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The solution is immigration but with high barrier to entry. I live in Denmark, a country portrayed as anti-immigrant by American and British media. However th
by keewee7 5y ago
The solution is immigration but with high barrier to entry.
I live in Denmark, a country portrayed as anti-immigrant by American and British media.
However there is no opposition to educated professional immigrants from India, China, Iran and Eastern Europe.
Brain drain of these countries could be a problem but countries like India and Iran are probably producing many more highly educated individuals than they can domestically employ.
- Balero 5y agoThis is hopefully just a temporary solution though. What happens when these places get rich enough that their birth rates also drop? To butcher an unrelated saying: "We can't all get immigrants from each other".
- backprop1993 5y agoIran scheduled to peak in 2060: https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/iran-population https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/iran-population
- scbrg 5y agoPerhaps we need to find another way to fuel the economy than the never ending pyramid scheme called population growth. At 8 billion (causing massive environmental damage) a drop in population would certainly not be a bad thing.
- simmanian 5y agoMy hot take is that we need to find a new system that doesn't depend on perpetual economic growth. With both China and India rapidly developing (that's what, 3 billion people with money to spend), climate change will only accelerate until and unless we find an alternate model.
- mathverse 5y agoYou cant just easily immigrate to CJK countries.You will not become a part of the society.That's just impossible.Not even those of us that married koreans,speak the language and know the customs are that accepted in the society.We are tolerated and easily live and work there but you will never become korean or japanese or chinese. You will always be the "foreigner".
- simmanian 5y agoTo give you another perspective, I would say that many East Asians living in the West don't feel like they actually belong there either. I moved to west coast America when I was a child. I still remember vividly the first thing I heard and understood in class. It was another kid telling me that I'm a "stupid Asian." The barrier is there. We feel it. And let's not pretend Europe is better about this.
- IdiocyInAction 5y agoThere are Japanese-only establishments in Japan. Ever seen those in the west?
- simmanian 5y agoI was hoping people would find it in themselves to try to rid the world of these invisible barriers instead of pointing out how "they do it worse than we do."
- fleaaaa 5y agoDifference on appearance will always be there unless the gene is mixed till the degree you can't tell the race. As in exact opposite position of yours, I think it's just a thing that can't be addressed in our life time, though I might be wrong.
- Aperocky 5y agoChina is slightly more culturally inclusive having less homogeneity but the immigration laws are basically "Don't come (unless you're ethnically Chinese)", not that there are any real demand..
- garden_hermit 5y agoStudies mostly show that, in the long run, family-based immigration policies lead to more economic growth than the "best and brightest". Basically, forming immigrant communities is useful—they provide support to new entrants, and lead to better outcomes for everyone. Importing a few educated doctors, rather than families or broader populations, leads to less long-term benefit.
- Sammi 5y agoInteresting. Would love a source.
- garden_hermit 5y agotry this one out: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Integration-Paradox%3A-Asian-Immigrants-in-and-Tran-Guo/d431df83ffabd3079512cae4ea404400d2727d56 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Integration-Parado...