I see a lot of parallels in Korean (and other eastern countries) and Indian social expectations.
While Korea has developed economically and has become a modern industrialized country all of it's social mores and expectations are rooted in it's feudal agricultural past.
I think that similar situation will happen in India as well in next 20 years.
Maybe Western modern industrialized, post-industrialized society needs a individualistic culture as well and does not harmonize well with society whose values are derived from the older feudal, gerontocratic agricultural society.
The beatings will continues until the moral in the generational labour camp improves! The youth shall envy the old guard for the electric fence and guard towers they could walk into.
Well back in my day we had to walk to school in the snow uphill, downhill, work on the farm, raise a family, survive in a capitalist dystopia and stay sane
As a childless American in his 60s on the edge of retirement, this article is eye opening. While it seems to me that Americans of the same age are not going through the same education, job, and marriage stresses, they are going through different job and relationship stresses. Ones that are very different from my generation. Honestly I wouldn't want to be in either situation.
I biked across Korea (highly recommended) a year ago. Everything I read and heard about Korean culture gave off subtle cyberpunk dystopian vibes with a thin media veneer of wealth
While Korea has developed economically and has become a modern industrialized country all of it's social mores and expectations are rooted in it's feudal agricultural past.
I think that similar situation will happen in India as well in next 20 years.
Maybe Western modern industrialized, post-industrialized society needs a individualistic culture as well and does not harmonize well with society whose values are derived from the older feudal, gerontocratic agricultural society.