DIFFERENT PEOPLE’S WAYS
AN INTERESTING STUDY,
It is extraordinarily interesting to study different people and the virtues they admire. In China anything and everything that goes towards making a man soft and gentle, polite and benevolent, ceremonious and self-controlled, is looked on as a stamp of culture. Europeans admire, as signs of civilisation, such tilings as wireless, complicated machines, and gramophones. The Chinese admire our progress, hut steadfastly continue to care for their own ideas more than ours. The Japanese admire self-control immensely, and to such an extent that some people believe the impassive expression common to the race 'comes from that very habit.. They believe that to show joy, excitement, anger, sorrow, or pain is a mark of illhreeding. In the days of Louis the Eleventh of France it was thought necessary for the young men of tiie day to appear g,ay and gallant whatever private grief was bothering them. Wc British pride ourselves on our stoeism, yet it is a fact that some of our ancestors, travelling in Italy, and grouped together at Genor Custom House, ail hurst into tears on suddenly hearing that Byron had died.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16815, 5 June 1926, Page 16 (Supplement)
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