But when the interviewer was present, Japanese students masked the fear with a social smile. This can be criticized as to politeness, etc. The Chewong, an aboriginal group in Malaysia are an example of social prohibition of all emotions except fear and shyness. Severe penalties occur if broken. Here, human meaning enters the picture.
Cultural products have meaning and are thus ethnocentric.
Passionate love Passionate or romantic love was found to exist in some form in the majority of 186 cultures written about by anthropologists. Falling in love Read p 55 for a story of falling in love. In courtly love, the nobleman devoted his life to the lady and performed whatever courageous acts that were necessary. Lancelot and Guinevere, the queen and wife of King Arthur in Camelot is the most striking example. See p. 56 for a picture of the book, Roman de la Rose.