APAD: Blood is thicker than water

Meaning:

Loyalties within a family are the strongest and most important ones.

 

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Over milleniums, Christianity has watered down those loyalties by systematically

breaking the fabrics of traditional institutions such as the family and the

clan. As a result, blood in the west must feel markedly thinner compared with

the gooey messy bond that ties together an extended Chinese family or a Native

American tribe. This might explain Ben Franklin's observation that while many

whites, men and women, ran away to join the American Indians but not a single

Indian signed up with the white colonists.