Great post -- as a EA whose parents were born in Taiwan, I also feel some of this dissonance. For example, Eastern culture around altruism is focused on "helping your family and friends" instead of "helping strangers". At our wedding, we asked for donations to charity in lieu of wedding gifts, and my entire side of the family opted instead to hand us red envelopes stuffed with cash, with the explicit request to spend it on ourselves not to donate it.
Absolutely amazing post. I think my favorite types of posts are the way EA affects our everyday lives and the intersection of EA and familial culture is super under talked about. I have been working on being vegetarian as well, and have just chosen not to tell my family besides my sister. In fact I’ve visited and just eaten meat while there. I don’t know how my Latin American mom would take it (I’ve taken to calling myself a social omnivore for this reason). Part of me thinks this is insane but also makes sense? Idk, thank you for this post
A month or so ago my daughter informed me she was thinking about becoming a vegetarian and she was going to start by choosing the vegetarian school meals. I don't think it lasted the whole week!
Great post -- as a EA whose parents were born in Taiwan, I also feel some of this dissonance. For example, Eastern culture around altruism is focused on "helping your family and friends" instead of "helping strangers". At our wedding, we asked for donations to charity in lieu of wedding gifts, and my entire side of the family opted instead to hand us red envelopes stuffed with cash, with the explicit request to spend it on ourselves not to donate it.
Absolutely amazing post. I think my favorite types of posts are the way EA affects our everyday lives and the intersection of EA and familial culture is super under talked about. I have been working on being vegetarian as well, and have just chosen not to tell my family besides my sister. In fact I’ve visited and just eaten meat while there. I don’t know how my Latin American mom would take it (I’ve taken to calling myself a social omnivore for this reason). Part of me thinks this is insane but also makes sense? Idk, thank you for this post
A month or so ago my daughter informed me she was thinking about becoming a vegetarian and she was going to start by choosing the vegetarian school meals. I don't think it lasted the whole week!