Hispanics are Going Extinct Due to Low Fertility Rates
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In this episode, we talk about the alarming decline in Latin American fertility rates, and why we can t stop talking about it. We talk about why we should be worried about it, and what we can do to fix it.
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Stunningly, except for Mexico, all of the countries listed in this graph have already
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Uruguay, Costa Rica, Chile, Jamaica, and Cuba now have a total fertility rate of around
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The so-called, quote-unquote, ultra-low fertility threshold that has only been seen in a handful
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In a TED Talk delivered last year, Argentine economist and demographer Rafael Rothman
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said that his country's fertility had declined more in the previous six years than in the
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As a result, he told AQ, in 2024, there will be roughly 30% fewer four-year-olds entering
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Argentinian preschools than there were in 2020.
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A recent paper titled The Great Decline, Wanda Sela and three other Uruguayan demographers
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write that in just seven years, the total fertility rate in Uruguay dropped from 2 to 1.27 children
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There is no precedent for a fall of this magnitude in such a short period.
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If this was an animal species, like if you had an animal that was halving every year and
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it was due to a recent and rapid decline, that would categorize the species as an endangered
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So we would categorize most cultural groups in Latin America as critically endangered right
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And if we were environmentalists, we would be freaking the fuck out about what's happening.
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But nope, not going to do anything because they don't really give a shit about Hispanic
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They only care about them when they can use them as a wedge issue.
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And this is why I always say that the conservative movement needs to understand that the problems
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that Hispanic populations are facing are the problems that we are facing.
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Well, Simone, a couple days ago, it was brought to our attention again that we are again on
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the front page of Reddit by my brother actually this time.
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He goes, oh, you guys made the front page again.
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And this time we made the front page with a rehashed post.
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It was just like a copy of an old post by one of those spammers that, what, we look like
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Making fun of us and being angry at us for nothing.
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Like they seem to think that we are white supremacists or something or that our movement
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is, and it's so frustrating for me how little what the pronatalist movement is actually doing
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There are people like clapping back and being like, you know that they have like 20 anti-racist
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And if you look at the areas that have the most tragedy in terms of fertility collapse,
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And in fact, there's some of the very areas that people like them would assume that we
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Especially considering, so what we're going to talk about is relevant because I just had
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sent to Malcolm while we were on a flight and news about Latin America's fertility decline
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accelerating, not just being bad, like we've already mentioned, but accelerating.
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It's not just accelerating, but it's accelerating at a pace that's frankly baffling everyone except
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Anyone who is familiar with Latin American culture, anyone who has a lot of Latin American
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friends and anyone who knows us knows that's one of our primary friend groups, like our
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company, we are the only non-Latin Americans who work at our company.
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So we are very, very tight with Latin American culture.
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Many of our best friends, like the godfather, our first son is Peruvian, for example.
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So we know a lot about what's going on within those immigrant groups and was in that culture.
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And anyone who knew that culture would know that their fertility is about to absolutely
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And yet they make these assumptions about us because we code conservative and we are
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conservatives, but also like, it seems that a lot of conservatives are freaking out about
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And, you know, there's a, just assume that anyone who leans conservative is like, ah, people
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We need to start talking about the statistics here.
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And these statistics also really for me show when we're talking to reporters, like we talked
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to this reporter recently who was clearly just like an ultra leftist and unwilling to hear
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And she was like, all of the demographers that I've talked to say that you cannot predict
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Every single one of the leading indicators that we're looking at right now, you know,
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whether it's religiosity, which is tied to fertility rates, we can even ask like gen
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alpha, like how many kids you plan to have and see that like 40% plan to have no kids,
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which isn't even like comparable to previous generations that she's like, nah, nah, nah, it'll
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And one of the things that we constantly see in this space and that's worth knowing is
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the articles are always, you know, falling birth rates baffle demographers and defy all
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And that is because they consistently are putting out data that is almost sort of like the opposite
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of when they're doing global warming stuff where they always exaggerate the data, always
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underplay the scope of the problem and the speed of the drop you should expect.
