GS, certainly one of the characteristics of rural America is that the median age is noticeably older than the median age for the country as a whole but when I used the word old I was meaning old as in former or years ago. I fully understand what you are saying though. The 60+ crowd was taught both in and out of school very differently than what occurs now.
The Chinese yuan thing is strange in that it comes at a time when the Chinese economy is on the edge of implosion.