Farming practices have shaped thinking styles
In China, growing rice versus wheat has sown long-lasting cultural differences
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AS YE SOW Chinese people from wheat-growing provinces are more individualistic and analytical than those from rice-cultivating provinces, raising the profile of farming practices as influences on thinking styles, a new study suggests.
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