Via a private share.
I am a New Zealander married to an American, living in New Zealand. By complete and total coincidence, my brother-in-law (my wife’s sister’s husband) is a New Zealander married to an American, living in the US. There’s a family story about how he claimed, while they were playing the game Therapy, to be the most emotionally stable person in the family – pretty much because his standard of “emotionally stable” was based on New Zealand, not California.
What emotional expression is within acceptable ranges, how it’s expressed, how it’s evaluated, under what circumstances it can be expressed, what it’s considered reasonable to expect out of life – all of these things are highly culture-dependent. So what happens when multinational corporations (mostly, though not entirely, based in the US) start creating emotional management applications that are used around the world?
https://aeon.co/essays/can-emotion-regulating-tech-translate-across-cultures
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