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Educational Series pick of the week We all have our illusions of the truth, and the layering of bias we share in our cultures create the psychological foundations of our thinking. Evo Lumin's post on cultural thinking should give us pause... Ego

Evo Lumin According to cultural philosophers, Westerners and East Asians have had contrasting views about the concept of truth and how it works for thousands of years — and it shows up in present-day psychology. It all goes back to the cradles of two civilizations: ancient Greece and ancient China. It comes down to two different "laws": • The Greeks followed the "law of the excluded middle," which states that if two people are debating, then one of them must be exclusively right and the other exclusively ... The fascinating cultural reason why Westerners and East Asians have polar opposite understandings of truth Starting the spring of my 23rd year, I spent 13 months straight in East Asia, teaching English...