LOL
In summation, easterners perspective of the world is holistic i.e., group of objects are interconnected to each other, objects are complex and therefore don't exists in isolation; whereas, from the western point of view the objects exists in isolation, separate and individual from each other. Easterners emphasis on verb is greater from westerners; whereas, westerners emphasis on nouns is greater from easterners.
@Samuel Torres: Interestingly, I remember an article which concluded that Brazil was culturally closer to Korea than it was to Western society (including Portugal) in terms of five cultural dimensions defined by Geert Hofstede: hierachical distance, collectivism, masculinity/feminity, uncertainty-control and Confucius-style dynamics.
This is great. Though I still haven't enrolled in school today, because this is too interesting. Anyways, thanks for the video. Going to school now. :D
I'm an american, and all those questions, I would answer like an easterner. But at the same time, I have a hard time grappling with the peculiarities of the japanese language (like the fact that they don't distinguish plural and singular with every noun). I've been studying japanese since middle school, and recently I've been studying linguistics in general. Though I've gained a much better understanding of how japanese works, I can't figure out the why. Why is plurality not important? Getting stung by a bee, is a very different situation than being stuck by a lot of beeS. I imagine information like that would be important. Was your friend beat up by one guy, or several of them? Are talking about a person, or multiple people, or people in general? I find that to be so annoying. Earlier today, ironnically, I was thinking 'seriously, wtf? do they easterners see individual wolves as just being wolfkind, rather than individuals or groups?' And the verby-ness bit, I can see too. It would help to explain why most japanese sentences don't have subjects, infact its not unusual for sentences to be just a verb on its own. Of course, most sentences do have noun clauses, its just that they don't bother to mention the doer (or the agent as we linguists call it) most of the time. However, I never struggled with this, infact I find it quite natural. Though to me, I view it as placing enphasis on what is being affected (the object of the sentence) rather than what's happening. Infact, some people think japanese is a passive language (a language where they use the passive voice far more often than the non-passive). Japanese technically is not such, though it does behave like one in a lot of ways and some linguists claim this WILL result in it evolving into a passive language. I could rant all day on this, but this is already stupid-crazy long as it is : /
(referring to your 1st sentence) No one is 100% individualist in the west or 100% Collectivist in the east(refer: Hofstede 1991). You can even see the video as some people answered different to their culture. You could have bits of eastern culture inside you may be because of your long interest and study of japanese language or may be not. ( about plurality) the subject, object, agent,people, animals etc are not important. The task is important so why bother explaining the plualirty of unimportant things,makes sense? People are mostly called by their family names. In Bangladesh, people introduce themeselves by family name and may never disclose their first name. Family is important the particular individual is not important. While on the other hand my particular sentence that "individual is not important" is enough to offend a westerner. got it? I am from east living in west.
u said it,"Getting stung by a bee, is a very different situation than being stuck by a lot of beeS" we use a Iot a Iot to distinguish singuIar from pIuraI
I live in Australia .I could feel that there is a big difference between the west and east ,while the difference bettween east visa counties is much smaller.
Well, I think we've been changing according to our inclinations, also according to the environmental demands (society, education, family and so on). In my opinion, I think that differences are separated into being rational or intuitive, objective or subjective, to think or to sense. And in the process of our lives we've been developing those characters whenever it is needed.
I agree that it's been changing as the East and West learn about each other more. I think millennials and younger tend to follow the mindset your talking about, but the way they described westerners in the documentary reminds me of my parents and grandparents.
27:24 interviewer asked "is he happy?" not "does he look happy?" wrong translation; don't know japanese but i don't think they asked about his 'look' in japanese, too
I'm Filipino with Chinese ancestry. Surprisingly I will pick the rectangular wood right away with the same reason. and I can't seem to find any reason why I would pick the blue cylinder. Maybe that's why Asian's do very poorly in Hollywood. Whereas the Silicon Valley is dominantly Asians including East-Asian electronics giant. Very interesting documentary on how Asian brains are wired. We see the world as clamps of substances put together. Maybe also the reason why Asia is a such gargantuan manufacturing economies.
