A South Korean official was expelled from his political party for suggesting the country “import” Vietnamese and Sri Lankan women to boost the declining birth rate.
Kim Hee Soo, the governor of the southern Jindo county in South Jeolla province, was facing an uproar after his televised remarks last week triggered a diplomatic protest from Vietnam. Mr Kim was addressing a town hall meeting when he spoke about measures to address the country’s declining birth rate.
He said South Korea could “import young unmarried women” from places like Sri Lanka or Vietnam to be married off to “young men in rural areas".
SKorea, just like Japan doesn’t have a birth rate problem, they have a racism problem. Their ethnostate immigration policies make Donald Trump look like Angela Merkel.
Nope. I mean, they do have a racism problem; but the birthrate “problem” is economic, and the US is going the same way. When 75% of the population can’t afford to raise children, they’re going to try and not have children. Let alone the like 2.1 per couple average to keep things increasing.
Every developed country goes the same way. Some, like the US, are able to attract enough immigration to compensate.
Pretty sure rome didn’t survive for a couple thousand years on immigrants. Neither has England. If your idea of a fix is importing a constant supply of people (most immigrants going to any country don’t tend to show up wealthy either, I might add) to keep up the status quo, you’re running on a broken system.
Idk about them there, but I know here in the US they tend to be rather aloof. If they are in a higher social strata than you, and you are a worker at a place they are a patron, they won’t acknowledge you. You give them the nod passing them and they ignore you, where even our own wealthy assholes will acknoweldge you here generally.
I learned that’s just a cultural difference, not something to take personally, but that their culture has a lot of that kind of attitudes.
100%. Imo their racism problem is a subset of their ‘caste’ problem.
Their birthrate problem however, has very littler overlap with it, and is primarily driven by how their society is geared towards economic productivity ‘at all cost’.