The thread linking Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia is lack of an overarching sense of national identity. We do not want to go down that route:http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/406096-us-joins-ranks-of-middle-east-with-fierce-identity-politics …
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How do you balance the need for a stable population and therefore immigration with the need for a stable identity?
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Can you think of any ways other than immigration that might help a country maintain a stable population?
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Higher birth rates but that’s proven to be difficult to carry out in the modern age. Check out
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I live in LA, so it's gonna be tough to sell me on the idea that society would collapse if the population dropped a bit. Shorter lines at Disneyland, less traffic on the 405, reasonable housing costs... Somehow, we would survive this nightmare!
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Haha, understood. However look at the problems Japan is facing to understand what can happen. The only reason the USA isn’t in the same spot is immigration. The US birth 1.76 births per woman
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Is Japan really having problems, though? In 100 years, the world will have changed, technology will be unpredictably different, Japan will still be Japan, facing that world as Japan.
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The government is taking on even more debt than the USA to fund pensions because the pyramid is inverted. Old people are commiting petty crimes so they can be taken care of.
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Things in Japan have to change, no doubt, but replacing the Japanese people with African or European or other people seems like it should be near the bottom of the list of possible solutions.
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