Comments by "K `" (@user-jt3dw6vv4x) on "How Young Singaporeans Feel About the Birth Rate Crisis in Singapore? | Street Interview" video.

@hitthedeck4115 As a country becomes more educated the fertility rate will decline. This isn't just a developed nation issue anymore when we look at how developing Asia is facing a fertility crisis too. Thailand has the second lowest fertility rate in SEA and it is a developing nation. Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations in Asia, has a fertility rate of 1.95 which is below replacement level. The only reason they brought their fertility rate down is due to educating their people which allowed the government to teach their people about family planning, including contraception. So fertility decline isn't something can be avoided, it's going to happen. The goal should be to maintain a low fertility rate instead of letting it drop which is what's happening everywhere. If a nation can maintain a fertility rate of 1.9, still below replacement level, that would be good as opposed to letting it drop to below 1 which is what's happening in Singapore and South Korea.
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Singapore mostly brings in Malaysians who are ethnically (Chinese, Malay, Indian) and culturally virtually the same as Singaporeans. Chinese, Indonesians and Indians are the second, third and fourth largest groups to be accepted into Singapore and they aim to bring in the good ones. However, it is hard to get PR in Singapore. So don't you think for a second that the Khalistanis, Hindu nationalists, Mohammads and Muslim Indians are going to be brought into Singapore. Keep dreaming, Ali.
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Me when I'm delulu and think people simply choose their sexuality. Tell me when did you decide to become straight?
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The fertility rates of Singapore's three main ethnic groups look like this: Chinese - 0.94, Indian - 0.97 and Malay - 1.83. The Chinese and Indians have the lowest in Singapore and the Chinese and Indians have been living in Singapore for many generations before the modern nations of China and India were even formed. Chinese, Indians and Malays they all share Singaporean culture. Thus, they are far removed from the cultural psyche of China and India respectively and cannot be compared to places like Canada. It would be like comparing French-Quebec Canadians with French in France. The report you quoted is from 2010 and there are several factors as to why that is now outdated, one of which is that the fertility rate for South Asian women would've declined for natural reasons, it would've been low to begin with considering the people in question would've been of a higher status and thus having probably 2 kids while Chinese immigrants came from a One-Child Policy era China and were used to being an only sibling and thus would've only had 1 kid. Additionally, when we look at the fertility rates in India which now stands at 2 and everywhere else in South Asia, except for Pakistan, it's below replacement level so the idea that the fertility rate of South Asian women in Canada, even with new immigrants, wouldn't have decreased doesn't make sense. It would've decreased and regardless, the difference would've likely been 1 between the two groups anyway. We're talking about higher quality immigrants and then their first generation offspring, who are adapted to the local culture.
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@downtomars6268 Well in Singapore, you can clearly see that the Chinese and Indians have the lowest rates, the Malays have below replacement level fertility too but it's higher simply because they are Muslims. The case of Singapore however cannot be compared to Canada where people are composed of recent immigrants and ethnic groups with different cultures. Singaporeans may be ethnically diverse but they all share the same Singaporean values that Lee Kuan Yew called "Asian values". The fertility rates among Singapore's three main groups are all below replacement level and they are all from the same Singaporean cultural background and so this talk of ethnic differences or culture makes no sense here.
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Do Canadians just make everything about themselves or is it just you? The fertility rates of Singapore's three main ethnic groups look like this: Chinese - 0.94, Indian - 0.97 and Malay - 1.83. The contribution of Chinese immigration to Canada will not be the same as South Asian immigration to Canada because everybody knows that most immigrants to Canada are from India. There are way more Indians entering Canada than Chinese. The population of South Asians is rising in Canada because you keep accepting immigrants from India (especially Punjab). Singapore is made up of Singaporeans who have been living in Singapore for more than a hundreds years. Don't bring your race issues here please.
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@johnlesoudeur3653 Singapore was actually once a part of Malaysia until 1965 when it was expelled from Malaysia. It won't become Muslim-majority despite the Malays having the highest fertility rate in Singapore. The Singaporean government offsets this by accepting large numbers of immigrants from Malaysia (especially Chinese and Indians) to maintain the percentage demographics of the Chinese and Indians of Singapore. Malaysians being culturally and ethnically virtually the same as Singaporeans means that the government prefers them more than anybody else.
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The weeb has spoken
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@pokemonsr9 LGBT is a minority community. People are born LGB, it's not a movement. Whoever is LGB may likely never have children so what on earth makes you think that LGB is contributing to fertility decline? They were never a part of the equation. You speak as if people become LGB and that LGB makes up 50% of the population or something.
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