Those numbers don’t look good.
Hey, where did Japan go?
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Whoa....human populations can’t grow forever? And a society will sub-consciously realize they’re over populated and adjust? Who’d a thunk it?
All industrialized nations have shrinking birth rates. I suspect the only reason the US isn’t in the same boat as Japan is because of our much higher immigration quotas. They had something like 370,000 immigrants in 2005, once you subtract out all the 90 day or less visas. Whereas we in the US have 1.7 million to 2.5 million immigrants per year (1 million legal + .7 to 1.5 illegal).
Here in America, there are school buses everywhere. It gets very annoying because our children are conditioned not to walk anywhere. SO the school bus has to make stops continuously.
For example, I sometimes get stuck behind a school bus in Billerica, MA on the way to work and it will stop to pick up a child, then go less than one block and stop again to pick up another child. It will stop 6-7 times in a very small area where the children could have all walked to a central bus stop, causing the bus to stop just once and pick up the whole bunch of them at once.
Wouldn't that be more efficient?
When I was a child going to school, I didn't even take the bus. I thought nothing of walking to school which was nearly two miles away. And this was in busy city streets too. I used to take short-cuts through alleys and one time a bunch of kids beat me up in one, took my lunch money and pulled my pants down and gave me a wedgie. SO I took a different route home from school after that but still I walked.
But even kids who took the bus usually had to walk a fair distance to get to the bus stop. Buses in those days never stopped right in front of your house like they do today.
What really slays me is the way that parents will actually drive their kids down the driveway or just down the street to the bus stops and then sit in their idling cars until their kids are picked up. Why do they do that?
I think my mother walked me to school maybe three times when I was in the 1st grade. After that I was on my own. Even after I got rolled in the alleyway by kids that looked like those bullies in "A Christmas Story" and had my lunch money stolen and pants pulled down.
Anyway, the fact that there are less Japanese kids does ont necessarily concern me. I see plenty enough Japanese kids in the movies. Also, what is with the fascination that Japanese kids have with those tiny wristwatch-type video games that have stupid looking animals that you have to electronically feed and clean up after? Also, we could have done without Pokemon, thank you very much. Though those cheesy 1960s-era "monster coming out of a nuclear waste site" movies are still pretty cool to watch today. Especially when they are getting riffed on by the MST3K crew. I especially liked the one where giant mutated grasshoppers started climbing skyscrapers in Tokyo.
America Alone
What in the world is Gamera going to do?
I think maybe it’s their porn. They like puking and crapping on each other so much, they’ve forgotten how to copulate.
Japan is committing suicide because it’s people can’t be bothered to have children. Same thing is happening in just about every 1st world country. It’s especially bad in Japan though, because immigration for all practical purposes, does not exist there.
I would hate to be depending on surviving on Japanese Social Security in 25 years.