The West Isn’t Finished, as Long as Assimilation Starts Now |
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This content was recorded by Victor Davis Hanson prior to his Dec. 30 medical operation.
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Everybody is worried about the status and future of Western civilization.
That’s a broad term, but it mostly denotes what is now Europe, the United States, and North American Canada, the former domains of the British Anglophonic empire, and I mean, specifically, New Zealand, Australia, Britain, Canada, etc., again, and then, more importantly, the Westernized countries, mostly in Asia, and that would be Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan.
And they are in a period of crisis, decline. And what would be the symptoms? We all know what they are. The fertility rate in these countries is falling drastically. People do not want to raise children. They want to satisfy their appetites. They don’t wanna put up with them. They don’t have the money, they feel.
But the fertility rate in these Asian Westernized countries is below 1.5. And Europe is about 1.39. United States is the best, except for Western Israel. It’s about 1.7.
In addition to that, they’ve made........