The girl at the baggage claim: explaining the East-West culture gap
"A personal, provocative, informative, and entertaining study of the different idea Asians and Westerners have of the self and how this plays out in our differing approaches to art, learning, politics, business, and almost everything else"--
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Alfred A. Knopf
[2017]
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| Summary: | "A personal, provocative, informative, and entertaining study of the different idea Asians and Westerners have of the self and how this plays out in our differing approaches to art, learning, politics, business, and almost everything else"-- |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 310 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781101947821 |
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Preface xi
Part I: We Edit the World
1 Three Edits 3
2 A Telling Irritation 1
3 Some Helpful Background 22
4 The Asian Paradox 37
Part II: The Flexi-Self
5 What Is a Flexi-Self? 49
6 Boundary Blurring 61
7 The Genius and the Master 79
8 Testing, Testing 92
9 Patterns and Training 120
Part III: The Big Pit Self
10 How WEIRD We Are 147
11 America, an Explanation 170
x I CONTENTS
Part IV: Meetings and Mixings
12 Our Talking, Our Selves 185
13 In Praise of Ambidependence 210
14 Greatness in Two Flavors 235
Epilogue 248
Acknowledgments 253
Appendix A: Key to Self Text 255
Appendix B: Recommended Reading 257
Notes 259
Bibliography 277
Illustration Credits 297
Index 299
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