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Not terribly surprising.

Eastern thought, hmm, how can I make this better, and more efficiently

Western thought, hmm, how can I make this more quickly to give me more time to loaf.

What I wonder about all of this is do the Chinese still use the abacus? The Japanese still use the abacus. If the Chinese use the abacus the way the Japanese do then it's no wonder they use the part of the cortex that deals with the processing of visual info.

I wish we taught the abacus here in the states more. It's an amazing tool for math. I believe it would make people that have a knack for math better and would make people that have a hard time with math much, much better at math.