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> You can’t rescue ethnic groups that refuse to procreate.

Ethnicity is more memetic than genetic.

> Look at Norway and Sweden, the people in those countries long ago decided their culture was not worth preserving.

Culture isn't transmitted by reproduction but by socialization. Immigration tends to involve socialization; indeed, the usual observation about future generations of immigrant populations aligning to preexisting native low birthrates in the developed world is evidence of either culture transfer (meaning reproduction not key to preserving culture) or that birth rates are a product of material incentives not culture (indicating that reversing low birth rates at need is a matter of changing material incentives, not culture.)

Either way, the low current birth rates = irreversible drive to cultural death claim is inconsistent with the evidence.



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