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The old guy's points were not on point and it seemed like he didn't know that Germany and even US are facing the same problems (more so Germany). Germany has some of the lowest birth rates in Europe even after allowing millions in mass immigration inside their country and the US is only staying afloat because of continuous mass immigration (illegal or not) and there are still a few strong religious communities where they have big families. But even the Us is under the replacement rate and that says a lot.
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@orkumm India is generally primitive and not sophisticated so I'd say pretty accurate.
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@77jamess That's factually incorrect. Having children is one of the most selfless things a person can do. And I am talking about having and raising them well. Why? Because by definition when you become a parent, everything is second to the children. Everything. Including your own life. At least that's any normal parent. On the other hand, seeking material wealth and money over creating a family is arguably narcissistic and at the least selfish. People nowadays are materialists and you are a prime example of that. That's why we have declining birth rates.
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well if you live in Western Europe or the Us the average girl is 5'4 and 170 lbs ,so the girls that are considered skinny aren't really skinny. They are skinny compared to the average girl in their country.
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The problem isn't that they are work oriented as a society. They always were. The problem is that they pushed women into that work oriented culture. Which results in women prioritizing work and career over family and love. Men being squashed under long work hours and mentally and physically taxing jobs is nothing new. It was always the case. In fact that was the case all over the world up until half a century ago.
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@dhimankalita1690 Yes, in this context it was used to refer to a technologically regressed country or otherwise its very basic and unsophisticated infrastructure and society.
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@Chris_T_3rd_Ward_504 Your last statement is completely wrong. As a population ages, costs go up and taxes go up while welfare benefits and salary stay stagnant. Societal collapse in Japan and most of the West is imminent if the problem isn't fixed. The last big generation in Japan is only now entering retirement. When an enormous percentage of your population is at retirement age both the welfare system and the healthcare system collapse. That's inevitable. And young people carry the burden with high taxation and costs. Only land will be cheaper because it will be deserted. Entire neighborhoods and cities are already going extinct. As for you being a migrant there and especially a black one, society won't be very welcoming. Especially if you don't fully integrate. And by that I mean learning Japanese to a tea, being a productive member of society, adopting all their manners and mentalities and revoking any prior citizenships and nationalities you have. I'd suggest you look at KaiserBauch's channel if you are interested in analysis of birth rates and their consequences.
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Heavily untrue. Financials were never the issue here, considering that you can still raise well 3-4 children on average wage on both parents. We have seen time and time again that financial insentives have not caused any significant change in birth rates, so by that you can easily say that that's no the issue here. The issue more or less lies with feminism, lack of family and religious values which in turn destroys the sense of community and heavy materialism. People who blame income on not having children are usually people that are materialistic.
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@gamble777888 I am from Greece, another notoriously aging country. I can easily that it's feminism/female emancipation along with a high degree of materialism amongst the populous. Here we have long shifts and we are on the top 5 countries in most working hours per average (above Japan) but we also have the most sex on average compared to the rest of the world. So sex isn't the issue either which I believe one of the people mentioned above.
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he literally asks them what ethnicity or race do they prefer wdym?
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@saraht9766 Child labor was widely banned and illegal in most of the West 100 years ago. So idk what you on about. Also I never said "great life". The reason I brought it up is because people are complaining about "not having time and money" when people would work far more hours and make far less money and be able to take care of their families and raise them well 100 years ago.
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Violet Evergarden
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Depends. Cheating happens a lot less in non feminist societies. I highly doubt that Afghan women cheat even 1% as much as American women.
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@fallenlegend8888 Indeed, but it significantly lower the chances. But criminalizing infidelity lowers them even more so. So a society with widespread religious values and laws based around said values will opt to have far better results when it comes to things like infidelity.
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@Kaddywompous sure but the sentiment of "everyone is beautiful" is very common nowadays. No everyone is not beautiful and that's okay. Same way that a lot of men are not tall. But you can make up for it by working on yourself on things you can work on.
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@gamble777888 Yep. Materialism. If you look at everything, religion and family values are the great divider. Israel is one of the richest countries in the world yet still has insanely high birth rates even amongst their rich population.
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@understone86 Women work tons of hours in Japan. And even though they are generally more traditional if you look at the younger generations even in this channel you'll see many women who want an equal partnership (not a marriage in the traditional sense) and prioritize work over finding a husband. Feminism as a movement may not be as big but feminist ideals have seeped through Japanese society. More particularly it's emancipation of women.
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@Ego-ist42069 because Berserk hasn't had a proper adaptation and the best we've gotten is the 1997 one which is subpar and the story alone carries it.
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The men used to work far more hours a century ago and they had more kids than you could ever imagine. A 50 hour per week job is not a lot. After 60 it starts becoming a lot.
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@MrShem123ist I think the older generation would be even more accepting of the husband using prostitution services. Idk where you're from but conservatism doesn't mean male monogamy in most of the non Christian world. Depending on the region it differs. For example in Islam men can have up to 4 wives. In Japan in most historical eras men couldn't have more than 1 official wife (although many noble men actually did) but fidelity amongst men was not required. Meaning men with wives were allowed to use prostitutes or have mistresses. That's the conservative view in Japanese society. So depending on your society and its history conservative values sometimes differ. However female strict monogamy was a value held by every major society prior the feminist movement.
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@zahubshahid7944 The problem are that our systems will collapse. Yes our societies may survive in the long run (if they are not overrun by outside forces) but there will be a lot of suffering and destruction. First the social welfare programs will collapse because the tax payers will be fewer than the welfare receivers. Secondly the healthcare system would collapse. That's because the more we draw into the big generations going into retirement the more the healthcare system is stressed. And less young people = less healthcare workers. More old people = more patients.
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Some really bad takes here, the guy in the white shirt had some good takes. Now for the bad ones, she wants Japan to become like Paris? Paris is literally one of the worst places in Europe rn because of its diversity it has become a 3rd world sh*thole. Now the population decline is the main issue Japan and most countries will be facing in the future. Most people here said that more spending towards education and family will solve this. It won't. Japan already has some of the most extensive welfare programs for new families. They don't work. It's a materialist issue. People value their materialist lifestyles more than they value family. So why would they create one? The only economic policies that I can think off to help the issue would be very high taxation of single childless women of all ages. And then a little higher taxation than now of single men over 40.
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@HomieCV Some perhaps. I doubt it's most though. You seem to not understand how religious women operate. They actually follow the religion and believe in it.
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@shalinivarma237 You'd be surprised by this. But guess what? Most non-Christian conservative countries allowed polygyny (men having multiple wives) and did not condemn men using prostitution services. Japan is a very conservative country and that's a tradition that has held up for centuries. Japan always had a big prostitution industry and it was always somewhat acceptable for married men to use prostitutes.
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@Plisken740 The 170lbs is in the Us. In England it's 160 lbs.
