Seems silly to try to make any generalizations about this specific trait given how uniquely individualistic US culture is in human history. I'd say it's even ho

Seems silly to try to make any generalizations about this specific trait given how uniquely individualistic US culture is in human history. I'd say it's even hostile. I watched a TED talk on the health benefits of living in cohousing and larger households once. Besides well proven increases in overall lifespans and decreases in almost all chronic diseases, there's also huge economic benefits. Building a saltwater pool for example makes a lot more sense to do for a community of 20 than for an individual nuclear family. The comments were filled with straight up vitriol. It was as if people felt personally attacked and like they were being forced to live with other people. Everyone seemed to already have their minds set on "finally living on their own" and "having their own space" (neither of which, imo, are contradictory to cohousing). Yet, around the world, large multigenerational households are and have been the norm. Nuclear families are a pretty recent concept that came with the rise of suburbia and the GI Bills