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Strategies & Market Trends : Ride the Tiger with CD
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To: dara who wrote (188060)5/28/2010 11:16:58 AM
From: Valuepro3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 312482
 
Lifestyle? More like cultural imperative. There is choice in lifestyle, there is not when your cultural environment essentially dictates the way you live.

In your example, the people come from a tradition wherein their faith - regionally at least, and as surviving from the Middle Ages - tells them to accept their economic and social circumstances, and to reject the notion of family planning.

In the Far East, children are valued as a form of social security. In modern times and with expanding middle classes, people there attach great value to advancing a child's education and competitiveness for the sake of the family's economic future. This also limits family size as more "investment" can be made per child.

Taking "a nap in a hammock after lunch" is as much taught behavior as is filling all waking hours with study and/or work. Where you say "some people in this world...prefer to live simple lives", I say there is no "preference." It's demanded by their culture.

VP in AZ

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