A friend on Facebook shared the trailer for a new movie, The Farewell. The premise of the story immediately grabbed me. The matriarch of a Chinese family has been diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Her family decide not to tell her the bad news, so they engineer her grandson's wedding as a way to get everyone together one last time. A goodbye without saying goodbye. This idea is very foreign from a Western perspective, and the main character, a Chinese American woman, wrestles with family, love, and loss when cultures conflict. I can't wait to see the movie even it means bawling in the movie theater. But this movie also brings out the differences between East and West. "You think one's life belongs to oneself. But that's the difference between the East and the West. In the East, a person's life is part of a whole. Family." There are plenty of stereotypes, but research has shown that the West is independent. The East is interdependent. The West see...