Friday, October 14, 2011

Culture: How to Reveal Emotion

Culture, at the root, is about how we learn to reveal our emotions, how we learn to synthesize other people's emotions, and how we find expression for the subjective world in relatively objective means (i.e. in a way that can be readily understood by another person or communicated).  It is also how we utilize the outer world to refine our inner thoughts. 

Sure, "emotions" might be a sloppy word to encapsulate the lived experience that we in fact experience.  My only point is that how we learn to reveal what it is we're comfortable with, or uncomfortable with, is contingent on the culture we're exposed to, and signifies, to a large extent, our willingness to associate with certain types of other people.   More refinement on this soon.

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