.8 birth rate is going to be a huge problem for South Korea in a few years. The rest are just "oh no, capitalism's infinite growth will be finite after all"
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Can you elaborate? Why 0.8 in South Korea is so much worse than 1.08 in Poland?
Westerners just REALLY want wealthy, peaceful Asian countries to be uniquely awful.
Most of the former nations can at least offset this with immigration, while the latter ones don't
Korea actually has a lot of migration of Koreans from China and Western Asia. It is actually a pretty unique situation. The Chinese Koreans already speak Korean and their culture align perfectly with Korea.
It's in all ways a better situation than western countries. But no, let's pretend that Asia is collapsing. Better than fixing issues in the west.
I have heard Asia is the racism final boss continent.
racism is just that guy standing in front of the real final boss in Asia: xenofobia
In humanity. Some people exclude others because of the order in which they apply spreads to scones, some because they disagree about whether the bread they’re eating is literally or metaphorically a man’s body, and some because they like a different sports team.
We need less humans.
Otherwise we will outgrow this planet and kill it and ourselves.
This is eco-fascist propaganda, stop parroting it
I mean, South Korea and Japan's birth rate is a serious problem.
The issue is less that they're going 'extinct', and more that the population pyramid is gonna look real fucky going forward, and that comes with... economic issues. And potentially cultural issues.
Those look very similar to me. I would say Japan is now where Poland will be in 10 years. Why it's a problem for Japan but not Poland?
No one could answer this question.
In EU it isn't serious problem?