Oh i`m sure your government was a tad angry about that but that "We hold our emotions inside" is not an East Asian society thing, it`s a man thing.I agree with you 100%.
And I hope "TrMhMt" will stop spamming all Xinjiang-related threads, and referring to us as "Chinese slaves" in every other post.
In East Asian societies, people are less likely to show outward emotion, compared to other places in the world. But that doesn't mean they are not truly pissed off inside.
I don`t know where you got that it is an East thing, maybe you saw too many shows where men gush about their feelings and think that is the general West thing. There are those that hold it inside and there are those that don`t, in West and East.
I for one am one of those that hold it inside and keep my anger until the appropriate moment.
That all being said, too much holding it inside or being too weak to handle your emotions leads to suicidal tendencies, which is quite common in Asian societies especially the Japanese(The whole shame thing) and from what i read 287K people commit suicide every year in China.