Tuesday 27 May 2014

Emotion

Emotion and sensitivity seem to be American issues.  Women are supposed to embody those qualities and men not have anything to do with them at all.

But I see that, for instance, if one's character is heavily anchored in stoicism, like Japanese people, one can permit oneself a higher level of surface emotions without that being evidence of mental instability.   But if one has no anchor---watch out for seemingly calm surfaces!

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