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[quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why in this day and age someone would start a post about "Asian elders." There is no "Asian" culture; there are 48 separate countries with over 4.7 billion people, something like two-thirds of the world's population, with many hundreds if not thousands of distinct cultures. It's so reductionist, if not outright racist, to generalize about "Asian elders" and how they're treated compared to elders in the U.S. (which oh by the way also has hundreds of ethnic groups and cultures). I feel like there's a new troll on this board determined to criticize anyone in the U.S. whose ageing parents don't come to live with them or who talks about how hard it is to deal with and care for ageing parents. Maybe the OP is that troll, maybe not, but let's not have a romantic, dreamy view that "if only we were like 'the Asians' our eldercare problems would magically disappear."[/quote]
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