The difficulty of expressing feelings

I wrote about the difficulty of Finnish people to express their feelings in the article "A stereotypical Finnish person". There have been a discussion that the expressing feelings does not just belong to Finnish culture. We are used to holding back our emotions and feelings. Holding back emotions do not sound very nice, but the things like crying or hugging are just so untypical for us to do publicly. Crying gives us a sense of shame, which does not feel very nice. Expressing feelings is not forbidden though, most of us just does not want to do that publicly. It belongs mostly to our personal life and personal relationships.

There's a stereotype of a Finnish man. According the stereotype a Finnish man is uncommunicative and lacking skills of communication. This is a generalization and just a stereotype that someone has created. If you are watching for example a Finnish movie "Paha maa" of Aku Louhimies, you will notice lots of that kind of uncommunicative behavior or communication that lacks constructive debate. Of course, the movie is intentionally very dark movie that do not give very happy image of us. Bringing those things up, like violence and alcoholism are though important issues to deal with.

I added a clip of the movie "Paha maa" (2005). The movie has won 8 prizes in a Finnish film gala "Jussi-gaala". The sound of the clip is very low but you can see pretty well visually what happens in the clip.