Asian culture offers an alternative to the Western tendency to regard many sitations as win-lose propositons: if you don't win, you lose, and losing is so complete that it is to be avoided at all costs. ..... These are also ways of putting into practice an emphasis on harmony, in contrast to the (は) emphasis on polarized oppositon.
――大阪府立大学 前期日程(2月25日実施)――2004年