Re: Sweating the Birth Rate

On Jul 30, 2:51 pm, Mark Borgerson <mborger...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1185806398.899235.91...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ArGe...@xxxxxxxxxxx says...





On Jul 30, 10:29 am, catbrie...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jul 29, 8:21 pm, "Meldon_F...@xxxxxxxxxx" <meldon_f...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"....European birthrates of the 1980's, already at record-breaking
lows, fell another 20 percent in the 90's, to about 1.4 children per
woman. The demographer Antonio Golini says such rates are
'unsustainable'....."

"....Never before have birthrates fallen so far, so fast, so low, for
so long all around the world....."

http://artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/courses/361/wattenberg.html

Naturally someone at The American Enterprise Institute is going to be
on the verge of panic at the thought of declining PROFITS due to a
stabilizing world population.

I don't think this is the primary concern. A stabilized population
can still spend in increasing amounts.

That's just too damned bad. The
environmental pay-off outweighs Wattenburg's narrow concerns over an
ever-expanding market. (A stupid notion anyway on a planet with finite
resources.)

The primary concern with birth rates is that while they are falling
among citizens in Western-style civilizations, the reverse is true
with immigrants, especially illegal ones, and especially Islamic
ones. In effect, you're ending up replacing a voting population that
believes in democracy and individual rights with a voting population
that doesn't.

If that increasing immigrant population doesn't believe in democracy
or individual rights, how likely are they to vote to change the
existing system?

Wouldn't that make them more likely to do so, if they don't believe in
the underlying concept of equal and individual rights to begin with?


Do the European countries with increasing immigrant populations require
citizenship classes like those in the USA?

I don't know.

Will the children of
these immigrants have the same feelings about democracy and
individual rights as their parents?

I guess that would depend. If we're not even requiring that they
speak English or assimilate into the culture, my thoughts would be
that they would mirror their parent's beliefs.


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