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> they seem to be doing ok Japan is not really doing OK. They are literally going extinct, have an awful and destructive work culture and have a ton of problem
by mcsofake 7y ago
> they seem to be doing ok
Japan is not really doing OK. They are literally going extinct, have an awful and destructive work culture and have a ton of problems with sexism, to the point where it is necessary to have gender-segregated train carriages to stop groping. The only reason Japan seems to be doing OK is because their news are mostly inaccessible to the rest of the world.
- deogeo 7y ago> They are literally going extinct Has immigration raised the birth-rate of the native population in other countries? I can find no examples of that anywhere in the modern-day West. Besides, there are significantly more Japanese people now than at any other time in history, the last decade being the sole exception [1,2]. They have a long way to go before having to worry of extinction, and the environment will be very grateful in the mean-time. As for reducing sexism, diversity is no guarantee, and can easily go the other way: https://www.france24.com/en/video/20161219-france-battle-against-gender-segregation-french-suburbs https://www.france24.com/en/video/20161219-france-battle-aga... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Japan_before_the_Meiji_Restoration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Japan_b... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Historical_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Historic...