I’ve heard anecdotally about people from one culture who go to another culture and say “our hearts were knit together in just a few minutes.”

Yet based on other conversations, I fear what’s really happening is we are mistaking the natural social connectivity of some cultures for “knitting.”

We as Westerners are, I suspect, less social than some Africans or Asians. When Asians welcome us into their homes, feed us, share stories with us, etc., we think this is a “knitting of the heart,” because we would only do the same in the West with close friends.

But for them, it’s a natural and expected kind of interaction with anyone, especially guests. It is not a “knitting.”