Re:Westerners vs.the World: We are the weird ones
by Devilboy on Thursday August 26, 2010 @02:38AM
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3. Are our brains really 'distorted' or just different? Who is to say what is the better/natural/whatever way of thinking?
In this case there is a clear logical answer.
4. I found it extremely annoying that they capitalized the word 'weird' everywhere, even in quotes from experts.
They do this because they've defined WEIRD to mean something specific and they want to make it clear that they're not using the dictionary definition of the word.
In this case there is a clear logical answer.
4. I found it extremely annoying that they capitalized the word 'weird' everywhere, even in quotes from experts.
They do this because they've defined WEIRD to mean something specific and they want to make it clear that they're not using the dictionary definition of the word.