Even more perplexing then... :)
Tom C.
From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: cultural image perception
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:29:01 -0400
They did use the spoon...
Tom C wrote:
I know the popular story regarding chopsticks being an extension of the
fingers... Really though, I just can't understand why a culture that used
shovels to move dirt efficiently couldn't relate that to the human
anatomy... I mean, if you want to dig a hole, do you go get two poles and
manipulate them, picking up dirt between them. until the hole is dug?
Tom C.
From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: cultural image perception
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:46:14 -0400
I've seen it claimed that the Chinese actually invented the fork, just
never adopted it as a table implement. Chopsticks worked well enough.
Tom C wrote:
It may explain why they invented chopsticks... lack of focus... whereas
the western world has a no-nonsense fork, knife, and spoon... stab the
meat.. no slight intended... just always wondering... and blathering...
Somewhat interesting...
http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2002/0117/cu18-1.html
Tom C.
From: "Jim Colwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: cultural image perception Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:25:44
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Vic, thanks for the interesting link in "Mind the Chinese...". I think
that
your post raises a wide range of cutural image perception issues. For
me, a
line or series of elements with visual flow from the low left to high
right
in an image has a dynamic and on-going quality, while a similar
structure
going from low right to high left seems regressive. Is this the same
perception as one who reads from right to left ? Do others who read
from
left to right (as I do) have the up-and-to-the-right as "positive", or
is it
a consequence of math graphs with +x,+y in the upper right quadrant ?
Jim
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