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>Hey Erin,
>
>rick:
>The question is whether Hindus CAN'T see the difference, or DON'T see the
>difference.
Erin: Okay now I see why you are bringing in Frosty here. Well my guess would
be that it would be like the expertise and color chips data and they weren't
able to see at first exposure. How much exposure would be needed, I don't
know.
But actually your question triggered another study in my mind but I can't
remember some of the details. It was about a reporter who had gone over to a
country in the east, I want to say China but I am not postively sure about
that. Anyways when he was asking questions like "If you were president what
would you do?" He kept getting puzzled looks and answers like I am not
president. There is a particular term describing these statements, can't
remember, something predicate. I think the research indicated that it wasn't
they were INCAPABLE in thinking in terms of these "if you were" questions but
they didn't have it in their language so it was very odd to. Now that there
has been a lot of exposure to the west I am sure that it no longer holds up.
>rick:
>Hey, that's not bad. I wasn't thinking about it quite in those terms, but
>now that you put it that way.... Remember when you wrote, "I always thought
>as the Eskimos as just having a lot of exposure to snow and sort of become
>experts in that area and the language reflects that expertise." Well, I'm
>just sort of taking that thought back a step... Some cultures just have a
>lot of exposure to language and sort of become 'experts' in that area and
>their perceptions reflect that 'expertise'... ...you know what I mean?
>
Erin: Yeah I think so. I had heard somewhere that we get more information in a
week then some people got in a lifetime. Vygotsky did some work with Russian
rural people and showed how they did really poorly on abstract categorization
(give three items and ask which two go together). So maybe the grayer part of
perception has to do with abstraction process. Although I was originally
thinking that expertise had to do with better differentiation. I guess these
just go hand in hand.
>
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