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Maybe Japanese society deserves to go extinct? If Japanese people are not willing to reproduce at anything close to replacement rate, and they are not willing t
by zarzavat 4y ago
Maybe Japanese society deserves to go extinct? If Japanese people are not willing to reproduce at anything close to replacement rate, and they are not willing to accept intermarriage with outside cultures, then the logical conclusion is that “Japan” is a cultural dead end that will eventually cease to exist. I say this as someone who quite likes Japan.
- anovikov 4y agoThing is, that is common for all "true" Asian cultures. Maybe, for all non-Abrahamic cultures even. Before demographic transition, people of all countries multiplied because they had no way around it (no contraception) and because they had to (kids used as working hands from early age and funded their parents in the old age). When demographic transition happened, in Abrahamic cultures, people still sort-of continued to multiply because it was the God's will to multiply and procreate, and fill the Earth, they saw it as sort of a sin to avoid that duty. To Chinese or Japanese, God said nothing, so they simply stopped having kids once they could stop and once they had nothing pressing them to. Only difference in our (Western) perception of China and Japan in this sense is that we see this process in China positively and Japan, negatively... That's of course cynical but true.