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The politics around allowing immigration are complex and controversial though. Som e people will fight tooth and nail to prevent more of the "others" from comin

The politics around allowing immigration are complex and controversial though. Som e people will fight tooth and nail to prevent more of the "others" from coming into their country. I'm not just referring to the US and Europe. Look at Japan for example. Immigration has been touted by Western think tanks and pundits as a solution to their demographic problems, but instead they've chosen to go all in on automation and robots to attempt to solve it. I expect Korea to follow the same path. Probably China too. A lot of East Asian countries that are at the bleeding edge of the demographic bomb place extremely high value on population and cultural homogeneity. The West would probably label that as racism.

hnaccy 5y ago
>The politics around allowing immigration are complex and controversial though. And forcing every woman to have two children isn't?
- decafninja 5y ago
  Per my other reply on this thread: I would imagine such aggressive measures (i.e. forcing of anything) would occur first in a certain other countries before it happens in the West - if it ever does. I would also not be surprised if the West would implicitly choose to implode first before sacrificing an iota of "freedom and individuality". Outside the West, I also would not be surprised if some countries/cultures would implicitly choose to implode before sacrificing their homogeneity.
  - FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
    America is never going to "force" people to have children, but it may ramp up transfer payments to those who do. The Child Tax Credit was a big part of the Biden agenda, for example. So is, AFAICT, subsidized daycare and such. (If more aggressive payments by other countries are any indication, this will have approximately zero effect on people's decisions.)
throwaway6734 5y ago
Japan has started loosening it's immigration requirements

hnaccy 5y ago

>The politics around allowing immigration are complex and controversial though. And forcing every woman to have two children isn't?

decafninja 5y ago
Per my other reply on this thread: I would imagine such aggressive measures (i.e. forcing of anything) would occur first in a certain other countries before it happens in the West - if it ever does. I would also not be surprised if the West would implicitly choose to implode first before sacrificing an iota of "freedom and individuality". Outside the West, I also would not be surprised if some countries/cultures would implicitly choose to implode before sacrificing their homogeneity.
- FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
  America is never going to "force" people to have children, but it may ramp up transfer payments to those who do. The Child Tax Credit was a big part of the Biden agenda, for example. So is, AFAICT, subsidized daycare and such. (If more aggressive payments by other countries are any indication, this will have approximately zero effect on people's decisions.)

throwaway6734 5y ago

Japan has started loosening it's immigration requirements