As a Tibetan Chinese, I Feel Shamed by Some of My Compatriots

EDITOR＇S NOTE： This piece was originally carried by http：// bbs.tiexue.net in early April and was widely carried by other Chinese websites. The English text was offered by an anonymous volunteer, who also put it up first at the BBS of Tiexue.

International Students’ Feeling of Shame in the Higher Education: An Intersectional Analysis of Their Racialised, Gendered and Classed Experiences in the UK Universities

The literature on international students’ experiences frequently depicts them within a ‘deficient’ framework, highlighting their perceived lack of essential skills for managing their studies. Moreover, international students’ emotional experiences are often construed as personal and psychological attributes, with their emotions viewed as transient and pathological phases that they will eventually overcome to assimilate into the local context. However, there exists a dearth of literature investigating international students’ experiences from a sociological perspective, particularly concerning their emotional experiences within the broader social and political milieu. Utilizing a longitudinal research design to monitor 25 Chinese international postgraduates from multiple universities in London and Glasgow over the course of one year, this study illuminates the racialised, classed, and gendered dimensions of international students’ experiences in UK higher education through an exploration of their feelings of shame. Drawing on the research findings, it is evident that power relations operate insidiously and covertly to systematically frame international students’ experiences as personal or cultural ‘deficiency’. This process represents a form of misrecognition, which manifests in racialised, gendered, and classed feelings of shame, experienced at the personal level as insecurity, ‘stupidity’, exclusion, and self-doubt. Consequently, social and cultural inequalities within higher education are often situated at the individual level.

The Evolutionary Psychological Perspective on Social Anxiety Disorder and Its Underlying Mechanism

An evolutionary view of social anxiety disorder in its original occurrence of function and adaptive design helps us understand why SAD(social anxiety disorder)exists in the first place.In this paper,we found social anxiety can be a useful strategy to acquire better resources and maintain harmony in interpersonal relationships in ancestral environments.This finding helps us reveal how the mismatch between the ancestral and modern world may cause the overreaction we see in SAD in contemporary contexts.In addition,alcohol seems to be a short-term solution to ease the negative impact of SAD,but its long-term effectiveness requires further research.The paper also introduces compassion therapy to encourage patients to rekindle their passion for themselves by connecting with a friendly social environment.To better understand SAD,we encouraged future research to focus on rebuilding inner values and group relationships.

The bothersomeness of female urinary incontinence and its influencing factors: Study from a Chinese city

Purpose:To investigate the bothersomeness of female urinary incontinence(UI)and analyse its influencing factors.Methods:A purposive sample of 506 women with UI from three communities in Jinan was studied using the International Consultation on Incontinence QuestionnaireeUrinary Incontinence Short Form,modified Social Impact Scale,and a coping efficacy questionnaire.The influencing factors of bothersomeness were identified using one-way analysis of variance,χ^(2) test,and logistic regression.Results:Of the participants,33.4%were bothered byUI symptoms;logistic regression indicated that severity of UI,stigma,coping efficacy,and duration of symptoms were independent factors of bothersomeness,which clarified 49.8%of the variation.Conclusion:UI patients should receive individualised intervention.Healthcare workers can provide targeted intervention to patients bothered by UI to alleviate symptoms,decrease the senseof stigma,andincreaseconfidence incopingwithsymptomstodecrease bothersomeness.

Comparison of double pants with single pants on satisfaction with colonoscopy

AIM: To increase satisfaction and diminish anxiety and shame during colonoscopy, we developed novel double pants (NDP) which consist of doubled fabrics with an inner hole. The aim of study was to compare satisfaction, anxiety and shame between NDP and conventional single pants (CSP). METHODS: Total 160 consecutive examinees were randomly divided into NDP and CSP group. Before colonoscopy, questionnaires identifying state and trait anxiety were completed. After colonoscopy, questionnaires for overall satisfaction (Group Health Association of America 9) and pants-specific satisfaction (5-20), state anxiety (20-80), and shame (6-24) were interviewed. RESULTS: Pants-specific satisfaction scores regarding willingness to repeat colonoscopy using same pants (3.3 ± 0.8 vs 2.1 ± 0.9, P < 0.001) and recommendation of same pants to other people (3.3 ± 0.7 vs 2.0 ± 1.0, P < 0.001) were significantly higher in NDP than CSP groups. State anxiety (33.0 ± 7.0 vs 35.4 ± 6.9, P = 0.028) and shame (6.6 ± 1.5 vs 8.1 ± 3.2, P = 0.001) after colonoscopy was lower in NDP group compared with CSP group. CONCLUSION: The NDP contribute to increase satisfaction and decrease anxiety and shame after colonoscopy.

