Cultures without fear
Chapter 7 endnote 21, from How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
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“Fear” exists in many cultures (but not all, such as the !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert)...
Several languages have no unique word or concept for fear. The !Kung who live in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, for example, use the word kua to refer to instances of the English-language categories "Awe," "Respect," and "Fear." That is, instances of awe, respect, and fear have features that the !Kung experience as similar enough to one another that the instances belong to the single category "Kua."[1] For English speakers, those instances are different enough that they belong to different categories.
The Australian aboriginal language Gidjingali likewise has a single word, gurakadj, to refer to instances of the English-language categories "fear" and "shame."[2]