CHAPTER7

What I like about reading The Geography of Thought is that I can discover something which has been there all the time but never being noticed. This book sometimes reveals answers to my questions I had for long long time such as "Why do Japanese people cherish charm (omamori)? It is just a small cute case with a piece of paper in it!" In this chapter I think I found the answer. Nisbett says on page 172 that East Asians are not in habit of applying logical rules to daily events and so they might accept of having contradictory believes. I personally like omamori and brought one (of course it was a charm for academic success) with me when I took entrance examination test for ICU. However I don't believe in Buddhism or what so ever, and I'm sure omamori has done nothing to my success of getting into ICU. (or maybe ...maybe it has...? -_-;)