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You would think with a dwindling population Japan would start trying to increase immigration, or at least make it seem more attractive to the native population as a stopgap, but it's still a very insular country.
Because Japan is highly xenophobic.
Which is what I was saying was surprising that there's been no appreciable effort to change
Japan makes Germany look downright humble in how superior it thinks it is to the rest of the world.
Both places are very cool don't get me wrong but both also seem to have an acute difficulty of truly accepting immigrants into their society in a way that reminds me of the worst parts of the US.
These places panic about demographic aging while scoffing at the idea of just encouraging and enabling younger humans to move to them and it is pathetic.
The population can only increase the right way otherwise it is bad...
I am so tired of this shit, no your precious Japanese, German or American culture will not survive unchanged forever, everything changes, get over the "scary" idea of people living near you that look different than you and invite new people in and make something better, stop pathetically clinging to the past like a bunch of weird ass dog breeders that want to apply dog breeding logic to human beings and human society it is creepy and incredibly unattractive.
Both places are very cool don’t get me wrong but both also seem to have an acute difficulty of truly accepting immigrants into their society in a way that reminds me of the worst parts of the US.
... Berlin is basically Istanbul 2, and I say this as a turkish person.
Places with fastest population declines are places where men don’t contribute much to upbringing of children while also expecting women to work full time. This is being sold as emancipation of women somehow, in reality it’s just capitalism running out of workforce, which is why media are so alarmist about this whole thing.