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In Japan, there is no subculture reproducing at a higher rate. In the US, the population is only growing because of immigration, not from Catholics. To be fai
by magduf 9y ago
In Japan, there is no subculture reproducing at a higher rate.
In the US, the population is only growing because of immigration, not from Catholics. To be fair, they're a big contributor, so the demographics are shifting in their favor, but if it weren't for immigration, our population would not be growing I'm pretty sure. And Mormons, while they have a bunch of kids, are still a very small portion of the overall population.
- philwelch 9y ago> And Mormons, while they have a bunch of kids, are still a very small portion of the overall population. If they keep having a bunch of kids, and the rest of America doesn’t, they won’t stay a very small portion of the overall population forever.
- magduf 9y agoBy the time that happens, centuries will have passed and the problems caused by population loss will have already been experienced. Also, I've worked with and known Mormons, and I've never known them to be huge kid-producers, so I'm questioning this assumption. They have more kids than the current white American average AFAICT, but not hugely so. They tend to be higher income and put a lot of energy and resources into their kids; you can't do that and have 10 kids. In general, it's low-education people who have tons of kids. Mormons are not like this; they're generally very well educated.