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I think Asian societies have a higher collectivist "the collective over the individual" culture than others, and their populations are the fastest declining cur
by abenga 2y ago
I think Asian societies have a higher collectivist "the collective over the individual" culture than others, and their populations are the fastest declining currently.
- rayiner 2y agoThat’s because Asian societies spent the last several generations harnessing that collectivist impulse to socialize people into not having kids. The idea that limiting reproduction was essential to lifting society out of poverty was drummed into generations of Asians: https://www.prb.org/resources/did-south-koreas-population-policy-work-too-well/ https://www.prb.org/resources/did-south-koreas-population-po... Family planning was one of my dad’s specialities in public health, and most of our family friends are in that field. At a party a few years ago, someone jokingly asked if my wife and I planned to have a fourth kid, and someone reflexively interjected “nobody needs four kids.” Arguably it was a necessary policy at the time, but has probably doomed countries like Korea and Japan to extinction.