Applies to more than just families.

In our family tribe, everyone believes that harmony is achieved by not rocking the boat. Family confrontations, even with the best intentions, mean dissent. It is better to suffer in silence than to speak one’s mind and challenge the existing familial condition. If you must speak, you should do so in symbols – and you must address the wind or a person unrelated to the topic at hand in the hope that the air may carry it away from our house and send it towards the appropriate addressee.

- Jennider Jornales Dugeña, “Our Family Tribe”, Imagining Ourselves