Your role

Calling Lakes Centre 7 (2013, 6.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     It's important to know your role, 
     but it's important to know, too, 
     that it's only a role. 

        Gish Jen, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

What we Know

Calling Lakes Centre 10 (2013, 6.11), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     We hear the expected far better than the
     unexpected and recall things in light of what 
     we already think. 

        Gish Jen, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

Culture

Mississauga Chinatown 3 (2013, 6.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Culture is not fate; it only offers templates, which 
individuals can finally accept, reject, or modify, and do. 

Gish Jen, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

Interdependent Self

Mississauga 3 (2013, 6.19), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To have an interdependent self 

is not to have no self. 

It is to have a different self, 

the possession of which is a joy; 

the loss of which is disabling; 

and the restoration of which 

can be a joy, too. 

Gish Jen, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self