A video of a Vietnamese woman who was slapped in the face by her father after returning home for Tet Nguyen Dan holiday following years of studying abroad has gone viral on social media.
Debate in the comments section: The video has since garnered over 8.8 million views and has received mixed reactions over the father’s reaction, sparking a debate over the ethics of his slap. Many Western viewers expressed confusion, shock and anger over the father’s slap, condemning it as abusive, violent and misogynistic.
“Damn that slap was f*cked up,” one wrote.
“That slap would’ve made me walk right tf out,” another commented, while many others wondered why the slap occurred and questioned Vietnamese culture.
“Incredible trying to justify violence by saying its cultural,” one person said. “If its cultural then its a savage culture, the fact a ton of people do it doesn’t make it right, yall sound like the parents that justify spanking your child as discipline when it’s been proven again and again it doesn’t work and only makes your child traumatized… I believe Asian people are intelligent and human, and as such they should strive to be better and kinder to their kids and not justify the unjustifiable, saying they cant bc of culture is saying they cant be better, that they are violent and abusive and too stupid to tell right from wrong.”
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