ANTHONY GOODMAN
To Tell the Truth?9/21/2017
In the perspective of this family they made the right choice to not tell Nai Nai, because of their cultural values and how they grew up. In the chinese culture it is disrespectful to tell someone they have a terminal illness and that they are going to die, the doctor does not even tell the person who is dying that they are going to die they tell the family of the person first. This was a good decision by the Wang family because the choices they made were applying to their culture and most likely what the grandmother believes. The Wang family made the right choice because of their cultural view. Why is that the right decision: because the culture says so or because that's what Nai Nai would want to hear? In this family it seems that they lie because the culture says so.Another reason they made the right choice is because Nai Nai did not die from her illness in those next three months, if Nai Nai died who knows maybe the Wang family would've regretted not telling her so she could have gotten medical treatment and lived. In the end of this situation I believe that the choices made are all about the situation and perspective happening in the events, but the Wang family made the right decision in this situation. In my own point of view, if I was dying I would want to know. I would probably want to know because the way I was raised and maybe because of my cultural perspective and being raised in America and how we are always about test results medicine and finding out and solving problems and not just covering up. An important time in my life where I had to chose to tell someone a difficult truth or a lie was the summer of junior year for my high school. Me and my friends were out late at night at gable field when we were playing football. We started to walk back to my friends house and we saw some people from our school carrying a case of beer, so my friend who had a white car blasted police sirens through his speakers and the people we saw dropped the case and ran. My friends then took the beer and returned to the field we were hanging out at. Later that night some kids came and asked if we had seen any people had been carrying around their beer they wanted to know because, the one friend in their group stole it from their friends dad and his dad had noticed and told them to return it. The kid was very worried and said his dad was going to beat the snot out of him except he didn't use snot. My friends and I chose to lie to the group of people and say we did not see any people with beer because we wanted to keep it. That kid most likely had a rough night because we chose to lie to him and that affected his life at that period of time in a negative way.
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9/21/2017 09:18:57 pm
I am on the fence about whether I think it was the right decision but I totally see why you said that you agree because of the cultural side of it.
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Damian Puglia
10/19/2017 11:21:27 am
I agree that they made the right decision to not tell her because of her culture, but i would still want to know
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