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I encourage you not to read any comments sections about declining birthrates in Japan, South Korea, or China. They invariably read like cattle farmers complaining about a bad year, except usually cattle farmers aren't chomping at the bit to go fuck the cows.
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Oh shit oh fuck not the Zoophilia article again
Yeah that part of Asia is NOT doing well. I think Japan has actually seen an uptick recently, but South Korea has had the same problem for a while now, and it's probably never getting better unless they get liberated by the DPRK.
South Korea is mega fucked but Japan's birthrate is pretty much in line with a bunch of developed nations. There's something kinda gross and wrong when random crackers on the internet will write essays on how Japan is chaste and sexless (lmao) even though it has a higher birthrate than Italy. Could you even imagine someone calling the Italians sexless virgins?
Oh yeah, there's a big-ass bunch of
involved in that particular idea. Europe has just been better able to mask it's "sexless virgins" problem by bombing poorer african countries and taking the civillian population in as refugees.
Also I might just add that there was a sort of joke but not really in Denmark back in early 2022, where Denmark was trying to reform it's immigration system (along the obvious
lines) as our industrial corporations were screaming for a bigger workforce, but our population is too racist to just allow "anyone" to move here and work those plentiful jobs. Suddenly the war in Ukraine was breaking out, and a danish comedian said on national tv, that strictly speaking Putin might have just saved the danish economy by creating a bunch of refugees who are highly educated and can thus work our industrial jobs. Immediately after, the danish confederation of industry (bougie union) went out and said that Ukrainians in general are not qualified to do the jobs that their membership wanted done.
Galaxy brain: putin attacked ukraine to save Denmark economy
Yeah, that one was kind of a headscratcher.
I don't understand. Doesn't Denmark release twelve new types of people every season? I found some here, for example.
wdym imagine. I do it all the time. Fuck' em.
I certainly would be very careful to swing too far the other way and pretend Japan isn't an extremely backwards oppressive patriachy. Yes they have sex of course, but are you just going to ignore the entire context around where and how that sex happens?
If there is a valid criticism here its how these criticis usualy have no socialist or even leftist background therefore they turn to BS liberal social/economic analysis and comparisons to the "normal" western cultural habits as if ours is inherently better. In that case yes it falls flat.
But any Marxist can easily point out it is quite hard to have sex when the corporate culture encourages practices like "not leaving before the boss" or staying as late as possible despite the lack of actual work. These are all blatant issues but they're of course capitalist issues where instead a lib will point to it just being an "Asian culture" problem.
There are of course very valid criticisms of Japan. It's just that most ignorant Westoids tend to parrot orientalist bullshit most of the time.
The only thing an italian man will fuck is himself, bada bing badaboom,