I actually just came here to talk about that article the previous ask is about (www(.)theguardian(.)com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex). (It is written by a white person and certainly has hard streaks of preconceived ideas of Japan it is fairly well founded, numbers and research wise). But yeah I was wondering if any of you had any thoughts on it?

I think it was a mix of decent sociology and sensationalistic hyperbole. The article would have been much better if it had seriously compared Japan to other countries with similar birthrates in East Asia and Southern Europe, for example. As it is, a lot of the statistics just go into reinforcing the idea that Japan is uniquely strange, disconnected, ahistoric, a perpetual world outlier, in other words, WEIRD, when it’s really just one evolving nation-state within a complicated global economy.

-Solace