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".
Damn, anything but trying to create a world people want to bring children into I guess
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.
I mean I have a few reasons for never wanting to have kids, but yeah the economy is a big one.
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.
You mistake me completely. I’m not advertising the virtues of this system at all. I’m just pointing out that there is nothing Korean or American about declining birth rates. This is a universal phenomenon of a society’s transition from agrarianism where more hands = more wealth to an educated, skilled labor force where each child requires a significant investment.
The US and, for example, Germany use immigration to offset this and keep their population growing. That’s simply a fact you can look up. Japan for example doesn’t want to do this and they’re dealing with the consequences of population decline. This is all over the news for years now.
I’m not saying this is good or bad or anything. This is just the way things are.
Your bit about Ancient Rome is a good laugh because it was hardly a developed society by today’s standards and it did indeed run on imported labor, except they called them slaves. So you are at once off base and also wrong.
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’.
Dumbass
