What We Lose When Boys Are Taught Not to Cry in Kazakhstan

The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. I still remember a boy who fell on the asphalt when I was in primary school. Before the teacher reached him, someone lifted him and told him the phrase that so many Kazakh boys hear: “Don’t cry. Be a man.” The tears stopped, and the lesson was clear. Pain was allowed, but emotion was not.… The post What We Lose When Boys Are Taught Not to Cry in Kazakhstan appeared first on The Astana Times.

By Fatima Kemelova