The Superstar Paradox How Overachievers Miss the Mark in Life and at Work

Extraordinary success can make you rich and powerful.It can also leave you incurious,blinkered,invulnerable,deeply unhappy and ironically—mediocre.In my work,as an executive coach crisis-counselor,I have found that the ruthless pursuit of over-achievement towards success,power,and money is playing a major role in the erosion of people’s happiness.That premise is supported by clear evidence of unhappiness and dissatisfaction seen across the board in western culture,limiting the phenomenon not only to those who are extremely successful,but to anyone buying into“hustle culture1”and developing extreme anxiety by scrolling through the lives of others on Instagram.In a society that still values over-achievement in the form of hard work above all2,this paper aims at a central tenet of western societies that over-achieving paves the road to success and riches,which lead to happiness.This talk will illustrate through proprietary and up to date global research show the opposite that over-achieving tendencies in any department of life can limit happiness profoundly.

Personality Traits and Shame to Entrepreneurship

The failure of the parent＇s company has psychological, social, and economic repercussions for the children of theseentrepreneurs. Research has identified that the personality traits of conscientiousness and neuroticism are the majorinfluencers of the shame of parental failure among personality traits. The dimensions of openness, extraversion, andagreeableness were not significant. The research is quantitative and cross-sectional. The sample is non-probabilistic andconvenient, consisting of literate people from five continents and 33 countries, with a greater predominance of responsesfrom Brazil and Portugal. Data collection on-line was carried out by average social workers, allied to 19 institutions of highereducation. The metric used is called the five dimensions of personality--short version. A multiple linear regression wasperformed to assess the intensity of the five dimensions of personality. Conscientiousness and neuroticism were significantpredictors of shame. The results are important to help characterize the children of entrepreneurs who have failed and fill agap in the literature on entrepreneurship.

The Body in Relation to the Other

In this study,I analyze Glissant’s idea of the Caribbean society as an inclusive community that treats its members with equality and mutual respect.The literary analysis includes novels Brown Girl in the Ring(BGR)by Nalo Hopkinson,Les Affres d’un défi(The Throes of a Challenge)(AF)by Frankétienne,and L’Envers du décor(Behind the Scene)(ED)by Ernest Pépin.All three novels demonstrate how the enslaving western governments of the Black populations of the Caribbean,have dispossessed the Black people of their culture and identity and instilled a feeling of shame into them,and minimized them as zombies.Glissant,like the mentioned authors,raises the question of whether our modern governments still operate on the same principles.Ernest Pépin shows how modern tourists and settlers still envision the Caribbean islands as Christopher Columbus did for the Western world’s profit only.Glissant proposes another form of world relations in the Caribbean,neither ontological nor one of political affiliation with France,but a rhizomatic relation with all the former communities of which the Caribbean peoples are composed.

Patriotism in Early China

This paper considers the difference between the values attached to love of country in early China and in today's world, through exploration of a series of concept clusters centered on "loyalty,"“glory,""honor," and "identity." Using a wide array of sources, including legends about exemplary figures in antiquity, it assesses the extent to which patriotism or something like patriotism was a normative value in the distant past. It also outlines the appropriate limits of patriotism which the early thinkers insisted upon, thinking them useful guidelines for today.

Moral Psychology of Shame in Early Confucian Philosophy

In Westem philosophy and psychology, shame is characterized as a self-critical emotion that is often contrasted with the similarly self-critical but morally active emotion of guilt. If shame is negative concern over endangered or threatened self-image （usually in front of others）, guilt is autonomous moral awareness of one＇s wrongdoings and reparative motivation to correct one＇s moral misconduct. Recently, many psychologists have begun to discuss the moral significance of shame in their comparative studies of non-Western cultures. In this new approach, shame is characterized as a positive moral emotion and active motivation for self-reflection and self-cultivation. If shame is a positive and active moral emotion, what is its moral psychological nature？ In this paper, I will analyze shame from the perspective of cultural psychology and early Confucian philosophy. Unlike many Western philosophers, Confucius and Mencius discuss shame as a form of moral excellence. In early Confucian texts, shame is not a reactive emotion of an endangered self but a moral disposition that supports a self-critical and self-transformative process of moral development.

