The Asian context embrace the culture of repect to the elderly,
it is in both religions and philosophies such as the teaching of
Confucianism, Buddhism, Hindusim, Zen, Singh Gurus, Muslim and
taoism to take care and respect elderly as one shall grow old too.
We cultivated ourselves since history to respect and even pray to
ancestors in seeking a peaceful and contentious mind knowing that
without the oldies, there cannot be no youngs.
Therefore, we cherished harmony and family cohesiveness more than
the West do, we attend to our elderly needs and care for them as
part of society intergration in ourselves. So to say that if it was
to be 3 Asian guys, I do not agreed to that, because out of the 3
Asian young playful guys, either one or two would have had the
compassionate mind to ask the other to stop it, respect the
elders.
The West embraced the culture of freedom, that being good, but it
bring about the hindsight of being disrespect as all are deem
equal. Most old couples or old peoples in the West live by their
own, their youngs will be in different parts of the world doing
whatever they are doing, and it is only during christmas that one
or two will drop by to celebrate a family gathering, that is their
lives, free to roam and free to do whatever they want. Therefore
that lack of family orientation surfaced the lack of human
discipline.
During one my youth Association oversea gathering in Singapore, my
duties was to bring a group of Japanese and Indians youths to take
a trishaw ride at Rochore Rd. There was a mix of young gals and
guys, 3 to each trishaws, most trishaw pedallers were old uncles,
my youth group greeted them, and whenever the trishaws were going
on an uphill road, a guy from each trishaw will come down and help
to push, and we sing song happily, some young guys even volunteer
to ride for the uncles and asked them to sit, but because of the
danger of the traffic, i ordered them not to do so. Both Indians
and Japanese youth show great compassion and respect to these Old
Uncles of Singapore.
In comparison, these three caucausian men is not worth a place
within the Asian Young Chrismatic of respecting the elderly.
By the way, the poor old man in the picture look like LKY our
MM.
