Do Some Cultures have their own ways of going mad?
Only Latin Americans
Suffer from susto,
Terror of soul departing body
Only Inuits of Greenland
Face pibloktoq,
Stripping off clothing, running madly into Arctic snowdrifts
Only Malaysians
Run amok,
Murderously creating chaos
Only Mediterraneans
Face mal de ojo, or “the evil eye,
Causing endless streams of tears
Only Japanese are
Inflicted with
taijin kyofusho,
Fear of displeasing or offending others
How much of madness is simply geography?
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