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So you really need to look around at other things to predict where the, how bad the drop's
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So let's, and this is a great example of that, this, this particular recent trend.
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So as recently as 2019, a benchmark study by the United Nations Population Division for
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2020 to 2100 forecasting that for, for 2020 to 2100 forecast that fertility in Latin America
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and Caribbean countries would stabilize at an average of around 1.75 children per woman
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So this was only five years ago that this study was done.
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And this study said, and this is something we keep seeing from demographers is they assume
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that there is a floor to fertility collapse, even though, and they marked that floor in
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Latin America at 1.75, even though we keep seeing that no country seems to have hit this
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They just keep going down and down and down, but it's also worse than that.
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This floor mistake is one that they have repeatedly made.
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So if you look at old demography stuff, the, they used to assume like the demographers that
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were plotting world population in the countries that had falling fertility rates, that they would
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hit a floor of 2.1, that the floor of fertility rates was replacement rate, that it was impossible
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that on average, a country could fall below that right now, well over half the world's population
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is living in a country below replacement rate fertility.
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So, you know, this is old, old news here, but hold on.
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So they thought the floor was at 1.75 stunningly, except for Mexico, all of the countries listed
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in this graph have already dropped below this level, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Chile, Jamaica,
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and Cuba now have a total fertility rate of around 1.3 children per woman.
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The so-called quote unquote ultra low fertility threshold that has only been seen in a handful
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Now, when you're talking about a 1.3 fertility threshold, that is stunning.
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That means that these countries are basically having their population every generation.
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And when you're looking at that, you're looking at them disappearing in just a few generations.
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So in one of these countries, even if their fertility rate doesn't keep falling, if they're below
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this 1.3 thresholds, that means max for every hundred people in one of those countries, there
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But there's more statistics on this, but I also think another interesting thing here, and
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this is something that we keep calling out, religion is the solution, or religious-like
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Because if you're looking within a country, typically the higher fertility populations are
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But not all religions were made equal, and not all iterations of conservatism were made equal
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in terms of how they relate to collapsing fertility rates when exposed to prosperity and when exposed
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A lot of groups that people are kind of surprised about, like, for example, Muslims, actually
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their population crashes much faster than most Christian populations when exposed to
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Jews just do amazingly well, basically, in any environment when it comes to falling fertility
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rates, or at least the conservative iterations of Judaism.
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And whatever is going on in, like, Korea and Japan and China do terribly.
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But one of the groups that does really bad, that people are surprised at how bad they
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do, they actually perform about the same as Muslim populations, are Catholics.
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Now, keep in mind, most populations live at much lower levels of prosperity than most Catholic
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populations, which boosts their fertility numbers.
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But you look at Europe, as I pointed out, the average Catholic fertility rate in Europe
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right now, if you're talking about the Catholic-majority countries, the average Catholic-majority
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country fertility rate in Europe right now is 1.3.
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Well, and we should point out, like, obviously, there are some Catholics who, and many Catholics,
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many Catholics, like devout Catholics that I know, are staunchly against birth control.
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And the article that did point out that birth control has been a major factor here, that,
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you know, a lot of women are getting implants that last for up to a couple of years that,
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you know, really just make it so easy to not get pregnant.
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And if they were very strict practicing Catholics, they probably wouldn't be using birth control
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Which is that just because a culture is against something, like one of the things that we constantly
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point out when we're talking about sexuality and stuff like that, is if you want your people
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to use less pornography, the very last thing you want to do is ban pornography.
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Because in cultural groups that ban pornography, pornography consumption rates are higher.
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You can, in the U.S., look at, like, geographically, for example, how Mormon is a region, and then
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Well, just that I think people don't understand that, like, you can be in a very culturally
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Catholic area and, you know, go to mass and everything, but still take birth control.
