How People Pleasing Thrives in South Asian Communities

People Pleasing behavior thrives in South Asian communities because of our underlying collectivist culture and the impact of colonialism where we prioritize and emphasize everyone over ourselves as individuals and have an inferiority complex from colonial trauma respectively. These manifest in our cultural norms which add fuel to this intergenerational trauma fire. Cultural norms like fighting over the check at restaurants, giving up your bed for your guest, and making major life decisions based on what parents want to name a few.