Cynthetiq

yes there's no move to blog ability.... maybe future versions.

I don't think that it is endemic to Icelandic society. Asian society puts alot of emphasis on saving face and not talking about uncomfortable things and situations. I recall my mom actually telling me that I should talk to my sister about the birds and the bees. I told her flat out, "No, not my job."

Even when they caught my sister with a young man, they couldn't accept the fact the young man was in the room, it was all put upon my sister as sole responsibility and fault. The poor guy sat naked in the living room while his parents were enroute to pick him up. That day has never been spoken about again by my parents, but some of the extended family joke about it because it is a testament to the head buried in the sand mentality.

My parents did similar things for and to me with regards to situations I found myself in hiding them and keeping them from other family members. To what purpose? Saving face and not having to accept unacceptable things which would be pressed upon by outside family members. But so what... you get through it, time passes, and move on.

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