For sure, western society strongly encourages people to wear masks and to keep their real feelings to themselves. You’re expected to conform and pretend that you’re happy or people see you as being flawed somehow. We also see an extreme version of this phenomenon on social media site like Facebook or Instagram where everybody constantly posts their best moments and everyone is collectively miserable because they think other people are having much better lives than they really are.
For sure, western society strongly encourages people to wear masks and to keep their real feelings to themselves. You’re expected to conform and pretend that you’re happy or people see you as being flawed somehow. We also see an extreme version of this phenomenon on social media site like Facebook or Instagram where everybody constantly posts their best moments and everyone is collectively miserable because they think other people are having much better lives than they really are.
You can bundle Japan with them. I think the phenomenon is stretched to the extreme here.
yup
And note how western media often acknowledge that problem in Japan but then they turn around and claim in west it’s completely not a problem.