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@elshaddollworld3941 Yet when we compare arranged marriages to "marriage of love". Arranged marriages are far more happy, far more successful and long lasting. Why? Because "love" is not a fleeting feeling. It's something you cultivate. Something that feminism and modernity have utterly rejected as it seems. People used to stick together and learn how to love each other. And that was the most successful way of going about it. In fact I can guarantee you that the love that my great grandfather cultivated with his wife who was given to him through arrangements was far stronger and more lasting than any of the "modern love" we see. Sadly Japan is a mix of traditions and modernity which complicates things even more.
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It's not okay to be selfish and it's definitely not okay to not marry. Economics is an overinflated issue. Any couple with an average salary can raise up to 4 children on better circumstances than any child grew up in last century. As for pregnancy, just think about this: If you are healthy (not obese) and below the age of 35, dying from a pregnancy is rarer than you dying in a car crash. But I bet you get in cars every day, so why do you do it? Are you not afraid of dying?
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@understone86 Again, anecdotes are not proof. Literally any statistic you see proves you wrong. The annual average salary pre taxes is 45k which translates to around to 3,750. That's PRE TAXES. After taxes is as I said previously. Trying to say that Japan is a poor country and the citizens are living with a borderline third world salary is insane to even attempt to do.
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@mollytovxx4181 We can agree to disagree ig.
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Great video, bringing into light one of the biggest problems that the Westernized countries are facing, which are birth rates. Japan is already starting to feel the consequences and the next 3 decades it will only get worse. My analysis is this: Very few of the factors listed are actually correspondent to reality. The two main factors for low birth rates all over the Westernized world are: 1. Women's emancipation 2. Materialism Materialism is an easy diagnosis when you start actually listening to people that don't have kids or unmarried. The mere fact that so many people say "economic issues" when they live in one of the best eras economically for the average earner shows just that. In reality, the average earning couple can comfortably raise 3-4 children if not more. It's just that we have become so materialistic that many believe that children should be raised with everything they want and more. As for women's emancipation. I think it's self evident. Women prioritize career over finding a husband and creating a family. Women even after married refuse to downgrade or let go of their career in order to have children. Women have risen through the economic ranks and that combined with their natural instinct of hypergamy has caused the qualifying dating age men pool to shrink immensely. As for many points raised like immigration. It doesn't work. It only postpones the consequences for a few years. The old guy's points were also kinda off considering Germany has some of the lowest birth rates in Europe even after allowing millions in mass immigration inside their country and the US is only staying afloat because of continuous mass immigration (illegal or not) and there are still a few strong religious communities where they have big families. But even the Us is under the replacement rate and that says a lot.
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@understone86 Japan has 2300$ average monthly salary which is quite high. And the inflation rates are fine in Japan. I live in Greece where we have 900$ average salary as a former 1st world country and a relatively high inflation rates. Japan is fine and most women can 100% have a part time job if their husband makes a little above average if they have kids.
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@w1z4rd9 Children don't need to grow up rich to have a good childhood. In fact I've found out that children growing up in lower middle class had the best childhoods. Why? Because the necessities were covered (school supplies, food and maybe an extra curricular activity) and they usually were playing outside all the time. At least that's partially my experience and that's the experience of the boomer generation. Children don't need much, in fact providing them with "much" will cause problems in their character like ungratefulness, spoiled etc.
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@restart6358 Male fidelity and monogamy only became a thing through Christianity. It's not that Japanese are crazy, it's that this has been the world for millenia and still is in half of the planet. Harem anime are just showcasing the innate male desire for quantity and polygyny. Nothing more, nothing less. And as far as I know they're very popular for foreign men so it's a universal thing.
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@MrJamChin For old women it does not go the same. Men even at older age have higher sex drive. However, women were never accepted or allowed to use male prostitutes or have intercourse outside of marriage in Japan. The divide was solely reserved for men. Male fidelity was not required in marriage and that is a cultural thing that many cultures have. Some cultures use different methods to cater to male sexual thirst for quantity by allowing multiple wives aka islamic countries. Japan caters to it by allowing them to use prostitutes and in the older days if they were of a higher status even mistresses.
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@keithpalmer4547 The USA is far from good. Their economy is at its worse in almost a century. Inflation rates are high and salaries are stagnant. Spending is through the roof and so is debt but it doesn't seem to give enough economic growth to outpace either of these. The Us economy has been going into the garbage for some time now, Trump did a good job trying to revive it but now Biden plundered it again by huge spending bills that mainly went into the lobbyists pockets.
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@johnnyc.31 Beauty is definitely not fully subjective. It has been scientifically proven that there are many parts of human beauty that are fully objective. Nevertheless, there are beauty standards in every country. So saying everyone is beautiful is in itself an asinine comment since you don't compare it to something for it to be beautiful. Everyone in this video is beautiful according to which beauty standards? Compared to whom? Beauty is not a stand alone thing, it's literally impossible for everyone to be beautiful. The argument that can be made is that everyone might be beautiful according to some country's beauty standards or some individual's standards (although the latter cannot be made to make an argument in this case but more as a statement).
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@prothyyy France is 1.8 because of immigration which has essentially destroy the country. Ireland is one of the few countries that managed to keep somewhat afloat without mass immigration.
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Economic difficulties is arbitrary. Because, yes people think about economics and are not having children but even someone in the lower middle class can afford 2-3 children if he wished so. Children don't need a lot to have a good childhood. They need parental attention and being raised correctly. Toys, clothes etc are cheap if you don't go extravagant. Same with food and other essentials. Any couple with decent budget skills and an average salary can comfortably raise 3-4 children in most of these countries. So it's not necessarily the lack of wealth but more so the heightening of materialism while being stagnant in wages that pushes people out of having kids. As for women's emancipation, that's definitely one of the main factors.
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If you actually want to assimilate you can do so with their current system. But you should really want it hence why you have to wait and then get a visa and then prove that you are a positive influence to their society and then on top of that fully assimilate (learn the language, customs etc) and denounce your past citizenship. Their system is what every nation should strive for. The idea of loosening immigration rules is what got Europe to the point it is now. A failed experiment that has been widely unwelcomed by a lot of people here in Europe. Hence why right wing anti immigration parties are on the rise everywhere in Europe. Finland ,Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Czechia etc.
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@softan ? Germany has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe. It's 1.6 compared to 1.4 in Japan. And if we exclude migrants it's even lower (closer to 1.5-1.4). Germany does have the exact same problems as Japan, which is materialism, feminism and lack of religiosity which drive the birth rates to the bottom.
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I'd suspect they'd have the same views on prostitution (men going out to get prostitutes is fine) but be far more restrictive when it comes to cheating. Meaning they don't really cheat as much.
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@astrayblackcat Well cheating is even more restrictive in other sides of Japan when it comes to the female side. It's not tolerated. And that's the tradition of Japan through centuries. However as far as I know the man cheating was tolerated and seems to still be because that's what the values in Japan are. And as far as I know, men using prostitutes is just the more respectful way of cheating and it was common even in imperial japan.
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Japan rural areas are dying because young people flock to Tokyo. Not because of low birth rates. In fact he rural areas have the highest birth rates whilst Tokyo has the lowest.
