Everyone is connected to their family and the caring between two generations is natural. The givers now will one day receive. This kind of filial piety, which is built around basic feelings of human nature, is not exclusive to Chinese society. Yeh Kuang-hui, who is still researching the topic of filial piety, has lots of friends doing research on this subject in the United States and Australia.
精神上的孝道，更是普世一同的，由於所有人都具有與親人的連結關係，兩代間自然流露關心、照顧的情感，自然也就會導向回報層面，而這種基本情感，不只存在於華人社會，至今仍將孝道做為研究主題的葉光輝，就有不少來自美國、澳洲等地學界研究孝道的同好。