culture and personality

is guilty of being blind to discontinuities from person to person and group to group. The movement took for granted that a pattern of skills, knowledge, motivation, is at the root of a 'basic' personality.

The point is not thata c-and-p scholars were blind to the discontinuities from person to person, from group to group, within a vast cultural galaxy such as that of Japan. The point is that they did not see these discontinuities as problematic. They took for granted that 'basic' personality a pattern of skills, knowledge, motivations was so widely shared among the populace that differences from person to person could be ignored as matters of mere style or idiosyncrasy' (Plath National Character 197)

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culture and personality