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Latah, from Southeast Asia, is a condition in which abnormal behaviors result from a person experiencing shock. When surprised, the affected person typically engages in such behaviors as screaming, cursing, dancing type movements, and uncontrollable laughter. It is called melatah in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia and many people, regardless of age or gender have this condition. Even though it is not dangerous, it may cause harm to the person and the people around them due to their random movements and shoutings. Latah is considered a culture-specific startle disorder〔 that was historically regarded as personal difference rather than an illness.〔 Persons with Latah make movements reminiscent of behaviors normally peculiar to certain childhood developmental stages. Similar conditions have been recorded within other cultures and locations. For example, there are the so-called Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, the women of the Ainu people of Japan (''imu''), the Siberian (''miryachit''), and the Filipino and Thai peoples; however, the connection among these syndromes is controversial. ==In popular culture== William S. Burroughs mentions Latah several times in his 1959 novel ''Naked Lunch,'' "a parody of modern mass man under modern conditioning programmes of advertising and public() induced morality", according to Eric Mottram.〔Parkingson A.D., (Giving Away the Basic American Root[ed]ness )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Latah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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