Posted on 01/19/2024 12:26:29 PM PST by FarCenter
Let me suggest 5 major drivers:
1. Meritocratic civil service exams encouraged heavy investment in education. China institutionalised this first, but the system then spread across East Asia. Education became seen as the pathway for social mobility.
2. Education fever has spawned an arms race of intensive parenting.
3. Within China, fertility fell earliest in the more individualist northeast, where there is less onus on lineage.
4. Economic development has spawned cultural liberalisation, weakening pressure to bear multiple sons.
5. Given heavy expectations of parenting and cultural liberalisation, one child is increasingly seen as enough.
To understand all these interactions, we need to trace cultural evolution over the past 1500 years. Buckle up.
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“Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan have similarly low fertility rates and they did not have forced abortions.”
They all let women work. Some ideas of the West are best NOT followed.
It’s because asian men have little dick$.
Capitalism may be better than socialism, but it still has its faults. The Rust Belt was not caused by Socialism. I believe it was Chesterton who said that capitalism and socialism are two sides of the same materialist coin. He preferred Distributism.
India’s fertility rate is 2.05 births per woman. Below the replacement rate of 2.1
USA 1.64
Egypt 2.96
Tunisia 2.11
Rwanda 3.87
Senegal 4.45
Ethiopia 4.24
Mali 6.24
South africa 2.40
Botswana 2.84
It’s highest in the “Sahel” zone but seems to extend to the Botswana-South Africa zone.
Africa is like the USA or EUrope 100 years ago
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