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That I think it's a lot more common than people might want to believe.
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Well, I wouldn't say that people want to believe.
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I think most Catholics know that, like, and I don't even want to say, even within the
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pronatalist groups, like, Catholicism as a cultural group is very, very bad at enforcing
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We know a number of, like, Catholic influencers, you know, who are, like, the court, the Tradcast
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community, and will use things like IVF privately to have the number of kids they want to have.
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Like, even on this more conservative, pronatalist side, like, actually enforcing cultural values
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Yeah, the Catholic thing, I guess I would say is, like, the people that I know who really,
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really push for, like, hard enforcement on especially things around IVF and birth control
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are 100% Catholics who don't need IVF or birth control, if you know what I mean.
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Well, and they can say, well, nobody needs birth control.
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Like, these are families that just, like, want to have infinity kids and, you know, or that,
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Yeah, but I want to point out here, and we can hypothesize on why they have been bad at
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keeping down the rates of these sorts of technologies.
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My guess is it is the sheer scope of rules within Catholicism, which has, like, lots of
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rules, and the mechanisms used to enforce them, which is authority tells you that these
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Because Jews also have a lot of rules, but they've been better at enforcing their following
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within their populations or in their majority areas.
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But we'll get to this hypothesizing, but I want to read this exact quote here because I
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Demographers say that Latin American and Caribbean women are finding it much easier to control
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the timing and number of children because of the expanding access to contraception.
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The region used to have some of the world's highest rates of unplanned adolescent pregnancy.
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Although the number of childbirths to teenagers continues to be high in some of these countries,
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government programs have begun to offer a variety of free or low-cost contraceptives to
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In Argentina and Uruguay, these programs include subdermal contraceptive implants that last up
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Roffman says the rapid adoption of these and other contraceptives contributed to a 55% drop
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in pregnancies to Argentinian women age 20 and younger.
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In Chile, teen pregnancies have dropped by around 70%.
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And in Uruguay, Capabella estimates that half of the recent fall infertility rates is accounting
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So what is really happening in these countries and what is causing the drop in fertility rates
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That is where these countries are suffering fertility-wise.
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Now, this is both a, one, it tells us part of the secret of what's going on here.
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It turns out that in these Catholic-majority countries, historically speaking, they were
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able to keep high fertility rates through effectively historically banning contraceptives, a lot of
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Yeah, which also sort of run, because presumably these are also unmarried teens.
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Like, this is also not an ideal Catholic birth situation.
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Well, I would actually say that this is a good thing.
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This shift of like, this shift away from parents who aren't ready to have kids toward parents
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So one of the things we talk about is people are like, oh, you guys in the perinatalist movement
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must want to keep fertility rates in Africa high, right?
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And we're like, no, we want Africa to go through the same demographic transition.
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And we're happy that Latin America is going through this demographic transition as well.
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Not because we want their populations to go extinct in the same way that we're seeing
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in East Asia and Europe and the Americas today, right?
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But because the transition that we want to see happen is the number of unplanned children
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that are happening because, you know, either people are uneducated and don't know how to
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effectively use contraceptive or are not using contraceptives or are getting raped or something
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And what we are trying to create is new cultural solutions which allow for a country after it
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has gone through the demographic transition caused by erasing unwanted children or children
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born to families that didn't plan on it that can then motivate desired children existing at higher rates.
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And this is a really interesting thing when we talk about how you fix this demographic situation,
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which I think has been smoldering and growing for a lot longer than people think.
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I actually think that the crisis really started a couple generations ago,
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which was when people started wanting smaller families and wanting to have children later.
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But we didn't see it in the numbers as aggressively because of all of the unplanned teenage pregnancies
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that were happening and keeping the numbers higher, which was actually a number that was rising
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So much so that the average child born to a woman in the United States in the 1970s,
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That was the age of a first American mother's birth.
