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吃面或吃米造成人的个性差异据外媒报道，在中国，北方人吃面，南方人吃米，研究发现，这一差别造成了巨大的个性差异。以面食为主的北方人具有更多的个人主义倾向，离婚率更高。相比之下，爱吃米的南方人更多地表现出东亚文化的传统品质，离婚率更低。 In China, as in many countries, the north-south divide runs deep. People from the north are seen as hale and hearty（精神充沛的）, while southerners are often portrayed as cunning（狡猾的）, cultured traders. Northerners are taller than southerners. The north eats noodles, while the south eats rice -- and according to new research, when it comes to personality, that difference has meant everything. A study published Friday by a group of psychologists in the journal Science finds that China's noodle-slurping northerners are more individualistic, show more "analytic thought" and divorce more frequently. By contrast, the authors write, rice-eating southerners show more hallmarks traditionally associated with East Asian culture, including more "holistic thought" and lower divorce rates. The reason? Cultivating rice, the authors say, is a lot harder. Picture a rice paddy（稻田）, its delicate seedlings tucked in a bed of water. They require careful tending and many hours of labor -- by some estimates, twice as much as wheat-- as well as reliance on irrigation systems that require neighborly cooperation. As the authors write, for southerners growing rice, "strict self-reliance might have meant starvation." Growing wheat, by contrast, the north's staple grain, is much simpler. One Chinese farming guide from the 1600s quoted in the study advised aspiring farmers that "if one is short of labor power, it is best to grow wheat." To produce their findings, the authors evaluated the attitudes of 1,162 Han Chinese stude...