Most of you think humblebragging's worse than bragging. Let me make a case for the reverse. If someone openly brags, you're forced to congratulate him. But if he humblebrags, you can pretend not to notice, eg: "My beach house is sooo ramshackle" "That's ok, as long as it's comfy"
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I wonder a bit about gender stereotypes. My sense is that there is a (weak) societal stereotype in favour of admiring men, and being happy for women. I wonder if that effects the type of thing people try to solicit?
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I.e., men might be more likely to try to solicit admiration, simply because in their model that's more likely to be forthcoming; they perhaps think less about the possibility of other people being happy for them? (Very unsure of all this.)
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Incidentally, this is one reason I was happy moving to the US. Australian culture is not good at celebrating people's successes in a healthy way. There's even a common term for this phenomenon: "tall poppy syndrome". The US is much better about this, IMO.
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