greg wrote:
Personally, I am hoping for what that article calls the "big option." Unless Japan wants to fade into obscurity, it needs to embrace multiculturalism and immigration and stop being so hard-nosed. I also hope that by the time my daughter comes of age, they will have abolished that mandatory choice of citizenship. I hope she can keep her dual citizenship for the rest of her life. British citizens can keep a dual citizenship with America if they want.
1: That's a joke, right? Immigration gates aren't opening for a long time. If they were going to, they would have by now.
2: She can -- they technically can't take away another passport, and they won't take her Japanese one as long as they don't know. I know heaps of people w/ dual citizenship... and none that have ever given one up.
Here is the BBC's findings recently
I blame the Japanese entertainment industries for shaping a male youth population with no balls or will to use them. Popularising trends which pander to and glorify feeble characteristics and natural insecurities only makes teenagers feel comfortable being feeble and insecure.
4) Almost no guy with a "normal job" can meet those expectations anymore.
Not necessarily. There are mostly only "normal jobs" in Japan. [This deserves it's own thread really]. While it's changing, the division of wealth, if viewed on a line graph, is very flat. Once you get to be rich, you're crazy rich, but the number of rich is very few, and the number of dirt poor as well, smaller than in most G7 countries.
Trust me... there is WAY more too it than that. I will agree they are partially responsible, but really only nudging. This is a cultural which basically breeds women that rule the home with an iron fist.
1. Women told it's their imperitive to find a strong male to give them kids, and that nothing but the best will do.
2. Males pressured to produce offspring and get married, often when suffering from low self esteem
3. Readily available escapism
The formality of relationships in asia doesn't help. For a young japanese male, the formalities of meeting the family and subjecting yourself to their judgement and scrutiny, being practically forced into marriage as soon as possible must make things incredibly difficult.
Good points, but I don't think there's nearly as much pressure now as their used to be. However, that doesn't mean Japan is not w/o huge fucking social problems: specifically that it's basically illegal to be a male when it comes to any type of marital or custodial issues. Totally fucked up. That whole "when the child is born the wife dies" concept is going to be the nail in the coffin of this place. I think we're just seeing more and more of it due to the escapism you mentioned: iPhones, big titty anime, and fuck pillows readily available.
