Are British People Really As Emotionally Repressed As The World Thinks They Are?

"As we move around the streets, we tend - women especially and understandably - to give away little that might draw unwanted attention to us. In the Tube, we sit facing each other like zombies. Whatever we're feeling and thinking, we keep our faces muscles firmly under control. How anxious we are in case the 'nutter' talking to himself in the corner might come and sit next to us! We've taught our bodies to disconnect the expression from the emotion."

Mike Alfreds, I. N. (2007). Different Every Night. London: Nick Hern Books Limited.