Dropped by the 20% Kinokuniya sale today and bought female magazine fodder and Richard Nisbett's Geography of Thought. The latter attracted my attention cos it's trying to explain how and why asians and westerners think differently. There is an example where a picture of a cow is displayed. Then there are 2 other pictures alongside, one of a hen and the other of grass. The reader's asked to associate either of these 2 pictures with that of the cow. Research has shown that asians were more likely to associate the cow with the grass, while westerners normally picked the hen. I thought I'd have picked the grass too, so maybe there's some weird truth in this?