The new Medium Partner Program list is the living proof isolation is rather a matter of elitism: new European partners are all EU members and non-EU members are wealthy, like Singapore, Hong Kong and the Arab Emirates. True friendship is always found outside the family, just like here. If you want to find out how your family really feels about you, try to borrow money. Even if you return the favour, the relationship is forever disbalanced. I'd rather owe money to the mafia than my own uncle. Only when you are alone are you truly with someone you can trust. Everyone else is just a passenger. Even your partner.