[bragr]

Kind of a tangent, but I worked for a Chinese company for a couple years as the only westerner mostly. My coworkers and I had so much confusion talking about family until the mutual realization that we were not using words the same way and understood some concepts differently. That lead to a lot of sitting around and pointing at a family tree going "ok who would this person be to you, how important?", and sometimes really surprising each other. Long way of saying, she may call him uncle, but he's not her uncle in the western European/Anglo-american sense.

[whimsicalism]

Is it western European or anglo? My Portuguese family will call me uncle sometimes but perhaps that is just because first cousin or whatever is too difficult of a concept

[bragr]

There's some variation of course, but the family dynamics in western Europe all seem pretty similar to me, at least compare to the chinese clan system or other systems around the world. You can probably blame the Catholic church for that ;)