We had a nanny from a similiar culture who I found out was force feeding DS 
Out of very nice motives but oh my goodness it was horrible.
She'd try and manipulate him into eating spoonfuls she pushed to his (firmly closed) lips, saying things like 'you naughty boy you don't love me, you don't want me to be happy' and when he still refused she shouted at him 'fine, you'll grow up weak and ill and it will be all your own fault being so nasty time when I want to make sure you grow big and strong'.
Which was when DS finally told me what was going on. He was crying and saying I didn't know she wanted to make me grow up strong and now she doesn't like me anymore and I won't grow up healthy and strong anymore ... grrr.
I was already worried as he was eating less and less. I just didn't know why. And as he's already a skinny minny it showed on him quickly.
In the end he lost 10% of his body weight. It was awful the damage she did. And she was such a nice person! She just couldn't seem to help herself, even when I'd discussed it with her and made it clear that it had to stop... she carried on doing it! She stopped pushing the spoon into his mouth, instead loaded it up and wrapped his fingers round it then upped the emotional blackmail instead. Which is still force feeding in my opinion.
It was like she was so conditioned that force feeding like that = love and care, that she couldn't stop herself. Especially as DS ate less and less, her instinct was to literally push more and more food into his mouth. She couldn't understand how she was the cause of the problem. She said that she felt I was asking her to hurt DS by stopping force feeding him... when clearly the opposite was true! I don't know whether it was her own upbringing or a wider societal conditioning, but it was all very odd and distressing.
So DS just stopped eating. It took him a long time for him to recover his trust in adults around food. A lot longer than it took to do the damage in the first place.
I have no doubt that if it had continued longer DS would have developed an eating disorder. It was scary to see how quickly his relationship with food went very, very wrong.
He's now back on track and has regained the lost weight, but most importantly, he's enjoying eating again. It's the hardest thing to regain the joy of food, and being relaxed about it. Just getting it back in perspective again... we now have 3 simple 'food rules' which are easy to follow BUT there are no exceptions under any circumstances, ever, especially for the grown ups feeding him. It sounds draconian but these rules take the pressure of DS and allow him to explore food and his own body in a relaxed and enjoyable way. I created these rules after talking to various people about children's pysychology and nutrition, and then a lot of thinking about our family. DS helped me write them out and he got to add bits & generally felt included and excited about them. And they really work for him, though grown ups can find it hard to stop the bargaining/ benign bribery and pressure. But DS thrives on no pressure, clear guidelines and just stopping this over- amplification and scrutiny of his eating.