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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