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So this is a transition that we in the United States went through very recently.
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Another thing I'd point out for people who are like, oh, these people are like racist or
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Like when we're freaking out about countries, we're freaking out about countries like the
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The United States actually only declined in its fertility rate year over year 2% this year,
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which is just like astoundingly low when you're talking about countries around the world.
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The United States actually has a fairly robust fertility rate because, and the real reason
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is, is because the United States has a huge number of religiously conservative Protestants,
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which have high fertility rates and are less impacted by fertility collapse and other groups.
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Another thing that is worth talking about is I wonder if we're going to see a rebound in
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Hispanic fertility rates because of the mass conversions we're seeing of Hispanic immigrants
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to the U.S. to the Protestant evangelical churches, which is something that we're seeing.
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I want to get to some other quotes because they're really interesting sort of what's happening
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Oh, just so I think what's really interesting, just as a comment, just as a comment, something
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I think is really interesting is that there's this really frustrating shift that takes place
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when you shift away from unwanted pregnancies and unplanned children that can't really be
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It's ironic that there are, on the flip side of that, many families who then are married
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and they are ready to have a kid or more kids and they really want to and then they struggle.
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And I think the key, maybe, well, a key to prenatalism is finding that happy medium where we're
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not forcing unwanted children to be in the world and we're not, you know, people who
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aren't ready don't have to have kids and aren't having kids, but that somehow we overcome this
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issue of, like, then everyone who's ready just not being able to.
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And that's why reprotech is so important in prenatalism.
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They're just like, no, no, let's go back to, like, forcing all these unwanted children.
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We need to find a societal way to motivate people and to support people to have kids
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when they should be having kids, which is in their 20s, 20s to mid-30s.
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Whereas right now, socially speaking, that's just considered incredibly weird.
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Like, people think of that as almost like a teenage pregnancy when it's really not.
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So, and, you know, it takes about a year and a half in between kids.
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If you want to have a large family, you need to start having kids in your mid to early
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20s, or you need to do what we did, which is freeze tons of embryos, which is not an
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Just financially, it's not an option for many families.
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In a TED Talk delivered last year, Argentine economist and demographer Rafael Rothman said
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that his country's fertility had declined more in the previous six years than in the previous
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As a result, he told AQ, in 2024, there will be roughly 30% fewer four-year-olds entering
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Argentinian preschools than there were in 2020.
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People, again, need to understand this is not a linear phenomenon we are looking at here.
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We are at an asymatope in terms of fertility collapse, and it is going to have a massive
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And when we talk about, like, economic impact of fertility rates, you know, sometimes people
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roll their eyes and they're like, oh, people like you and Elon just want to keep your money.
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It's like, first of all, we're not, like, that well off.
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And Elon isn't going to be that affected by this.
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The people who are going to be affected by this are the people who are planning on their
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pensions, supporting them in their retirement, and they don't realize that these are unfunded
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government pensions, or who are planning on Social Security.
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It's going to be a bunch of starving, elderly people, okay?
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In other words, like this, the demographical collapse, especially a hard landing on demographic
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collapse, is very similar to a hard landing on climate change, which is to say that the
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people who are going to be disproportionately affected are going to be lower income, more
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So next, Luis Rosemary Bixby, an eminent demographer who founded the Central American Population
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Center at the University of Costa Rica, uses the word vertiginously to describe, so basically
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vertically, to describe how births are falling in his country, where fertility among native-born
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women is now approaching just one child per woman.
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In a recent paper titled, The Great Decline, Wanda Sela and three other Uruguayan demographers
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write that in just seven years, the total fertility rate in Uruguay dropped from 2 to 1.27 children
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There is no precedent for a fall of this magnitude in such a short period.
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Everyone who's talking about this must be a racist.
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This is affecting the people you pretend you care about.
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And one of the things that always disgusts me, because that really shows where progressives
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come from, is I'm like, this is not like a white problem.
