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Re:Why Some Cultures Frown on Smiling (2016) by eeZah7Ux on Sunday October 01, 2017 @08:53PM (#15380902)
Perhaps you are referring to some dictatorships, e.g. fascism in Italy, where people where expected to be cheerful and optimistic at all times and being gloomy or pessimistic was strongly discouraged by the government.
Re:Why Some Cultures Frown on Smiling (2016) by throw-away-8 on Sunday October 01, 2017 @09:19PM (#15381031)
Nice try but not at all: governments come and go while cultures have a much longer lifetime. Witness "grim and gloomy" russians under prescriptive eternally optimistic communist dictatorship. I think those folks that downvoted my comment had a different idea and, perhaps, felt it's too close to home for comfort.