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Losing face not only results in a loss of one’s social standing but also brings embarrassment to one’s family, and thus losing face is a highly undesirable interpersonal event for the Chinese. [Interpreting tragedy in terms of “face” exacerbates the tragedy because it becomes a broad social-familial phenomenon, not merely individual/personal.] [Construction of symptoms in terms of loss of face makes them resistant to therapy. Loss of face = shame = desire to hide it. Again, traditional social value exacerbates the social problem.] Confucian Fatalism The third theme to emerge was a sense of f