Absolutely, I’ve had many conversations with people on both sides of this specific fence and conversations almost always end up on the breakdown of the American family unit into the Nuclear Family concept vs traditionally Asian family units had a high likelihood of including extra relatives like grandparent(s) that helped raise the next generation, and in doing so knowledge transferred from elders who wouldn’t take no shit from a grandkid, not too unlike Bran listening to Old Nan in GoT:
Edit: Watching that scene again, I just realized that Ser Duncan the Tall was Dunk and Egg fame who was also Breanne of Tarth’s grandpa, great grandpa?
Speaking only for myself here: You’re right, South Korea has a reputation as both being rude/impolite with our propensity for gangster culture that is intertwined with the Yakuza in Japan. But then there’s the odd eccentricities of Korean culture that have hardwired me to feel an urge like to bow in deference to elders which somehow has gotten cross-wired with beards for some reason, so this recent beard revival has been an interesting time to be alive. And this is where cultures collide when I meet older Chinese people whose culture long ago abandoned bowing, for me that urge kicks in and I can’t help but to bow when greeting and saying goodbye, which many have said they were surprised at how polite I was that I even bowed to them.
