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From: "Ken Stuart" <[log in to unmask]>

Richard
E. Nisbett argued in his recent book "The Geography of Thought." East
Asians tend to be more interdependent than the individualists of the
West, which he attributed to the social constraints and central control
handed down as part of the rice-farming techniques Asians have practiced
for thousands of years.

False?  How so?  I didn't see that in this article. Oliva