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I was reading on the history of Bulgaria from wikipedia, and came across this curious snippet: > Facing declining birth rates among the ethnic Bulgarian majori
by zokier 8y ago
I was reading on the history of Bulgaria from wikipedia, and came across this curious snippet:
> Facing declining birth rates among the ethnic Bulgarian majority, in 1984 Zhivkov's government forced the minority ethnic Turks to adopt Slavic names in an attempt to erase their identity and assimilate them
So the population decline is not just some recent post-communist depression, but something more deeply ingrained in the society. This is especially weird as it seems the nation was doing relatively well for an underdeveloped communist country in the 80s ("per capita GDP quadrupled by the 1980s").
- emptyfile 8y agoIt's really not especially weird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing_of_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing_of_Europe Bulgaria and Romania experienced extreme level of emigration but almost every country in Europe is dying out. The countryside in these countries is depopulated and dead, in a country like the UK or France it is merely grim and miserable.
- ataturk 8y agoThe same thing is happening in the US. The big cities eat everything up, dominate politically, and basically don't care what happens to anyone else. We need county-based voting, not population based voting in order to turn this around.