The Effect of Acculturation on Reparative Behavior in Shame and Guilt Cultures

As the number of immigration and their later generations grow in the workforce of more developed Western countries, understanding the processes and consequences of acculturation has gained a new level of importance. An old and re-emerging issue is the morality and reparative behavior in Western versus Eastern cultures, as well as its antecedents and consequences. We examined the effects of acculturation on the perception of psychological proximity, the intensity of moral emotions of shame and guilt, and the degree of compensation to victims of one＇s wrongdoing. Our sample was comprised of a collectivistic group from a shame culture, China, and an acculturated group of Chinese living in a much less collectivistic society of a guilt culture, Canada. Our results indicated that participants＇ perception of psychological proximity to other people and the level of compensation offered to the victims of transgression were significantly different among the two samples. Furthermore, shame and guilt mediated the relationship between perceived psychological proximity and the decision to compensate differently.

Mr.Green Names and Shames

In a move that shows China is getting serious about bringing to light companies that flagrantly flout the regulations surrounding water pollution, a number of

Secret Shame Now in The Public Eye

A celebrity wife-beating case has sparked concern on the issue of domestic violence in China On August 31, a woman using the name "Mother of Lily, Lina and Lydia" posted a picture showing her swollen forehead on her micro-blog at Weibo, one of China’s most popular social media sites.

Will Shaming Prostitutes In a Public Parade Help to Curb the Illegal Practice?

Futian District in Shenzhen,Guangdong Province had a very unusual look about it late last November when hundreds of prostitutes and their customers were paraded in front of at least a thousand local residents. The move was part of a campaign by the police to crack down on the illegal sex industry and was met by whistles, applause and other less savory commentsfrom those who had turned out to see the great walk of shame.

Gendering National Imagination： Heroines and the Return of the Foundational Family in Shanghai during the War of Resistance to Japan

During the War of Resistance to Japan （1937-45）, the cultural scene in Japanese-occupied Shanghai took on a ＂feminine＂ quality, as female leads dominated stage performance and film screens. This essay seeks to engage this gendered phenomenon through examples of Ouyang Yuqian＇s wartime play Peach Blossom Fan （Taohua shan） and the film Mulan Joins the Army （Mulan congjun）. Borrowing affect theory in conjunction with the gendered perception of modernity, the author argues that these representations of female characters, on the one hand, highlight the subjective projection of male intellectuals motivated by intense feelings of shame and anger, which constitutes a feminized national imagination encountering the colonial Other. On the other hand, such representations continue the May Fourth project of enlightening and liberating woman from the conventional family while reintroducing the concept of the nation in the family setting and proposing the foundational family as the basic unit of the new nation.

Ideology,Emotionology,and Problems of Shaming Punishments in Early Modern Britain

Shame as a disciplinary weapon constituted a crucial part of premodern British penal regime.But in contrast to the substantial studies of capital punishment,shaming penalties remains relatively unexplored by historians.This article fills this gap by exploring some of the very basic,but rather neglected questions about the nature,mechanism,and problems of shaming punishments in early modern Britain.It argues that the use of shame was not random;behind it was an often unspoken but shared idea that shaming punishments should direct at offences which were customarily deemed“shameful”.Shameful was not just a moral judgement;it represented a disapproving emotion towards the offender,and a moral emotion that the convict and audience were expected to have for the purposes of reformation and deterrence.However,from the eighteenth century,the growing infl iction of shame on offenders whose transgressions were not commonly deemed shameful degraded public shaming into a violent,chaotic,and counter-productive exercise unable to evoke or inculcate the moral sense of shame.These problems made shame a subject of debate among legal writers,who criticized the excessive use of shaming techniques,but continually recognized the importance of shame as a virtuous emotion and an important penal strategy.

Number One Love

Every life can be defined by two great love stories, says philosopher Alain de Botton. The first, the quest for sexual love, is the staple of music and literature."The second-the story of our quest for love from the world-is a more secret and shameful tale, yet this second love story is no less intense than the first. There is heartbreak here too."

Prostitutes’Congress Teaches to Forget Shame

选注者言:我在网上读到此文,又让我想起在巴西工作和生活的10年。娼妓,是一种丑恶的社会现象,即使是在西方,人们也会对此职业嗤之以鼻。本文所提到的妓女代表大会居然要让从事卖淫者忘却羞耻,这倒让人想起了“此地无银三百两”的古训。更又甚者,一位妓女甚至狂言:I consider myself a qualified shrink(精神病医生).贵刊有“天下奇观”的专栏,我选注此文,不知能用否。

FOR SHAME!

Picture the scene:You’re having a pleasant conversation when someone else joins in,and says something awkward,inappropriate,or utterly irrelevant.An awkward silence follows—someone has to resurrect the conversation,even though everyone knows that things are now weird,but they’re still talking and oh god why won’t it stop?