Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 28 | 271 | One of the most View more quotes about common">common, and serious, mistakes that can be made in crosscultural encounters is to assume that everyone one meets is, in effect, very much like oneself. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 28 | 268 | One may, as in many such cases, then, wonder whether night combat is discouraged because of such beliefs, or whether such beliefs may not have been instituted to discourage night fighting, with all of its confusions, alarms and terrors. |
| 28 | 269 | On the other hand, there is no doubt whatsoever that many red savages take such beliefs with great seriousness. |
| 28 | 270 | The life world, and consciousness, of the red savage, it must be clearly understood, is quite different from that of, say, a secular rationalist or a scientifically oriented objectivist. |
| 28 | 271 | One of the most common, and serious, mistakes that can be made in crosscultural encounters is to assume that everyone one meets is, in effect, very much like oneself. |
| 28 | 272 | Their personal world, the world of their experience, their experiential world, may be quite different from yours. |
| 28 | 273 | If it is not understood in its own terms, as he understands it, it is likely to seem irrational, eccentric or foolish. |
| 28 | 274 | Properly understood, on the other hand, his world is plausible, in its terms, as is yours. |
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One may, as in many such cases, then, wonder whether night combat is discouraged because of such beliefs, or whether such beliefs may not have been instituted to discourage night fighting, with all of its confusions, alarms and terrors.
On the other hand, there is no doubt whatsoever that many red savages take such beliefs with great seriousness.
The life world, and consciousness, of the red savage, it must be clearly understood, is quite different from that of, say, a secular rationalist or a scientifically oriented objectivist.
One of the most common, and serious, mistakes that can be made in crosscultural encounters is to assume that everyone one meets is, in effect, very much like oneself.
Their personal world, the world of their experience, their experiential world, may be quite different from yours.
If it is not understood in its own terms, as he understands it, it is likely to seem irrational, eccentric or foolish.
Properly understood, on the other hand, his world is plausible, in its terms, as is yours.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)