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Like, you see this problem in American African communities.
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You see this problem in Latin American communities.
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And I think it shows, and I think that this is something that a lot of groups are beginning
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What we saw was the BLM riots and stuff like that, that were mostly in Hispanic neighborhoods
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and mostly destroying Hispanic communities, because those were the recent immigrants, similar
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to what happened in the LA riots, where they destroyed the Korean communities.
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And the newspaper is just not covering that the groups that were victimized were minority
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They don't care because they have a hierarchy of which minorities matter and which minorities
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Like we've pointed out multiple times before, many of the most passionate pronatalist groups
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And while, sure, there are some very high fertility populations in Africa, there are also a lot of
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people who are like, yeah, not my cultural group, not my ethnic group.
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So it's just like, oh, I don't know, like whichever ones are leftover that are high fertility,
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I mean, Africa is not like the one, whoa, man, like it's not one thing.
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Look at, look at this, like how, you know, black unity and you have like the hootie, tootie,
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No, Africans usually see themselves as part of a tribal group.
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The pronatalist movement, some of our best, like I would say like most competent, like members
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that I'm really excited about are African immigrants, but primarily African immigrants,
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I would say Simone, because they need their fertility rate falling and the woke's coming
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for their children just as aggressively as they're coming for everyone else's children,
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if not more aggressively, which makes it even harder for them to maintain intergenerational
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Well, and I feel like the groups that are, we'll say demographically under threat in like
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on the living in the continent of Africa, don't recognize it so much as a demographic issue
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as they do as like a geopolitical and security issue for various complicated reasons. Right.
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You can watch our video on the future of Africa.
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If you want to learn more about our take on Africa, we do think that Africa is going
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to be one of the keys to the future of humanity going forwards.
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It is. But also Africa is not a monolith and many, many, many cultures and ethnicities in
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Africa are under severe threat. So like to be like, well, Africa's okay. So no.
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Yeah. Africa has more genetic and cultural diversity than the rest of the world combined.
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This is an objective fact. And because of that, it means that, you know, when you're looking
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at which cultures are suffering in Africa and which aren't to just be like fertility rates are
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fine broadly in Africa, is it really telling you what's going on on the ground? But hold on,
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Among demographers, 2023 will be remembered as the year Brazil, quote unquote, shrank by
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almost 5 million people. A new census put the country's population at 203 million people,
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well below the 208 million previously estimated by Brazil's National Statistics Institute, and
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even further from the 216 million calculated by the United Nations. Those missing people didn't
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vanish or immigrate. They were never born. The 2020 census delayed by COVID-19 pandemic showed
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that Brazil's population grew during the 2010s by just 0.52% per year. Half the rate seen through
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the 2000s and the lowest such percentage since 1872. This is bad. This is bad. And I realized when I did
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the China video, there was a way I could have worded it that would sound even more severe. So a different
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way to word what's going on in China right now is newly leaked data reveals that China recorded fewer
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than 8 million births in 2023. If this figure is confirmed, it would represent a decline of 17%
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from 2022 and almost 60% from 2016. So if we're looking at an eight year period there, a 60% drop in
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fertility rate in eight years. So around the world, the scope of this and the breadth of this phenomenon
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is being systemically covered up basically by the mainstream media because they have decided it's a
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conservative issue, which is in part what has pushed us into the hands of conservatives. And so be it.