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@bekind3050 Male humans* For female humans monogamy was prefered however a lot of the time unobtainable. And that's why there are certain instincts developed in women like getting over a relationship/marriage faster than the men do. Because in antiquity pillaging and wars were a common thing. And a lot of the times the men got killed, so their wives had to quickly get over them and latch upon the conquerors for survival.
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@mollytovxx4181 No everything which is on a scale is like that. Beautiful and ugly are the two edges of the scale. But most people reside in between. Below average, average, above average. Same goes for special as you said.
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@wiztansupercell2512 MHA is awsome
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if everyone is beautiful then no one is.
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@understone86 Japan has extensive welfare programs to support families with children. Salaries are higher than most of Europe. If you are from Eastern Europe your country was 100% poorer than Japan. Even some European countries on the wealthier side have lower salaries than Japan (Estonia, Lithuania, Czechia, Cyprus, Spain, Italy etc). Idk how much you make but from what I can gather you are on the bottom of the economic class in Japan. As for school uniforms, the average cost is 400$ and it goes down to 130$ and up to 700$ depending on the region. That's nowhere near a monthly Japanese salary. If you make less than 1200$ a month you are at the bottom 20% of Japanese earners. The top 20% makes 5000$ but most make around 3000$ a month. That's all after tax by the way.
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@fm0363 "Suicide rates by sex and country (age-standardized, per 100,000 population, World Health Organization, 2019)" Wikipedia links the study. As for developed countries higher than Japan we have: Latvia, Montenegro, USA , Belgium , Finland and Sweden. The 17.5 suicide rate in Japan is specifically for males. Women have a 6.9 suicide rate which makes the average drop significantly down to 12.2. So you got your stats wrong. And no Japan's suicide rate isn't as high as people say. Only for men it is.
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@prothyyy Yes but sadly Ireland is starting to pick up the immigration system of the West and it is starting to lose its traditional setting. But from what I heard covid lockdowns gave the country a reset and a lot of women quitted their jobs or started working less and stayed in the house more after the lockdowns ended, because they understood that they care about their family more than any extra luxuries their job might bring.
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@kinzdarell5447 Actually true. Didn't think of that. He probably visited them as they started to grow in and out of their peak periods (70s, 80s, 90s).
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@SisterTheohild My bad. I meant to say that Germany has the lowest amongst countries of the Western block (excluding Greece and Italy). Most former communist countries have lower fertility rates but Germany also has pretty low fertility rate hovering around 1.5.
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@mike4088 sure but you can't force a culture or people to change and accommodate the way they are beautiful. They either accept and adapt or move into a culture that cherish their beauty. They are beautiful for some guys and some cultures. They are not in this culture and that's okay.
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@WAFishQuest If we removed the births from the religious communities and immigration, the Us would be down by tens of millions in the past few decades. Immigration in general, if used correctly can be a good thing. Mass immigration is never a good thing though. There is a reason why the Us is on a boiling point and multiculturalism is one of them. For immigration to be a long-term positive, you need to make sure that immigrants fully assimilate, which usually entails the rejection of immigrants from culturally completely different countries. You need to preserve the local cultural majority while keeping the different cultures as small minorities. Otherwise, there will be culture clashes and high crime rates. The way current Us immigration is going is destructive. It didn't pose much of a problem early on because the Us was already a non-homogenous country, but as the decades go by we see how American society is heading towards collapse.
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@JohnSmith-li7xe The Us is below replacement levels in procreation and marriages have taken a deep dive. You receive millions of immigrants yearly that usually have more children than the average american. So yes, if not for mass migration to the Us you'd have tens of millions less in population and the birth rates would be at least 0.2 down.
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@77jamess You do understand that even in a salary of the Us standard of poverty you can provide good and healthy food for your children right? If you are not stable then sure add that to the list too. Children don't need much, just the essentials. Food, clothes, a roof over their head and maybe a couple of toys. An average salaried couple can provide that for at least 3-4 children.
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@understone86 Statistics don't lie. That's the median salary after tax. But I'd be happy if you gave me some sources of that claim.
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@letgo4331 You seem to forget that I never mentioned any of my standards. I only mentioned biological and cultural standards. So you are clearly projecting here. P.S. I am a strict Orthodox Christian, I don't think of adultery as an option and I also don't think of non virgin women as an option either. I also don't think of divorce as an option. But I can understand nature and biology. Christianity is there to prohibit those hellish desires and bring fourth a more healthy relationship in the image and word of God.
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@tl1533 you are in the Us which is far from a homogenous and monocultural country. A lot of immigrants means that many of them will not assimilate and create ghettos. This is insanely bad for homogenous and monocultural countries like Japan or European countries. The dire effects of it were seen in Germany, Sweden, France, the UK and more of Europe that allowed mass illegal migration. Now countries that did not allow mass illegal migration like Poland or Romania may be poorer overall, but they have safer, cleaner and more cohesive communities.
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@Bradgilliswhammyman Japan's bureaucracy has nothing to do with their demographic issues. In fact I'd say it's better to keep the country relatively homogenous and preserve the culture, so the bureaucracy is a plus and a filter for people that are not really ready to fully assimilate. They have demographics issues because all the 1st world countries (besides Israel) also have demographic issues. Heavily urbanized populations, lack of religious values, lack of communities and feminism. All detrimental to having a healthy birth rate and demographics.
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@Clownk1ller Never said everyone can afford to have 5-12 kids in Japan. I said most can afford to have at least 3-4 kids. And that's going with the average salary of 1 earner (the man) and then part time earner after having kids (the wife). It's 100% economically feasible. And crazy work hours? I live in Greece, we have even crazier work hours than Japan (or about the same depending on statistics). It's not even that much. If the man works 50-60 hours weekly the woman can work around 30 hours weekly and it's feesible. Let me remind you though that 100 years ago in developed countries, people worked far more than we do now and yet still managed to have multiple children.
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@fluxuation87 importing mass immigration in generally homogenous and monocultural societies is destructive. Japan would be better off dealing with the consequences of population collapse now than they are by importing immigrants that will never assimilate and will degrade their society and in the end will only postpone the birth rate issue.
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@qtaro-7097 Nope. It was punishable a lot of the times by death if the woman cheated in Imperial and pre imperial Japan.
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@likearollingstone007 The Us is 35 trillion dollars in debt. Their base of the 50s and 60s still holds but their economy has been going downhill for many decades now. And the economic strain can even be seen politically. They are on a verge of civil war and with corruption at all times high to the point of the rigging of entire elections (2020). Canada is in even worse shape than the Us. Mexico is trying to come up but they have insane cartel problems.
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@joshuaguerrier7392 Reversing abortion won't fix the fact that we are still a materialistic and not a religious society. It won't fix the fact that relationships and marriages are at the garbage. It won't fix the fact that we have destroyed our communities. But it will definitely be a good step towards a better society.
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@joshuaguerrier7392 Well true that plays a role too. Although it wouldn't entirely fix the problem. But banning most abortions would be a decent start.
