Legit, there’s no child abuse in US.

I can’t vouch for all East Asian countries, but in Japan, it’s a matter of formality. When you meet someone, you always refer to them by their family name and an honorific. (Like we would say, “Mr. Smith.”)

Once you start to get more friendly and familiar with an individual, you’ll move on to more intimate honorifics, until you’re allowed to call them by their direct first name, no honorifics. That’s a sign that you’re very close with someone.

It allows people to refer to you without being too direct and familiar until you’ve gotten to know them well. And you can tell what relationship two people have by what names they use to call each other. Heck, really close friends will probably make up nicknames for each other too.

When I was in the US military, it was kind of the same mentality. Everyone was referred to by rank and last name only. As you got to know someone of the same rank or lower than yours, you could refer to them by last name alone, no rank required. But only the closest of friends would refer to each other by first name.

How do you punch holes in that dogma? I can think if many logical ways, but that is meaningless against the tribal structure.

• If family is so valuable, why didn’t strong families usher in the present age of technology
• intelligence, business acumen, and competency are not hereditary.
• team sports are a capitalist marketing scam. Putting a blue jersey on your sperm does not make it relevant or better than purple jersey’d sperm.
• patriarchal male culture is chauvinistic ineptitude and masochism marketed as a replacement for intelligence. It is an admission of subservience to those that dominate by thought and fundamental logic. Fools only fear a brute, civilizations fear a physicist.
• Strong families are only peripherally useful if capable of creating the opportunities and support needed to produce a physicist.
• We are all only a product of our environment. That environment is primarily a result of the opportunities and support given freely by its members. So if your family is not strong, one should look in the mirror first.
• A plant dies because you did not water it, not because of the room it was placed within.