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If this is going to be conservative global warming, it'll be conservative global warming. And by that,
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what I mean is, is one of the sort of obvious statistical phenomenon that the other side for
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ideological reasons can't admit or talk about. And when I say global warming is an obvious phenomenon,
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I'm not saying man-made global warming is an obvious phenomenon. I'm just saying global warming
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more broadly is an obvious phenomenon. The earth is getting hotter. That is when people argue against
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that or like, oh, it was cold this year, they look really stupid and it pushes people to the
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other side. And I think that fertility collapse is the same thing with progressives. It's they
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seem to have an incapability of admitting it. And once they do admit it, then they'll say, well,
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it's not a problem or well, it can just be fixed with immigration, which is obviously not true at
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this point. And it shows, I also think the inherent racism of the left, which is what we were talking
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about, which is to say they don't give a shit that Hispanic populations are going extinct,
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that the vast majority of Hispanic cultural groups in the world, when you're talking about
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fertility numbers of 1.3, if this was an animal species, like if you had an animal that was
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halving every year and it was due to a recent and rapid decline, that would categorize the species as
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an endangered or critically endangered species. So we would categorize most countries in Latin America
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or most cultural groups in Latin America as critically endangered right now if they were a
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species. And if we were environmentalists, we would be freaking the fuck out about what's
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happening. But nope, not going to do anything because it's, it's, they, they don't really give
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a shit about Hispanic populations. They only care about them when they can use them as a wedge issue.
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And this is why I always say that the conservative movement needs to understand that the problems
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that Hispanic populations are facing are the problems that we are facing. Culturally, there are allies,
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there are a bunch of tradcast populations. Like, what are you doing pushing them away? Like, why,
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why would you not see our obvious allegiance with these groups? And the reason why progressives are
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taking them into the country is because the lowest fertility rate of all the fertility rates is the
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urban monoculture, which is what progressives are championing. And the only way they can maintain a
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stable population is having a constant flow of children to take. And when they lose, when they,
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when they, you know, conservatives who live in our country start taking our kids out of
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schools and stuff like that, which is happening at an unprecedented rate now, because we see now
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they're just conversion systems. They're like, okay, import people will take their children.
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But really quickly, and I'm- Specifically, I think you meant to say, Malcolm,
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you meant to say progressives are taking them. Oh, sorry. Conservatives are taking them out of the
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schools. Conservatives are taking children out of the schools. Progressives are trying to use the
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school system to take their children. And because of that, they now need to import new children to
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take. But, you know, Hispanic communities aren't stupid. And they are very good systems for
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informational transfer, and they're going to figure this out really quickly. And I think one of the
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next freakouts that we're going to see among progressives is when they realize that first
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generation immigrant kids are being taken out of public schools and being homeschooled en masse.
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Well, and I mean, we're hopefully going to be partially to blame for that, right? Like,
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we're trying to make it a hell of a lot easier for anyone to opt out of mainstream industrial,
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public, or private schooling for something that protects cultural sovereignty. So-
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Yeah. Well, I mean, what do they mean when they're like, oh, we'll bring in Hispanic groups and we'll
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assimilate them. I'm like, what do you mean by that? They're like, we will bring in the melting pot.
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What do they mean? Melting away their culture. When they say assimilate them-
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They don't mean assimilate them to Christian conservative traditions. These people are
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already conservative tradcasts. They mean that they want to erase their conservative tradcast
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traditions and assimilate them into the urban monoculture. And again, sometimes conservatives
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hear this, and I always have to point this out because I cannot- they're like, what? But they bring
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crime. And it's like, every time a conservative tradcast population has immigrated to the U.S.
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in mass, they have brought crime with them. The Irish mob, the Italian mafia. It's just something
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they do. And then it goes away in a couple generations. Chill the- out. Okay. Anyway,
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so that is part of that tradition. But anyway, Simone, do you have any final thoughts on this?
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rethink what their assumptions are. Because there's a ton of coverage in the news,
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especially in the United States, about the immigration crisis. And it's like, oh, people
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coming from Latin America. And it gives one the impression that there are- I mean, if public schools
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in New York are being shut down so that refugees can have somewhere to stay, you're given this
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impression that Latin America is just overflowing with people, right? That it's just like, they're just
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pouring out. They can't even fit in because it's so full of conflict or something. And people,
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whereas really, like, they are hurting much more, as Malcolm has just demonstrated in this article,
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very clearly demonstrated, than the United States. So just that's, I think, what I hope people take
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away from this. Sort of the game of- the shell game that's being played here. Because right now in
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the U.S., like this year, the fertility rate of immigrants, like the total number of first-generation
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immigrant children being born in the U.S. is higher than the rate of U.S. natives.