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I think that's an oversimplification, as the presentation of the video is itself an oversimplification. For instance I don't see much socialism in the East; it was invented in the West, spread to some parts of the East for some decades, was fought hard by other parts (Japan, South Korea) and even where 'Communist' parties are still in charge they've brought in capitalism! And considerable individualism, e.g. in China. Perhaps 'collectivism' would be a better term? You see it both pre-modern and contemporary Japan, in loyalty to clan lord or corporation, despite its strong resistance to communism or any form of egalitarianism. I could deconstruct the others as well, e.g. in what way is the West shallow? Shakespeare, ancient Greek theatre, Wagner? Isn't a lot of Japanese culture shallow - because their culture involves a lot of masks and putting on a front? Isn't confidence a good thing - and don't we see plenty of it in China's rise? If the West was all about individualism and the self how could its companies, countries and credos hold together sufficiently to conquer most of the world and influence all of it?
@アウェ•パケ厶 that’s kinda scary, true we are all Homo sapiens after all, but one thing that will be lacking in the future is diversity, meaning that your ethnic background and religion basically doesn’t matter by that point and people just see you as one, and pride for your country is not a thing anymore since you’re a mixture of everything. I’ve never spoken to a single Arabic person before and I want to know how’s it like in their country like their food, religion, and philosophy to see how’s it different from others, if it’s all westernized then I probably wouldn’t find his culture that interesting and unique because I’m already a Westerner. In conclusion, yes we are all humans, but unique type of human that eat, walk, talk, look, act, and beliefs differently.
as a westerner, i initially said B but switched to A upon closer inspection...i think Westerners tend to view from an individualistic mindset & easterners form a more communal mindset....they both have their pros & cons but i believe both have something to learn from each other. if anything, eastern mindsets are based in more history & westerners have a lot to learn from that! neither are wrong or right!
This is an outstanding depiction of the root philosophical differences between Eastern and Western perception, which have vast social and ontological (ly perceived) implications. It's too bad materialism has largely affected the world as if it were a viral infection; I feel that it's left us with only one working eye with which to perceive our existence.
On the Western side, this documentary is entirely focused on countries that speak English, which makes the entire thesis ridiculous since its well established that languages shape thought. French, Germans, Russians, Greeks, Hungarians, etc. would all need to be part of this study to reach such a broad conclusion about "the West.". Additionally, given only the deprecating tone toward English speakers in this documentary one would hardly imagine such things as the laws of electricity, Newtonian physics, Shakespeare, the Internet, molecular genetics, and the moon landings were developed in the English-speaking world. The conclusions on photo taking were really absurd, with the blunt statement that Easterners take pictures of themselves showing backgrounds while Westerners don't. LOL, this sounds like some sort of second-rate Occidentalism.
+Nathan Storm (tropictimes) exactly! I am native in Greek, English is my second language and I would propose more tea differently in each one. Plus I picked A and I am a westerner. Saying that we look at objects reagardless of context or that we don't care about surroundings when discussing an issue is such a morosity. It is the first time I have ever heard anything like that and it is not supported by any actual arguements whatsoever.
+Nathan Storm (tropictimes) "depreciating tone"? Give me a break whiner. You sound like a typical self-entitling social justice warrior that the West breeds as an oozing crud spawned from its own strife for power and status-qo legitimacy. One would hardly imagine such things as gunpowder, silk, gold, civilized thinking, music, weaponry, architecture, or herbal medicine as well (to name just a very few).
+Nathan Orme An even issue/question is where do Middle Easterners, South Asians and Sub-Saharan Africans fall into this: do they fall under Easterners or Westerners???
the cylinder question was interesting. The westerners noted only 1 dimension when asked to choose an object corresponding to the wooden cylinder. They chose the hollow blue plastic cylinder, since it had the same shape. The easterners chose the wooden rectangle since it was of the same wooden material, and density even though it wasn't the same shape.
I am a first nations person from what the settlers colonized and called British Columbia, we were the first people here in the west and we do not share this western philosophy, if we do it was forced into us through residential boarding schools that was made by law of the queen of England at the time, thats why i will never bow to no queen. Our philosophy is of spirituality to mother earth the great mystery ( creator) as little label as we can put it, respect to all living things on this earth, science has proven through quantum physics that even a rock has movement, everything has life, that has always been our beliefs since the beginning of time. I am not trying to offend anyone, just cerious on where first nations and native american stand in this western and eastern philosophy.
About the other video, in relation to "the insider's perspective and outsider's perspective" I was a little bit in doubt about the truth and the possibility of really knowing the other perspective. What wonderful magic can give someone the accuracy of the other's point of view? "the feeling" is not always trustful as also the rational thinking. Very philosophical! So, what do u think?
im japanese and chose group a becuz the flower at the center has a leaf and many flowers in group a have leaves. i didnt notice the middle flower has a pedal till the description.
