System vs. Particular


Germany

Germans are systematic in their thinking. Complexity is understood only by grasping how its component parts interrelate and interact. For a component part can only be understood via its role within the whole. Germans use theories and models to persuade.

Patterns


United States

Americans are particularistic in their thinking. They prefer to break down complexity into its component parts, in order to focus on the essential parts. Americans are skeptical of theory. Facts and experience are far more persuasive.

Patterns