to your family, school or community - is a cornerstone of Confucian culture. In contrast to the West, which encourages assertiveness, individualism and independent thought and action, Asian cultures places a high degree of importance on social conformity and personal relationships, from which filial obedience in born. (For example, as a teenager when I wanted to go out with my friends, my mother would complain: “Why don’t you just want to stay at home? Do you think in ten years time your friends will be there for you like we will?”)
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