Significance Of The Family Of East Asian Thought - 1892 Words

Iraklii Lortkipanidze A11551208 Professor Magagna Midterm Significance of the family in East Asian thought Family in the East Asian Culture is considered the root foundation of all the beliefs, ideas and concepts that one might require as they grow and develop into a successful Independent human being. Similarly to the other civilizations, East Asia is a place where family is very important, but in East Asia, the families are given more consideration and more focus as it is seen as the human root, which every other human institution grows out of. It can grow well and thrive or it can grow poorly and be deformed. But as families go, from the East Asian point of view, the whole society is based upon the root of the family, rather than†¦show more content†¦However, in order to become a successful human being, human nature is something that to a certain extent needs to be individually developed through one’s own challenges and experiences. At some point in a person’s life, significantly at an early age, they are ultimately helpless, therefore they need the attention and guidance of the family to be put on the right path to achieve and flourish a s a human being. This is why the family is the core of humanization and education. This is where the values of family and responsibility play a vital role in guiding and promoting the right beliefs and concepts for the development of successful, well-developed human beings. This also means that mothers have an extremely important role in the East Asian families, because they nourish and educate their children from adolescence till they can become independently grown individuals (Magagna, Oct 13). Such nourishment and uprising, also requires the person to experience events solely by themselves, forming their own opinion and judgment. Therefore, requiring one to self-cultivate and prosper. While the Self-cultivation can be done anywhere, the most important and logical place to do it would be at home, where one receives the humanization and education from their parents. Even if the individual can’t go to college to develop such experiences, they can still receive the self-cultiv ation to the wider world at home from their family (Magagna, Oct 13). Therefore, this means that the