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Our culture really values and promotes Youth -- and even older people try to dress like they are still young and get surgeries to make themselves look young even though they are obviously aging. As they get old, many of them end up in homes where professionals are paid to look after them because their families (their own children) do not want to look after them or cannot do so because of work and time constraints. Aging is not something that people look forward to in our culture, and because there is no common belief in reincarnation (or even in an afterlife, except for those who are still Christian, Muslim, etc.) there is very little desire to even think about getting old or how we might help those who age. Instead, we focus on making every moment of our youths last -- which is clearly myopic, since time is ever-fleeting. Thus, there is a kind of despair in our attitude towards aging here in the West.
Another culture is the Chinese culture: their…
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