In Europe, I have not seen the local elderly gather and dance, the group open air drinking beer and watching football games to get high on the scene is common. The first thing I've seen in Europe is a group of local people gathering and dancing. Live in the hotel, often see gray-haired old people, men and women, dress plus body, party gossip, very elegant and classical, and all over the old castle is very harmonious.
The United States street parks can often be old people sitting in the sun idly. Public **** market in the age of the people in front of the stalls turn over and pick up and our daily life is similar.
Square dancing is not common, but the gym has seen a lot of old people in the fitness.
However, the age of the elderly in Europe and the United States is not the same as our traditional concept, and is defined by the United Nations standards.
Regarding retirement, there is also a slight difference between Europe and the United States. In Europe, there are more small, family-run businesses than in the US, and the so-called retirement is just a matter of reaching the legal age and receiving social benefits, but not stopping the work at hand.
Another interesting aspect is that labor in Europe and the United States is actually very expensive, and most people spend most of their time taking care of their daily lives in their own small yards, and going to church every week, so there's not a lot of free time for square dancing.
I've never been to Europe or the United States, and I've never been out of the country. The following is purely personal speculation: 1. Europe and the United States, most of the elderly grew very fat, overweight, jumping; 2. Europe and the United States are sparsely populated, the population is not as dense as in China, each of them over the various, gathered up; 3. Europe and the United States advocate freedom, pay more attention to the individual freedom of activity, the collective activities are not interested; 4. Europe and the United States of the law and order is not good, most of the parks are hooligans gangsters.
China's post-1990s generation is a generation without predecessors and successors! They were born in a difficult time, grew up in a period of turmoil, catching up with the reform period! Now it's time for a period of prosperity!
Square dancing is perhaps the invention of the majority of women in China after the 60s? Because, this generation in the teenage years, wearing the same style and color of men's dress! The most fashionable one is military green, followed by navy blue, gray, black and other dark shades! At that time, foreigners came to China to see, men and women are not different, are very short hair are wearing hats!
Sixty years after the youth is green, in order to correspond to Chairman Mao's call, all high school students after graduation to go to the countryside, except for a very few multi-woman family, choose to stay a child, in the side of the parents, take care of their parents! So, this generation is the generation of crazy growth! It is jokingly called the Beat Generation by Europe and America! Uneducated, unruly and unrestrained in word and deed! Ten years of turmoil, in the Cultural Revolution, really big revolution in the life of culture! The whole country was almost smashed and robbed by the bad elements, hijacked the country!
So, now, after the 60s, must be in the rest of life, to make up for the first half of life lost joy, happiness, colorful and colorful life! They jumped square dances, wore brightly colored clothes, participated in the women's cheongsam performance team, groups to travel, shopping! The real living out of the flavor of a full and happy life!
And the United States, to put it bluntly, is a big countryside! The business district is, including New York, not many big cities! Most of them are like county-level villages and towns in China. It's not densely populated, every family has to have a car, and households are far away from each other! Can't be like a Chinese community, where residents gather and live together, and neighbors look out for each other, farther away than close neighbors, close neighbors are not as good as the door to the door. Everyone is a good friend! That's why it's so popular! So, they gathered in one place, dancing square dance!
Dance square dance, venue size is not limited, there is a stereo can be sung with **** dance! Leisurely or retired family, and to bring grandchildren, and to do housework, and can not be far away from their children's homes, or their own homes! Only on the spot to jump up, singing, twisting, wearing a cheongsam race up! The mood is happy, the dance is light, exercise, make friends! Why not do it!
Americans, living in a scattered, single-door living alone, not much between neighbors. Focusing on the peace of their own families, unrestrained, and living their own happy life different from others!
Whether Americans or Chinese, happiness in old age is the goal, whether to dance? Not a necessary option! Their own favorite is good! The moon in the United States is no rounder than China's! All live on the same planet! In the past two years, the Chinese people's life, more and more prosperous! The Chinese like it lively, the Americans like it quiet! We live a happy life that is the envy of the world! The same people in China can smile on May Day, National Day, and the Spring Festival, all under the shadow of the New Crown Epidemic! What about India? What about America? What about the West? Those superior peoples who used to always mock the Chinese people are now somewhat envious and jealous! Foxes say grapes are sour when they can't eat them! We live our sweet days, let those jealous people, envy!
Now, the big moms are no longer disturbing the people by dancing in the square! They have found a way to dance silently! That is, every big mom, little daughter-in-law, put on headphones, listen to music, dance!
Those who know themselves, discipline themselves. Those who don't have self-awareness, only care about their own happiness!