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Africa continues to produce plenty of people. While the article seems to dismiss racism out of hand, it is the only intellectually consistent explanation for th
by b-team 3y ago
Africa continues to produce plenty of people. While the article seems to dismiss racism out of hand, it is the only intellectually consistent explanation for these “pronatalist” beliefs. Likewise, there are millions of people in Southeast Asia who would love to live and work in Japan. Japan’s shrinking population could be reversed almost instantly if it changed its immigration policies.
- rastignack 3y agoThe notion that you can move around people as if they had no ancestry or culture, and immediately adapt them to any other place seems wrong though. At some point it seems better to give strong intensive for people in one’s country to have babies.
- CogitoCogito 3y ago> The notion that you can move around people as if they had no ancestry or culture, and immediately adapt them to any other place seems wrong though. I don't think anyone serious has ever believed that. The whole US idea of a "melting pot" is basically an overt acceptance of the fact that that isn't what happens.
- langitbiru 3y agoNot so fast. New evidence suggests Africa’s birth rates are falling fast. https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/04/05/the-worlds-peak-population-may-be-smaller-than-expected https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/04/05/...