My name is Siyu and I'm the creator of Tiny Eyes Comics, a webcomic series that shares Chinese culture through slices of everyday life.
A year ago, I published two collections of my comics on the differences between Chinese and Western culture (you can find it here and here on Bored Panda). For this post, I'm putting together a collection of my latest comics that touch upon Chinese family life from education to superstition, from mom to grandma.
You can find more of my comics by clicking on the link to my Instagram below. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite!
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Love
Grandma
Lucky Number "6"
hahaha 666 is a chinese lucky number but we americans think its cursed
Seperation
Vegetarian
"I Love You"
Thanksgiving
Michelin
Intimacy
Getting Married
I support this. If you can't afford a roof over your head, you're in no position to be proposing marriage. The way it looks, you're putting the responsibility of that roof on your partner, and that's not cool. Key note, when I say afford, I don't inherently mean own. I rented a room in a house for years before moving in my with my wife, but the point was that I paid for my own shelter. If I couldn't afford that much, I would never have asked her to marry me. My wellbeing should *never* be her responsibility.
Old Customer
Move Out, Move In
Well we Filipinos are more often be with our parents until we get married and sometimes even if we are we still doesn't move out because we can't leave our parents behind.
Time Perception
Luck
Fry Bread
Tobacco Packaging
In the US, not so long ago, smoking was promoted to pregnant women to help them "relax", and kids were marketed to with candy (fake) cigarettes..... It's simply 2 different eras in marketing, in 2 different countries, with 2 different goals in mind. One is to make money off of cigarettes, the other is to not have the health care system pay for the repercussions of smoking cigarettes.
Baby Tooth
Is there a reason for throwing it out the window? In my culture a tooth is put under the pillow for the tooth fairy to come and take in exchange for money or a trinket. Would be interesting to know about any others, too!
Eat Fruits
Why no fruit until 2 hrs after a meal? So you’ll eat all your food I guess?
I don't care where you're from, nobody can cook like Mom! Or Grandma! The recipe never turns out the same....
Unless you are from a long line of crap cooks and not turning out the same is a good thing!
Haha!
In the end, I didn't see much differences with my Serbian/French culture, here. :)
High five. As a Koreanised Italo-Croatian, I can tell you there's lots of similarities between Europe and Asia. ♥
Indeed. Sometimes it's easier for me to understand Asian cultures that the American one
And what is it like to grow up in a half-Asian household? You never learned to speak your family's second language so now whenever family comes over they all talk and sometimes you catch your name but you don't know what they're saying ;P
I don't care where you're from, nobody can cook like Mom! Or Grandma! The recipe never turns out the same....
Unless you are from a long line of crap cooks and not turning out the same is a good thing!
Haha!
In the end, I didn't see much differences with my Serbian/French culture, here. :)
High five. As a Koreanised Italo-Croatian, I can tell you there's lots of similarities between Europe and Asia. ♥
Indeed. Sometimes it's easier for me to understand Asian cultures that the American one
And what is it like to grow up in a half-Asian household? You never learned to speak your family's second language so now whenever family comes over they all talk and sometimes you catch your name but you don't know what they're saying ;P