>>212718537>but china has a very communalist mindsetnot at all, the wealthier Chinese are indistinguishable from westerners. if you look at any population that becomes wealthier and educated, the same pattern emerges.
>and the US which is the most individualist of all has a pretty good birth rate.you're counteracting the cultural effect by importing mexicans who don't share the inner city liberal values and padding up your population at the same time.
i'm not saying religion is unrelated, it is. religion is how you get women to marry and have children, and the men to own up to the responsibility of taking care of them. it's just a little more complicated than 'atheism' because you can be nominally religious and not practice or care about religious custom. the main thing is that people are shifting from caring about family towards caring about themselves above all.