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There is something about Japan that really brings home the meaning of 'foreign' to me. I think that being the first rich, advanced large country that isn't wes
by netcan 13y ago
There is something about Japan that really brings home the meaning of 'foreign' to me.
I think that being the first rich, advanced large country that isn't western is the reason. On paper, they have a similar relationship with money, technology, their religion and traditional culture. I can't explain the strangeness away with those differences.
When I read something like this about some trend or supposed cultural pathology cropping up, I have nothing to connect it to. I don't intuitively get where its coming from or why. Not even a hint. I don't know whether to dismiss it as conservatives concerned with something harmless, some fringe phenomenon or whatever.
- DasIch 13y agoActually this phenomenon isn't that foreign. Less children being born, a falling number of "serious" relationships etc. are all things that can be observed in any technologically advanced society. Japan is just an extreme case because their current set of values doesn't deviate as much from more traditional values, which escalates the problem. Germany is actually somewhat similiar to Japan when it comes to these issues and while the results are by far not as extreme the reasons are very similar: lack of government support for modern types of families and traditional values that still have a strong impact on how children are supposed to be raised.
- _random_ 13y agoUnless you make your country wide-open to all sorts of immigrants. Than your birth-rate will be "OK".
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoNone of my childres/nieces/nephews are married or have childred. They are all approaching their 30s. Something is going on. In a previous generation ALL would be married, ALL would have at least one child.