Week 7 - East vs West

Question 1

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

The focus is on oneself and personal needs known as egoism.

Answer 1

WESTERN

Question 2

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

It is more inclined to more acquisition of material things.

Answer 2

WESTERN

Question 3

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

It is obsessed with being successful.

Answer 3

WESTERN

Question 4

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

The focus is on others and the feeling of others called collectivism.

Answer 4

EASTERN

Question 5

Choose if the statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

The culture is tilted towards less assets (a mantra that less is more).

Answer 5

EASTERN

Question 6

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

More inclined towards long life, which is equated with wealth.

Answer 6

EASTERN

Question 7

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

Wealth and poverty is the result of enterprise and hard work.

Answer 7

WESTERN

Question 8

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

The culture celebrates the youth and being young.

Answer 8

WESTERN

Question 9

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

It subscribes the idea of evolution.

Answer 9

WESTERN

Question 10

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

Wealth and poverty is the result of fortune and luck.

Answer 10

EASTERN

Question 11

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

The culture values the wisdom of years and seniority

Answer 11

EASTERN

Question 12

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

It subscribes the idea of reincarnation.

Answer 12

EASTERN

Question 13

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

A social construction which is symbolically and signally created between and among social beings.

Answer 13

WESTERN SELF

Question 14

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

A gentleman by following the moral way consisting of the virtues of love, righteousness, wisdom, propriety, and loyalty in order to promote harmony in society.

Answer 14

EASTERN SELF

Question 15

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

Self is multidimensional entity.

Answer 15

WESTERN SELF

Question 16

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

Detachment and desirelessness to reach nirvana, or state of enlightenment.

Answer 16

EASTERN SELF

Question 17

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

Mahayana or reciprocal relationship.

Answer 17

EASTERN SELF

Question 18

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

Buddhism or compassion to other humans for belief that we are part of the same ever changing universe

Answer 18

EASTERN SELF

Question 19

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

Self takes form in communication.

Answer 19

WESTERN SELF

Question 20

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Self is intimately connected to bodily experience both ontogenically and here and now awareness.

Answer 20

WESTERN SELF

Question 21

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Self is both phenomenal and non-phenomenal.

Answer 21

WESTERN SELF

Question 22

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

Self acquires substance according to semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic.

Answer 22

WESTERN SELF

Question 23

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

Attachment of liberation in the identification of Atman (the spiritual essence of all individuals).

Answer 23

EASTERN SELF

Question 24

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Brahman as the spiritual essence of the universe through the four Yogas.

Answer 24

EASTERN SELF

Question 25

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Taoism is philosophical belief based on the idea that there is central or organizing principle of the Universe, a natural order or a “way of heaven”, Tao, that one can come to know by living in and is eternally nameless.

Answer 25

EASTERN SELF

Question 26

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Concept of Kapwa, recognition of shared identity, an inner self shared with others.

Answer 26

EASTERN SELF

Question 27

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There are two levels or modes of social interaction – ibang taoor “outsider”, and hindi ibang tao or “one of us”.

Answer 27

EASTERN SELF

Question 28

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

People are autonomous and independent from their in-groups.

Answer 28

WESTERN (Individualism)

Question 29

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Interdependent within their in-groups.

Answer 29

EASTERN (Collectivism)

Question 30

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

In-groups primarily shape their behavior.

Answer 30

EASTERN (Collectivism)

Question 31

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

Behave in a communal way.

Answer 31

EASTERN (Collectivism)

Question 32

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

Concerned in maintaining relationship with others.

Answer 32

EASTERN (Collectivism)

Question 33

Choose if statement is a Western or an Eastern idea

People behave on their basis of attitudes rather than norms.

Answer 33

WESTERN (Individualism)