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@fmf saidMaybe because what is called a "buddy" in that particular case is really an unwilling "guide" forced to help someone else (which seems to contrast with other nearby East Asian cultures) -- and perhaps people over there are as selfish and atomized socially as they seem to be over here?
When new exchange students from overseas arrive at a university here they are assigned a "buddy" ~ a local student here in their third semester ~ who shows them around and answers questions on their first day. After that, they usually hardly ever run into each other again as they attend different lectures.
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The post that was quoted here has been removedHis heart is made of the finest of Cantabridgian stone.
Of course I also wonder if @reservation247 is yet another sock-puppet of @divegeester, and these two are just playing out a script that @FMF has written.
10 Aug 22
@ponderable saidWhat would be an example of such "central values"?
Maybe the point in friendship is even if one or a few values are not aligned, it can be sustained if the central values coincide?
10 Aug 22
@kevin-eleven saidDo even bother reading threads before you rock up late in the evening and curl-off one of these little spite-posts?
You're the one who keeps trotting out his "moral compass," so why don't you go first?
