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Ivy Romanova
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
875
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Posted - 2013.04.05 17:16:00 -
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Don't want a girlfriend? This researcher thinks you may be ill. And no, your waifu does not count.
Japan's birth rate is in the pits. People just aren't doing the nasty, at least, not in ways that produce children. As a result, Japan's birth rate is declining rapidly, despite government-run programs designed to teach people to date. If the current trend continues, by 2050 Japan's population will have shrunk 20%, and the elderly will make up 50% of those that remain, presumably leading to some kind of nightmarish, apocalyptic future where gangs of octogenarians stalk the streets of Tokyo on their mobility scooters, hunting teenagers with nets and tridents.
Part of the blame for the lowered birth rate has been laid on the nerdy trifecta of anime, manga and gaming, which several critics have accused of turning virile young men into unhealthy shut-ins, unable to interact with women old-fashioned three dimensional women. Recent comments from Tomonori Morikawa, who studies relationships at Waseda University, seem aimed that particular group.
"If [one] begins thinking, 'I can't get a girlfriend, but that's not big deal,' that is a serious illness," he writes. "One of the symptoms was to erase the gap between one's dreams and one's reality."
"You really want a someone to love. But in reality, you cannot," continued the professor. "However, if you brush that off and use the excuse that you don't want a girlfriend, then you're trying to ease your serious heartbreak."
Symptoms of the disease include
Poor dress sense
Enlargement of the bank account
Server hand cramps.
Disproportionate arm muscle development.
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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
1232
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Posted - 2013.04.05 17:20:00 -
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Ivy Romanova wrote:Don't want a girlfriend? This researcher thinks you may be ill. And no, your waifu does not count.
Which researcher? You? Or someone you forgot to link?
Quote:...presumably leading to some kind of nightmarish, apocalyptic future where gangs of octogenarians stalk the streets of Tokyo on their mobility scooters, hunting teenagers with nets and tridents.
Michael Bey movie!
Other than the economic drain imposed by care for the elderly, the scenario you describe isn't all that bad a thing. And if you establish a line of 'Stop-n-Drop' suicide booths, you'll have lots of economy left for building giant fighting robots.
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Ivy Romanova
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
875
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Posted - 2013.04.05 17:24:00 -
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As someone who has been in and out of the circle back when I still had time , I think I can kinda relate.
Relationships are time sinks (oh the irony of saying that on OOPE) 
Kind of like having 20 cats that can't be shut off by rubbing its head the right way , its also a cash sink .
OH SURE , the once in a millennial hump hump snuggles is nice , but then again , is it worth it?
Through other medias , such as KORN and of course in Japan's case . Anime . The same desire for a relationship can be satisfied through imagination while the person can still retain FULL control of the entire exchange.
MUCH less hassle , and much better focus on the work that is at hand while still being able to get rid of the sudden libido spike .
Can't really blame them if I'm honest 
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Ivy Romanova
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
875
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Posted - 2013.04.05 17:25:00 -
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silens vesica wrote:Ivy Romanova wrote:Don't want a girlfriend? This researcher thinks you may be ill. And no, your waifu does not count. Which researcher? You? Or someone you forgot to link? Quote:...presumably leading to some kind of nightmarish, apocalyptic future where gangs of octogenarians stalk the streets of Tokyo on their mobility scooters, hunting teenagers with nets and tridents. Michael Bey movie! Other than the economic drain imposed by care for the elderly, the scenario you describe isn't all that bad a thing. And if you establish a line of 'Stop-n-Drop' suicide booths, you'll have lots of economy left for building giant fighting robots.
REEEAD!!!
Tomonori Morikawa,
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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
1448
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Posted - 2013.04.05 17:29:00 -
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Ivy Romanova wrote:If the current trend continues, by 2050 Japan's population will have shrunk 20%, and the elderly will make up 50% of those that remain, presumably leading to some kind of nightmarish, apocalyptic future where gangs of octogenarians stalk the streets of Tokyo on their mobility scooters, hunting teenagers with nets and tridents.
#3
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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
1234
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Posted - 2013.04.05 17:34:00 -
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Ivy Romanova wrote:
REEEAD!!!
Tomonori Morikawa,
Those links weren't showing when I first commented.
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Ivy Romanova
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
875
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Posted - 2013.04.05 17:36:00 -
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silens vesica wrote:Ivy Romanova wrote:
REEEAD!!!
Tomonori Morikawa,
Those links weren't showing when I first commented.
Tomonori has always been there , but the links are new tho .
Damn internet taking the credibility away from everyone :P
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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
1234
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Posted - 2013.04.05 17:39:00 -
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Ivy Romanova wrote:silens vesica wrote:Ivy Romanova wrote:
REEEAD!!!
