How can I know something? How can I convince someone of the
rightness of my position? How does reality function? What is
artistic creativity? What is the role of the state? It is well
known that people from various cultures give dissimilar answers to
such philosophical questions. After three decades in the
cross-cultural study of ideas and values, Thomas Kasulis found that
culture influences not only the answers to these questions, but
often how one arrives at the answers. In generalizing cultural
difference, Kasulis identifies two kinds of orientation: intimacy
and integrity. Both determine how we think about relations among
people and among things, and each is reasonable, effective, and
consistent. Yet the two are so incompatible in their basic
assumptions that they cannot successfully engage each other.
Cultural difference extends beyond nations. Cultural identities
crystallize in relation to religion, occupation, race, gender,
class. Rather than attempt to transcend cultural difference,
Kasulis urges a deeper awareness of its roots by moving beyond mere
cultural relativism toward a cultural bi-orientationality that will
allow us to adapt ourselves to different cultural contexts as the
situation demands.
Wonderfully clear and unburdened by jargon, Intimacy or
Integrity is accessible to readers from a variety of perspectives
and backgrounds. By analyzing the synergy between thought and
culture, it increases our understanding of cultural difference and
guides us in developing strategies for dealing with orientations
different from our own.
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