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@korndawggy1801 No it's not lol. Have you seen how low the population density is in most places in the Us?
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@understone86 Simple statistics. It's completely delusional to simply bring on anecdotal evidence whilst also being so disillusioned with reality. I will make another comment sourcing everything because youtube will probably hide it but you'd be able to see it because I'll mention you.
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@N.I.S.C Male marital loyalty. Women were never allowed to cheat in a marriage and still are not in most of Japan besides Tokyo it seems (even there I doubt many husbands would tolerate that). But it's true, male fidelity in a marriage/relationship is a Western concept. In fact monogamy by law was adapted by much of the asian world through Western influence. In countries like China polygyny was legal and men could have multiple women (usually if they were nobles). In Japan although men couldn't have multiple wives officially, men were allowed to cheat with mistresses and prostitutes alike. That's most of the non Christian world. Male monogamy is a Christian concept. And whilst it is very successful certain criteria must be met for it to succeed. And those criteria have not been getting met for decades now in the Western world. I can expand on this if you are curious.
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@andreas131298 But that's not a solely Japanese thing. All of the Asian countries have been like that for ever. And all of the world was like that prior to Christianity. Christianity brought monogamy and male fidelity into the picture. Islam made it so that male fidelity can only exist inside a marriage with women (which can be up to 4 women) and that's partly influenced by Christianity.
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@gordonbgraham Glad to see you here once again. I remember we had a conversation a while ago in one of Takashi's video's although I don't quite remember (I think it was about cost of living and birth rates). I agree with most of what you're saying here, yes Japan has problems but those are not "incredibly high suicide rates", "homelessness", "high work hours", "child prostitution". As an outsider, I'd say Japan has a destroyed dating market, similar to the ones in the West but I'd like to hear your opinion on that as an older father that actually lives there.
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@nyankomaomao I don't know from where in asia you're from. But in most asian countries men were always allowed to cheat/have multiple wives or mistresses. In islamic asian countries they are allowed to have multiple wives instead of "cheating". And no it's not mental gymnastics, it's plain understanding of male nature. These women partly understand male sexual nature which you clearly don't (and most Western women don't). And even in Japan adultery is far less common than in the West and that's a guarantee. Even from the male side. And no using prostitutes is not cheating in most asian countries.
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@thebush6077 The mother needs to be around her child in the developmental years 0-3. Then if you don't like child care, you should do it the traditional way. Family members with no children come and care for the child for the little hours that the mother is gone. The father is also present for a lot of the time even if he works a lot of hours. Although the father's job is to lead and leave an impression which is not done by being 24/7 around the children.
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@Seoyeaji921 Ancient Christian people did NOT have multiple wives. If you mean Jews prior to the coming of Jesus then yes but after Jesus came and the early church was created by the apostles, the church enforced male monogamy as well.
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@carilaeeduardo3055 Even tourists are highly disappointed at Paris in the past 10 years. But overall there is a reason why 40% of the French and even more of the native French voted for someone that promises to diminish immigration and deport illegals.
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@fm0363 the damage of feminism is too deep to reverse by media alone. If it doesn't become a widespread phenomena throughout Japan then it will most likely fail to draw any real results.
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@jm1835 Nope. Even in Japan it's gendered. Women physically cheating is unacceptable even if we know that women in Tokyo are promiscuous, in most Japan it's unacceptable.
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Most Japanese women would tolerate their husband using prostitute services. Whether they would like it or not is another issue on its own. People have to put through things they dislike in order to be in a relationship. However the use of prostitution by men was a widely acceptable thing throughout all of Japan's history. In more older days, even mistresses were acceptable.
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@Haz-Zzz It's materialism, loss of community, loss of religion and loss of family values. People are afraid of change and people are ego centric and materialistic. That's the issue most developed countries face. Half of it was caused by feminism and the push of women into the work force. Instead of teaching women to be good mothers and wives, they teach them to be good work slaves for their bosses. And women eat it all up until they reach 30-40 which they lose constant male attention and begin to understand that they are lonely and miserable.
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@davidlamb7524 I meant median salary. Not average. That's my bad.
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@Clownk1ller I am 20 so 0 yet. I plan on having anywhere between 5-12 children depending on my future wife's opinion. However, my parents had 3 children and were planning to have more but an enormous bankruptcy hit our country plummeting our economy and deleting many jobs and job opportunities which heavily affected both of my parents.
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@deckhead33 Risk of complications and death? Child birth for healthy and of age women is so safe that it is far more likely for a pregnant woman to die in a car crash than in child birth. It's outrageous to think that I don't have to worry about anything considering I am working my ass off to pull one of the hardest majors (electrical engineering) so I can comfortably provide for as many as 12 children. My mother experienced child birth thrice and even had some complications in the third one. Guess what though? She wanted more children. Fearmongering as if we are in the middle ages and women are gonna be left crippled or dead after child birth is insanely dangerous to attempt. It's probably a factor to low birth rates although I'd it's used more as an excuse rather than an actual deterring factor. Maybe some women that fell for the propaganda "child birth=dangerous" have had it as a factor to not have children but no sane and knowledgeable woman would. P.S. to add some statistics. In Japan for every 100,000 births 3.4 end in death. And probably all of them had one of these three driving factors : 1. Old age 2. Prior health problems 3. Obesity (I put obesity at 3rd because Japan has barely any obese people, but in the West it's the main factor for maternal mortality rates)
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@pinkmiku12 Bad? Women love children. She'd love being around all of her children, especially if she has family and religious oriented values. Besides, if we are to have 12 kids it would be up to her. I said minimum 5 which would be kinda disappointing but I can work with it.
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@markfullerton8354 Men 70 years ago worked for a living. Just because they had a garden doesn't mean they didn't spend currency on food. Besides, in small towns or people who have houses, have gardens and have every opportunity to plant fruit trees or vegetables. I live in a 80k people town and we have a garden with lemon trees, oranges and other trees. Does that mean we don't spend money on food? No. Of course we do. But some people want to go out and build themselves up, either through college or just plainly working. No time to plant and garden. And that was a very common thing even 70 years ago. Nonfarmer men barely did any farm work. Homeless people 70 years ago would just die off. Homeless people 1000 years ago would either be enslaved or killed. Paying money for someone else to build you a house was a thing for millenia now. You think people built their own house 70 years ago? You think they created their plumbing and electricity by themselves? You're delusional if you think so. Currency has to be present for bigger societies because each person values a trade differently and that can cause imbalance and later on death. Economic systems existed since the ancient Phoenicians, it's not something new.
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@obitouchiha6439 Legally no, socially yes. The only legal theocratic aspect I fully support is the abolition of marriage by the state and the church being responsible for marriage since it's a religious concept. The state can give civil union sh*t if they want though.
