Some 4.5M Japanese aged between 35 and 54 are living with their parents
I think it&#x27;s hard for some non-US Citizens to understand how rather backwards and unwelcome the thought is for Grown Children as Adults to be living at home with their Parents. The cultural fabric of the US mentality is to grow up and achieve &quot;Independence&quot; as a general concept. That usually means living away from family, and having the means to do so.<p>Culturally, living with one&#x27;s Parents in the United States, as a grown Adult, with or without a Spouse, is going to be predominately portrayed as a negative lifestyle indicator. As in, the Individual doesn&#x27;t have the choice of Independence, at least not the basic financial &#x2F; living arrangements type.<p>The &quot;Sandwich Generation&quot; label scares the ever loving spirit of freedom out of most US people who might find themselves caught between providing for both Kids AND Parents.<p>Assimilation into values such as this US type of Independence are, understandably, quite foreign to several other Large Cultures elsewhere in the World. However, on this turf, it is the prevailing attitude. No amount of &quot;Well in other countries it&#x27;s perfectly normal&quot; will turn the tide regarding this component of the US life experience, and, at least here, it&#x27;s an indicator of a need to further assimilate or, unfortunately, deal with cultural push back.<p>To be fair to the US, this happens when US people try to ascribe their values to other cultures as well. I get it. Two way street.