Dhru Purohit
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It's a negative connotation to refer to somebody who is older, more isolated, not understanding.
And again, men have the crazy uncle, the crazy neighbor, whatever it might be, right?
There's it on the men's side.
And it's like when you zoom out, you think about like everybody's lost a sense of tribe a little bit.
Yeah, as well, sir.
And even in my own family, I'm not going to put my own, you know, there's a lot of amazing things that are there, but it's not like every single one.
You know, we have to fight for it regularly to try to recreate some of these circumstances.
And yes, Asian cultures in general, there's still a lot of respect for like the elderly and how it's baked into the culture.
But even that's changing a lot.
Really?
Wow.
Yeah.
It's changing as everything gets modernized and people stop.
You know, there's a lot of benefits to not living together, you know, people, independence and freedom and other stuff.
But there's a lot of challenges that come along with there.
You don't get that knowledge transfer that's there.
Where I was going with this is that everybody is in damage for the loss of community that we've had, where you don't have that level of
of shared understanding, growth, and that kinship that comes from being in that sort of tight-knit community with each other.
And it's an unfortunate thing.
And I do think it's been one of probably the biggest things that's on people's mind, just not sure how to create it since COVID.