Table 2.

Example Responses for the Immigration Story, indicating Low and High Wise Reasoning.

low	high
Search for a Compromise
I’m sure that each, each culture will keep their original customs. It’s not likely that someone that’s lived a certain way is going to change just because they moved to a new area. (…) People are pretty true to their nature and they’re not really big on change so I’m sure that it won’t be an easy thing for them to change their culture.	They might want to let them continue with their ways and maybe at the same time maybe try to do some kind of promotion to encourage them to better assimilate into the culture though, not throw away their own culture, but to try to make the country more unified, maybe bring customs together that might be similar for both cultures, in order to unify the country.
Recognizing Multiple Ways How the Conflict Might Unfold
Most likely there is going to be very similar things as going on in the United States […] the economic drivers are going to want to keep the immigration going and more traditionalists are going to want to stem it and make laws like only speaking Tajik, instead of both. […] It seems like that’s happened throughout the world history when you get a large number of immigration coming in.	It’s hard to predict in a short period of time if the Kyrgyz will be assimilated with the Tajiks or whether there will begin to be unrest and civil disunity because of this immigration.[…] I don’t think it will necessary happen either way. You have several possibilities. Either taking historically into account what has happened: One you will have assimilation and happiness or two you will have constant bickering and at least social disunity and social warfare.
Considering Perspectives of People Involved in the Conflict
I think eventually it’ll be like what’s happening in the U.S. is that all the different cultures will merge. If it’s really productive for the country I think the cultures will merge and there’ll be more peace within them. […] I think that they’ll let them come in, because they need the labor force. […] There’s going to be some conflict of social interests and their cultures… There’s going to be a little bit of culture difference. It sounds like that’s the main issue here, it’s just the culture. I think usually that ends up working out.	I think there’ll be friction between those two ideas. People do assimilate eventually but it often takes a couple generations to do that. (…) There’ll be influences both ways but people who are in particular countries that receive immigrants, they always see it from their point of view, namely that these immigrants are changing the country. They don’t necessarily see it from the other point of view. Also, immigrants might be upset because their children are not the way they would be if they were back in their homeland.

Note. Some examples adapted from Grossmann et al., 2010.