DIFFERENCES IN EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIVENESS


After watching the class of professor Bother Ivers, I have realized how different people of the world react and express their emotions or feelings.

So I start making a reflection about it, considering the behavior in this manner of people from South America. I will begin pondering about my experience and the knowledge I have acquired in my life.

I was born in Ecuador, but I lived in Peru, Spain, Guatemala, Panama, Belgium, and a little in the USA.

To confirm Brother Iver affirmations, yes, for example, Belgiums would indeed be on the left side of the column because they are not too expressive people, at least they weren't 40 years ago. I do no know if they have changed or not. But at that time, people were very conservative, not too friendly, not too outgoing, and usually spoke in low tones; they did not trust foreigners, although they were Europeans. 

On the other hand, Spanish people are the opposite, yet they almost shout. If you go to a cafe, you will hear them speaking in a loud voice, moving arms and hands making gestures of all king, and not caring about using impolite words in their talk. They are very friendly and extroverted, sometimes racist with South American people. Fortunately, I have never suffered from that because I inherited my European ancestors' look. I am white, blond hair, blue eyes, and tall, so they usually thought I was European or North American.

Guatemalans are also outgoing; they are very expressive in their emotions; they can get mad swift when they feel hurt. In Panama, people are very explicit; they talk loud, laugh, and dance; they are very friendly and have lots of North America influence in many aspects. They are very proud.

So pondering about Southamerica, it shouldn't be too much difference in how they express their emotions, yet some countries have close borders, so they are intercultural. There is a little difference between Argentina and Chile because they were founded by European people the most, so they have similar attitudes.

On the other hand, Brazil seems to be established by afro people, so they are very outgoing; they do not care what do emotions they express in front of anybody. Maybe that is why their Carnival is so famous; they dance almost naked, sing, shout, and love tourism.

Aboriginal people influenced Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Venezuela, they are trustworthy but proud. They used to be humble; now, they are resented for many events, such as the colonization of Spanier's, and the influence of the global news that affects everyday life. But they express emotions with little difference, and maybe the ones imposed by geographical or historical events. It is hard to classify them in the right or left hand of tolerance.

Or course, there is a little of TCK because they have grown in a different county, with parents of a varying a country as well, so customs, beliefs, and legends make them live the way they are; it is the third culture.

It is probably that in South America there might be various students in schools, especially nowadays, with Venezuelan immigration or many other countries from the region. But migration and immigration and vice versa have happened before in all of South-America.

If there is TCK, I dare to say it may not be as strong as with people from other continents living and interacting together, were languages, geographical distances, and ancestral aspects influenced to be part of a non-part people.

As parents, we claim that students should be taught to respect each other, to understand that regional differences do not make a human different. We are all children of God.

The teacher should prevent bullying by treating them with love and ask them to do the same thing.

Now my question is: Although teachers teach the students to be kind, loving, to respect each other, can Teachers tell for sure that this will be conducted in students' houses as well? Because we cannot deny that there are regional jealousy and ancestral resentments due to war conquers, or political issues that children inherit somehow.

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