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cliffelam  ·  4384 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jessica Valenti: Not Wanting Kids Is Entirely Normal

For one generation, it's normal. Then the neighboring countries, who are having kids, take your place.

_XC





mk  ·  4384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is there anything wrong with that?

cliffelam  ·  4384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I dunno, if you can find a western European in 20 years, ask them.

_XC

mk  ·  4384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, it's not like they are going to be exterminated. I'm Polish, Finnish and Italian. My daughter is Chinese, Korean, Polish, Finnish, and Italian. I hardly consider her to be a loss for Western Europe or a gain for Asia. If anything, she is a loss for geopolitical boundaries and recessive genetic abnormalities.

cliffelam  ·  4384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They're not going to be exterminated, they're going to choose to let their genetic heritage, of whatever value, go. Along with cultural heritage, natch.

I have no idea where you live, but in most of Europe the mixing of genetic heritages has to do with either trade or invasion routes. Or both. Today we mix our heritage differently.

But if a society has lower than replacement growth for indigenous population, they have a certain period of time until they're ... gone.

Math wins in the end.

-XC

mk  ·  4384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I suppose that I see very little value in genetic heritage. Some cultural heritage has value, but it doesn't have to be coupled to the genetic. We decorated our Christmas tree on Saturday. I'm non-religious, and my wife grew up in China.

steve  ·  4384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    We decorated our Christmas tree on Saturday. I'm non-religious, and my wife grew up in China.

This is poignant and interesting. I may post on this later.