I am glad that I found this post before the week is over. Thank you, it was a pleasure for me.

I read it in a calm mood and I immediately felt recognized. Anthropology has a lot in common with Systemics - especially when it comes to recognizing people in their own habitat and absorbing impressions and information in a value-free manner.

I would say, this is a king's discipline which is extremely difficult to accomplish if you are not particularly talented or trained in it.

We, as Westerners, are terribly quick in our opinions and judgments. I am a practical systemic practitioner and often in my life I have situations - just like an anthropologist - in which I move between two people who have a conflict. For example, when I do mediation for a couple.
I can't think,"Oh, my goodness, I can't do that now!" but need the element that says "How interesting. This view is quite unusual."

The quote from the book you mentioned and your style make it clear that you have internalized this or at least it is a goal. The more you talk and write about it, the more this way of seeing the world becomes your own. That is at least my approach to integrate this wonderful way of looking at the world.

Some days I think I am not even close. Some others things work well.