This chapter 4 reminded me the art class I had in South Africa. In the class we were told to choose one object from things placed at random order such as table, clothes on it, sawing machine on them, scissors next to it, and so on. Let's say the teacher picked scissors for us to draw. So we start. But soon after starting I realized I was not doing it as I was told. I drew things around scissors unintentionally. Other students, on the other hand, drew exactly one object out of some others and there was nothing else but the chosen object on the paper. It was a huge problem I faced. However many times I tried I could not help but drawing an object 'from outside'. To be specific, I drew the outline of the scissors by drawing the shadow appeared around it and the table that the shadow appeared on. One thing's outline can be seen because there are other objects around it. Troubled look came out on my and the teacher's face. He knew I was serious and not trying to make fool of him or anything.
I must say, however, that the connection between this experience of mine and the statement Nisbett makes, such that Asians see the world of continuous masses of matter and that Westerners of unconnected things since I was the only Japanese or Asian in that class and Nisbett does not talk about originally European people living in Africa. But as I said at the top, this chapter really reminded me this peculiar event.
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