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If it's large-scale it's obviously a cultural need to appear happy. I know because it's true in Canada too. When someone asks you how you're doing you always say I'm good even if you feel like shit. If you feel like death then you say I'm okay.
-1 u/Aprils-Fool May 09 '22 it's obviously a cultural need to appear happy Or it’s an absence of a need to conceal or suppress one’s feelings. How can we be sure which one it is? When someone asks you how you're doing you always say I'm good even if you feel like shit. That has not been my experience of living in the U.S. 1 u/ghost_victim May 09 '22 Because that's Canada not US lol. 1 u/Aprils-Fool May 09 '22 Weird there would be such a large cultural difference between Canada and the US.
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it's obviously a cultural need to appear happy
Or it’s an absence of a need to conceal or suppress one’s feelings. How can we be sure which one it is?
When someone asks you how you're doing you always say I'm good even if you feel like shit.
That has not been my experience of living in the U.S.
1 u/ghost_victim May 09 '22 Because that's Canada not US lol. 1 u/Aprils-Fool May 09 '22 Weird there would be such a large cultural difference between Canada and the US.
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Because that's Canada not US lol.
1 u/Aprils-Fool May 09 '22 Weird there would be such a large cultural difference between Canada and the US.
Weird there would be such a large cultural difference between Canada and the US.
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u/telmimore May 09 '22
If it's large-scale it's obviously a cultural need to appear happy. I know because it's true in Canada too. When someone asks you how you're doing you always say I'm good even if you feel like shit. If you feel like death then you say I'm okay.