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East-West Cultural Contrasts and the Pandemic

East-West Cultural Contrasts and the Pandemic

FromRochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)


East-West Cultural Contrasts and the Pandemic

FromRochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

ratings:
Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Jul 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The U.S. is faring much worse with the coronavirus than the East Asian and Southeast Asian countries, where people also are much more agreeable to wearing face masks. These differences may be seen in the context of the broad historical contrasts drawn in Richard Nisbett’s The Geography of Thought, which presents cultural-psychological studies showing the...
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Released:
Jul 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Dharma talks by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede and others. Roshi Kjolhede is abbot of the Rochester Zen Center and dharma heir of Roshi Philip Kapleau.