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Definitely a coincidence. No one wants mass immigration. Germany and France thought it would be a good idea to fix their birth rates and replenish their work force but it didn't end well. France is literally being destroyed to the ground by mainly immigrants. Same with Germany. Hence why heavily anti immigration right wing parties are on the rise all over Europe. For Japan it would be even more devastating than it was for France or Germany to import a bunch of immigrants due to them being more homogenous and monocultural than both France and Germany. Besides immigration is only a temporary solution that will push back the problem a decade or two. Germany is still facing declining birth rates, same with France.
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Societal collapse is imminent if women do not start prioritizing family over work and if men grow some balls and start relationships with intent to marry. That's not only in Japan. But South Korea, Germany, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, France, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Portugal etc. All of the West is collapsing and we only look at getting more money and material wealth.
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Japan's consequences will come faster than the rest of the West because it started a decade or two earlier.
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@obitouchiha6439 Social theocracy can 100% exist. Public humiliation and shaming tactics have always been the main core of religious punishment and not legal means through the past centuries in Christian countries. Marriage was never an institution prior to Christianity. At least not in the sense of how it was codified in law in Western countries and how the rest of the westernized world (Japan, South Korea etc) adopted it. It was a Christian institution, hence why it was purely monogamous and hence why the grounds for divorce were adultery and severe abuse only. The only 2 instances where the Bible allows divorce. Since then the government has fully hijacked the institution and made it into a clown show. Marriage, family and relationships are at their lowest point in the history of the West and I don't think anyone can disagree with this statement. "since they won't be subject to arrest or imprisonment for making life choices that don't align with a religious doctrine". My issue is not people living non religiously or having non religious lifestyles, my issue is normalizing those lifestyles and showing them publicly and glorifying them. Example: Do I believe people that have homosexual relationships should be locked up for it? No. Do I believe that these same people should be able to show off their lifestyle to children or in public? Nope, I don't. Bitterness? Maybe at the modern liberal globalist government but even then I have come to an understanding that I cannot do much about other than to sit back take care of myself and my family whilst everything goes down and gets destroyed. The West's days are numbered if we keep going this trajectory. And yes westernized countries like Japan are included in this.
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@ActuallyEvil2 The animation for 1997 was severely lacking. It was just static images for much of the last episodes. The soundtrack was top tier indeed, but the animation was lacking, especially compared to other bangers of that time (NGE, Cowboy Bebop etc). Also do you really want to call the remastered movies good? They were mediocre at best. The animation style was okay, but they had a lot of CGI that was subpar.
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@jiminauburn5073 Exactly. That's the real situation. Double standards exist in Japan some are "beneficial" to men and some are clearly not. Men need to make concessions and so do women. But it seems like people have forgotten about that.
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@jiminauburn5073 The more correct term would be concubine in English, so yeah pretty much the same. Some countries recognized second or third wives, some didn't and don't. So they're concubines if they're not officially recognized.
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@fallenlegend8888 True but also depends. A man agreeing to his woman being able to sleep with other men will destroy his social status and become the laughing stock. It's not really the same the other way around. Because there is a vast difference between one gender cheating and the other .
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@coyotefire69420 "How did people find their partners?" Depends on when. Back in the day it was through arrangements and family friends. More recently it was through work and the past 2 decades is online. Women do actually find men with many women more attractive. And here's a reminder that the man women end up with is rarely their first option. In most of the cases, it's not even in her top 10 options. It has been widely studied that women are attracted to men with women around them. It's even present in chimpanzees (our closest animal relative). It's called preselection. Any man that was in a relationship can attest to that. Any man that was having active sex with women can attest to that. Preselection is 100% a thing. That's part of the reason why there are far more single men than women in the ages of 18-30. The other part is because women date older men. However, you'd find it appalling that a lot of women are actually dating the same man nowadays. As ridiculous as that may sounds.
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@markfullerton8354 This system has worked for millenia. Yes it's good to know how to grow your own food and build your own shelter. But guess what, when humans used to live like that, they'd get easily sick and die. One year of bad harvest would kill millions. Extreme weather could destroy their shelter and kill them in the process. Half of your children were projected to die before reaching 12. Is that really the life you want? The system isn't breaking apart because of currency or because of lack of primitive survival skills. It's breaking because we lost our human identity. Humans are social creatures, the best thing we can do in our lives is form connections, relationships, family. Sadly though modern humans have been sedated by self centrism and hedonism. Something that was always prevalent but not as wide spread as today. In fact today, it's so wide spread that people would put material things and short term happiness over building the strongest bond, that of family. It's sad and pathetic. This system was working for a long time before it started cracking a few decades ago. But the moment we abandoned religion, we were bound to abandon other values and morals. And the moment we let the emotional gender have half of the power was also the moment our society started becoming more about chasing short-term happiness and hedonism over taking on responsibilities and living a fulfilling life. So no, it's not money. It's not labor. It's secularism and feminism.
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@M_SID21 This is an old comment but here you go. I use average as median although it's probably not the same. Median is a better indicator. Here's the median japanese monthly salary pretaxes : 471,000 JPY (3,470 USD). Which aligns with what I wrote aka 2300 USD after taxes. Now again studying statistics and actually having the IQ to discern what's real and what's not are two very different things. I am currently studying one of the toughest engineering degrees you can find and I had to learn very high level math to get into my uni. I understand statistics very well and statistics don't lie, people lie. I brought statistics before you, I didn't just state a mere opinion. Greece is paying for the price of corruption, socialism and EU expansionism. Our politicians were corrupt which is half of the reason for our financial ruin, the other half is that our citizens got comfortable with the idea of extended welfare and pay outs and government spending. But after financial ruin was achieved EU came to the rescue. Oh wait, they didn't. They actually did everything to benefit themselves. Greece became a puppet state which was ruled by Germany and France AND the euro was prevented from falling behind the dollar and the pound. You think they "paid" to save us? They paid to save their as*es and they expect every penny back with a decent interest on top. I can attest you that I'd prefer for our generations to suffer twice as much and our country to be rebuilt in the next 20-30 years than have EU "bail us out" and be an EU puppet state for the next century.
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It actually is. But only on the male side. Women were never tolerated when committing adultery and still are not in most of Japan. However male fidelity was never a prerequisite. Although men could not and cannot have multiple official wives, they could and can use prostitution services or have mistresses. That's literally the tradition for most human societies that were and are not practicing Christianity.
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@annabelholland Germany still has a declining population. They allowed 1 million immigrants in during the migrant crisis and it was a huge mistake that costed them a lot. There's a reason why the anti immigration right wing outsider party AfD is winning in polls. Because the German people fucked around and found out. Immigration can delay the problem, but if countries like the Us or the UK keep importing culturally and ethnically different migrants at such high rates their societies will be overtaken. France is on the verge of collapse because of it. If the anti immigration party of Le Pen doesn't win next elections then I don't think France will survive as a nation.
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@rich1051414 The planet is not overpopulated but I agree that we are going to experience a population collapse event that is common throughout human history. However the reason is mostly because we haven't adjusted as a race to the technological advancements of our eras and we can't support more population because our societies have become incompetent throughout the past 100 years. We sadly haven't found a way to retain a community, to retain religiosity and family values within an urbanized and technologically advanced society which is why we will experience the population collapse event. As we progress as a race we can 100% reach far greater population numbers than today. But that would have to entail a lot of human aspects of life being preserved which hasn't occurred in this timeline.
