blog assignment2 op2

As social beings, interpersonal relationship plays an extremely important role in our lives. In China, connotation is advocated when people interact with someone else, that is, people in China are unwilling to show their private selves, especially negative emotions.
On the one hand, strangers usually show their outgoing and optimistic public selves to each other. They try to hide their sorrows as their own secret. For instance, an awkward situation is often met when two strangers become friends: at first, they both leave good impression of each other when they first meet. As they become friends, one may realize that the other one has too many negative emotions and shortcomings which are intolerable. People show too little of private selves in public, and they incline to show their perfect selves to strangers.
On the other hand, talking to friends is quite different. People need to share their sorrows as well as joys to their best friends, in this way, they can cushion their stress or laugh together. Admittedly, friends even strangers can share joys to others, but only best friends can know sorrows of each other.
As I illustrated above, people in China intend to hide their true feelings in public. Someone who is good at hiding their feelings will be considered as a cultivated person.