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Contents: Amazing breakdown of differences in thinking between Americans, Chinese, and Japanese. I learned so much about how I think as a "logical" thinking American vs. "later" and "intuitive" East Asian thinkers. Spectacular content, but unfortunately had to give this book a 1 star because of VERY OBVIOUS EXTREME BIAS the author has towards China + CCP. Allow me to explain: Very heavy Bias: The author easily criticizes American and Japanese culture (which I'm totally fine with because I like reading about criticisms), but has a very obvious heavy slant towards China + the CCP. All throughout the book, the tone gives off a "all hail the Great China" vibe. It almost feels like he's trying to suck up to the CCP and China so he can a) make his master government happy (my assumption is that he lives in China from what he writes) b) be able to publish in China c) sell the world on his bias. He spent an enormous amount of time unnecessarily bashing the Japanese in every metric possible, all while glorifying China in every way possible. As I read more of this book, the bias became more and more obvious to a point where I questioned everything I learned at all from his writing. I get it - he loves China. But let's be more objective, bro. What scares me about books like this is that they have great content but also throw in their heavy political bias in the context as well. Many beginners to the international world may not have the critical thinking skills to decipher an author's bias vs. what is reality, and ultimately might give in to the bias as truth. While the author does give a few small criticisms of China as a whole (and never dares to touch his beloved CCP), I challenge him to come out and fairly criticize all three countries/cultures. This could have been a truly spectacular book if we had more balance and less bias.