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RE: Stories From Communist China - Why My Father Named Me "A Small Celebration" Rather than "A Big Celebration"
wow really interesting write up anwen. Are you close to your parents now? I have a lot of asian friends with similar stories and as soon as they leave the home they hardly ever talk to their parents because of how cold they were treated as children.
Thanks! It was my mom's write up :-) She is close to her mom now. Her dad passed away a few years ago but she was close to him as well. My grandparents did love my mom, but had a traditional Chinese mindset when it came to gender favoritism. Also they lived during WWII, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Communist Revolution, and the Cultural Revolution, so my mom really empathizes with them on why they may have been distant or cold.