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And some people are freaking out about this. And it's like, bro, they're not impacting the native
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fertility rate at all. There aren't, you know, like even if you're an ethnocentrist, right? There
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are not fewer white births because there are more Hispanic births. There are fewer white births because
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white people are choosing not to have kids anymore. You need to stop thinking about this in this old
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system. The Hispanic populations across the board, even if they are in the U.S. at higher rates,
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than they were historically, that does not affect their overall fertility rate, which is getting
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smashed in every country they are. Whether it's in the U.S. or Hispanic fertility rates in the U.S.
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are not good. They are falling much- Yeah, well, yeah, they fall, right? The only population that
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sees an improvement in their fertility when they come to the United States is- Koreans. Koreans,
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their fertility rate jumps by about 50% when they immigrate to the U.S. But yeah, so no. Overall,
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the world's Hispanic population is actually in a much more critical condition in terms of their
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falling fertility rate and even their existing fertility rate than the world's, or at least
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than America's white population. I would say that the scope and scale of the world's Hispanic population
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population is probably about equal to the scope and scale of white European demographic situation.
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But they have less wealth in terms of the wealth in their countries and everything like that to
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deal with it. And it's going to get infinitely worse when China collapses because a lot of these
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Latin American communities or countries rely a lot on exports to China, and specifically exports that
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have been artificially inflated due to the construction boom. Exactly.
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Although China's stock market also tanked early this year. Real estate is only part of the problem
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here. No, no, no, no, no. But real estate matters because that's the domino that absolutely cannot
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stand in China anymore. Yet it is the core of their economy. Watch our video on what's going to
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happen in the future of East Asia to learn what we think of what's going on in China and the
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Buckle up. It's bad. It's a 60% fertility reduction in the last eight years. What was it? Like,
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Yeah. Like famine level fertility, but it's a famine of culture, Malcolm. Famine of culture.
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And I would point out to any who thinks differently, if you kicked every Hispanic person out of this
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country, it would not help white fertility rates. If anything, it would hurt white fertility rates.
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The imminence, like every ounce fought fighting against immigration is an ounce that you're not
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fighting to solve the much more critical problem that even if you are an SO centrist, that you are
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I think the biggest, the biggest problem with all these like intercultural, inter-ethnic conflicts
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around demographic collapse is that the issue is not what the other guy's doing. The issue is what
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you are doing with your own people. Stop trying to enforce rules on other people by either keeping
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them out or telling them how to live. Just figure your own shit out for once because you are not doing
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well and you are not exempt from this at all. I couldn't have said it better, Simone. And I love
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you and I love your tough love approach to fertility rates because people need to get their shit together
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and realize that cash handouts don't work and that the only thing that works is figuring this out
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culturally, internally. And keep in mind that these fertility rates are falling before we have AI wives
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and before you have the massive impact of falling sperm rates. You know, we're estimated to have 50% of the
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male population is going to be infertile in what was it like by 2060. Like it's bad. It's bad.
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Oh my gosh. Also, yeah. I've just, I mean, if endocrine disruptors are as disruptive, we'll say,
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as it is believed. I was actually just watching a video about some other element of Chinese culture.
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Not relevant, but some of it included footage of people eating their meals in China. And there's
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like a lot of takeout, but like literally some of the meals are like in, in plastic bags within,
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in cups, like heated soup eaten out of a plastic bag. Like I'm part of me is watching this and I'm
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like, dude, like even once the government starts forcing women in China to have kids, they're not
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going to be able to. It's just like part of the next video. Yeah. There you go. I love you, Simone.