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.
Americans did not want to be taxed by those they did not elect. "no taxation without representation".
Because it provided them with guns and rum.