Re:Child suicides in Japan hit record high
by N00bN00b on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:31PM
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It took me about 10 years to really understand the enormous differences between my native culture and my current culture. And those differences are staggering. And they are both western.
You're assuming you can "see" the cultural differences.
Sometimes you can easily see it, but often it's really hard to figure out, because they are going to express themselves in edge cases that you have to run into, which takes time and then it takes time to run into enough of them to be able to see a pattern.
Everything is essetially the same with some limited number of levers being pulled a bit further: girls want to marry a little bit earlier, parents are a little bit more worried abt kids, politicians a bit more corrupt, racism is targeted at different colors in a different hierarchy, all that jazz, but all the patterns I was used to in France simply fit China very well and I didnt find it so difficult to just brush off the odd difference and adapt.
My Chinese parents in law also discovered I have the same strengths and flaws any other Chinese guy their daughter could have found :D