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Cultural Differences Between 'The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down'

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What are some of the cultural differences between the Lee family and western culture you find interesting?
The book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, demonstrates how different cultures can be when being compared to each other. In the western culture, when one has an illness we are approached by a doctor, by getting tests done and eventually by receiving some type of medicine. We are treated based on what our body reflects and how it deals with the medicine that is given. We tend to put our trust, in the hands of the doctors. Also families don’t tend to question the decisions or procedures doctors take when curing a patient. This reflects to my own family, because my mother is a great believer in doctors, in test results and also medicine.

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