Chapter 8 - Abd if the nature of thought is not everywhere the same?

Fnally the last chapter!!!
This chapter seemed a little confusing for me, especially How should people think? section.

In Teaching and Testing, Nisbett mentioned Heejubg Kim's explanation that holistic thought, compared to analytic thought, is less well suited to linguistic representation. I think this supports the presence of the Japanese phrase 'Kuuki Yomenai(空気よめない)' which represents that verbal language is not the only way of understanding others.

It is also observed that American students speak up in class and improve their understanding, but Asians are likely to keep silent in class, listening to others to fully understand the material rather than speaking.
Concerning the former, from my personal experience, classes in Germany are very similar to the ones in America because they also spoke most of the time in classes. I was surprised to see that at first and wondered why many classes took those forms, the teacher introducing materials and students discussing about it. I somehow assumed classes in Germany to be the ones like in Japan, so in the beginning, I thought that consulting dictionary step-by-step would make me understand slowly but a little about the class. In the actual class, however, students started speaking and for me, being unready to catch speaking German yet, it was impossible to understand even a bit! After all, I could not obtain the habit to benefit from speaking. I remained as a pure Japanese then.
In my opinion, the explanation of Kim is why our discussion time is quiet for a moment before someone leads off. Most of us probably need to ponder the ideas we developed in our minds. American students might be able to start discussing as soon as Rab submits questions.

Now finished reading all the eight chapters, I treat Nisbett's position as looking Easterners from a Westerner's side. I'm not sure about how well I have understood on this book............