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Before reading this I assumed the biggest reason for Korean birthrate decline was that they don't allow enough immigrants, which is how some other developed cou
by eatonphil 4y ago
Before reading this I assumed the biggest reason for Korean birthrate decline was that they don't allow enough immigrants, which is how some other developed countries handle it.
I've heard only anecdotally from friends about the feminist movements and inequality faced, but the stats in this post sort of make clear the enormous problem of gender inequality in Korea. And furthermore it contrasts Korea with how other developed countries like Sweden and France handle this situation successfully.
Very good article. Hopefully things improve.
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- unmole 4y agoSo, it's easier to rule Americans than Koreans?
- ipaddr 4y agoIt's easier to allow certain groups of people in and then cater to that group for lifelong votes. This is the strategy of the liberal party in Canada and has been used successfully. Next call people who opposite any immigration limit racist and create fears in the immigrant population. Use those fears to keep power.
- beardedwizard 4y agoWhich developed country is doing this? Please include sources.
- yucky 4y agohttps://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_nbcnews-ux-920-900,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2014_16/322131/140414-infographic-pop-rev.jpg https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_nbcnews-ux...
- djkivi 4y agoCanada? In an astonishing statement to the New York Times in 2015, Justin Trudeau declared, "There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada," and consequently that "makes us the first post-national state." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/donna-kennedy-glans-don-hill-trudeau-confederation-risk-1.4937499 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/donna-kennedy-glans-d...
- fzeroracer 4y agoJapan is strongly monocultural which is used both by its government and its corporate culture to exploit the population so I'm not sure your argument passes the smell test.
- Avicebron 4y agoUntil the ~90s, Japan had a very strong social agreement between the corporations and the people and the government which basically guaranteed well paying jobs for life at the trade-off of the corporate culture. The dismantling of that has led to more recent problems in Japan, it was a highly successful system between the 60s-80s
- belltaco 4y agoThat system is actually reinforced by the lack of workers because companies want to hold on to the ones they already have, which they do today. The 90s is when the economy started outpacing new births and the aging population needed more workers to take care of them. Any way you slice it, the lack of younger workers was the problem whether the proximate cause is low birth rate or lack of immigration or a combination.
- rajin444 4y ago> was that they don't allow enough immigrants Why is this the default solution? Shouldn’t we be asking why - after all these years of technical progress - it is not cheaper and easier to raise a family? Where are all the productivity gains going? Trying to make women “equal” to men is a ruse to squeeze more labor out of a population. Actual equality could be achieved by fairly disturbing the wealth of the populations labor, but for some reason that option is not considered.
- orwin 4y agoWomen are more 'equal' to men in France than in Japan/Korea, and yet we have higher birthrate (even when you count out first and second gen immigrants). And equality shouldn't be the goal anyway, emancipation is the only way to make life bearable for every woman (not just the top10%).
- 0max 4y agoBy "some reason" you mean the chaebol plutocracy, right? Right?