differences in culture

I'm here sitting in McD writing my blog, just like what i used to do.
I havent been to McD for quite a while now.. and just as i walked into the place, i heard Hokkien :P and i saw 4 old folks speaking in Hokkien, forgot what they talked about but it reminds me of my mom. I've probably said this hundreds of times in this blog but I MISS MY MOM!!!! :(

So i bought my brunch and looked for a place to sit down, and saw the table in front of me, and i started watching them haha.

It was an Asian mother and her little son. The son spoke perfect English, but I couldn't really understand what the Mom was saying the whole time. The way the mother educated the kid was 'westernized' (if there's such word) even tho she's an Asian. She was asking her son to finish up the burger. It took her like 10 minutes, trying to make him eat. He just sat there playing with his toys, and the mother juz sat there staring at him holding the burger in her hands. For almost 10 minutes.. and she kept saying "eat it, try to finish as much as you can" and other stuff which I couldn't understand. She said "finish them up and i'll get you chips" and she was so soft to the kid and the kid just didnt really care.. was playing with toys the whole time. She kept calling his name and he juz ignored her hahaha. But at last he ate it.

LOL it sure is hard feeding a kid here.

On the other table, I saw a pair of Asian mother and son. They're from China, and they spoke perfect Chinese. The son was eating by himself, enjoying the food, but he took out the vegetables in the burger, the mother said "eat it!" (as u know chinese speak loudly and so i put "!") and the son showed his unhappy face, and the mother said it again "put them right back in and eat them!", the son didn't dare to complain but showed his annoyed face, and did what his mom told him to.

Seee~ such difference in Asian and Western culture hahaha.

It reminds me of the books that i like to read, they are novels about Chinese and Western cultures, how the elder generations want better education for their kids and so they immigrate to a western country and now that their kids speak perfect English, there's like a gap in between parents and kids cuz the kids dont understand their own culture and root anymore.

Sorry it's just books that i love to reaad hahahha. These novels are by Amy Tan. Got addicted to her since high school . We had to read a novel called Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and had to analyze the novel and talk about the novel and how well you understand it. Cuz I was studying in International school that time, a lot of westerners studying there, and they just didnt really get the story like we asians did. ^__^v And i got addicted to her ever since, hehe.


-viv-