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Filial Piety and Cross-Cultural Elder Care

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Societies divide over whether caring for aging relatives is a family duty or an individual's own responsibility; this course presents both traditions at strength.

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Filial piety holds deference to parents as a defining virtue across much of East Asia; many Western societies instead expect elders to remain independent.

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Per this course's neutrality convention, neither tradition is presented as the correct one.