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Both parents and children value individual freedom more than dependence on each other. This also reflects their distinct value systems.
We know that there are, generally speaking, two types of culture: collectivist and individualistic. The former is typical of the Iranian culture as can be seen in Case A, and many Asian culture as well. The latter is often used to describe western cultures, the American culture in particular. These two types of culture view kinship relationships in different ways. That’s wh y the American in case A failed to understand what the Iranian man did. In collectivist cultures kinship relationships emphasize that people are connected to each other by having descended from common ancestors. In doing so, kinship relationships emphasize, first of all, that ascending generations are before, prior to, and even superior to descending generations. This hierarchy of relationship manifests in the relationships between fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and even elder brothers/sisters and younger brothers/sisters.
This hierarchy extends beyond the family boundary in a collectivist society, where hierarchy is also found based on age, experience, education, gender, geographical region, political affiliation, or one of many other dimensions of social organization.
Another aspect of the collectivist culture is the value of loyalty to the family. It is typical of families in Mexico, Latin America, Africa, parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. In such families, a son’s primary motivation fo r action is thought to be bring credit to his parents (in the case of the Iranian man, to his extended family) and to provide security for his own and his extended family’s descendants. He is not thought of as acting on his own behalf or for his own purpose. In China this loyalty takes the form of filial piety, which is an important cultural value. T raditionally Chinese children felt a lifelong obligation to their parents, ideally exemplified by an unreserved devotion to please them in every possible way. This is often the subject of many Chinese novels and movies in modern times: parents force their son/daughter to marry a person whom he/she doesn’t love, but very often the child obeys out of filial piety.
