Why is it that foreign elderly people are willing to retire in nursing homes, while China sends its elderly people completely unwilling to do so?

Whether it's what you see and hear in life, or the information conveyed by various movies and TV shows or other channels, many foreign elderly people, whether they have children or not, will go to a nursing home by themselves at a certain age, while Chinese elderly people, whether they have children or not, prefer to live in their own huts rather than go to a nursing home. This huge contrast is why? Follow me to find out.

A, the difference between Chinese and Western educational ideas

In the foreign education concept, they extremely important to the child's ability to take care of themselves, and the child is 18 years old, the parents have completed the obligation, the child should go out on their own to work on the social experience. In the Chinese education philosophy, traditional Chinese society has a strong emphasis on filial piety and respect for elders, forming a stable family group with blood ties and parents as the core.

Possibly this is also a result of cultural differences, looking at the end of the flow of Chinese and Western culture, China is mainly agricultural handicrafts, and this requires the cooperation of personnel, the experience of the ancestors, and therefore also pay more attention to the power of the collective, especially to the blood ties connected to the collective. Foreigners, on the other hand, are business-oriented, which tests individual wisdom and boldness. The message from the movie culture can also be seen, East is more advocate of unity is strength, while the West is more valued individual heroism.

Second, the difference between Chinese and Western perception of love

The family ethics and filial piety that have been passed down through the centuries in China make Chinese parents always love their children, no matter how old their children are. And children also have a certain dependence on their parents, Confucius once said: parents in, not far away from travel, travel will be. Thus this cognitive relationship of kinship is extremely close and two-way. And in China's cognitive sense of kinship, the elderly do not have children to live in nursing homes, and those who have children but live in nursing homes must have children who are ungrateful.

In foreign countries, this perception of kinship is not so strong. At a certain age, children have to go out to work on their own and rely on themselves, and their parents have no obligation to support them. And when the parents reach a certain age, they will live in their own house, or in a nursing home, and the children will have no obligation to support them.

Three, the difference between Chinese and Western equipment

Because of the educational concept and cultural heritage, foreign nursing homes can be said to be high visibility, density, and there will be a series of recreation and learning inside.

Chinese nursing homes may not be as common, and Chinese nursing homes tend to be more residential and communicative, whereas their counterparts, the universities for the elderly, tend to be more recreational and learning.

These are some of the reasons why foreigners tend to live in nursing homes and Chinese people don't. But as society continues to develop, it's not easy to see why. But as society continues to develop, many Chinese people have changed their thinking, and no longer think in this way, but in a new, more open and objective way. Either choice is everyone's choice.