(May 24, 2023 at 4:34 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 24, 2023 at 1:48 am)WinterHold Wrote: Society was always dynamic.
Closed, anti-immigration societies die a cold death, just like Japan now. Birth rates in that society are scary and reached inhumane levels:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/13/asia/...index.html
Any society choosing the closed-borders model suffers the same conclusion.
Despite the popular examples of the positive effect of immigration on countries (like the European scientific evolution, fueling the economy of the region, ...etc):
https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/nort...eigh-costs
Anti immigration parties still fool the people with almost childish promises, and more serious and dangerous promises that cause direct depopulation and destruction for the economy.
In other words: when did anti-Immigration policy was good for humans; ever?
The conclusion of such policy is always cold death like Japan and northern Europe, or worse: being vanquished and swallowed by pro-immigration humans.
The CNN article cited the low birth rate among Japanese nationals as the reason for the decline in population. It's nothing to do with immigration. In fact, it mentions that Japan's immigration policies kept the number from being much, much worse.
As for Northern Europe, according to this , they seem to be doing pretty well regarding welcoming immigrants.
I don't disagree with your central point that immigration is a good thing, but I think you're shooting at the wrong targets.
Boru
Japan’s population decline is certainly not helped by its famously exclusionary attitude towards pools of perspective immigrants. Japan’s immigration rate is a fraction of what it could be and what it could be would reverse japan’s population decline.
Not to put too fine of a point on it, but the US would be under similar population pressure now if it had maintained a similar anti-immigrate policy after WWII as it had adopted before.