General Purpose Rant & Chat Thread (698)

29 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-09-13 12:22 ID:aBD1DJqA

> One hypothesis that some scholars from both hemispheres proposed was that westerners were more likely to clearly seperate different parts of reality (most notably evil & good) and were more affirmative of light, hope, etc.; while the Japanese were more likely to accept the yin (the dark part of yin/yang duality) and to perceive reality as something that has to be unified somehow.

This is not the stupidest thing I've ever heard a psychologist say, but goddamn is it up there.

31 Name: Random Anonymous 2005-09-14 01:27 ID:t70mYhOV

>>30

Um, it's based totally in fantasy and connects vague "Oriental" mysticism to individual Japanese people with barely even the pretense of a post hoc ergo propter hoc. Do psychologists have a license to make up unadulterated bullshit these days?

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