Jester

America is one of the very very very few cultures that puts our parents into retirement homes, while almost every other culture (Hispanics/Asians/Indians/etc) have a very big household, and take care of their elders.

Well, the reason why we do this, is because when we expanded West, the old people only slowed us down and died on the way. So we ended up leaving them behind.

So to this day we continue to benifit ourselves, while leaving our elders behind in retirement homes, and all kinds of other organizations that take the burden of old people off of us.