What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life?
Laughter, laughter, and more laughter. A day that goes by without experiencing laughter is a lamentable day. Laughter brings people together. Many say that in order to help build bridges between people of different cultures or perspectives, you should break bread together. That can work. Although some research shows that breaking bread together doesn’t always help bridge cultural gaps.
Laughter, however, is something I’d like to argue can help bridge many gaps. Sharing a joke and sharing a laugh, can actually provide insights into the psyches of others. It can help bridge cultural gaps. What makes you laugh? What do you find funny?
Traveling to other countries and catching a comedy show abroad is a very interesting anthropological, ethnographic journey. Why is physical comedy so popular in some countries while completely unpopular in others?
Perhaps the best bet is the break bread at a comedy show. Sonething is bound to pierce through and stick.
Categories: Culture, Humor, identity, mental health, Psychology
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SMiLes Dear Miriam
If i Didn’t Find the
Whole Human
Condition
Hilarious
i’d Cry So i Choose
SMiLes and Laughter
Above All the Below Stars
Shining Tears of JoY We BRinG
Laughing Hysterically Indeed Hehe…
From Bottom
To Top Again
ALWaYS A BeGiNNinG
SMiLe And Laugh For All ThaT iS SMiLInG
Yes Let’s All Chant Dance Sing and Laugh Again..:)
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Le Monde est en guerre , des gens souffrent , meurent , désolé je n’ai pas envie de rire mais je comprends que cela peut être une thérapie contre la souffrance !
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Laughter is a dangerous game; so often it is at someone else’s expense.
Different cultures find different things funny. I never did get the jokes without words cartoons in the German magazines at the hairdresser’s in Mexico when I was a kid – still don’t get a lot of things (though I’ve developed a wicked sense of humor in other areas).
And breaking bread? I don’t eat bread, and am ridiculously close to most new food ideas – my life would have to be in immediate danger for me to eat a sheep’s eyeball (considered a delicacy and THE best portion of a sheep in some cultures), and would risk an international incident by refusing rather than eat, if possible.
Respect is what you need – enough not to get yourself into situations where you CAN offend someone from another culture. 🙂
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