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 Am in full agreement. One area where I've sought, and continue to seek, to expand on that notion is how differing cultural frameworks are overlaid on the idea of "reason".  

A reasoned individual in Western cultures might be deemed at odds to what is considered a reasoned individual in places like Japan and China.  There are sharp contrasts I have found.   
 Can you give an example? 
 There are so many.  

I suppose the best would be that obfuscating the truth, not lying exactly, is considered reasoned behavior in #China.   In western cultures this would be viewed as "the ends justify the means".  Such actions would not be deemed reasonable outside of China, but are very much so here. 

One key takeaway from my time here is the degree a civilized society in the west is defined by Judeo-Christian ethos.  Clearly, this is not at all the basis of how society operates in China, or in other Asian countries for that matter.