RousseauX
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Spain and To a lesser extent Italy do have one big similarity with japan. The issue that I think is the biggest factor in their poor birth rates- a culture which is traditionally very tightly tied around extended families and village life, but a country which in the course of the last century underwent a rapid move to the cities.
I really don't think it's as big a deal for the Europeans but for the Japanese this is a major factor in their failing to get relationships. In japan people don't just go out to pubs and meet new people. Most people keep the same friends from school all throughout their life. It is all based around groups.
With everyone leaving the smaller cities and country to head to tokyo et al for work though these groups fall apart. The remaining traditional group of the company is an ever more serious and non frivolous place.
Germany has birth rates similar to Japan as well.
So does Poland
So does Greece
So does Austria
So does Hungary
Portugal's fertility rate is significantly lower than Japan's.
In fact, no European nation has a >2.1 fertility rate, and they would probably even be lower once you take out their immigrant populations.
You guys are buying way too much into the "Japanese are weird people who don't get laid" thing which you saw on reddit as a determinant of fertility rate. People who have sex wear condoms and have abortions and end up with pretty much the same result.
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