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Nam Le- "Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice"

The narrator’s interaction with his own father it depicts of the tensions between immigrants and their westernized children. The choice of action highlights the distance that is heartfelt between Asians children and their parents. Rather than reflecting what other articles could I relate to it occurred to me that I am going through the same exact situation because I also struggle at home to resist this “Americanized” version of myself while also being the quiet and obedient Chinese daughter to my family. It is still very interesting how Asian parents have a harder time attempting to show their emotions to their children and it just comes off as a lack of emotions even when the father tried to care for his son by doing his dishes and asked if he wanted food. Many of the times these expressions come off as very misleading to children growing up in a community where they see other’s parents hugging and kissing their kids. Growing up I also learned to realize that I am understanding why my parents have always been so emotionless to me, they do care but just in a very different way than I expected.