Closed mouths don’t get fed

“Shame,” a word we would hear so often as kids whenever we voiced out when we wanted something. Imagine you’ve been eating vegetables for 2 weeks and you ask your parents, “Can’t we at least cook eggs to balance it out?” My dad would say something along the lines of, “Have you no shame? When we were kids, we could only afford vegetables, and we never complained. Shut up and finish your food.” Imagine being at a party with a lot of leftover food, and you want to get some home because you really loved it. “Don’t be shameless, we have food at home.” My culture is huge on “Shame.” You have to be pristine, you have to be behaving well. Anyone who’s vocal about anything is considered shameless and is hated. Why? Well, my theory is that because most of us are too shy to say what we want, we get mad at people who has the ability to do so. I grew up with that philosophy. I shouldn’t be asking anything. They should give it to me even without asking. It should always be obvious. They should…