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Some of them are concerned that filiality and respect toward parents which Korean society has emphasized have disappeared and others feel sympathy for those teenagers.
Global Voices in English » Korea: Anti-Mother Internet Cafe 2009
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The implication of this version of Shun's reason is that filiality means preserving an emotionally viable relationship with one's parents, and in the case at hand Shun judged that it would have been worse for the relationship to have asked permission to marry.
Chinese Ethics Wong, David 2008
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May the fireplug of filiality reinsure your bunghole!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Gracieuse again and again go her wilful way and show her foolish filiality, which saves him.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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