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The relation or attitude of a child to a parent.

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  • Some of them are concerned that filiality and respect toward parents which Korean society has emphasized have disappeared and others feel sympathy for those teenagers.
  • The implication of this version of Shun's reason is that filiality means preserving an emotionally viable relationship with one's parents, and in the case at hand Shun...
  • Gracieuse again and again go her wilful way and show her foolish filiality, which saves him.
  • Shun, in Mencius's telling, had to interpret filiality as not telling his parents he was getting married, http: / / www. typepad.com / services / trackback /...
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