If you are talking anger then you need look no further than the Maori. They have taken anger and turned it into an art form, called the Haka.

Here is a photo of the New Zealand All Blacks performing a traditional Haka, as they do at the start of each international rugby match they play. It is an awe-inspiring sight and if you have never seen it take time to tune into the start of an international rugby game in which the All Blacks are playing (They are playing the British Lions on 25th June 2005).

Let's face it, Rugby makes most other football codes look positively effeminate and the All Blacks have embraced the sport and added a layer of Maori ferociousness of which the Haka is a most graphic expression. Click on the image to learn more.

Anyway, that has nothing to do with article, which is on anger in the west. Below are some interesting factoids that have been gleened from new research by Economic and Social Research Council in England.

	Children from lower social classes are more likely to be reported as frequently irritable or having tantrums.
	Women are more likely than men to report being persistently angry in adulthood. But boys are more likely than girls to be reported as frequently angry.
	Thirty-somethings with no partner are more likely to report angry feelings than people with partners.
	Anger seems to wane with age in both childhood and adulthood.
	People now in their 40s, were less angry as young men and women than younger people now in their 30s. It is not clear if this is because anger was measured at slightly different ages or because the younger people were more stressed and depressed as well as more likely to 'act out'.
	Angry children do not necessarily become angry or unhappy adults. But there does appear to be a raised chance that people who were persistently angry as children turn out to be frequently and persistently angry as young adults.
	Similarly, anger in adulthood is not always associated with adverse health outcomes. But anger in adulthood is positively associated with poor self-reported health after controlling for gender, parents' social class and ethnicity.
	People who were not frequently angry in the adult surveys had better self-reported psychological health than those who reported anger. This mildly supports the idea of anger having negative (though perhaps not deadly) associations.

Source Economic and Social Research Council in UK