Timestirrer

I am married to an Asian. Shockingly, they do not all think the same, so quoting one person does not make it fact.
Also, I am NOT defending hitting someone. I am trying to explain how your comment is very much tied into your cultural beliefs, and can be interpreted as racist.
Also, you do not need to be that ‘extremist’. You doing the equivalent of comparing me to a nazi just to win your argument, means your comment is at the very least, very ignorant. At the worst, it is hateful and wrong. You should be ashamed.
Just a question, but have you ever travelled outside your country? Have you ever lived with a different culture? I am sure yours is the right one, and the only just one, m no doubt, but interested to know if you have ever actually experienced another culture.

Final tip, breath...

I think you miss the point. Also, hitting a 30 year old is not the same as child marriage.

So to be clear, you are saying you think Asian culture and Asian Family structure is wrong? I was not aware you were the arbiter of right and wrong. You should have mentioned it earlier.

Sooo which culture do you think has the closer knit family structure? You say you are the most open to other cultures. Why not ask a large group of Asians (from asia, not America) how they interpret this?

Agree with your list, but for Thai dramas, you missed "Not me".

PS. I genuinely feel that "I told sunset about you" is one of the most underrated shows. It may not have the same rewatch value as many of the more fun shows, but beautifully told.

I too am African, and I also think it is wrong. However, I do try to understand it from an Asian perspective. (I have lived in a few Asian countries)

1: The beating was by consent. They did not show a child who had no choice being beaten. It was an adult who chose to endure it.
2: Had he been beaten as a child, he would probably not love/care enough for his father to endure the hardship in order to gain his father's approval of the relationship. He would have just stood up and walked away

The show attempts to illustrate how much he loves and cares for his father and his acceptance of his Partner. He could have just said, "To hell with it, I will never speak to my father again." But he wanted his father to be part of his life, so he endured. These are all things he would not feel had he suffered abuse as a child.

What is it with American shows a them normalising toxic parents who allow children to waste their future. (Sarcasm).

1. It is a Taiwanese show, meant for a local audience. Their understanding of the family dynamics is going to be very different from yours.
2. You think a full grown man allows himself to be beaten without fighting back?

While I do not agree with the abuse, I try to understand it from the cultural perspective in which it was delivered. The son clearly illustrated that not only does he love his partner, but cares deeply about his father. Enough that he will subject himself to that.

Disagreeing with how the father reacts is one thing, but your statement is either blind to cultural differences, or assuming all cultures should think and react the way yours does.

No, they expected you to see it through the eyes of an asian. They are not writing a story for westerners.

The son is over 30, and willingly chose to accept the abuse in order to illustrate his love for not only his partner, but also his parents. Implied, from an asian perspective, is that he has a lot of respect and love for his father. So do you think that means he was beaten that bad as a child? No.

While I do not believe a human should beat another human, I do think you are judging the situation through your own cultural lens.

Consider that the son is over 30 years old. He willingly chose to allow his father to physically abuse him in order to show how serious he was, and at the same time, how much he values his parent's love/acceptance. Do not read into it that just because he hit him that hard as an adult, he was hit that hard as a kid. I do not believe many east asian's would jump to that conclusion.

I know, from a western perspective, it seems abusive. Some asians consider allowing your child to be unhealthy, or to not stretch themselves to achieve greatness is abuse, and that is something westerners do all the time

Considering that both cultures produce fully functioning adults, with some genuinely happy well rounded people, who gives either culture the right to judge another's ways.

Just watched ep 1. Man, that scene at the end, the music, the face changing to his own… that was sooooo powerful. It was terrible, shocking, emotional, clever, brilliant.

Cannot wait to see how they resolve the feelings of the three leads. Usually they make one of the guys the default “bad guy” so you do not mind them being rejected, but here we have three great characters which I cannot help rooting for.
If they were out, this would be such a binge worthy show.

May I suggest you mention which episode you referring to. 1: people may read this in a months time, & 2: different regions are screening different episodes.