hehe a nice question. it reminds me of an old subject that i listened to some professor's lecture long time ago-Difference between Chinese and the Foreigners in Thinking. a lot of chinese ppl say that foreigners think in a very direct way-if not too direct hehe, and if this is used to evaluate an asian its another way of saying he is lack of wisdom in terms of what kinda culture we received. From the Ancient Greece to the modern times,the systematic and organic factors existed in the western thinking,but the linear thinking mode had been occupying a dominant position. but chinese ppl think firstly from the whole trying to get me and others together other than being so UNIQUE, its wise that u can completely join something and adopt yourself into the environment -the essential of Ying Ching is being in a harmony with everything existed on the planet earth-you can read some the wisdom of change and taoism materials if u are interested. but to my own understanding ,western is deeply affected by dualism-they consentrate on independence,chanllenge，opposing. i agree that its a wiser way between these two coz linear thinking is good way in terms of science and nonlinear thinking way is better for literature and arts.

I think this is an interesting question that should not be simply dismissed as culturally biased. We can certainly talk about one person being WISER than another (why else would the word 'wise' have a compartive form?), as in 'Socrates is wiser than Anaxaogoras', or 'My grandmother is wiser than I.' If it is legitimate to compare individuals in terms of wisdom, it is certainly legitimate to ask the question 'Is one culture wiser than another?' However, you do have to be clear and careful about what your standards of judging wisdom are. The trap here is that many people will define 'being wise' in terms of just those qualities that they think one nation has and another does not, thereby presuming the answer they are looking for. What could count as objective standards of wisdom? That is an interesting question, and one philosophers have long fought over. Socrates and Aristotle might have said something like this: 'Being wise is knowing that you don't know everything.' Being wise is steering a middle course between two extremes.' I would suggest that 1 and 2 are more characteristic of Asian cultures than Western ones, not least because they are principles fundamental to Buddhism. Interestingly, though, Socrates and Aristotle were both Western philosoophers. has the West forgotten the teaching of its own ancestors? I would argue there is a strong case for answering that question as 'yes', and I would also make the further suggestion (though perhaps I may be falling into the 'bias' trap here...:) ), that 'Remembering the teachings of your ancestors' = 'learning the lessons of the past' is also a good criterion of what it means to be wise.

Just like everyone has his own way of life,every nation has her culture. There is no standard criterion to judge which nation has more wisdom. Anyway, one should not consider this issue in a unilateral way.

It seems to me that every nation has a unique wisdom, is not limited to a particular nation, in fact, in the face of an alien, and we are all stupid.

People from different parts of the world have different sorts of wisdom, which is unsble to be compared. But wisdom is a pattern of choosing the way to live. Asians are a bit more hardworking and less romantic and have a different understanding of morality. Thats all what the Asian wisdom is abt.