culling the species

[Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro]

Dan M. wrote:
>
> I don't really think the fact that the US has a ZPG fertility rate of 2.1
> while Europe and Japan are at 1.5 and 1.22, respectively is the result of
> Japanese women being the most liberated of the three developed
> countries/ecconomic unions. 
>
BTW, Brazil's low ZPG fertility rate of 2.25 is _only_ the side effect
of television's soap operas, that spread the meme of families with
a small number of children. And, unlike the USA or Europe, there's
very little compensation from immigrants (I guess the USA rate would
be close to 1.5 if it were not for mexicans).

Alberto Monteiro