Parents in Western Countries

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0 Are parents in western countries as open-minded as shown in movies? It's is always shown this way in movies. Parents allow children to date in the teenage years, but this is still unacceptable for most parents in Asia. Parents there will discuss with children, parents here will 'order' children to do as told. Is it true? Or are the movies just over praising them? 0-

Egyptolog · Accepted Answer

0yeah i agree 05000 its so in Turkey and im curious about it...02br
00any answer?010id1

Pucca · Answer

0 In Spain parents let their children go on a date, why shouldn't they?:) You are supposed to know what you are doing if you are a teenager, aren't you? 0-

Kooyeen · Answer

0 Hi,02br
00well, you don't have to generalize (that is, to think that everyone behaves like in American movies), but...02br
00...generally speaking, what you see in movies is always true (except sci-fi movies). 050010id1

Francesca · Answer

0I must say that I've never told my parents about my teenage-dates, at least in my love life I'm very jealous of my privacy!02br
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00Anyway most of the parents here are open-minded, just a few are not0-

BarbaraPA · Answer

0I hope Kooyeen was making a joke about the movies always being true...02br
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00Yes, most parents in the US will allow their children to date in their teens. Perhaps not one girl/one boy until the age of 16 or so, but befor that, in groups. Many families will discuss family decisions with children. My eight year old won't get to make a family decision, but I will listen to her thoughts and opinions and take them into account. In the end, thought, what the parents say is the rule, not the child's. But the child will be mor likely to accept a decision without protest if he or she feels like his or her voice was heard in making it.0-

Kooyeen · Answer

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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10I hope Kooyeen was making a joke about the movies always being true...12blockquote

10LOL, no, I meant that movies always reflect something that really exists, except science fiction movies. Obviously, you don't have to generalize. 02br
00For example, if you see a movie about illegal races with powerful strange cars, that doesn't mean those races are common and widespread, but somewhere those races actually take place in a very similar way. So movies are never invented, except science fiction movies, of course. 02br
00If you see a lot of movies where there are parties where college students get drunk and do certain things, that means all that stuff actually exists, it was not invented. The prom? (= that dance in high school) You see that in many movies and TV series, and that's something that really exists. I know it is obvious to all Americans, but here all that stuff seems "fake", not real. We don't have any proms like that in Italy (at least where I live). And we don't have mailboxes shaped like yours. Apart from American movies, I only see those mailboxes in comic books. And... many things are different. They look strange, but they are true, in the US.02br
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00This is a general point of view. It might not apply to evety movie. 050010id1

CARAMEL · Answer

In my opinion, I couldn’t emphasize that all western countries parents are similar to what is broadcasted on TV and movies. However, I used to watch American and European movies before and I could say that there are not certain restrictions or rules in most of these families; I mean they give full freedom to their children. Then, my doubts whether these movies and series of American families are right become true; because I used before to have friends from western countries to improve my English as electronic pen-friends. One of them told me that every one there or most of them do *** before they get marriage, he also allows his daughter to have a relationship with someone else. When I explain to him about my family that we have certain traditions and society restrictions which we follow, he was shocked. If I would compared the family in my country with what I saw on TV of western family, I concluded with these points: in western family, the girl is allowed to have a relationship or boyfriend at her teenage period, she might marry or not marry him. In my country, the girl only has a relationship with her husband who take first the permission from her family or her guardian to marry their daughter, in our tradition, the honest man is the one who knocked the right door when he want a certain girl, not the one who chased after a girl and give her promises of marriage behind her family.

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