other culture-bound syndromes that are regarded with bafflement or amused curiosity when explained to people outside the societies where these performances are indulged and encouraged are “PMS” and “teenage rebellion”.
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extraordinarily parochial &unscientific reporting by @nytimes. “sugar high” is a culture-bound syndrome of white westerners. to treat it as a universal physiological phenomenon is astonishing
in reality, Ethiopian adults do this too. it’s incredibly irritating, they love runningpic.twitter.com/mHoSL0xThK
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