It’s hard being born and raised in the West but coming from an Eastern culture. Even though I’m technically a Westerner I don’t feel connected to them at all and often feel left out. To be honest sometimes I’m even scared of Western culture because I just can’t understand it. People just don’t hold the same values as me and people will say and do things and I’ll just be in absolute shock because to me it’s wrong on so many levels. For example, in my culture we value children and we believe children are important and a central part out culture and the world actually, became they are the future. Without them we have nothing. But Westerners aren’t like that,especially newer generations.
Even casual jokes will make me upset, especially when it’s about the safety of children. Like I said, children are important they deserve protection, love and nurturing in every sense of the word and it’s actually extremely shameful to harm, mock or even make jokes about children. And when westerns say things like “FuCk ThEm KiDs” and day they hate children. Kids are disgusting etc. it scares me and makes me angry because I DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT MENTALITY. I genuinely can’t stand it because it’s so disrespectful to me to say that.
The shameless way in which westerners attack mothers and children is repulsive to me. I’ll never forget when I was in the store and there was a young mother and her son walking along the aisle, doing nothing and some bitch goes, “God, I hate children.” And she said in a way that everyone in the aisle could hear and looked the mother dead in the eyes. I was in utter shock and didn’t know whether to console the mother or yell at the woman. It was completely unprovoked and all the other people in the aisle either acted like it was nothing or some even chuckled. The mother obviously hurt and confused rushed out the aisle as if it was her and her child’s fault for simply existing.
And it’s the same way with motherhood to me. Motherhood is seen as a beautiful, natural thing and women’s ability to get pregnant is a gift not a curse. It’s not like that with Westerners. It’s even ingrained in the movies they watch, all the time in the media anytime there’s a surprise pregnancy the father’s reaction is always negative...like it’s bad? I don’t understand how continuing humanity is bad...there’s just so many things I can’t understand and it gets the point where I literally get anxiety from it. It just puts emphasis on the fact that I’m not the same.
Oh my God, not to forget the lack of respect to one another. Adults not respecting children, children not respecting adults, people constantly talking out of turn and the worst part about to me is that it’s seen as “cool” or “funny”. At my school kids will literally flip off teachers and get applauded for it. Like, these people are taking their time to educate us and give us the opportunity to reach our goals. Show some respect? And it’s not students, GROWN ADULTS can’t even have respect for one another. Not saying thank you, giving people unnecessary rude and pushy remarks, disrespectful looks, lying for the fun of it.
I’m technically by law an American because I was born here, and even though I may look American on the outside I’m really not on the inside. And it’s not just America it’s western countries in general. I can’t count how many times the culture shock was just so bad that I literally cry because it’s just too much. Maybe I’m just a dramatic, conservative idiot...I don’t know. I wish I could just understand.
Submitted May 18, 2019 at 04:27AM by halfroseshalfgold http://bit.ly/2w57vfJ
