How Does Emotions Affect Our Social World?

Our emotions affect us in so many ways. Emotions affect the way we behave, our views and opinions, our relationships and our decision-making; therefore, they are very relevant to our day-to-day lives. It is important that people have an understanding of these emotions and that they are able to interpret them. Emotions can both help and hinder our ability to best live our lives. It is also important to realize that even our emotions are shaped and biased by our environment and those close to us.

One of the immediate things I learned in China was that I did not entirely understand my own values. Growing up in the United States, I felt the prosperity of wealth seemed greater than the qualities of love, humanity, and happiness. I questioned the value of money, whether it was the entry to the doors of contemptment, or if it is a barren dream waiting to be lived. As the frequent stops at restaurants became an ordinary occurrence on my family’s itinerary, I noticed the difference in cultural values. I saw people lose track of time because they invested their attention on each other, rather than checking their phone. I realized I should treasure my time spent with others, since nothing else ranks a greater superiority over living in the moment. Seeing people appreciate companionship showed me the values of love and happiness are derived from living actively and feeling important to others. Understanding cultural values has influenced my mindfulness to strive to live my life to the fullest while embodying the quality of awareness to who I am as a person and what I

Four Chinese mothers have migrated to America. Each hope for their daughter’s success and pray that they will not experience the hardships faced in China. One mother, Suyuan, imparts her knowledge on her daughter through stories. The American culture influences her daughter, Jing Mei, to such a degree that it is hard for Jing Mei to understand her mother's culture and life lessons. Yet it is not until Jing Mei realizes that the key to understanding who her

Chinese and American culture has a lot more differences than similarities. To the Chinese reputation of the individual is very important. If an action will humiliate someone or ruin a reputation, it is avoided. When shame occurs, the person sacrifices their job or whatever it is that will heal the shame. In America, reputations come and go overnight and in the end usually does not matter. “Go to an American home in exurbia, and almost the first thing you do is drift towards the picture window” [Example from American space, Chinese Place]. It is true that we American’s always want something more than what we have in front of us. We are always looking forward to the big picture of our

Emotions are used in our everyday lives help us understand and comprehend a situation. The way we feel can affect the way we think through a situation and the situation that we make. Our emotions are expressed when we play sports, when a loved one dies, or when we see our newly born baby for the first time. Emotions are a state of consciousness like joy, sorrow, fear, hate, and love. Whenever we are presented with a situation, our brain responds in feelings, and our feeling determine what will happen next.

A component of the alexithymia construct, emotion differentiation is the ability to identify and label emotional experiences into discrete categories (Boden et al., 2013). (Note: Emotion differentiation has also been referred to as emotion granularity; Barrett, 2006; Tugade, Fredrickson, & Barrett, 2004). Individuals high in emotion differentiation can make subtle distinctions between their emotions; for example, they can distinguish between feelings of anger, frustration, or annoyance. Individuals with low emotion differentiation, however, may interpret all emotions in a broad, more general manner, such as simply claiming they feel “upset” or “bad” (Barrett, Gross, Christensen, & Benvenuto, 2001; Boden et al., 2013). Although it may only represent a portion of

Emotions are like tools that let you know where you are in life and if you need to make changes. In “Brave New World”, emotions are eliminated so that their society can enter a chain of dehumanization in order to control their society. With the World States decision to eliminate emotions from humanity has made their society worse. Emotions are the most basic and important characteristics that make up a human being. Though they could be positive or either negative, they can cause you to take important or necessary actions in your life.

The Chinese culture and way of thinking is expertly described by characters in The Joy Luck Club. One character, Lindo Jong, scorns the stereotypical American woman of the 1950s when she states “It’s like those ladies you see on American t.v. these days, the ones who are so happy they have washed out a stain so the clothes look better than new.” (Tan, 56) The Chinese are very traditional and conservative in their values and ideas. In The Joy Luck Club, Lindo Jong describes Chinese character as “How to obey parents and listen to your mother’s mind.” (Tan, 254) “Why easy things are not worth pursuing. How to know your own worth and polish it, never flashing it around like a cheap ring. Why Chinese thinking is best.” (Tan, 254) She truly feels that Americans are not capable of thinking in this manner, or, rather, simply do not think in this manner as Chinese people do.

Chinese bereaved parents to focus directly on the loss itself, and on the effects for their

Fung also agrees with Kusserow’s critique of Western hegemonic culture. She states that Western scholars do not take the time to understand these practices outside of their theoretical bubble. Thus, Western scholars view Chinese shaming practices as problematic and feel that it will negatively impact children’s emotional development. In reality the culture is preventing that from occurring and teaching children how to be functional members of their society (Fung 1999).

Many times you hear people say “Don’t judge the books by their covers” or even “Until you have lived in my shoes, you can’t judge me”. Each person could look a certain way on the outside, but on the inside have complete different feelings; these people are masking how they truly feel. It appears in the poem “We Wear the Mask” that the author Paul Dunbar is trying to put this message out to his readers. In Paul Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask” he describes the lives of the African Americans and what they do in order to mask how they truly feel toward the White Americans who are keeping them to do their dirty work.

The different cultures all over the world are what makes everyone unique, and one thing in the US that makes everyone a whole, is their freedom. Everyone is has their rights, but it’s not the same in all countries, and China is an example of this. People in China have the most respect to their culture, and they are much stronger believers then American’s are

In the Matsumoto et al. (2009) article they conducted a study in which they wanted to see if one’s emotions can be changed over time by displaying it in both a cultural and universal way. They used Olympic athletes to see how their emotions were displayed over time by putting their emotional reactions into different categories and seeing the number of times they are used in that athlete’s country (Matsumoto et al., 2009). A photographer was used to take pictures of the athletes when their match was over and when the winner was announced (Matsumoto et al., 2009). The researchers discovered that emotions were culturally influenced and shown that population density played a key part within these events (Matsumoto et al., 2009). Also the results

Nowadays we live in a peace and beautiful world. China is growing at a high speed and most of people take pride in the prospirety of our country. We enjoy ourselves carefree life, as singing and smiling. As a matter of fact, we still need to go for it and keep a reasonable nervousness because adverity spurs vitality, while comfort breeds sloth.

Emotion refers to physical sensations commonly expressed as feelings within different cultural contexts. There various kinds of emotions including biologically derived ones whose occurrence is not solely dependent upon social influences. Other feelings are culturally specific and are taught within given cultures. Yet other emotions such as feelings of guilt, shame and envy are mainly driven by an individuals mind. Indeed, emotion is an extremely unique quality among people that make them human. In majority of settings, emotions play a pivotal role in the determination of the quality of individual members’ relationship with each other. Emotions are mainly crucial when it comes to creating, monitoring and preserving social bonds. In many traditional communities, globalization comes with a myriad of surprises for many rural communities. This paper seeks to highlight pivotal aspects of an emotion that is considerably in its initial phase.