Mark Steyn: It's breeding obvious, mate

The Australian ^ | August 18, 2006 | Mark Steyn

[RKV]

Long and great read.

[Tax-chick]

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[JamesP81]

Consider this poll taken in 2002 for the first anniversary of 9/11: 61 per cent of Americans said they were optimistic about the future, as opposed to 43 per cent of Canadians, 42 per cent of Britons, 29 per cent of the French, 23 per cent of Russians and 15 per cent of Germans. I wouldn’t reckon those numbers will get any cheerier over the years.

I'm sorry for Germany, because you know you're in a bad way when the Russians are happier than you are.

[in hoc signo vinces]

Instead of "We're DOOMED!"....how about "EVERYONE ELSE IS DOOMED (except the Aussies)!"

[NonValueAdded]

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[kellynla]

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[7thson]

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[Alter Kaker]

I'm sorry for Germany, because you know you're in a bad way when the Russians are happier than you are.

Thailand?

[wideawake]

Nothing Steyn ever writes is long. I wish each of his columns were the size of a standard hardcover.

[JamesP81]

At the beginning of the century, the country’s toymakers noticed they had a problem: toys are for children and Japan doesn’t have many. What to do? In 2005, Tomy began marketing a new doll called Yumel – a baby boy with a range of 1,200 phrases designed to serve as companions for the elderly. He says not just the usual things – “I wuv you” – but also asks the questions your grandchildren would ask if you had any: “Why do elephants have long noses?” Yumel joins his friend, the Snuggling Ifbot, a toy designed to have the conversation of a five-year old child which its makers, with the usual Japanese efficiency, have determined is just enough chit-chat to prevent the old folks going senile.

A very sad commentary. Japan is a nation that once had a proud people with a strong warrior tradition. How far the mighty have fallen.

[PfromHoGro]

"Pre-modern Islam beats post-modern Christianity."

Thank you Vatican II.

[altura]

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[NeilGus]

The reason I never miss reading Steyn is for lines like these (from this article).


Statist Europe signed on to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s alleged African proverb – “It takes a village to raise a child” – only to discover they got it backwards: on the Continent, the lack of children will raze the village.

For one thing, the shortage of children has led to a shortage of obstetricians. Why would any talented ambitious med. school student want to go into a field in such precipitous decline? Birthing is a dying business.


I love reading this guy.

[RKV]

The guy just makes sense. Like you I could read a lot more of his stuff.

[leilani]

"Free citizens of advanced western democracies are increasingly the world’s wrinkliest teenagers: the state makes the grown-up decisions and we spend our pocket money on our record collection...[In] a childish infantilized self-absorbed society where adults have been stripped of core responsibilities, you need never stop playing with toys. We are the children we never had."

Superb piece. In a hundred years if there are any vestiges of western civilization surviving underground,this guy is going to be required reading among the resistance."Where The West Went Wrong & Surrendered to Islamofascism 101". I just hope there's still enough time for Steyn to win the Pulitzer before the Imams burn everything he's written.

[knews_hound]

Steyn at his very finest.

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Cheers,

knewshound

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[RKV]

Think for a minute what Europe would be like if all the people now in America were there (say, that the Americas didn't exist). It would be as crowded as India.

[Conservative4Ever]

This article is so profound...and so true. Steyn truly at his very best. Everyone should read this article.

[untenured]

Of the 16 nations in which Muslims form between 20 and 50 per cent of the population, only another three were ranked as free: Benin, Serbia and Montenegro, and Suriname.

Suriname is at least 20% Muslim? I had no idea.

I wonder where he gets his fertility figures. The ones he cites are always lower than the ones I get from the CIA, the World Bank, etc. (E.g., 17 European nations with fertility below 1.3.)