Culture: Shaping Perception and Emotion Regulation

Culture plays a crucial role in defining who were are and how we interpret the world and environment around us. Culture is also influential in providing the structure, rules, expectations, and guidelines that help people to perceive, translate, and express various emotions. It is also important to note that there is a cultural display rule that offers members of a particular culture the standards governing the frequencies and form of emotional displays that are considered acceptable within a given society. Furthermore, cultural scripts dictate how negative and positive emotions are experienced and displayed. The scripts also offer guidelines on how people elect to regulate their emotions. This means that culture has a predominant role in influencing

Most of the Arab cultures prohibit young people from interacting with members of the opposite sex despite the fact that they are of the same age. However, this is unlike the western cultures where most members of the society do not see any wrongdoing if a male youth develops a relationship with a female youth. The western culture is also very permissive when it comes to public expression of love, unlike the Arab culture where people are restricted by their culture on the extent to which they can portray their affection publicly. Furthermore, the Arab culture does not allow homosexuality and when males are seen together engaging in similar behaving and enjoying themselves, they are not viewed suspiciously because the incidences of homosexuality is very rare. However, since homosexuality has been accepted in the Western culture, Wilmar and Scott did not expect the escort to be alarmed by their inquiry of whether he was gay. Nevertheless, the Arabic culture have harsh penalties for homosexuality, including execution, which explains why their escort was alarmed by the suggestion that he was

The cleaning of the lawn is a portrayal that the culture allows people to interfere with the private lives of people so long as it is beneficial to the entire society. On the other hand, the American culture highly appreciates the respect to privacy, even when the respect may end up harming many people within the society. The Asian culture is inclined towards the society while the American culture is inclined towards the individuality of a