Mr John McCain voted as the next President of the United States. The white man wins.

This website reports on a study which shows that culture influences brain function, following up the trail left by research in psychology.

"Psychological research has established that American culture, which values the individual, emphasizes the independence of objects from their contexts, while East Asian societies emphasize the collective and the contextual interdependence of objects. Behavioral studies have shown that these cultural differences can influence memory and even perception. But are they reflected in brain activity patterns?"

Is there anything here that can be connected with the current presidential primaries in USA? Yes there is, as the values adhered by the American people define the simple rules followed by individuals in the American society, and by that, its complexity and the emergent states which will come out of the process of the presidential primaries. Emergent state being the next administration that would follow up Bush.

As the American culture values the individual, it is obvious that their vote is judged on issues that emphasize the independence of the objects from their context(s). The objects being, the candidates and the context(s) being, the current local and global political situation. The candidates will be picked according to their individual merits, regardless of the policies they profess, their approach to the context.

The New York Times report after the decisive Super Tuesday primaries that

"Black voters overwhelmingly supported Mr. Obama ..."

and

"Women went, by large margins, to Mrs. Clinton."

and certainly on the day after the Presidential election they will announce

"Mr John McCain voted overwhelmingly as President of the United States."

As the overblown and misguided American individuality will certainly choose along gender and racial lines and the choice between a white man and a black man or a white woman, is not hard to guess.

The white man wins. So there it is again, four more years of McCain health care

"For free-market, consumer-based system; has pledged affordable health care for every American without a mandate; says universal health care is possible without a tax increase."

war in Iraq,

"Voted in 2002 to authorize invasion, still supportive; in favor of troop increase; against a timetable for troop withdrawal."

economy,

"Short-term plan is long-term plan: make the Bush tax cuts permanent; eliminate alternative minimum tax."

and so on.