Differences in Emotional Expressivity

 

           Differences in Emotional Expressivity


    I am working on improving my marketability after I retire in a few years. As part of that improvement, I am taking a TESOL class from BYUI. 
    In the most recent class assignment, I read a lesson given by a professor Ivers at BYUI. This class is about cultural diversity. The link to the to the transcript is: https://content.byui.edu/file/81c5f26e-4a29-4c68-accb-c2b1539f93a0/2/Differences%20in%20Emotional%20Expressivity.html
    I learned some interesting things about culturally controlled emotional expression. Professor Ivers used a line graph as a basis with low and high public emotional expression on either end. The emotional expression of the USA was mostly centered on the graph with Oriental countries on the Low end and Central/South American countries on the High end of public displays of emotional expression.
    I have served a proselyting mission in Japan a few years back. I can attest that public displays of emotion are not a normal occurrence. I have also lived with and observed many different people of  Mexican decent. They are not shy in expressing their emotions publicly. On the whole, I agree with the graph.
    I did find it interesting that during the study used to create the graph, when the participant was placed in a closed environment and did not know they were being videoed, all the participants displayed the same emotional responses when subjugated to the same stimuli (a gory video of an medical operation). To me this meant that despite cultural public displays of emotion cultural restrictions, we are all human and do feel emotions. How we display them may be controlled, yet we all still have feelings. 

The link to the BYUI lesson transcript is: https://content.byui.edu/file/81c5f26e-4a29-4c68-accb-c2b1539f93a0/2/Differences%20in%20Emotional%20Expressivity.html

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