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Originally Posted by Eph
"Lau Ba Ba" (Old Pa Pa), among a small circle, we called brother Lee that. That was when I was young and befriended his youngest son Mun-Su. Mun-Su was very nice to me. I met brother Lee a couple of times. For me, it'd never occur to me that I would find this forum my sanctury.
Aron started this thread for a reason and I hope that we will look into it further. Many practices might truly be derived from cultrual and ethnic upgrowings. Is it the "emperoric" mindset of ruling over his people but he is not aware of? In modern Japan, Japanese is worshiping their emperor as a god. The concept of mixing "emperor" and "god" together is prevailing in Japan.
"Hand Pick" and "Father to Son" practice is no doubt an Asian one. Why did brother Lee pick the "blended brothers"? Who are these brothers and their background? Did he pick them to balance among their cultural backgrounds? Does financial play a part during the process? Why is it his sencond oldest son in charge of the LSM, not the others?
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Eph, while I agree with what you're saying, I have often wondered how much the ideas of revering one's father, and "handpicking" as you say, are specific to Asian culture. What I mean to say is that surely there are other cultures in which these attributes are very strong? This is a topic I would find very interesting to explore.
I would use, as an example, the culture of loyalty and filial respect as portrayed in
The Godfather movies. (I don't use this example lightly -- I learned a lot about the culture of the Lord's Recovery from these movies. No kidding.) Think of Vito Corleone handpicking Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall's character) as
consigliere.
I remember being told as a kid that Andrew Yu was Witness Lee's "right-hand man".