06.02.06
You Just Don’t Understand: Eleventh Post (Final Thoughts)
Tannen’s afterward was interesting. Not only did she clarify and amend some of what she had said in the book, but she also addressed some of her own frustrations with responses to the book that she received. I found her response to the question “do these patterns arise through nature or nurture?” particularly interesting. It is a popular question and most of the people who ask the question believe that they already know the answer. Tannen’s response is that it doesn’t matter. What matters is that we see that patterns and work to understand them. Where they come from is irrelevant. What matters is that they exist.