Express Emotions Essay

The ability to experience and express emotions can be a long process. Everyone starts experiencing emotions pretty much from the day of birth; as a person grows up with their family every single day they become more experienced and have more emotions that can help create and form their lifestyle. The decisions a person makes is always influenced by the emotions they have at the current time and the emotions they have experienced before. Experiencing emotions are easier than expressing them. Emotions may be easier to express at a younger age, but as anyone grows older it becomes more difficult. Both experiencing and expressing emotions are different for everyone. The ability to express emotions can be influenced by a person 's culture, personality,

In my experience of being taught on expressing my emotions is different from my friends. But, we can also relate to each other because we come from the same culture. Since my friends and I came from the same culture we were taught similar in our beliefs. As I grew older I was slowly being taught that in my culture we do not really have rules or guidelines for everything, but more about the beliefs of our older family members that we are taught that helps build our own set beliefs. Since we go based off of our own beliefs in my family, my dad always told me that I can believe whatever I want to believe in and that he is not trying to force me into believing in something that I do not agree with. When I was young I had my Dad and my older brother that would influence my expressing in emotions, because they were males to and I can relate to them more than my mom and my two sisters. Both of my parents taught me that I can express my positive emotions. My family believes that to have good health and a positive life is to not think about negative things all the time and expressing them to others. It is good to have a clear mind and to express good emotions as much as I can if I want to be more healthy, is basically what I am taught in my family’s culture. Being around males as a kid, I was taught to hide my feelings and emotions or to try to show less of it. But, as I

Silence is something that has long been embedded in their culture.”(Rice). The Native Americans communications back in history is that we are not very verbal. My culture back in the past seemed more serious and less talkative than today. Back then in my culture we listened more and waited for our turn to speak, unlike todays generation, we can sometimes interrupt the person talking to put out our own personal opinion or talk about how we emotionally reacted to the topic. Also, in older times in the culture of native Americans, we never really expressed our thoughts and emotions to anyone, if it is a random person we cannot express ourselves unless it 's someone that is family or we have known for a long time. What I mentioned about how my culture in the past about being more quiet and listening instead of talking, is our display rules. The definition of display rules is "when people in a given culture agree about which forms of emotion management and communication are socially desirable and appropriate"(McCornack 119). The display rules from my own experience that I was taught while growing up was to never express my emotions too much to where it can become disrespectful to others, like for example back talking to an older relative with an attitude. Also, I learned the same thing as my cultures past that to be patient when someone is talking and wait my turn, and also to listen