Posts Tagged Culture          , , , , ,  1 Comment  Chingoos II
Ladies and gentlemen, a blast from the past  A while ago I wrote
about the theology of friendship, or rather the lack thereof in
the contemporary church. Recently a conversation with a dear
Korean brother sparked some additional thoughts about
friendship.  He mentioned that he thought, until he came to the
U.S. very recently, that the idea of friendship was universal,
and that in Korea to say that you are someone’s friend is to be
entirely devoted to them. A friend would share the last piece of
bread or even underwear (his words not mine) if need be. As we
talked about this over dinner, my American born Korean friends
and I shared with him a bit about how friendship works in the
U.S. and I compared the type of friendship he described as being
closer to what we say about family – about our brothers and
sisters. He responded with disdainful amazement. Family, he
said, is not your choice, and therefore does not carry the same
weight as friendship.