Cultural scripts dictate how positive and negative emotions should be experienced and displayed; they may also guide how people choose to regulate their emotions, ultimately influencing an individual's emotional experience. Cultural contexts also act as cues when people are trying to interpret facial expressions.
It’s important to express emotions to show your feelings to be open and honest, not to embarrass or blast another human being and express your pain,sadness.
Benjamin Banneker was a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. :)
West African peoples' diets suffered as European people began colonizing their land and taking the harvests.