Talk:Asian psychology

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[edit] Asian collectivism

Asian psychology is particularly different from other psychologies in that Asians are more of a collectivist culture … .

While I understand the importance of citing statements such as these (so as to avoid WP ending up as a propaganda tool of sorts), I would have to agree with the editor who wrote that statement. Things like that would be so obvious to people like us living in Asian settings that many of us generally do not see the need to back up such statements with external references. It would be like a Frenchman looking for scientific journals to cite from on something as obvious to the him as their language being written in the Latin alphabet.