Are hearts quickly knit, or are some just better at honoring guests?

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.”