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In reply to the discussion: On DU's population aging, and change to DU... [View all]Hekate
(90,657 posts)Theres Japan and Japanese, and then theres the rest of the world. They are highly restrictive about who gets to come and work and who gets to be a citizen. (They arent the only ones who do this I saw a list of 17 nations, and Japan was only #10 )
So who takes care of the old folks when all the youngsters have gone away to the big city? Conundrum. Who comes up with all the new ideas and energy when the youngsters are 50 years old and settled in their routines?
Then theres America, which still ranks as a younger-population country, with the dynamism that brings. Immigrants help to make us so. Whatever one can say about the sheer stupidity and downright cruelty of our immigration policies and procedures (and I have said plenty) we are still a magnet for immigrants. A lot of them become citizens, and their children are born US citizens. They keep us collectively younger than we would be if the white nationalists got their way.
In their lame-brained way, the white nationalists have hit on something that is true: their (white) demographic dominance is slipping into history and women in the white demographic have found other things to do besides have lots of babies.
Which is a long digression, but you can probably see my point. DU is a microcosm. We are aging but the microcosm of which we are a part is America. We can rejuvenate.