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Thread: Difference in handling family ties between Chinese and Westerners
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[quote=KATRINA,257988]Chinese culture highlights the importance of family ties. Having a home not means having a place to shelter you from wind and rain, but also symbolize you are a mature person. Chinese people cherish the sense of belonging and have kind of “Root Complex”. When a man becomes old, he had the strong desire to return his hometown. Recently, I have attended a lecture delivered by a Chinese teacher. The topic is the cultural difference in dealing with family relationships between the western countries and China. The author’s main points are as follow: most Chinese are aware that family ties such as the tie between married couples or between parents and children tend to looser in the West than they are in China. For example, couples in the US are far more likely to divorce than couples in China. The westerners are also much less likely to live with and personally care for elderly parents. When the Children are 18, they often moved out of their parents nests. The high divorce rate in the West testifies that the Westerners don’t consider family ties as important as Chinese people. The westerners tend to feel that most relationships are largely voluntary, in other words, that people can choose whether or not to stay in them. Such behavior indicates selfishness and a lack of concern for others. After hearing the lecture, I am quite confused. As I can see in this forum, many westerners do value the family ties a lot. However, I have to be in doubt, since I have never lived in the western countries and hence don’t have the chance to have a close contact with the local residents. On this issue, I am an outsider and I don’t have the right to make a final judgment. I want to hear some opinions from westerners. How do you view family ties? [/quote]
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