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Garibaldee@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago

Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare

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Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare

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Garibaldee@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago
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Japan has been grappling with its demographic statistics with a sense of urgency, particularly regarding its declining birth rate. In 2023, the country...
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    Also…loosen immigration laws?

    I know it’s a very closed off nation with deep cultural roots that is very weary of outsiders…

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      Racist, the word is racist

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        I know… 😔

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          Additionally, the word is “wary”

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        Love all races. Except the human race. Terrible, awful people they are.

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          Now this is a racist idea I can agree with.

          (Although, I actually bet aliens are shit as well at the equivalent stage of development)

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      I don’t mind finding work in Japan… …if it wasn’t so hostile to workers

      So far, Japan is near the bottom of my list for western countries to work at, and I would much rather find a job in Korea instead

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        Japan is near the bottom of my list for western countries

        Japan is an Eastern country. In fact, it’s the farthest East county possible.

        I think the words you were looking for were “first world countries”.

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          its so east that it loops back around to being west

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            It’s*

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                Syntax mistake—not grammar

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                  [Pedentry intensitfies]

                  Appropriate user name, though.

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                  Syntax would be more like sentence structure and order. Contractions are indeed grammar.

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          Japan is an Eastern country. In fact, it’s the farthest East county possible.

          No love for New Zealand huh?

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            What’s a New Zealand?

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              Checked my map, it’s not there

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              It’s an updated version of a Dutch province

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            New Zealand? What’s that?

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          Developed*

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          Depends on your meridian.

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          Nobody takes that to be literally about geography anymore. Japan might be far away from Texas, but it’s politically a lot closer than Russia just a ferry ride away.

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          Po-tay-to po-tah-to doesn’t really matter to distinguish between them when what I meant was clear, although I probably would’ve said first world if I was nitpicking my post before sending

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      That’s crazy talk, you’d get lot’s of filthy foreigners in that way.

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      I know it’s a very closed off nation with deep cultural roots that is very weary of outsiders…

      Europe doesn’t get to use that excuse, and neither should they. I don’t care how different whale meat shashimi seems from foi gras, or bonsai from tulip arrangements.

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      Absolutely! Even if it’s unlikely to happen, we shouldn’t let that distract us from what the best decisions would be.

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