Blog assignment 2 Option2

Option 2: We all have our public selves and our private selves, and our cultures play a role in determining how much of our private selves we will show in public. How open are people in your culture about showing their personal sorrows and joys? Do people from your culture show their emotions quickly and easily, or do they hide their emotions, especially negative emotions? Are people in your culture demonstrative of their affection for others in public? That is, do they kiss, hold hands, or hug in public?


Actually, from the traditional perspective, most of the Chinese are not likely to show their emotions in intense or immediate ways and instead always use more implicit way to express their affection for others in public.
First of all, I think the biggest feature of the way Chinese expressing their positive or negative feeling must be indirect expression, that is to say just keep calm or being without a turning hair. At the same time, the way of talking should be more implicit and patient. For an example, when you are talking to a person with bad breath, chinese may pretend to share the gum or just keep silent. On the other hand, Chinese are keen on face-saving and by the influence of traditional education"look before you leap", Chinese will not speak thier mind immediately.
Furthermore, according to my own view, degree of opening in China depends on both different generation and regions. Taking my own experence for an instance, people from North China and South China have great difference. Students from my hometown, Shanghai, are more conservative to communicate with the opposite sex than students from northeast or middle part . And from older generation's perspective, kissing even hugging are both weird and unacceptable in public, but actually it becomes more and more usual in modern life in China.
Nowadays, the new generation of China like us are deeply influenced by the western and American culture. So Chinese are dare to express their true emotion in more passinate way. I think it is a sign and I hope that all foreigners will be influenced by Chinese culture some day.