Tomonori Morikawa,
Those links weren't showing when I first commented. Tomonori has always been there , but the links are new tho . Damn internet taking the credibility away from everyone :P
Soon, no one will be able to believe anything one reads on teh interwebs!
Oh, wait...
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Telegram Sam
Biohazard.
976
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Posted - 2013.04.05 17:40:00 -
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And then other studies say that its the Japanese women who don't care about boyfriends and marriage. Dating is too much bother, and who wants to be like their mom, married at 25 and spend the rest of your life a housewife? Raising kids, forcing them to do homework and go to cram school, and taking care of a husband who's mostly away at work for 40 years until retirement?
Then there's also the trend of Japanese women watching Korean movies and idolizing Korean actors. Who are more traditional macho-types than Japanese actors. Might be a connection to the dating/marriage slump, or maybe not. |
Eurydia Vespasian
Nova Insula Mining and Industrial
2063
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Posted - 2013.04.05 18:08:00 -
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well, i don't think a little population decline is all that bad of an idea really. not just in japan but everywhere really. lower birthrate would slow the tide of a good many serious world issues imo. from health care costs, to energy and resource management to world hunger.
we don't really want shut-in mouthbreathing neckbeard types that sweat when they eat reproducing anyway, now do we? those that neglect personal hygiene are probably apt to neglect parental responsibility. we don't need that. there are enough misguided, directionless youth out there that have no real clue as to what it means or takes to be a responsible adult as it is.
i should know. i'm one of those misguided. but, at least, i have the sense to realize it. lol |
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
1237
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Posted - 2013.04.05 18:24:00 -
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Hear, hear!
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Dessau
Phaeornis Asymmetrics
154
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Posted - 2013.04.05 19:00:00 -
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Before I got married, I made a proposal to Japan to help them repopulate and ensure a new generation of taxpayers to support social programs. The proposal involved myself and around 15 of my friends, and only required airfare and a reasonable daily stipend for sake + sapporo.
The proposal was not well-received.
So, Japan, you've made you bed, and I'll not feel bad for you when the going gets tough.
Solo is one player, one pilot. |
Alara IonStorm
4857
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Posted - 2013.04.05 20:52:00 -
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This isn't a Japanese problem it is a first world problem.
To sustain a population birth rates must be on average 2 Children for every couple. To increase the population there must more than 3 children from some couples with the rest averaging 2. In a population of 3 Million if 1 million couples have 1 Children and 1 million have 2 children then the last million would have to have 3 children to sustain it.
In the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, UK, France, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Norway, Ect, Ect, how many 3+ and 2 child families are there vs 1 child or no child people. I am using couple as a marker not taking into account second marriages for simplicity reasons but you get the idea.
Why is it more noticeable in Japan, simple, take a look around any Japanese cities and you'll notice something, it is full of mostly Japanese people. When I go into Toronto do you know what I see, a whole lot of not white people. Here is a graph. A lot of European and American cities look similar.
The richer a community it is a fact that less babies are had. Immigrants are filling the gaps and immigrants from poor countries are usually on average a lot poorer then native citizens and in turn have more children. Those children are "naturalized" (which is a pretty demeaning term if you ask me) and they have less children.
We have literally OUTSOURCED production of infants. 3rd world baby factories if you will.
Now this is probably sounding racist to some people but that isn't my intention at all. It is not an issue of race but economics. People in a good economy with the same culture do better on average financially and therefor produce more babies, nothing to do with race at all, just poverty.
Here is the thing, our baby factories like oil are not a sustainable resource because in a world where good idea's spread fast 3rd world nations are moving away from poverty, some quickly, some slowly but they all are. Schools are being built, buildings and roads are constructed, goods imported in trade and countries export raw materials and eventually product when money from export is put into industry and advances in farming feed the world. The number 1# cause of starvation is not food shortage but poor infrastructure and wars that prevent food from getting there.
If the world keeps getting richer the number of children will keep falling and population start to plummet. What happens then? I'm not worried, humanity isn't going to go extinct. While world population might fall dramatically let's remember we were at 1 billion 200 years ago, in 200 years we will be well above 1 billion still. So what if the world downsizes a bit, it isn't like we're dying in the camps, we are living very long full lives. Birth incentives, human cloning, social programs, ect will come about easily in the next two or three centuries when this becomes a real problem and not a doomsday prediction on a graph. Japan drops to 100 million by 2050, I say so what.
Economic downsizing now involves people and we will make those numbers level off in time.
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Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
691
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Posted - 2013.04.05 21:04:00 -
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Well, I can easily pinpoint how several countries in Europe, and now Japan , are falling into the strange zone of negatve birth rate. LINK from the PRB itself.
It-¦s a well known phenomenon that I have had the pleasure to discuss with some of my colleagues. Though it-¦s not my main area of personal study I find it intriguing.
