Affective/Neutral
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In more affective cultures it is appropriate for people to display emotions openly, and it is unnecessary for people to hide their emotions. A person from a more affective culture is likely to ignore less obvious displays for emotion them, because they appear unimportant.
This often causes conflict when a person from an affective culture encounters someone who is more accustomed to a neutral culture, because neutral cultures assume that it is wrong to show one's emotions openly. People from neutral cultures do have emotions, they are just displayed very subtly. People from neutral cultures often think that people from affective cultures are to easily excited and overly emotional, because they display their emotions more obviously. A person who displays their emotions to much will not be very highly respected.
I think mainstream Australian culture is probably more neutral than affective, but I think it's a very moderate example of a neutral culture.
One of my friends, whose family are from a Mediterranean country is always getting Caucasians telling her that she is too agressive, because she is used displaying emotions more loudly than most Caucasians are.
Do you think that your culture is more neutral or more affective? Have you ever expeienced a culture that was the oppsite?
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8 comments:
I think it's neutral and i hate that.
Why's that?
Generally, I think it's neutral and I like it! I find it overwhelming and exhausting when people display their emotions loudly.
Interestingly I think this is one of the problems Schapelle Corby encountered. She displayed too much emotion in an Indonesian culture and loss respect and credibility.
That sounds about right. Most of the Asian cultures are very neutral.
Thats true. People often see my dispaly of emotions as a lack of self control. I'm not sure that it is entirely that tho. I have 2 friends who are both emotive people - they come from fifferent aisian cultures, and find it more relaxing to live in a culture here that they can display their emotions quite freely - they are more emotive than taht average australian!
i think generally it is a bit of a mix where you can show certain emotions but others not, especially for a male in our society.
But i would say that in my immediate family our culture is affective, scream, yell, cry, dance, whatever.
which countries r perfect example of neutral cultures..am from india which is highly affective and wonder which countries r neutral ??
Most east-Asian countries are very neutral. (eg. China, Korea, Indonesia)
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