Correct me, if I am very wrong but I noticed sth...
Even though America also has its modern elites, socialites and rich idiots, in the American entertainment stories I get the impression they are not portrayed as untouchable and invincible as those chaebols in K-Dramas...
This is further emphasized that the commoner characters in both Western and Asian Storytelling worship the rich + powerful but the difference is I personally notice is: In K-Dramas we see often how many characters fear and subservient they are to the elites. In American shows/movies we have been shown protagonists or supporting/side characters who can hate, resent, harm, scheme, gamble, risk their lives, kill or do anything to take down their opponents regardless how powerful or influential they are... In the story about western (rich asshole) characters we can see how very bold, mercilessly and disrespectful they can be against the patriarch of the family unlike in Korean mainstream media.
Maybe this is why some beloved unusual reincarnated Villainesses are more allowed allowed to fight, humiliate and destroy their toxic shitty parents because these modern Korean Women are transmigrated as white western characters. Nevertheless they are still plenty FLs in fantasy Medieval Victorian Regency settings or very stupid Harlequin Romance Novels getting saved by the usually tsundere Alphaholes/MLs.
Is it a cultural thing? The flawed teaching of Confucius? Why can't many of the characters in mangas, manhwas or manhuas can't really blame or hold the guilty parents/elders accountable? Is it that almost impossible to walk away from your shit family? In My Hero Academia we see bad parents suffered the consequences but I don't actually like the mixed messages... Tomura Shigaraki became a fucked up villain because his father abused him since his own biological mother was a superhero who put him on foster care for good reason. Because his mother abandoned him became an idiot abusive asshole... In the end Shigaraki accidently killed his whole family because of years of abuse. And Endeavor is suffering the public consequences of his pride, ambition and abusive behaviour that caused to traumatized his all of his family and turned his lost son into a psychotic mass murderer. But in the end it seems his wife and the rest of the children "forgave" him so they can all stop Dabi together...
The thing is, I am an Asian and if wasn't born in Germany and grew up instead in a more conservative patriarchal country like China, South Korea or Japan I wouldn't even think or dare going against my parents/elders. Living in a more progressive European country (that also has its dark racist colonial history) allowed me easier to question and rebel against the bad negative aspects of Asian traditions/social rules.
Correct me, if I am very wrong but I noticed sth...
Even though America also has its modern elites, socialites and rich idiots, in the American entertainment stories I get the impression they are not portrayed as untouchable and invincible as those chaebols in K-Dramas...
This is further emphasized that the commoner characters in both Western and Asian Storytelling worship the rich + powerful but the difference is I personally notice is:
In K-Dramas we see often how many characters fear and subservient they are to the elites.
In American shows/movies we have been shown protagonists or supporting/side characters who can hate, resent, harm, scheme, gamble, risk their lives, kill or do anything to take down their opponents regardless how powerful or influential they are...
In the story about western (rich asshole) characters we can see how very bold, mercilessly and disrespectful they can be against the patriarch of the family unlike in Korean mainstream media.
Maybe this is why some beloved unusual reincarnated Villainesses are more allowed allowed to fight, humiliate and destroy their toxic shitty parents because these modern Korean Women are transmigrated as white western characters.
Nevertheless they are still plenty FLs in fantasy Medieval Victorian Regency settings or very stupid Harlequin Romance Novels getting saved by the usually tsundere Alphaholes/MLs.
Is it a cultural thing? The flawed teaching of Confucius? Why can't many of the characters in mangas, manhwas or manhuas can't really blame or hold the guilty parents/elders accountable? Is it that almost impossible to walk away from your shit family?
In My Hero Academia we see bad parents suffered the consequences but I don't actually like the mixed messages...
Tomura Shigaraki became a fucked up villain because his father abused him since his own biological mother was a superhero who put him on foster care for good reason. Because his mother abandoned him became an idiot abusive asshole... In the end Shigaraki accidently killed his whole family because of years of abuse.
And Endeavor is suffering the public consequences of his pride, ambition and abusive behaviour that caused to traumatized his all of his family and turned his lost son into a psychotic mass murderer. But in the end it seems his wife and the rest of the children "forgave" him so they can all stop Dabi together...
Recommendation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOu9BIMzrtQ
Lady Bird, Fences, and Why You Don't Need to Forgive Your Parents
The thing is, I am an Asian and if wasn't born in Germany and grew up instead in a more conservative patriarchal country like China, South Korea or Japan I wouldn't even think or dare going against my parents/elders. Living in a more progressive European country (that also has its dark racist colonial history) allowed me easier to question and rebel against the bad negative aspects of Asian traditions/social rules.