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London - British men are abandoning their stiff upper lips but still do not wear their hearts on their sleeves like Americans, a new survey showed on Tuesday.
When it comes to raw emotion, the once buttoned-up Brits are now happy to shed tears quite openly - but Italians can still "out-sob" them.
"Thirty percent of all British males have cried in the past month. That is a very high figure," said Peter Marsh, director of the Social Issues Research Centre which took the emotional temperature of Britain.
"Only two percent said they could not remember when they last cried," the head of the independent research group said.
Long gone is the "No Tears - We're British" era when emotion was considered distinctly bad form.
British men are abandoning their stiff upper lips
When it comes to raw emotion, the once buttoned-up Brits are now happy to shed tears quite openly - but Italians can still "out-sob" them.
"Thirty percent of all British males have cried in the past month. That is a very high figure," said Peter Marsh, director of the Social Issues Research Centre which took the emotional temperature of Britain.
"Only two percent said they could not remember when they last cried," the head of the independent research group said.
Long gone is the "No Tears - We're British" era when emotion was considered distinctly bad form.
British men are abandoning their stiff upper lips
