 The person who is carrying out "amae" may beg or plead, or alternatively act selfishly while secure in the knowledge that the caregiver will indulge them.The behavior of children towards their parents is perhaps the most common example of "amae", but Doi argued that child-rearing practices in the Western world seek to stop this kind of dependence, whereas in Japan it persists into adulthood in all kinds of social relationships.However, these cultural concepts do not apply to indigenous (Ainu) nor Okinawa, the latter which replaces amae with humor.