The Changing Culture

[Gregory Matthews]

In our recent travels, my wife and I boarded a shuttle bus.  A man promptly offered my wife his seat.  A woman immediately offered her seat to me! The other passengers seemed to agree that it was appropriate for her to do so.

Am I going to have to get used to this?

 

 

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

the lady was being polite to the elderly?     

[Jeannieb43]

Gregory, my first question would be Where were you when this happened?    In what State?   Or in what country?

The community's deference to their elders is different in different communities.    I wouldn't necessarily infer from this that you and your wife look OLD!

[Gregory Matthews]

I was riding the shuttle bus to the airport in San Diego, California, United States of America, in March of 2017.  An adult woman, looking much younger than I, gave up her seat for me to sit in it.

Yes, I am aware of cultural issues in some other  countries.  In South Korea, people who have reached the age of 60 may do whatever they please without censure from society.  [NOTE:  I am not saying criminal acts may be done.]

On one occasion when I was stationed in Korea, my Father and his wife visited my wife and I.  On Sabbath we attended the typical church that we went to.  But my Father and his wife decided to attend a typical congregation  that was just across the street from the SDA Service Center.  That street was a major traffic route and there was a pedestrian cross over between the Korean church building and the Service Center.  As the service ended in the Korean church, it began to slightly rain as my Father and his wife began to walk over the cross over. Immediately several Korean surrounded my Father shielding him from the rain with their umbrellas, as they escorted him across the street.  As to his wife, she was on her own to navigate as best she could.