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The family name goes first in East Asian names, reflecting the fact that they value family over individual; Whatever the parents' idea of "family" is, triumphs over the children's individuality. (sh.itjust.works)
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Hence the filial piety and the emotional abuse.

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[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

How do you punch holes in that dogma? I can think if many logical ways, but that is meaningless against the tribal structure.

  • If family is so valuable, why didn't strong families usher in the present age of technology
  • intelligence, business acumen, and competency are not hereditary.
  • team sports are a capitalist marketing scam. Putting a blue jersey on your sperm does not make it relevant or better than purple jersey'd sperm.
  • patriarchal male culture is chauvinistic ineptitude and masochism marketed as a replacement for intelligence. It is an admission of subservience to those that dominate by thought and fundamental logic. Fools only fear a brute, civilizations fear a physicist.
  • Strong families are only peripherally useful if capable of creating the opportunities and support needed to produce a physicist.
  • We are all only a product of our environment. That environment is primarily a result of the opportunities and support given freely by its members. So if your family is not strong, one should look in the mirror first.
  • A plant dies because you did not water it, not because of the room it was placed within.
[-] verdi@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

We are all only a product of our environment.

This is manifestly wrong and preys upon years of nature vs nurture misinformation.

It also renders everything else in the text as unreliable. Highly suggest replacing *only with *also.

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