Sunday, February 06, 2005

More stuff I don't get:

Why? Because the state needs a birth rate of 2.1 children to maintain a stable population. In Italy, it's now 1.2. Twenty years ago, a million babies were born there each year. Now it's half a million. And the fewer babies you have today, the fewer babies are around to have babies in 20 years. Once you're as far down the death spiral as Italy is, it's hard to reverse. Most European races are going to be out of business in a couple more generations.
If you think that a nation is no more than (in our Booker Prize-winning novelist's famous phrase) a great "hotel," you can always slash rates and fill the empty rooms. But, if you think a nation is the collective, accumulated wisdom of a shared past, then a dependence on immigration alone for population replenishment will leave you lost and diminished. The Creator's first injunction to humanity couldn't have been plainer: Go forth and multiply. In the 1995 referendum, when Lucien Bouchard made his unfortunate faux pas about Quebec women having one of the lowest fertility rates of any "white race" in the world, he was on to something. Given that young francophones trend separatist, had Quebec Catholics of the Seventies had children at the same rate as their parents, he and M. Parizeau would almost certainly have won their vote. Instead, Quebec's shrivelled fertility rate has cost them their country.


I don't get people who are all like OMG! Teh white womens ain't having enough baybies. Why does it even matter how many kids white women want to have? Curtailing women's rights as human beings just because you have some stupid idea about countries and hotels or something is dumb. How will your country be diminished if people infuse it with different cultures and languages? I don't like white people fucking up my personal country with their weird ideas about who America is supposed to benefit(answer: white people, but only if they have a lot of money, and only if they have penises. the rest of us can go hang.) but I'm not going to say that black women have to have ten babies each whether they can raise them or not, because of that. This is one of those things that just seems vaguely racist, although I can't exactly put my foot on it.

Like when people say stuff like "there were just enough white people in the salsa club that I didn't feel awkward" I can't pinpoint exactly why that statement makes me feel uncomfortable, but I sure hope this person gets an attitude adjustment before she starts work on project shine.

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