Emotions and culture

seems to be holding her back. The black veil in the Islamic culture symbolises the support of the Islamic revolution. Neshat wears the black veil in the photograph and it takes up half of the image it displays a struggle between the need for freedom and the support of the religion. The written text on Neshat’s face is sacred text in the Islamic religion and by placing this over her face, the only body part where people can identify emotions, serves as a reminder of the power that religions have…

In most Western cultures, the “OK” sign, means everything is alright or OK. But in Russia and Turkey, it means a rectal orifice for a gay man as an insult, and in France and Belgium it means “Zero” like “You’re Worthless”. Even the piece sign in our North American culture means “Up Yours!” in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand. Eye contact in our culture is praised, but in parts of Africa and Asia, little to no eye contact actually shows…

In the article by Bhullar, Schutte, and Malouff research was done to determine if cross-cultures individualistic and collectivistic differences influence psychological processes. They tried to see the contrasting results of culture tendencies on different psychological phenomena. Psychological process is the contribution of sensation, perception, attention, learning, and memory and how they influence the mind and human behavior. The psychological process or phenomena in this article is emotional…

through which a person sees the world. It’s a perspective that is unique to either one individual or social group, and is shaped through life experiences, emotions, upbringing, etc. Understanding the worldview of another can give great insight into how that person’s mind functions and why they make the decisions that they make or feel the emotions that they feel. It can also demonstrate the agenda of a social group. Many of the following topics are aspects or contribute to a person’s worldview.…

that I have felt entirely consumed with the culture of being Latino. As a child, I was aware that I had an aspect of myself that was different from many of my peers and I mostly identified it with the ability to speak a different language. Growing up, it became clearer of the ways it affected my personality and character, as well the way I socialize. In recent years, I realized how special it was to be of my ethnicity and the awareness made latin culture become increasingly evident in my life…

Garland states that culture in a cognitive aspect, refers to the values as well as norms, thoughts, and beliefs in which a human uses to determine and build a world that fits in relation to their specific culture. Garland explains that culture is not singular; it is made up of numerous ideologies such as prejudices, intelligence, science, etc. It would be unfair to believe that culture just involved one or even two thoughts or practices. Culture is derived from numerous avenues of a human as…

Firstly, Moniza Alvi and both John Agard use specialist language from their cultures. This suggests that they are being truthful and wholesome to their specific identities and cultures in their writing. Agard uses the phrase ‘ah rass’ he wants to show that he still uses dialect from the other half of his culture. Alvi uses words such as ‘salwar kameez’ or ‘sari’ to portray that she does recognise her culture and lives it to an extent because she could have simply that they were traditional…

Mothers always tell their daughters to smile, to look nice and to have manners. Since that moment women are built to follow certain stander and no matter what women always seemed to hide their emotions and put a fake smile on their faces as Cunningham stated in her essay Your real emotion aren’t welcome here (page 190). Lama Farhoud whom I interviewed for this essay had been through a similar experience and she was also pressured to smile and to act in a certain way for a different reason…

Emotion regulation has various effect on individual’s life and impairment in emotion regulation would lead to many negative consequences. Emotion regulation can be defined as extrinsic and intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions (Thompson 1994). There are many emotion regulation strategies such as reappraisal or suppression. Parenting and family experiences have been documented as playing a fundamental role in children 's emotional…

Emotions are present in everyone’s daily life, as they change to accommodate each new situation we experience. How you feel can affect your personal motivation, actions, and attitudes towards peers. Expressing emotion can be an easy task for some and it maybe uncomfortable for others. According to a study by Gross (2014), emotions occur when a situation is deemed important to an individual and they have assessed it to some extent. The emotion is the reaction to the situation they are in. The…