Status Updates From The Geography of Thought

As Huntington has observed, Westerners tend to confuse modernization—defined as industrialization, a more complex occupational structure, increased wealth and social mobility, greater literacy, and urbanization—with Westernization. But societies other than Japan have become modern without becoming very Western

Relationships, on the other hand, involve, tacitly or explicitly, a verb. Learning the meaning of a transitive verb normally involves noticing two objects and some kind of action that connects them in some way

Because of their relative ambiguity, it’s harder to remember verbs; verbs are more likely to be altered in meaning than nouns when a speaker communicates to another person or when one person paraphrases