Thinking Patterns

After long term cultural accumulation, thinking mode has obvious differences between western and eastern and it exerts a significant influence on human social lives. The east culture favors comprehensive thinking, i.e. uniting various parts of the object as one entity. English and American cultures favor analysis thinking, i.e. decomposing one complete object into various composing parts and aspects from idea. The east culture emphasises unification and gives priority to the entity of thinking, and the west culture emphasises opposition and gives priority to the part of thinking. In the negotiation process, occidentals generally incline to divide the main content of negotiation into various parts and consider and analyze them one by one, and finally obtain the conclusion. Whereas oriental emphasises the negotiation pattern first principle then detail and they like to set up one basic principle frame first and then discuss recapitulative proceedings.

Reference: Eric Horowitz,  2012; Why do East-asians and Westerners think differently? Available at: http://www.peerreviewedbymyneurons.com/2012/04/06/why-do-east-asians-and-westerners-think-differently/