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@NeostormXLMAX Indeed, although Japan has been thoroughly infected by the neo liberal world.
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@bnng.1989 For Japan?
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@skyak4493 How do you disagree with my interpretation? How can Japan improve by adopting clearly failed policies that Germany and the Us implemented? Germany is still a country with one of the lowest birth rates in Europe. Even after importing millions of immigrants and problems. The architect of that importation Angela Merkel has even admitted that it was a mistake. German people know it was a mistake hence why they are voting for AfD. The Us is a crumbling society. Their corruption is so high that they went as far as to rig an election. Their economy is failing, their foreign policy is failing, their army is failing and they are more divided than ever before. They also imported the world's migrants and even millions of illegal ones and how is that working for them? Even higher crime rates? Drug and human trafficking? If Japan adopted an open borders policies it would even be a worse failure than Germany and Sweden. It would be socially and economically devastating. Most highly homogenous countries are aversed to outsiders because it's culturally devastating when they are not. Sweden was a prime example. The most immigrant friendly country failed to support the hundreds of thousands of migrants that came in during the EU migrant crisis and now they have closed borders and a bunch of problems steming from these batches of migrants. Immigration can only be beneficial if it's highly selective and only allowed for people willing to fully assimilate. As for your last points. Yes they are true. Japan failed to address the cultural issue that has driven them to population decline and so has most of the modern world.
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@jtris01 Misogynistic? Define misogyny because I am 100% certain you're using it incorrectly. Sexist perhaps but all traditional standards are inherently sexist.
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@andreas131298 You're completely wrong though. You're conservative. But you're most likely a Christian conservative or at least abide by Christian values. Conservatism does not equate to all cultures. In most non Christian countries men having multiple wives or "cheating" was and is acceptable. Japan included. It cannot be traced to "WW2" , it can be traced to Japan's oldest historical records. Male fidelity was NEVER required. In fact in some period nobles even had many wives officially. Prostitution and mistresses were undoubtedly allowed for men.
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@AidanK_ART So here's a lengthy but explanatory rant (I will answer all your questions): Men and women are different. Men view sex differently than women. Most men can differentiate emotions and physicality in sex. Women can't for the most part. Which is why cheating is not viewed the same. Women when they cheat, they cheat emotionally, mentally, physically and even socially. Men usually cheat solely physically. You can even trace that underlying thought process in these women that understand male nature. They'd allow their man using a prostitute because that means it's not emotional cheating therefore they're not afraid that their man will get stolen from them. Now on why men would do such a thing. Well you have to understand male and female sexual instinct and libido. It's well known that men have far higher libido than women, but even so. You might ask: If the woman gives the man sex very frequently why would he go use a prostitute and not his wife? It's because of the male sexual strategy. Men instinctually want to spread their seed aka men look for quantity of women. A man can have multiple wives that he can love the same, a woman cannot. Hence why there is a historical precedence of men being allowed to have multiple wives whilst the opposite was always punished. The female sexual strategy is called hypergamy. What does that mean? That women seek the man that can lead them, provide for them, protect them, be their emotional rock etc. That all amounts to a man that is superior to them in tangible assets as well as mental assets. Why did that instinct evolve to that point? Well for multiple factors. Women needed a man capable to protect them from physical threats. A man capable to provide for them when they are in a vulnerable state. A man that will allow their woman to vent to him and provide a solution with a calm mind. A man that could lead them out of tough situations. Those were all death or life traits that a woman needed from a man. So getting the man that is the BEST at all, would be ideal. It all comes down to biology. There are other biological reasons as to why men are built for polygyny whilst women are not built for polyandry. Such STI vulnerability, ability to reproduce at mass scales etc. What you need to understand though is even if Japanese or other men from other cultures "cheat" physically, they still go home to their wife. They still love their wife and will never leave her. The betrayal would be to have a second relationship or leave them. And that's how it is in most of the world. In islamic countries men can have up to 4 wives however they cannot have intercourse outside marriage. So it depends on the region and culture. I am from Greece so societally we're close to you Russians. Your values were based upon Orthodox Christianity. So what happened in our societies is vastly different. Christianity pretty much invented the concepted of forced male monogamy. Men were NOT monogamous prior to Christianity. And although a very tough thing for many men to follow, it's the best for society as a whole. Because that means everyone gets paired and has a family and children and a happy marriage. HOWEVER, that also came with other criteria that were to be followed which now are not. Hence why we have extremely low fertility rates, high suicide and depression rates and most people are lonely. Whilst in our Christian societies we still uphold the restrictions on the male sexual strategy (polygyny and quantity of women),we do not uphold the restrictions on the FEMALE sexual strategy. Meaning that women now choose who they mate with. That's a huge issue, because hypergamy will cloud their judgement and for the most part we know women are not good at finding the best man for their future. In our society, it used to be the father finds a few good picks for his daughter and sometimes the daughter could choose who she liked the most from these highly vetted picks or sometimes she couldn't. However, before she could date/marry a guy, the father had to approve or she was disowned. And that's a good way to do things because the father always knows who the bad men are and who the tricksters are. And since he is a part of the decision he also has authority over the relationship. Meaning that if the man was deceiving, he would face harsh consequences. Now fathers are barely present and have barely any authority on who their daughter dates or marries. It's more so pronounced in Greece but I think it's also highly the case in Russia. So the dating market and relationships are utterly f*cked.
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@Revelmonk Read it again, it's pretty clear.
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@@ha-yj4tc You are talking about people in Tokyo and you are also failing to mention that prostitution is not considered cheating in Japan. Different societal standards than the Us. If you look at studies conducted Japanese have high opinions against cheating. However we have to ask what is considered cheating. Men in most societies including Japan have a higher threshold before entering into cheating grounds. As for cheating is more rampant. If you consider men using prostitutes while in a relationship as "cheating" then MAYBE and that's a maybe. Otherwise it's not even close. Western societies have far more cheating.
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@CristanioPeweyyy You said it. "Betraying". If you heard what these women say, it's if their husband does it behind their back is when they consider it cheating. Why? Because there is betrayal involved.
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@Halofreakanoid Casually dating is not okay. Casual dating is a strong part of this modern perverse culture of hooking up and cheating. Unless it's frowned upon, cheating will continue to happen at high rates and people will continue to engage in hook up culture. Also it is true that cheating varies from culture to culture and person to person. For example, I'd find it cheating if my wife was to flirt with other men. I'd find it cheating if my wife posted bikini pictures on instagram. However, I am conservative and traditional minded. Double standards also exist and are 100% fine.
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@cottoncandykawaii2673 Immigrants don't have many children because they partially assimilate to the values of a developed. They won't bring children into poverty, they can easily sustain many, it's just that materialism is rampant. And even un-assimilative migrants fall for it.
