do you think we are walking on wooden shoes anno 2006?
No waaay, dude.
Posted on 03/12/2006 10:21:10 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Maybe they should be sent to China. There's a generation of about 100 million Chinese men who will never 'have' a woman -- maybe these European women, barren (whether by nature or by 'choice'), can fill a useful role over in China.....
> To me it is a paradoxon that this development never was that grave in America. Although you have also less kids/woman since the apperance of the birth-control-pill there is still a stable quotient over 2 kids/woman.
We have exactly the same problem in America. The only reason why our ratio is still about 2 or higher is because of the unchecked illegal invaders from south of our border. (And no, I do not call them "immigrants." ) Their high birth rates are offsetting the decline.
Unfortunately for a generation of 45 million American babies, their fate was never to see the light of day, as their lives were torn apart in the darkness of the womb. However, their sacrifice appears not to have been in vain. Even liberals are now starting to acknowledge the 'Roe Effect' -- that is, people with loose sexual mores and non-traditional ideas about family are not reproducing; conservative people are the ones still having big families. And conservative parents pass on their values to their children.
The wide open unpopulated areas of North America require more individual efforts from the average guy in the struggle for survival. Self-reliance is a necessity in the US more so than in old Europe.
He man, no country is dying. They are going to be reborn!
Who needs boring european culture anyway? Im dutch, do you think we are walking on wooden shoes anno 2006?
Culture changes, like nature.
I suppose it's too late to ask for a refund on all that Marshall Plan
money we sent them?
By that time the educated parent is thirty-two. Her egg fertility has dropped in half. She will have a far higher incidence of birth defects. She will only have time for two, or at most three kids at a rational spacing. The only other option is to allow uneducated people to raise all the kids or import and educate new citizens. It's a recipe for demographic disaster.
This is why my home-educated kids were doing college level work before they became teenagers. Compressing the k-12 curriculum in math and history so that they could skip high school for college level technical and writing courses will have them so far ahead that they'll have time for a life that includes children.
We have a choice: an educated population of child-bearers on an advanced curve, a permanent underclass of breeders, or importing our future workers. It's time we faced reality.
YOu might just have to cook your won snails!
Honestly, with all that's going on ... you worry about who will cook your snails!
You might just have to cook your own snails!
Honestly, with all that's going on ... you worry about who will cook your snails!
I doubt it. If it goes on for a quarter century it will be a miracle.
I predict the Muslims will overplay their hand and strike too early, as they are wont to do in France. Then it will be either outright civil war or quick surrender to Dhimmi status by the natives. I predict the former. It will make the French-Algerian War look like a picnic.
Home-schooling is stictly illegal in Europe since our authorities doubt the abillity of ordinary parents to ecucate their kids themselves. We do not have to discuss their stance here since I feel it as a immense lack of freedom. But who asks me??! :-)
Nevertheless I also saw the problem with public schools and their inefficiency. Therefore my three boys are going into a private catholic school that is owned by the Jesuites. As a flanking measure they get private music lessons from some private teachers (univercity-students) that I hired and I help them each day with their homework and questions. This works quite good for us.
The German schooling system is much more differentiated than the American one. Our kids go into different schools from the 5th grade on. That is mainly a problem for those who are weak since they all are put into the "Hauptschule" (9 years) which is also called among parents the "Restschule" (Scrapschool). The others who go on the "Realschule" (10 years) or the (top) Gymnasium (12 or 13 years) recieve a satisfying education although much could be improved there too. Recent studies showed that the German system discriminates espechially those who are unprivileged and poor. Kids from poorer families have much less chances to study than those who have already parents that studied and end on a scrapschool.
This is one of the challenges we have to solve in Germany and Europe as a whole soon. I believe that it will be nessecary to educate all capable kids and not just those who already have access to education through their families. This will help the public much more than all other crazy welfare programs we have over here.
The real reason US birth rates are not European lite is because Hispanic women (which are often called white) are producing babies at a generous rate, even at a larger rate than their Mexican cousins still living in Mexico.
Europe is shrinking, and America is browning.
The late great Pope JP II hit it on the head, addressing the problems with the culture of death.
The post-Christian birthrate in Europe is compounded by the focus on:
1. Individualism
2. Abortion
3. Homosexuality
4. Euthenasia
Old Europe is getting more Russian and Polish since we have a big flow of immigration from there. The so called "Aussiedler" (Russians, Romanians and Poles with German heritage) were a much bigger immigration group into western Europe recently than Turkish (muslim) immigration, that reached its climax in the beginning 70ties. Only very few Turks still immigrate to Germany - mainly through marriages. The girls from Turkish families that grew up in Germany are not submissive enough for muslim men anymore. ;-) Therefore some Turks import their Brides from Anatolia to Germany through "arranged marriages" and try to lock them away from society. This triggered recently a broad discussion in Germany if such immigrations should be banned or not since it is a form of human trafficking.
A real funny irony of history (Hitler is probably rotating in his grave): In the meantime more Jews (from Russia) immigrate to Germany than to Israel.
Technology to have kids?
In high school all it took was a bottle of Boones farm and a dried out protector. Many freinds were young parents (1970s).
do you think we are walking on wooden shoes anno 2006?
No waaay, dude.
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