BABEL - A GUIDE TO THE EAST-WEST ENCOUNTER

<p>Each person has a <strong>Vector of the Mind</strong> whose direction and magnitude can be assessed by using the questionnaire appearing in the book.</p><p>For people with a <strong>western paradigm of mind</strong> who locate their self at the center the Vector of the Mind is inwardly oriented. People with an <strong>eastern paradigm of mind</strong> who are focused on the group have an outward oriented Vector of the Mind. The encounter with an individual whose Vector of the Mind is opposed to ours creates a cross-cultural gap that hinders communication.</p><p><strong>Babel - a Guide to the East-West Encounter</strong> surveys the laws underlying each paradigm of the mind in such a way that the reader may be aware of his/her thought characteristics as well as those of the other and also of the laws that enable translation of his/her messages from one paradigm of mind to the other.</p><p>This book is based on fascinating stories of negotiations between Israel and America and the Arab world collected from a large number of major books in Hebrew English and Arabic describing the negotiation process.</p><p>We all live under the illusion that a member of the other culture thinks like us. This is because each one of us knows only his/her way of thinking.</p><p>Is it possible to break through this vicious circle and to learn the other's way of thinking?</p><p>Is it possible to tone down the defensive and hypocritical rule of the Politically Correct to acknowledge our differences and perhaps even learn to love them?</p><h3>Babel turns us all - sons of East and West - from strangers to close friends and provides a happy end to the Biblical story in which people could not cooperate because they spoke different languages.</h3>