Yves Citton的“The Ecology of Attention”里讲collective attention的潜移默化和个体无法不受其影响这段很有意思，举的例子也非常直白易懂：

“Living in France and necessarily participating in the islamophobic enthralments currently resonating in the media sphere, I cannot fail to notice that a woman is wearing a veil – similarly, living in America and submerged in the long-term inertia of racist stereotypes haunting that country, it is difficult for a white person from a wealthy neighbourhood not to nurture feelings of fear and threat when passing a group of young African-Americans in the street late at night. The attention I pay to what surrounds me and to what I encounter is constrained, in the first instance at least, to follow paths opened by the images and discourses circulating among and within us. From which comes a PRINCIPLE OF TRANSINDIVIDUAL ATTENTIONALITY: through ‘me’, it is always ‘our’ collective thinking and feeling [νους /nous] who is paying attention.”
(还可以加一个例子：作为老中人，我对各种propaganda伎俩格外敏锐，我的外国朋友们在这方面望尘莫及)

我觉得这或许也是需要interdiscipline research以及跨地域的地域文化研究的原因(比如外国学者的中国文化史研究，东亚学者的西方文化政治研究)。并不是因为一定“旁观者清”或者外来者的研究一定更“正确”/“深入”(老中人对高精尖和深度有超强执念)，而是专业“出身”、所在地域/环境本身会影响个体的注意力投向的地方、会在意/看到什么、会不在意/看不到什么。这种complementary不可能通过其它方式替代。