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Cultural Optical Illusion: What Do You See?
by Mike Richard
This is a fascinatingly simple optical illusion. From Eyes-and-Vision.com:
The influence of culture and environment can have an effect on our visual perception. This theory was first explored by Robert Laws, a Scottish missionary working in Malawi, Africa, during the late 1800′s. Take a look at the picture below. What you see will largely depend on where you live in the world.
I see exactly what Westerners are expected to see.
What do you see? After you’ve examined the picture, check out the original post for an explanation.
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.
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December 4th, 2007
Wow, that’s interesting. I, too, am a depressingly typical Westerner
but I kinda wish I was more into the tree idea …