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members of one group might be bothered by the gestures, e.g., the
flamboyant hand movements, of members of another group, while the
others are bothered by the posture, e.g., the stiff necks, of the first
group, and these cultural encounters, as we might call them, involve types
of awareness as well as types of positionality and are analyzable in terms
of these types.

(Figure 1)
Noema Noesis

I. Awareness
A. Presentational Awareness
1. Perceptual
2. Memorial
3. Expectational
4. Etc.
B. Representational Awareness
1. Indicational
2. Pictorial
3. Linguistic
II. Positionality
1. Belief
2. Evaluation
3. Willing

To elaborate on this, let me comment on the attempt at a reflective-
descriptive systematic classification or big picture expressed in Figure 1,^
which might possibly be of use in cultural scientific approaches to race
and ethnicity. Across the top, "Noesis," which can also be called
"Intentiveness," generically includes mental states, processes, and attitudes
as they relate or are intentive to objects and "Noema," also called "the
object as intended to" or "the object as it presents itself," includes
everything that reflection on objects discloses. "Objects" here include

^ See Lester Embree, "Some Noetico-Noematic Analysis of Action and
Practical Life," in John Drummond and Lester Embree, eds., The Phenomenology
of the Noema (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992).