Perception Is in the Culture of the Beholder
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This is another piece that reflects upon what affects the way we perceive the world. In a companion piece, it was noted, that while “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder”, perception of the world around us depends upon skin color. In this piece another factor comes into play—the culture in which the observer was raised.
Thus the Chinese child sees a “red” world, the religious fundamentalist sees a monochromatic blue world and the cosmopolitan sees a colorful world.