Comments by "CaptainVanisher" (@captainvanisher988) on "TAKASHii" channel.

  1.  @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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  2.  @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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  3.  @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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  4.  @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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  5.  @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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  6.  @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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  7.  @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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  8.  @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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  9.  @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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  10.  @wiztansupercell2512  MHA is awsome
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  11.  @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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  12.  @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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  13.  @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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  14.  @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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  15.  @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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  16.  @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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  17.  @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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  18.  @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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  19.  @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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  20.  @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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  21.  @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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  22.  @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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  23.  @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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  24.  @davidlamb7524  I meant median salary. Not average. That's my bad.
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  25.  @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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  26.  @rider-of-rohan  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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  27.  @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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  28.  @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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  29. 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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  30.  @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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  31.  @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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  32.  @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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  33.  @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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  34. 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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  35.  @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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  36.  @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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  37.  @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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  38.  @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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  39.  @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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  40.  @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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  41.  @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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  42.  @srinivasteja291  from no, been yes. And had to get a bunch of vaccines to even go there.
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  43.  @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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  44.  @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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  45.  @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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  46.  @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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  47. 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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  48.  @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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  49.  @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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  50.  @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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