Q: What is one Chinese tradition that you just don’t understand and what is one from your culture that you suspect others would say the same thing about?
gaeatiamat – Chinese ghost marriages. I don’t get this at all. A Western/American etc equivalent would be superstitions about black cats and walking under ladders.Â
that! ghost marriage. i heard there are a lot of young girls corpse got “kidnapped” to be married with some family’s unmarried dead son.
no offense. but it’s a crime to steal a corpse.
also a supertition about number 4
at my place, single girls are heavily adviced to not stand/sit in front of the door. old folks say, it can caused the girl difficult to get married.
well, for modern people, it just means that you’re blocking the wayđ
Filial piety; sure, parents everywhere want to be respected & listened to, but any culture where they’ve a heavy hand in their kids’ lives, beyond childhood, demand (and get) FP even if they were crap, that’s bizarre to me. They’ve their own lives to live & didn’t ask to be born. Parents made a choice & have a duty, kids owe them nothing.
In UK… buying everyone cakes at work, when it’s YOUR birthday đ & Stag/Hen nights where everyone just gets obscenely drunk… yuck.
at the funeral, waiting for several days with this kind of banquet, i’m a little uneasy with it.
in France, when you come to a little store, you have to say “hello” to the owner : bakery, bookshop etc. Or you take the risk to receive a bad welcome, even if you buy all the goods in the shop. the customer is a king, but here, there is a limit hahaha