>>1313259>You want to pretend that Japanese aren't breeding because Westerners made them feel ashamed of WW2Please point out where I said anything about shame. I was talking about the institution of a Western-based economic system and system of human rights. Hadn't even considered anything about shame - probably because it's nonsense, like you said.
>Secondly there's the the usual fact that higher wealth leads to lower baby rates which applies everywhereIndeed, but lower rates does not mean critically low rates, and this effect in the contemporary age is most likely because of the coincidence of high wealth and development with dead-end social philosophy which strangles the lifeblood of a people.
>The biggest reason by far that the Japanese stopped breeding is because their island is fucking overpopulatedThis and the higher wealth certainly contribute to lower birthrates. But there is nothing normal about a nation of people experiencing birthrates of, what is it in Japan? 1.1 or something like that? It is a combination of factors, as this anon says:
>>1313558Were I Japanese I wouldn't want insane birthrates. But even an average 3 per couple would be a drastic improvement. And the main way to do that is to restore a traditional family unit. In my own experience, the absolute number one reason why young women don't want to have children is their fixation on having a career. You can call it what you want, call it sexist or something, but when women in general are not heavily, heavily encouraged to go into a long-term career, they are going to alternatively want to have more children – indeed most of the young women I've met who say that having a child would disrupt their career are actually unhappy about that fact and wish it were "possible" to have children. There are plenty of men who don't want children, but there are also many who do. The high expense of child rearing is often not even a barrier as many people will push themselves to borderline bankruptcy to have a family. In my mind, it is simply the heavy encouragement of women to work both in Western countries and in Japan that suppresses the birthrates.
