s I have attended in my life have always been, very stoic, there was a set way of doing things and that was the way it was done. Whenever someone was really touched by the spirit and they were very outspoken about it, some of us would not know how to handle it. Like in my church back home there is an older women, and at times she will feel so blessed that she will walk around the church shaking hands, and yelling “Hallelujah!” When I was a teenager I didn’t know how to handle that, so I would just chuckle under my breath, and wonder what was wrong with her. Now in a good old charismatic black church, they would have no problem with her doing that; they would probably join her. In that type of setting I would feel very out of place, and not know how to act. I would most likely feel uncomfortable enough that I would want to leave.Affectional Orientation: Reflection on self as a cultural beingLike I stated earlier in this paper I am an extremely emotional person. Which I constantly display my emotions verbally, and non-verbally. Even when I don’t want anyone to know I am upset, I fail to hide it.As a man I am expected to not be emotional, unless the emotion I am displaying is anger. I am not like that at all. I always show all of my emotions, and anger is the one I show least.I am extremely comfortable with my emotions; it has taken a lot of hard work to realize that just because I am emotional that doesn’t make me bad. Now with my friends they have had problems in the past dealing with me being emotional. A lot of them could not understand why I was this way, and also they didn’t know how to deal with it. One of my older friends gave one of my newer friends the best advice he could with being my friend, it was “To have a good friendship with Jason you have to learn how Jason works, and try to be understanding”.I am a very touchy person, which has made people uncomfortable in th...
