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What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?

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Re: What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?

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They’ll find it easy to keep their homogenous culture and shared traditional values.

Why would the solution to “our people aren’t having enough babies” be “we should import different people to have their babies here”?

Why does ever single bleeding heart liberal globalist try and ignore the deep psychological truths about human tribalism? It’s not even a bad thing, but even if it was, it’s a fact.

Re: What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?

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They’ll find it easy to keep their homogenous culture and shared traditional values. Why would the solution to “our people aren’t having enough babies” be “we should import different people to have their babies here”? Why does ever single bleeding heart liberal globalist try and ignore the deep psychological truths about human tribalism? It’s not even a bad thing, but even if it was, it’s a fact.

I think the point is we can't have our cake and eat it too.

They need _someone_ (or something, if they can manage) to sustain the way of life they hold so dear.

And it's not something a country can just decide on a whim like "oop looks like we really need more people tomorrow folks". What are they going to do? Import millions of people 18 years from now? Or plan ahead to make sure millions of babies are born now to grow into the people they like 18 years from now?

Re: What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?

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They’ll find it easy to keep their homogenous culture and shared traditional values. Why would the solution to “our people aren’t having enough babies” be “we should import different people to have their babies here”? Why does ever single bleeding heart liberal globalist try and ignore the deep psychological truths about human tribalism? It’s not even a bad thing, but even if it was, it’s a fact.

> Why would the solution to “our people aren’t having enough babies” be “we should import different people to have their babies here”?

If you become poor enough and weak enough, you'll be "replaced" anyway. And not on your own terms.

Re: What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?

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Whatever the answer to people having fewer kids is, it's not "cede your land to some other people who will".

Japan's population around 1900 was mere 43 million people - when most of them were required to work the fields.

Japan will be fine. Europe, on the other hand...

Re: What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?

#10
There is no “zero” immigration policy, this is a strawman. Controlled immigration is different from opening the floodgates.

Also weird to admit that no country has reversed its birth rate problem, but still insist upon massive immigration being the solution.

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