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There was a documentary in the UK which I just cannot remember the name of anymore. They have an African tribe (father and mother) exchange places with a middle
by decodebytes 5y ago
There was a documentary in the UK which I just cannot remember the name of anymore. They have an African tribe (father and mother) exchange places with a middle class father and mother in a UK suburb. One interesting element was how the Africans were appalled that they put their mother into a care home, this was just unacceptable in their view.
- inglor_cz 5y ago100-150 years ago it was common to have your elderly relatives home, too. But many people either worked in the fields around the same village or in a workshop located in the same house. The "commute 60 minutes to an office" culture is rather hostile to community living. As is the fact that many people aged 80 or so are alive, but not self-sufficient and need nursing. If you get a stroke in rural Africa (or in 19th century Europe), you just die and that's it. Your descendants do not need to worry about keeping you alive but bedridden for five more years.