10/07/10 23:22:58
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①Many Americans believe that disputes should be sattled by the disputing parties without outside help.
Parents often send their children back to the playroom or playground with instructions to settle fights for themselves.
Relatives and friends can be heard to say, "It's between the two of you.
I'm not getting in the middle."
Even psychologists tend to regard it as a sign of maturity when someone settles disputes without third parties, whose intervention may be regarded as unhealthy.
②Yet many people of the world expect conflicts to be resolved by third parties.
This reflects an emphasis on harmony and interdependence: the tendency to see individuals as located in a social network, in contrast to Americans' tendency to over-emphasize independence and see the individual as the fundamental human unit.
To manage disputes ranging from private family matters to public conflicts between villages, cultures develop both habitual ethics and formal proceedings, just as we have assumptions about how to fight fair as well as legal trials.
In contrast to the American way of settling disputes, however, the participation of the community is an important part of the proceedings.
We cannot simply adopt the rituals of another culture, but thinking about them can give us pause and perhaps even ideas for devising our own new ways to manage conflict.