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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorPain" data-source="post: 4650029" data-attributes="member: 82012"><p>Celebrim, I hadn't forgotten about the honor thy father and mother commandments; but I still think there is a strong difference and that can't just be explained as pre v post industrial. Referring to parents as being like angels is really striking to me; and it is very common among the large number of thai people i have met; it also seems to be a smaller piece of their hierachical world view. It is even in the language and forms of address. I am not expert in industrialization, or the history of the family; so I don't want to make any sweeping claims here. But I did study history in college, with a focus on the middle east; and I still find the asian relationship with parents to be more intense than in the west; even the pre industrial west. Also, the ancestor worship you mention, isn't part of Thai culture. The Thais are very conservative Theravada buddhist culture with strong Indian influences. Refering to parents as angels, really seems to have much more to do with the hierarchical outlook of Thai people and strong devotion to their parents. I do see what you are saying.  I just feel there is a difference.  Even when the obedience is there (as in the example of your southern friend, or in my own Italian Family), there is still a difference in interaction.  My wife will not object to anything her mom says, or argue with here about any point.  In fact she wont even tell her mother how she feels if she disagrees with her or is concerned about something she is going to do. And my wife is almost 40 years old.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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