miko: I am saying that americans as a nation are going extinctBGBMAW: ???? umm explain further please In order for population to stay stable - not decline, there should be 2.1 children born per woman.
That is not the case in US and Europe - mostly as a result of socialist policies pervading the lives of those nations for the last century.
The native population is declining in numbers and whatever growth is displayed in government statistics is due to direct immigration and to procreation of the non-assimilated first-generation immigrants.
The US population is declining and being replaced by people of different ethnicity, history and culture - which in the latest decades are prevented from assimilation into mainstream american culture.
Population Profile of the Unites States: 2000
Birth per woman by age 44
Hispanic women - 2.5
Black women - 2.1
White non-hispanic women - 1.8
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01-170.html
- Women nearing the end of their childbearing years had an average of 1.9 children, which is below the level required for the natural replacement of the population (about 2.1 births per woman).
- About 1 in 5 births in the United States was to a Hispanic women.
- Births to foreign-born women made up 17 percent of all births in 2000.
Those numbers do not reflect the fact that there is much greater rate of reproduction among the genetic and cultural underclass and much greater rate of decline among the intellectual/professional elite and middle class.
How long would US be able to maintain it's technological and economic competitiveness? How long would US maintain its cultural/political continuity in the face of such demographic changes?
It's even worse in European counties where some have 1.4 births per woman - less for white women and much more for muslim women. In a couple of generations most european countries may be muslim-dominated while US will be another Mexico, only more divided and indebted.
The descendants of ours staying in the same geographical area will live as a minority among a strange nation in a third-rate third-world and/or muslim country. All the wanton destruction we dole on the world now will be just storing trouble and hate for them in the future.
Same in Israel where arabs will be a majority of voters in forseeable future.
Japan and Russia are declining but they have no immigration, so they have a chance to preserve their nations' cultural and political identities once the populations stabilise. Their economic significance will certainly diminish. At least russians have the decency of dying in their 50s and not placing burden on their young like japanese do.
China and India seem to be the raising powers.
The world militant islamists will win by default against the west - unless they also get corrupted by democracy and socialism.
I thought they made huge error attacking US instead of just waiting for the western socialism downfall. Apparently they did not - they have caused us to waste much more resources to speed up our downfall while they slowed the process of contamination of their culture by ours.
miko