文档介绍：四、Thought patterns
Why are there so many different thought patterns?
History
Geography
Climate
China: temperate monsoon 温带季风 America: continental
models of living
china : agricultural America : commercial
philosophy
China: Confucianism and Taoism
America: Ancient Greek
Living environment ,education method ,the thing they contact, ideology, background ,culture ,lifestyle ,political concept ,
Are there any influence?
On diction(用词) in speaking and writing
On the way anizing speaking and writing
On the living styles
On munication style
differences between china and America
holistic thinking vs analytic thinking
holistic thinking prehensive thinking ---combining separate parts together
analytic thinking: separating the whole thinking to separated parts
Chinese: synthetic(综合的)thinking America :analytic thinking
intuitive thinking vs logical thinking
intuitive thinking :direct thinking, direct sense instead of facts, statistics, and long analysis
associative thinking vs abstractive thinking
associating thinking (联想思维):a kind of aesthetic thinking ,analyze processes and reforms the memorized idea ,then turn into a new idea
abstractive thinking: uses concept to reason and make judgement
Chinese ;associate thinking---analogy(类推),symbolism:修身,齐家,治国,平天下,良药苦口利于疾
America: abstract thinking---logical thinking
unitary thinking (单一的) vs opposite thinking
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