Finally, older people in traditional societies have a huge significance that would never occur to us in our modern, literate societies, where our sources of information are books and the Internet.
Ältere haben in traditionellen  Gesellschaften eine enorme Bedeutung,  die uns nicht in den Sinn käme in unseren moderernen,  lesekundigen Gesellschaften, in welchen unsere Informationsquellen Bücher und das Internet sind.