South Korea in demographic crisis as many stop having babies

Re:South Korea in demographic crisis as many stop having babies by oifjsidjf on Friday November 25, 2022 @04:13PM (#33746834)

Self-culling of self-destructive cultures.

There probably were many cultures like modern Korean throughout history.

And since they collapsed they...well don't exist anymore obviously.

Natural selection.

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Re:South Korea in demographic crisis as many stop having babies by idlehand on Friday November 25, 2022 @04:38PM (#33747097)

Unfortunately it seems that cultural aspects like accepting homosexuality, allowing women to run their own lives and valuing higher education and a scientific mindset are correlated with not prioritizing the reproduction of their culture to the next generation.

I'd like the average human in a 100 years to be a bit more like me and a bit less like the average human today. But the rest of the Western world doesn't seem to see it that way.

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Re:South Korea in demographic crisis as many stop having babies by AlexandrB on Friday November 25, 2022 @04:53PM (#33747229)

> Unfortunately it seems that cultural aspects like accepting homosexuality...

Are you aware of the research that correlates homosexual traits in men with higher fertility in women from the same genes[1]? These factors are not a strict net-negative. In addition, "culture" isn't transmitted genetically. You could spread a culture with below replacement reproductive rates if the culture was persuasive enough. There's not a "democracy" gene that suddenly emerged and spread from 17th century England. It was the ideas that spread.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6519-survival-of-gene...

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