British
The British “stiff upper lip” is a clear and common feature
of the personality worn by many British people.
“Stiff upper lip” essentially means to not show emotion. This
is a very British or English trait.
(Try making your upper lip go stiff, then you will see that
you can smile, laugh, cry or anything, stiff upper lip = no emotion.)
It is really amazing how just one feature of the personality
can influence so much of a person’s life.
If we look deeply and extensively we will find that the “stiff
upper lip” features in many human interactions, many attitudes, expressions,
ways of acting in events, ways of speaking, gestures, social norms, you name
it.
This “stiff upper lip”
in turn influences much of the way the egos in a British person manifest and
react.
The ego has a very cultural component to it.
What About us
If the British have such a single feature that characteristics
much of their personality, their egoic reactions and interactions etc. then
what about us, we can have the same thing working within us, why not?
You only know that that this is not true in you, when you
have searched and discovered that it is or is not!
Just one feature that has such a major influence? The Australian
personality has one, see if you can find it.
End (1960).
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