My brother and I were hanging out and doing some studying when he showed me a description about this psychology experiment that was done. Apparently this psychologist showed Americans a mix of food and tools and asked them to separate them into categories. Of course they separated them into a pile of food and a pile of tools.The same thing was done with a group of Africans, and they separated them into a few different categories: potatoes with the hoe, oranges with a knife, etc. When they were asked why they grouped them in that way, they responded, “Because that’s how a wise man would categorize them.” When asked what a fool would do, they proceeded to separate the mix into a pile of food and a pile of tools.What has consumerism done to America?
Posted by aaron on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
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April 5th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Hmmm. Maybe that’s why I can never make sense out of my internet favorites, which I group into folders but which in their masses of folders prevent me from ever really looking at anything that I need to see. But I disagree with the comment that consumerism has anything to do with it. I think it’s a question of simple “western” logical thinking, with its inherent mishaps. Those so-called “africans” are hardly being more logical, they’re just more habituated to using those tools and they tend to think in terms of usage rather than of types.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
T.T is it consumerism?
ps your woman jokes aren’t funny. NOT. funny. haha… you should hear the one about driving
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