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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I hope you can recognize that your title for this thread makes a massive generalization. You're saying that all "western people" disregard all their family members and the idea of family, period, everywhere.

If someone posted, "Why do all eastern people sacrifice their identities and goals to their families' demands," can you see how that would be just as bad, and offensive, a generalization?

If you would be bothered or offended by a post about how all "eastern people" act or think one way only, then can you see how your post bothers those of us from other cultures about which you're making some huge assumptions that everyone operates the same basic way?

OP, do you personally know the inner workings of many "western families" and how they reached decisions about things like elder care, child care and education, relationships with siblings, parents, other relatives? Maybe you've only seen results like a family that placed an elderly relative in a residential home and you thought that was awful of them, but unless you know them well enough, you may never know that maybe it's what the relative actually wanted, or it's the result of medical issues that cannot be handled in the adult child's home, etc. Otherwise you're just operating on generalizations. Yes, Americans (who are not, after all, ALL of western culture) do [i]tend[/i] to be more independent of their extended families, generally speaking, and other PPs have done a great job talking about the generational, regional, socio-economic and cultural reasons for that independence. But you're translating it into a culture that does not [i]care[/i] about, or for, family--at all. [/quote]

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