How culture affects sadness
Update: 2023-04-13
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Could your culture influence sadness? We talk about sadness and teach you vocabulary.
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https://www.bbc.com/learningenglish/thai/features/6-minute-english_2023/ep-230413 TRANSCRIPT Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript. Sam Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Sam. Neil And I’m Neil. When Helen Russell was three years old, her new-born baby sister died suddenly. Looking back at that sad time, Helen remembers making a big decision – she wanted to be happy. She became a bestselling author and wrote a book called, The Atlas of Happiness. She got married, and even moved to the famously happy city of Copenhagen in Denmark. Sam But the sadness Helen felt didn’t disappear, and the longer she lived abroad, the more she wondered whether her feelings were somehow connected to being born in England, into a culture where, traditionally, expressing your emotions was discouraged. Neil In this programme, we’ll be investigating how the way people express sadness is influenced by their culture, and, as usual, we’ll be learning some new, useful vocabulary a