Family Members

In our culture, we generalize our parents' siblings as our aunts and uncles. Our grandparents are just grandma and grandpa. This is all very simple. However, in Chinese culture, we not only call them by aunt or uncle or grandpa. We take into consideration of which side the relatives are on (mother's or father's), what their last names are, how old they are, and how closely related we are.

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