I know that Asian and specifically Chinese youth continuing to live with their parents and grandparents – ostensibly represented as the filial piety part of a lot of Asian cultures – is always discussed in Western media with a sardonic sneer. Either straight up Orientalism or posited as an example of the failure of socialist-minded societies. “They don’t even have their own homes”, “none of them can afford to move out”, etc. How quickly the Christian-bourgeois state is to voice support for “family values”, only to then demand that children move away from their parents to be considered successful.
But yeah in some parts the nuclear family was founded in the tradition of encroaching on indigenous land. It is not something that is popular in the rest of the world.
West have this notion of adulthood and personal responsibility, which by itself it inevitable and good to a certain degree, but as many things in the west it has been risen to the level of incredible fanaticism and meaningless fetish.
I know that Asian and specifically Chinese youth continuing to live with their parents and grandparents – ostensibly represented as the filial piety part of a lot of Asian cultures – is always discussed in Western media with a sardonic sneer. Either straight up Orientalism or posited as an example of the failure of socialist-minded societies. “They don’t even have their own homes”, “none of them can afford to move out”, etc. How quickly the Christian-bourgeois state is to voice support for “family values”, only to then demand that children move away from their parents to be considered successful.
China has an unusually high rate of home ownership among millenials: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-39512599
Not sure what it is like among younger people.
But yeah in some parts the nuclear family was founded in the tradition of encroaching on indigenous land. It is not something that is popular in the rest of the world.
West have this notion of adulthood and personal responsibility, which by itself it inevitable and good to a certain degree, but as many things in the west it has been risen to the level of incredible fanaticism and meaningless fetish.