Culture differs in many different ways base on where your from. Yet a flower is a flower no matter where you go and who you show. Through culture and native tongue you may call it differently in you language which is the same.
I'm a Latin guy (so Im affected by westrn culture) but the more I see this video, the more I feel like an Eastern guy. I do and behave as Asian people do xD
Cuando vayas a asia, te dara cuenta lo equivocado que estas. When you go to asia, you will realize how mistaken you are. We don't have nothing in common with asia. It's like going to another planet basically.
Because you are seeing this video and answering questions, most probably you would answer like an easterners. But if you were not introduced to this video and if were directly participating in the experiment you would definitely give the answer like a Westerner.
Hi Samuel, the research isn't 100% accurate, but explains how are structured the mental models in average westerns and easterns, of course due to several factors like education, family and related, some people can develop a different way thinking like you. I am sure that in China or Japan also exist people with western orientation. Another interesting question is, with an unstoppable globalization , which will be the future of both mental schemes?
The first flower "study" is pure "hocus pocus." Inductive reasoning at it's finest. Drawing conclusions on fifteen people to base that everyone thinks the same way. Great stereotyping!!
for the flowers I chose group B as it evens out the types of petals, group A had a lot of rounded petals and group B didn't. Coming from a western perspective. I wonder how this affects people who are of east asian or mixed decent raised in the opposite society.
25:30 - 28:56 if you are from the East living in the West. This tells exactly my personal experiences and many other Easterners that I've come into contact with and known of from the on-going genocide subversion campaigns. Some will encourage you to assimilate but only to take advantage and exploit you
I am a westerner, and I feel like the question about whether the boy is happy is definitely a "no" in the second picture. I think the more our society studies psychology, the more that makes sense. But I also know most westerners are inspired by the idea of being the happy individual no matter how dark the surroundings, yet... realistically, I don't think it's easy to be that way.
Most of these assumptions are utter bullshit. Aristotle did not think the individual objects contained properties of gravity, but rather properties drawn to specific energies in the universe. Heavy objects for example would heavily correspond with energy flowing downwards.
You're missing the bigger picture here. With a mindset focused on nouns and objects, it's more natural to think of objects as having these properties like gravity being self-contained. The eastern mindset being more focused on verbs and actions, it's more natural to think of gravity as relations between objects. These are vast generalisations, and there will always be exceptions, but it does highlight a key difference between the two mentalities.
No you are eastern eastern always best we are eastern we are the best we just need to avoid our difference then we will rule over the world love from India
I don't think it's about the severity. If you lose, it's harsh on you. But there is the idea of that even the loser loses with respect. When you lose, you learn from it and work harder to improve yourself. There are always going to be winners and losers in games but in Japanese, there is an idea of respect to the losers. It's harsher on the athletes to do better when they lose but the focus isn't on the winning and losing but what you gain from the experience.
Because you are seeing this video and answering questions, most probably you would answer like an easterners. But if you were not introduced to this video and if were directly participating in the experiment i think you would definitely give the answer like a Westerner.
So please, spare me any accusations of being racist or prejidiced against the man. I will be the first to tell you, that I love the Eastern people, and all the marvelous and ingenious ways that their Eastern ways, and way of thinking has benefited mankind. --- Thank you that is all!
If the object is " *A* dox, " then that seems to convey to me that you are talking about the shape (just like *a* ball, *a* cube, etc). However, if it is just "dox," then that conveys to me that we are talking about the substance (ie wood, plastic, etc). You wouldn't say "this is a wood."
The 'cultural' IQ tests in this video are unique and very thought-provoking. I have many comments for many of the statements are too blunt and need explanation in favor of the West, for we are not as stupid as we come over in this video. In other words, this video series has not taken into account our Western medieval underground tradition which was as holistic as the Eastern tradition, but it is still today unknown to most Westerners. In my humble opinion, the systemliterate view of life which this video is about, is not borne by the East only, but also by the West's underground tradition of medieval times and the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci was clearly a systems thinker, and his view of life was organic just as the Eastern view of life.
Maybe Bill O'Reilly needed an ancient Chinese course before making the statement, "Tide goes in tide goes out. You can't explain that." Fortunately modern science explains everything you need to know about tides.
Both are true. An object appears blue because its individual atoms make it appear blue when interacting with certain external light. An object’s mass influences the effect of the external force of gravity on it. No single perspective makes up the entire truth of reality.
