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June 1, 2006

Blessed Youth

Stefano Bosello Cina - Old Tai Chi Lao Ren

Having a certain age in China (see Beijing) is a phase of activity that will undergo profound changes in the coming years. The emperor did his business, Mao said, children do, as a socialist is just that good, and his successors understood that it would be impossible to grow into well-being if the population grew more (say, a modern Malthusian trap), and so on the one-child policy. With regard to this, different areas, different policy. If in the countryside often means a one, two cities in a sbordata means paying taxes / fines, but sometimes it happens. What does this mean? That Laolaoren (the old folks really old people) are few, people who meet our criteria should retire or are almost innumerable, and will be for the next twenty years, young people are few. In some respects (demographic) the situation is much worse than in Italy, because instead of a downward curve we find a population explosion that now manifests the obvious social problems. For example, since there is a health care system as we know, people involved in nonnetti? Who will care? Who passes the need for a living? The answer, now, is not difficult: jia, guanxi (family, "reports"). The children who work in the city spend the money in campaigns, those who live in the countryside live in large family (patriarchal style from us 60 years ago), people living in cities, although there are some poor areas, usually has enough to eat. Now I said, the real question is: tomorrow? A child will always be able to provide for his parents with wages in perfect competition (the job is exaggerated), and rents on the rise? The fact that more and more children to work far from "home" that will break the old concept of family? Time will tell. A close example: my teacher told us (playful atmosphere, talking to family, house ..) "is perhaps better to have a little girl: she'll be there when I am old and the son will be somewhere to work, perhaps to ' abroad ". Anyway hope all still boys :-D

However, legends say that if someone has the passion to wake up at five in the morning till six is ​​about hordes of practicing Tai-chi, almost all over 60, who enjoy playing with the neighbors in the garden or park under the house . If there are opportunities to meet a lot like those who had spun our (young, ask).

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