This picture that God is understood by way of the affections tends to have much the same
cultural location as does the view that God is understood by way of discursive reasoning or scientia: It is a culture marked by the high differentiation and specialization of social roles characteristic of urban societies and their economics, considerable pluralism of subcultures and
worldviews, social fragmentation,
personal anonymity, and rootlessness.
This study relied on two approaches to understanding
cultural differences between Taiwanese and American students: The dimension of individualism - collectivism and independence - interdependence where the former focuses on
worldviews and the later focuses on a
personal mindset or self - construal (Cross, Hardin, & Gercek - Swing, 2011; Oysterman, Coon, & Kemmelmeier, 2002).