By quotation and the passages around, I think Nussbaum is attempting to claim that human being’s inner life cannot be seen directly and compassion is on the culture-basis. People reinforce their character and rich their inner life through developing the literary imagining. People recognize another’s inner life through their own narrative imagination that trained by the culture circumstances during their lives. An individual makes decision to compassionate another’s pain and misfortune or not influenced by its own specific life experience, culture background, and education.

The viewpoint that Nussbaum strengthens in the quotation is in order to understand and compassionate other people from the different culture backgrounds, sometimes we have to consider minimizing our own imagination. People in different cultures have different ways of lives and thinking. The undoubted truth passed down from hundreds of generations in one society probably is completely unacceptable in another’s.

Take Kong moua for example, due to Kong Moua and his intended bride grow up in two different cultures, they frame their literary imagining differently. Thus they cannot understand each other. When Kong Moua met his intended bride in America, he spirited her away as the Hmong marital customs “marriage by capture”. But the woman who comes from the same area, now grow up in the culture of America cannot understand his point, therefore she called the police. After he read the materials about the marital customs of Hmong, the judge reduced the punishment for Kong Moua.

Polygamy is not a life style for most of us, we cannot accept it. But polygamy is popular among the Mormon and Masai. The females in Mormon accept this policy because they believe this life style is arranged by the God. So they feel happy to share a husband with other women. Though some of them may feel a little bit of