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• Western culture

  • basically is about the focus on oneself and personal needs; Eastern culture is about focus on others and the feeling of others.
  • is predicated on putting egoism first
  • is inclined in more acquisition of material things
  • is obsessed with being successful wealth and poverty is the result of enterprise and hard work, celebrates the youth and being young. subscribe to the idea of evolution.
• Eastern culture

  • is tilted towards less assets (thus the mantra less is more).
  • is more inclined towards long life, culture, long life is equated with wealth.
  • culture is about collectivism.
  • is tilted towards less assets (thus the mantra less is more).
  • wealth and poverty is the result of fortune and luck
  • values the wisdom of years and seniority
  • subscribe to concept of reincarnation
• Psychology

  • The earliest formulation of the self in modern psychology forms the distinction between the self as I, the person knower, and the self as Me, the person that is known.
• Individualism

  • people are autonomous and independent from their in group
  • give priority to their personal goals of their in group
  • behave on their basis of attitudes rather than NORMS
• Collectivism

  • interdependent within their in groups
  • give priority to the goals of their in groups
  • in groups primarily shape their behavior
  • behave in communal way
  • concerned in maintaining relationships with others