Family Guy

I found that my friend's website provide links to their familiy member's business. Not just the nuclear family member like brother, but also his uncle business. I also found this in Juergen Klinsmann's (Awwww, Klinsiii!) website. One of the section was about his family-run bakery back in Stuttgart. So sweet :)

I found this is interesting. I mean, OK, I might provide link to my brother's or sister's blog(if they have one) but that would be just something in the links section. Along with links to other friends blog. And most definitely I won't put their business on my page, unless, that also my business (but then that would be in the section about me, not about them). So, this mentioning thing (hey, this has correlation with my previous post) is really impressing.

Another reason why this is really impressing for me: the stereotype that I got for western family life is something like that family bound is not as strong as what you might find in oriental culture. One of my source for this is a Danish guy I met in train back in my country. He was a tourist, travelling alone. He said the rule of thumb for them is that when you are old enough, something like 17, then you are expected to be completely independent from the family. In the meaning that the parent will not support you financially and you won't live with them anymore.

Given that fact, I guess it's different here in German. They do have strong bound with their family.

And today I also witness that. I was eating in a restaurant with my boyfriend. In the table in front of me were three guys. I figured just like the rest of the customer they all were just friends having their luch together. Then came this woman and another guy with shopping bags joining them. And so the complete picture revealed, they all are a family, making an appointment to have luch together out of their own daily business.
I think that is so sweet :)