Psychological Aspects of Foreign Policy: Hearings ... 91-1, June 5, 19, 20, 1969

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Page 29 - Chapters X and XI describe how people from different cultures not only speak different languages but, what is possibly more important, inhabit different sensory worlds. Selective screening of sensory data admits some things while filtering out others. So that experience as it is perceived through one set of culturally patterned sensory screens is quite different from experience perceived through another.
Page 73 - Nobody who has not actually watched statesmen dealing with each other can have any real idea of the immense part played in human affairs by such unavowable and often unrecognizable causes as lassitude, affability, personal affection or dislike, misunderstanding, deafness or incomplete command of a foreign language, vanity, social engagements, interruptions
Page 4 - People from different cultures not only speak different languages, they inhabit different sensory worlds. Selective screening of sensory data admits some things while filtering out others. This means that experience as it is perceived through one set of culturally patterned sensory screens is quite different from experience perceived through another.
Page 53 - collective whole. Civilized twentieth century man still possesses strong, fierce and destructive instincts, which have not been sublimated, or only partly so, and which break loose as soon as the community to which he belongs feels itself threatened by danger.
Page 4 - culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
Page 72 - We stand at a crossroad? in our history. We shall reaffirm our destiny for greatness or we shall choose instead to withdraw into ourselves.
Page 3 - Though the United States has spent billions of dollars on foreign aid programs, it has captured neither the affection nor the esteem of the rest of the world
Page 3 - We are not only almost totally ignorant of what is expected in other countries, we are equally ignorant of what we are communicating to other people by our own
Page 4 - It has long been believed that experience is what all men share, that it is always possible somehow to bypass language and culture and refer back to experience in order to reach another human being. This implicit (and often explicit) belief concerning man's relation to experience was based on the assumption that, when two human beings are subject to the same experience,
Page 26 - The question in defense spending is how much is necessary. The President of the United States is the man charged with making that judgment.

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