The understanding of the culture between different people dictates the traditional ethnography and modern thinking. Joe Henrich introduced the game that helped in identifying isolated cultures for people in the West based on the instinct of fairness. The game makes the player understand that all human beings have similar cognitive thinking and machinery. The game covers the fields of economic and psychology where it shows that people also have the same psychological and rational hardwiring.
Henrich used the idea of cross-culture for the WEIRD People who are Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic against the Non-WEIRD. The game appears to identify the difference between the expertise of these people based on the psychological aspects (Horigan, 66). The subjects are typical and from different societies. It helps in getting variations such the psychological reasoning or peculiarity levels.
Henrich’s idea appears as the best solution in the case of trying to western agricultural practices to the Non-WEIRD people. The Non-WEIRD people appear to have minimal understanding of how and what methods the WEIRD people consider as an agricultural process. The Non-WEIRD population has an already established perception on how they carry out their agricultural practices. So the best way to use Henrich’s theory is to make assumptions first and then later involve both participants in learning the growing cultural and farming practices.
There should also be sampling such as the hunters and gatherers or various other cultural aspects in both WEIRD and Non-WEIRD populations. The Ultimatum game appears to be very applicable in the process of transferring the practices as in involves offers and measures of fairness. It is because the Non-WEIRD people may reject the practices and prefer their practices.
Work Cited
Horigan, Stephen. Nature and Culture in Western Discourses. London: Routledge, 1988. Print.
