Friday, May 11th 2007
Demography ’round the world
So the last post about France really got people commenting! I had no idea y’all were interested in France….er Israel so much. Anyway, this might interest you, being in slightly a similar vein (international things). And don’t worry, I won’t talk about how photogenic anyone is.
In this first article, Japan has opened a “baby hatch” so that parents can drop off unwanted children as an alternative to abortion which the article says has become commonplace. The Prime Minister is opposed to it, but the analysis of the article I rather agree with. Japan has a zero or negative population growth, characteristic of that type of post-industrial society. (The US might have the same problem if not for immigration). Dropping off children for adoption later will grow (if slightly) the population rather than if they children were aborted.
Next up to bat: apparently, the divorce rate is the lowest it’s been since 1970. This was a bit of a suprise to me, considering how the media hypes up these stats in the “culture war” or whatever you want to call it. The article says that more couples live together without marrying, and “other researchers have documented what they call “the divorce divide,” contending that divorce rates are indeed falling substantively among college-educated couples but not among less- affluent, less-educated couples”. So there’s some more incentive to graudate!
This article talks about another episode of religious appeasement, removing hospital crosses in Milan to “please muslims”. The article seems extreme, but later corrections (from people who could read the original italian) said it was one instance of a cross being removed. I picked this article as significant because of the stat: “Some 7,000 women give birth at the Mangiagalli each year. Of these, about 30 per cent are foreign immigrants, many of whom are not Catholic.” Rather than get all outraged and argue about Muslim or Christian sensibilities, consider the growing immigrant demographic in Europe which may save the countries from zero or negative population growth, and what that might mean.
Ok, go! comment!
destroy Israel. remove all the Jews from the land they stole from the innocent Palestinians. end apartheid. stop genocide. Jews have big noses. and Giuliani is worst thing to happen to American since Truman first recognized Israel in 1948.
stop the Jews! America first!
Comment by Adolf — 5/11/2007 @ 3:01 pm
Nice one previous commenter. Bogeyman tactics are the last thing you can fall back on.
The oppressed becomes the oppressor, it’s as simple as that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6644079.stm
Comment by LOL — 5/11/2007 @ 4:28 pm
exactly LOL! stop the Jews NOW!
Comment by Adolf — 5/11/2007 @ 8:28 pm
The US and Western Europe are making a huge mistake in relying on immigration to keep their populations afloat. In both cases, most immigrants come from Third World countries (from the Middle East in Europe’s case, from Latin America in the US). This has brought poverty, crime, and a cultural identity crisis to the West like we’ve never seen before.
The only true remedy against zero or negative population growth in America and Europe is for native-born women to have more children (and to stop aborting them). Immigration may counter negative population growth among the native-born but in the long-run it will result in a nation with no resemblance culturally to what we grew up in.
The prognosis is even worse for Europe than it is for the US. Most European immigrants are Muslims with no interest in assimilating, which foretells a predominantly Islamic Europe robbed of its Christian heritage if current trends continue. At least we don’t have this problem in the US since Latino immigrants are mostly Christian.
Comment by Rohit J — 5/11/2007 @ 8:42 pm
HAHa, are you Scott or Marius? Which one of you is so clever?
Comment by LOL — 5/11/2007 @ 11:10 pm
Why hasn’t the US gone to war with Iran yet? Don’t you stupid Americans understand that Israel is on unfriendly terms with Iran? NOW GO!!! Kill the barbarian Arabs for us or we’ll tell God not to let you into Heaven!!!
Comment by Israel-o-phile — 5/12/2007 @ 2:56 am
Hmmm.
Comment by Israel-o-phile — 5/12/2007 @ 2:56 am
Let us not forget the stupid Americans.
Comment by Israel-o-phile — 5/12/2007 @ 2:58 am
with Israel-o-phile, LOL, and christian soldier saying everything thats on my mind, i can see that my work here is done
Comment by Adolf — 5/12/2007 @ 10:34 am
“So you either hate the jews or you give them a carte blanche”
I guess it’s a lot easier to try to compartmentalize things into nice little packages, rather than defend Israeli policy with reasoned arguments….that don’t include pure hatred of Arabs or Mulsims.
Your work here is done, Adolf? I predicted that the holocaust will be the next thing you’ll fall back on. How can you live with yourself having exploited one tragedy to justify creating another?
Comment by LOL — 5/12/2007 @ 12:06 pm