"Eastern cultures tend to take a more holistic view of learning than Western societies, focusing on the whole rather than analyzing parts."
Context Clues:
The Western societies analyze things and the Eastern don't. Probably means whole.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/holistic
–adjective
1.
incorporating the concept of holism in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
2.
identifying with principles of holism in a system of therapeutics, esp. one considered outside the mainstream of scientific medicine, as naturopathy or chiropractic, and usually involving nutritional measures.
It comprises both computational and holistic, relational approaches towards understanding complex adaptive systems.
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