The PRB page itself cites several sources as the origin factors of this trend, and the one that is most curious is that no matter what some jingoist xenophobes spread around the world WANT ( that is , to sop migration into their countries) in a sardonic twist of fate, it is these waves of migrants that help their country stay afloat from here into to the future as the "locals", for lack of a better term, decide to stop breeding as much, to put it in pretty simple terms
This data also opens up several venues of thinking and possible research regarding Social Security, The Weight of the State in the decision of couples to marry/have children and future political issues regarding immigration laws.
China, due to a not well thought out (in terms of decades) birth control policy mixed with Cultural preferences for Males, currently has an abnormal ratio of Women to Men, causing several sociological problems in the way men relate to women.
Same is happening in India, where couples would rather abort or dump newly born females to avoid several societal customs.
At this rate, despite what some people never thought out possible, we are more closely threading into Eugenics than ever before. And that-¦s something to think about.
Just my 2 cents worth of kindle thrown into the fire of this thread.
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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
4047
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Posted - 2013.04.05 22:17:00 -
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Well. it's 'out of fashion' for myself by default and by nature. 
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.-á-á-á-á - Oscar Wilde |
Rain6637
Team Evil
835
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Posted - 2013.04.05 22:21:00 -
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Girlfriends are out of style because Adderall has eliminated all my urges.
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
10010
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Posted - 2013.04.06 03:55:00 -
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I'm married... we went on our first date the next day.
Just like it used to be back before the 50s
"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff-á |
Rain6637
Team Evil
837
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Posted - 2013.04.06 04:17:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:I'm married... we went on our first date the next day. Just like it used to be back before the 50s
first date after the marriage?
pretty sure it's still like that in china, and russia... and most of South West Asia
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
10011
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Posted - 2013.04.06 04:19:00 -
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Rain6637 wrote:Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:I'm married... we went on our first date the next day. Just like it used to be back before the 50s first date after the marriage? pretty sure it's still like that in china, and russia... and most of South West Asia
You have something against Russians and Asians? 
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Rain6637
Team Evil
837
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Posted - 2013.04.06 04:30:00 -
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no, but i'm just curious did she still insist she was a "third date" kinda girl? how about a good night kiss, did you manage to get one of those
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Graygor
1kB Realty
1kB Galactic
19222
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Posted - 2013.04.06 04:32:00 -
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Coming from the Olde Worlde I dont get this whole third date thing that people in the states seem to have.
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Rain6637
Team Evil
837
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Posted - 2013.04.06 04:36:00 -
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it's pretty simple. to be a girlfriend you exercise together in bed, and to be a wife you do tricks with your mouth
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Graygor
1kB Realty
1kB Galactic
19222
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Posted - 2013.04.06 04:41:00 -
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Rain6637 wrote:it's pretty simple. to be a girlfriend you exercise together in bed, and to be a wife you do tricks with your mouth
Like this?
"I think you should buy a new Mayan calendar. Mine has muscle cars on it." --áKenneth O'Hara
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Rain6637
Team Evil
837
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Posted - 2013.04.06 04:42:00 -
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yep! and that's how babies are made.
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Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
2352
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Posted - 2013.04.06 05:42:00 -
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They should get a few Indians in there. Before the Self-Righteous lot come out, I'm an Indian. |
Ivy Romanova
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
880
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Posted - 2013.04.06 06:53:00 -
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Jake Warbird wrote:They should get a few Indians in there. Before the Self-Righteous lot come out, I'm an Indian.
The cool and mysterious kind or the weird kind?
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Rain6637
Team Evil
837
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Posted - 2013.04.06 06:55:00 -
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Ivy Romanova wrote:Jake Warbird wrote:They should get a few Indians in there. Before the Self-Righteous lot come out, I'm an Indian. The cool and mysterious kind or the weird kind?
still unclear. better distinction is "turban or feathers"
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Ivy Romanova
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
880
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Posted - 2013.04.06 06:56:00 -
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Rain6637 wrote:Ivy Romanova wrote:Jake Warbird wrote:They should get a few Indians in there. Before the Self-Righteous lot come out, I'm an Indian. The cool and mysterious kind or the weird kind? still unclear. better distinction is "turban or feathers"
feathers > Crummy cloth
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Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
2353
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Posted - 2013.04.06 07:05:00 -
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So you think we still walk around with turbans, goats and 'crummy' clothing? Get over yourself. |
Rain6637
Team Evil
838
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Posted - 2013.04.06 07:06:00 -
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Ivy Romanova wrote:Rain6637 wrote:Ivy Romanova wrote:Jake Warbird wrote:They should get a few Indians in there. Before the Self-Righteous lot come out, I'm an Indian. The cool and mysterious kind or the weird kind? still unclear. better distinction is "turban or feathers" feathers > Crummy cloth
well now that's just prejudice. I wasn't going for that. bollywood is kiiinda awesome once you develop a taste for it. (beats late night any day [night])
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