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darkknight109 posted...

In the West, this resolution is deeply unsatisfying, because a parent who discards their child's love in favour of pushing them to financial, academic, and/or social success is a bad parent (indeed, Western culture would say he has missed the whole point of being a parent in the first place); in Japan, the character often has a tragic air to them, because they gave up everything - even the love of their children - in order to ensure their child's success. Not only would they be considered a good parent, they'd be considered a great one for sacrificing so much for the sake of their child.

I would argue that it isnt a sacrifice. Its a failure to identify what their children really wanted. That trope is just some garbage to justify bad parenting. The child being successful is only the best case scenario. In most cases the child might not be successful at all or on in the worst case commits suicide. In the former the child and parent are now estranged with nothing to show for it. And in the latter how great of a parent are they now when the pressure they put on their child for their sake was too much for them to handle?
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