When did it become unacceptable to brag about things? I'm trying to remember the age when making an exposé of your life's few victories became tactless and shallow.
I'm as bad about it as the next, I admit it, and often shut down socially in the face of someone else's boasting. I call them a braggart, and revel in their bad taste. Yet it seems that people are systematically shamed by society to be almost embarrassed of their accomplishments when it comes to receiving the praise of people outside their family. To accept recognition with anything less than meekness, makes you self absorbed and overconfident.
I'm may only be saying this because I'm in Japan, where the standard comment from most parents is that their kids are 'not smart' regardless of the kid's actual mental acuity, but I won't pin it on Japan alone.
What I'm really trying to say is, I wonder what it's like to receive an award and say "I deserve this". I don't think I've ever done it.
I'm as bad about it as the next, I admit it, and often shut down socially in the face of someone else's boasting. I call them a braggart, and revel in their bad taste. Yet it seems that people are systematically shamed by society to be almost embarrassed of their accomplishments when it comes to receiving the praise of people outside their family. To accept recognition with anything less than meekness, makes you self absorbed and overconfident.
I'm may only be saying this because I'm in Japan, where the standard comment from most parents is that their kids are 'not smart' regardless of the kid's actual mental acuity, but I won't pin it on Japan alone.
What I'm really trying to say is, I wonder what it's like to receive an award and say "I deserve this". I don't think I've ever done it.
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