15/10/2024
A concept that has fascinated me recently is the concept of display emotions 😭🤬😱🤯Cultural display rules are the conventions “followed by all (non-rebellious) members of a given social class, sub-culture, or culture” (Ekman, 1975:138). They can be influenced by nationality, s*x, gender, family and colture in general. The more I speak to people about this the more the variety of things that are appropriate or not appropriate shifts: such as displaying anger emotions if you identify as female, or crying in a work meeting or at work (🙋♀️ )or being too.. (insert nationality here). The answer is probably somewhere in the middle. Bottled emotions are likely not ok (this is sadly not just my opinion on a rando post on instagram)…so how are we meant to express our emotions in a so-called healthy way?