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@angelt9862 I didn't try to justify anything. I mentioned historical and biological facts. I didn't mention women cheating because female sexual strategy is not abundance/polyandry but hypergamy. If I were to talk about women I'd talk about how they're naturally inclined to seek the best man they can get. And I wouldn't "condemn" that attribute since it's in their nature. If you are to restrict (societally or by law) the male sexual strategy aka polygyny. Then you ought to restrict the female sexual strategy as well aka hypergamy. That's how the most successful society were run in history. And those were the Christian Western societies. How do you restrict the female sexual strategy? Very simple. Arranged marriages and father/male of the family has the final say on his daughter/female of their family mating choice. You seem to have a very modern and ideological thinking of gender. Gender differences exist, and major ones are shown in mating strategies. Mating between the genders is not symmetrical. Hence if you are to restrict one gender's strategy you ought to restrict the other one's too. Otherwise you get this destroyed dating scene that most modern countries have today.
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@MegaCynar "Incel garbage" It is feminism. 2nd wave feminism was 2 things. Female sexual liberation and women's emancipation. Both of these things aided in the hook up and cheating culture most societies are dealing with now. Do you think that in Afghanistan there is even 1% of cheating from women compared to the Us or other feminist societies? There is a spark difference. And although men still cheated (only physically) in non feminist societies, the rates were still far lower GUARANTEED.
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@Chazzmatazz Yes actually. Destroying the values instilled by religion and society so women can be empowered somehow takes down the entirety of the value system. If half of the value system is not followed, why would the other half continue to be followed? Women being empowered is women's sexual liberation. What that means is that women can do whatever they please and they won't be stoned or socially ostracized for it. In fact it's even rewarded by the government since we know in many cases where the woman cheats and files for divorce and still wins custody and alimony and child support and the house. Seems like in a gynocentric society, cheating is rampant. Wouldn't dare to say the same for a country like Afghanistan or Iran though.
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@j5679 Well the countries to stay away from are all the Western ones. If you want to nullify the chances of your woman cheating you and divorcing you, guess what? You have to convert to either Islam or Christianity or Hinduism and then go to countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran etc for islam, Nigeria, Armenia etc for Christianity and India for Hinduism.
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@AJ_Jingco If you can't support yourself as an adult (or at least after you graduate uni) then you have far bigger problems. Because it would seem that you still haven't matured.
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@pat4005 Totally agree with you. I am not against migration as a whole. I believe that migrants that fully assimilate are good for a country, usually though that entails that they are of similar ethnic/religious origin. However in the case of Japan, Christians can integrate as well as Buddhists and Confucianists or other eastern religions. As for ethnic background, I'd say it'd be harder for black or middle eastern people than it would be for white people and harder for white people than it would be for other eastern asian people. But it's possible nonetheless.
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You seem to have it completely backwards. It's not tolerable for both to be cheating. And women in Japan are mainly serial cheaters in more westernised parts like Tokyo. To give you a picture, only for men it was and is tolerable to cheat. That's the historic values of Japanese society. However it has become a little stricter with many women only tolerating men cheating through brothels since it's the most respectful way of cheating (in logical terms) and it's not even considered cheating in Japan. Western values of Christiandom are not universal. Male polygyny was practiced throughout most human societies. Some allowed multiple wives (islam) and some allowed the use of prostitution or mistresses.
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@botanicalitus4194 Israel has sky high maternal and child mortality rates? It has lack of contraception and sexual assault? What are you on about?
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@astrayblackcat I use the word "cheating" for the Westerners to understand. I don't know what part of Japan you are in. But in most rural parts women are not allowed to cheat. Maybe in Tokyo or other metropolitan areas. However I will suggest you this: Why are relationships in Japan at an all time low? Why are divorce rates so high? Allowing women sexual freedom and not being "archaic" has a part in that. Although you say you are not like the West, you clearly are because you adopted the feminist mindset. And believe me, in the West they cheat a lot. What many Japanese men fail to understand is female nature. Women get attached to the person they have sex with and it is an important part of their emotional bond. I don't know if you've dated a virgin woman compared to one who has slept with a lot of men, but the difference is stark after you have sex with a virgin woman or a woman with low prior sexual partners. The more men a woman sleeps with, the more she loses that ability of emotional bonding through sex. The more sexual partners she has, the more likely she is to divorce you/break up with you. It's also cuckoldry. A man allowing his woman to sleep with other men was and is considered cuckoldry from most men. And unless you're into NTR I don't see how this can work. That equality thing that modern people even in Japan think is good, is really not. We tried it in the West for decades now. We are almost destroyed as former empires. Japan is following the trend. No loyal wives, no children. More feminism and working women, less wages for the family and time for kids. So less kids. Less kids, less future taxes and work force. Less future taxes and work force, societal collapse.
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@MoonageDaydream. A couple with an average salary can easily raise comfortably 3-4 children in any first world country. So stop the bs. If you want a country with robust sex education that is rich af but still has insanely high birth rates is Israel. Israel is richer than most of the West and still has high birth rates? Why? Because of religiosity, mentality and patriotism which translates to sense of responsibilities in front of your nation.
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Sex isn't the solution. I am from Greece which the country where we have the most sex and yet we are aging faster than a rocket. Our population is declining in alarming rates.
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@Seoyeaji921 That's untrue. The church never sanctified multiple marriages. So saying Christian kings had multiple wives is ridiculous. Maybe some had mistresses which is also prohibited but again that's very few compared to the number of Christian kings that were monogamous and it is still disallowed in the general society aka if it were to happen hidden from the public eye. The church has held tremendous power in Christian societies and it NEVER allowed polygyny. Again male monogamy only became widespread once Christianity became widespread. Hinduism 100% allows for polygamy, their gods are polygamous and so are their people. People in higher castes very commonly had harems and multiple wives and it was not hidden. All of non-Christian societies had lawfull polygyny prior to Western culture spreading all over the world.
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@MrMsLisa Absolute garbage. Women nowadays are unhappy because they can't form true relationships. I am not saying we should, I am saying what is. Women are happier when decisions like mate selection were left up to their fathers. Hence why arranged marriages work far more often and women are happier at those. It's also a fact that women that marry their first sexual partner have more successful and happier marriages. Yes I am saying that most women derrive happiness from dealing with people (scientific fact) and not work. And what is better for them than dealing with people? Dealing with their favorite people aka their family. Most women would be far happier searching for a husband and making a family that wasting their life working and taking anti depressants at their 40s because they are lonely. So the best option is to push a culture of women staying home and having a priority on building a family and finding a husband instead of a career. We should also push for fathers to be active on their daughter's mate selection. Women are terrible mate selectors, hence why we see so many divorces, out of wedlock children, women losing their virginity to random guys that will never marry them etc. I am not advocating for complete removal of women's emancipation, I am advocating for an enormous cultural shift away from women being in the work force and towards women having families. Day cares and parental leaves won't help people fix their mindsets. Hence why it doesn't work in fixing birth rates.
