“The youth in these countries Taiwan and singapore are the future.”
I don’t know about Taiwan but there’s not much “Youth of the Future” in Singapore. They have a severe population deficit, like Japan. They recognized this as early as the late 1980s but their steps to fix it have not worked. Also, the deficit they care about is among the ethnic Chinese, 75% of the population. This is the population that the “whiz kids” come from. The Indians less so, and the Malays even less. The present government, which has been in power since 1959, does not want rely on Muslim Malays to provide “the youth of the future”.
As they are running out of land on their tiny island (approx. 270 as. Mi.) Singapore should annex the Malysian state of Jahore.
I can’t argue the point.
However, I believe the youth are mobile and if opportunity rises in Singapore, the will act to fill the void.
LIST OF COUNTRIES BY POPULATION GROWTH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_growth_rate
Of the countries Trump is visiting this November, Japan, China, South Korea are NOT GROWING and is expected to see population DECREASE in 2 generations.
Only Vietnam and the Philippines are growing ( the latter more so ).
Taiwan is the same, maybe worse.
I will be trounced for this, but I have been watching Asian TV to get a glimpse of what’s there. I try not to get too caught up in the story lines while observing themes and what’s in the back ground. There are several themes common to Taiwan, Korea and Japan and China. Yes there is TV produced in China that gets aired in Asia, Taiwan, Korea, Philippines.
The primary theme is upward mobility of youth leaving the provinces for the cities. There is much blatant admiration for America. That is evidenced by occasional usage of English, primarily American slang. There is wide spread wearing of T shirts with American products. “Snickers” seems popular.
There is always class war most commonly represented by a romance between a rich, cosmopolitan, well educated and high titled American educated professional or business person and a commuity college educated provincial. The long drawn out story eventually ends in marriage. However in one program, the romance ends in tragedy.
There is a very strong presentation of the clash between generations. The young are constantly battling against ultra conservative parents that insist on following to the letter the age old societal customs. The youth struggle and persist and win out, becoming modern (and American like) much better off than their provincial parents or wealthy but custom constricted parents.
In two of the programs produced and filmed in Hong KOng and Shanghai but aired in Taiwan and elsewhere, there is considerable mobility for better life and jobs. There is one instance of leaving the mainland for hong kong and then to Taipei. There is another where there is travel for education to America (a strong theme) and back to Shanghai where being mobile and fairly affluent they conduct professional services and business with clients in both Hong Kong and Los Angeles.
I know that TV is fiction. The TV that is diverse in national origin however, all has the strong common themes noted above be it Taiwan, Japan, Korea or amazingly China. They like to present that which is new and shiny and chic.
It is very interesting to look through the Netflix window to glimpse a world otherwise unknown
Links or citations, please?