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Yi Xue's avatar

“They are those whose first question when they see you is, “Have you eaten yet?” Regardless of your answer, you’ll be offered more food because “you look so thin, you need to eat more.” Even if you have gained weight, they won’t refrain from informing you and then feed you more anyway.”

Yes, that pretty much described my mom, grandmothers, aunts, … basically all the Chinese mother-figures in my life! 😃

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Ingrid Haring-Mendes's avatar

Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this topic. Being raised multicultural myself, I too have had no other choice than to raise my children in a multi cultural way. I don't see it as a contradiction; it's more like a pick and choose. I make sure to integrate something from each culture I was raised in and hope they grow up to be world citizens.

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