Perhaps we don't like to show our emotions quite so clearly. In a recent meeting, a colleague was being heavily praised by an American and said, 'Please stop, we are British and it's embarrassing!'
In a different life I used to help teachers who had to deal with pupils with very challenging behaviour in mainstream schools. Inevitably, by the time these children had reached secondary school age, they had learned to get attention by exhibiting all sorts of outrageous behaviour. At that stage the teacher interaction was usually lots of 'sit down, stop messing about, put that chair down!' and so on.
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