Fear Of Change In Crazy Rich Asians By Kevin Kwan

Our society not only fears that change will negatively impact their future but it also fears that change would devalue their past. This is evident in the novel Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan. Eleanor, who is married into the wealthy Young family, spends the majority of her life maintaining her high reputation to gain status in the eye of the Young family. To maintain this reputation, she sacrifices a lot. For example, Eleanor admits that she “had to waste time networking with these crazy rich Asians, when she could have pursued her dreams.” (Kwan, 494). Thus, Eleanor fears that if Rachael, an Asian-American, marries into her family, then Eleanor’s prized status will plummet. This fear of change becomes more evident when Eleanor admits that she “appreciates Rachel's character and personality”
Thus, we fear change that would essentially make our sacrifices worthless as we are selfish and we would not spend our time and energy on something that is not valuable to us. I believe that this is the same reason why most elders fear change are often conservative. According to the US election polls around 53% of elders have voted for Donald Trump as we wanted to revert America’s society to the that of the olden times (Castillo, 2016). Many were concerned that change/increase of immigration has, “caused a lack of American pride and freedom that our (the elderly) generation has built up” (Ball, 2016). Hence, because of their fear of change, which has rooted from the fear of loss, has resulted in the choice to allow negative values to in order to ensure that their sacrifices and work are valid. During the colloquy, Franco’s anecdote elaborated on this point as his “grandparents moved out of his parents house when his father choose to not become a neurosurgeon”. His grandparents have built up great reputations as neural surgeons, and have constantly pressured his father to do so as