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In the United States, it is quite different for old people. Most old people do not live with their children or relatives. If they have enough money, they buy houses or apartments in places where other old people live. If they are not healthy and strong enough to live alone, they live in special homes for old people. There, strangers take care of them. For many North Americans, old age is not a happy time. Most North Americans want to stay young. They try to stay thin and they act like young people as long as possible. They even try to speak the language of the young. They do not like to grow old because they will not get honor or respect or attention. Also, businesses do not want old people to work for them. So, old people usually live alone and they do not have many things to do. Old age can be a sad and lonely time for them.
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在美国，老年人的境遇则大不相同。大多数老年人都不与子女或亲戚同住。要是手头宽裕，他们就在老年人聚居的地方买幢住房或一套公寓房。如果他们的身体不够健壮，不能单独生活，那他们便住进特设的养老院。在那儿，陌生人照料他们。对许多北美人来说，并无幸福的晚年可言。大多数北美人都想要保持年轻。他们努力保持体形，尽可能地像年轻人那样行事，他们甚至试着使用年轻人的词汇。他们不愿进入老年，因为他们得不到荣誉、尊敬和关心。再说，各行各业都不愿雇用老年人。因此，老年人通常总是孤居独处，他们没有多少事可做。对他们来说，晚年凄凉而又孤独。
So we can see that the man who stayed home was wrong. People are different in their customs and their values. There are young people and there are old people in Korea and in North America, but it may be better to be young in North America and old in Korea.
由此可见，那个闭门不出的人错了。人们的风俗习惯、价值观念因地而异。朝鲜和北美都有年轻人和老年人，但年轻时也许待在北美为好，老年时则待在朝鲜为好。
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