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@MrMsLisa Well it's clearly a bad thing societally. Now do I think women should have equal opportunity? Surely. But are most women happy with working their life away on a void career instead of being housewives and spending time with their family and friends? No, they are not. So if there was a way that the economy would allow the average man to be able to support an entire household with his salary then I would go for that. But as long as women are pushed into working that's never gonna happen. Concluding, yes women would be far happier if they had never gotten equal opportunities which is kinda ironic but sad at the same time.
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@sepp0 I'd say the stark difference is not on the allowance of male use of prostitution but cheating overall. Meaning that women would be less inclined to cheat in areas outside Tokyo compared to these women. As far as I know and even from studies Japanese people condemn cheating and dislike it. Especially if it comes from the female side. From the male side, using prostitutes is mostly not considered cheating. That's the traditional and conservative view. So I'd say that it would be more common to see women like these ones to be against their husband using prostitutes or cheating.
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@jm1835 You've got it very twisted. And it's not your fault, it's that modern society has destroyed every moral value held before. So to make it more clear. All traditional societies frowned upon female cheating. Why? Because female cheating is always connected. It's physical, emotional, mental and even societal. Whilst men on the most part cheat only physically. Hence why for men it was acceptable to not be fedile in a marriage. For a woman to cheat physically, she has to have initially cheated emotionally and mentally. For a man, he can woe a woman, sleep with her and forget everything about her after a week. Hence why there was always a distinction. Since the sexual revolution in the 60s and 70s, people think that the fact that this was a gendered issue has ended. It hasn't. Because all of those societal rules were based upon biology and evolution of human instinct. Hence why people are confused.
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@elliesart_ A very female centric view. You clearly cannot fathom how the male sexual strategy works. It seems simple but it seems that women cannot fathom it. The male natural sexual strategy is just this : HAVING MULTIPLE WOMEN. Yep I said it. That's all there is to it. When men vow to be monogamous they put their urges and natural instincts aside. However monogamy and vows are only a Christian construction. It has been partly adopted by other countries but as you can clearly see Japan is not one. You see, although many Japanese men compromise with their sexual strategy when they date/marry. They do not go the full way, hence why they use prostitutes. It's easy to say "any gender can avoid it" when you're a woman with a completely different instinctual sexual strategy and with far lower libido. As for prostitutes. Men are the ones that use prostitutes so you have absolutely no say on how MEN view prostitutes. And how men view prostitutes is like taking a dumb or a piss. Nothing trivial, just using services to get off. And yes they are "objects" to be paid for as much as a cleaning lady/guy is. Just different type of service.
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@GothJedi You mean the people that pushed the women's emancipation? Do you even know that the vast majority of women didn't even want the right to vote let alone to have to go to work? The politicians and the elites got wealthy by doubling the workforce and paying the same (which in turn made it so that one parent can't make enough to raise a family alone aka halfed the actual wages and/or doubled the inflation rates). Feminism is mostly to blame for this. Cultural marxist ideologies too.
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@DoubleSpy It will only happen if they start cultivating a mindset for their young women that they need to prioritize finding a husband and making a family over work. Unless that's done, their birth rates will not change and societal collapse will be imminent. That's the same for most of the West too.
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They don't need migrants unwilling to assimilate. Simple as that. You can get your work visa, but you'll be booted out of the country when it expires.
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@srinivasteja291 from no, been yes. And had to get a bunch of vaccines to even go there.
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@Molly-gw6gl India was never "India" aka the country. For most of its history they were broken states that fought each other and for some time it was mostly under the reign of a couple of empires. In fact British colonisation is the sole reason for India's unification and insane population boom. I didn't say all of India is primitive. I said parts of it are. I am sure there are a few parts of India that could be considered 1st world. But overall India is definitely not a developed country.
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@levithebangal8397 Sorry but you are just delusional. India always had wars. The most peaceful it had been was during the British Raj and after it. British colonialism benefited India a ton. From infrastructure to education, India was lifted out of the extreme poverty and the starvation cycle that would follow every few decades. Now why India is very technologically regressed. The country has very low GDP per capita. Which means that the population doesn't produce much of anything. It's ranked 122nd in the world, which is extremely low. Then we can go to the fact that there are about 8 million slaves right now as we speak in India. We can talk about the absolute disgusting state most Indian cities are in. With sh*t on the roads, disease everywhere etc. Did you know that for foreigners from 1st world countries to come to India they are usually subjected to a number of vaccines due to high likelihood of catching a severe disease there? And let's not talk about how dirty the country itself is. The rivers are toxic from the garbage that they carry and India is one of the most responsible countries for water and ground polution. Yes India is sadly still 3rd world and technologically regressed. It can't compete with the rest of the world yet.
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@stxfdt1240 Institutions that don't reflect on the population. Yes ,of course a country with 1.3 billion citizens will have some good unis and some great technologic and scientific teams. The question is, if those are good in proportion to the situation. And the answer is simply no. Most of European countries beat India in all these sectors and only have a fraction of India's population.
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 @ChocoParfaitFra Tokyo Ghoul is goated, but as far as I know the manga was very mainstream in Japan.
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@a.s.1737 I am saying that they can be beautiful by subjective opinions or other country's standards. By Japan's standards they are not. Simple as that. In my opinion they are average or a little above average ,which is a normal rating that most people fall in.
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@user-lx1pe5up7l You can't say "they are beautiful according to them". That thinking is extremely damaging. If I say that I am a 12 year old girl and a dozen people on the internet agree with me, it doesn't make me a 12 year old girl. Objective reality exists hence why beauty standards exist. The idea that the majority of men wouldn't relatively agree on a bunch of beauty standards or vice versa for women is ridiculous. Does that men that there aren't people that will find conventionally unattractive people attractive? Of course there will be. But if you line up 100 people and make a decent experiment on the matter, you'll see that all gravitate to the most objectively attractive person.
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Neither of these are true. Countries that both of these have insanely low birth rates. Look at Finland. Has the highest rank of education and has everything you listed in it, they also have one of the best work-life balances yet they have lower birth rates than Japan. Neither of these are factors. A big factor is women prioritizing career and work over finding a husband and making a family. Another one is lack of religious and family values which in turn isolates people because there is no community. Lastly and most importantly is materialism. Many prioritize material wealth and money over creating a family.
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@grimsonforce7504 Yeah. They've fallen for the intersectional lie of "the world is a house for everyone". Guess what? All of this "multiculturalism" and mass migration only serves to destroy the local cultures. The result is already visible just by looking at Western large metropolitan areas. They all have the same tasteless blob of international culture. Nothing unique about them. In my opinion, it should be as hard as possible for people to permanently settle Japan in order to prevent the same cultural deterioration. If you complain about "muh bureaucracy and muh english" then you should've never tried to move there in the first place. Japan and any self respecting nation should only allow immigrants from respectable or similar cultures and their population should never exceed 3-4% of the native population. For example, idgaf but I don't want migrants for anywhere other than east asia and european ethnic people. I'd rather be called racist and my country be safe, homogenous and with high trust.
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