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I simply misunderstood what you were saying - it seemed quite a non-sequitur from the main point of the article. I think it's a little premature to assume that
by mnem 7y ago
I simply misunderstood what you were saying - it seemed quite a non-sequitur from the main point of the article.
I think it's a little premature to assume that the population of Japan is going to die out. One of the points mentioned is that few Japanese women have children out of wedlock - I imagine this will change as time moves on and fewer couples marry, similar to other countries.
However, I think the main challenge with posing the question "have there been other human cultures that die out due to a lack of desire to procreate" is that culture is quite an ephemeral thing - what would it mean to die out?
As an aside, is strawman a verb these days? Language is hard to keep up with.
- daenz 7y agoI see what you mean. Maybe my question does have a hidden assumption that it is even possible for a culture to die out from a lack of procreation. I'm just trying to better understand the problem... sub-replacement fertility rates seems to be a new development, and nobody seems to know how it plays out in the long run in the modern world.
- pixl97 7y agoA 'culture' can die by being replaced by another culture. Of course the most common means of death to a culture is loss of material resources leading to population decline, such as Easter island.