> Japan will persist
> with a normal mix of people from around the world
> creating a new culture
So what you're saying is the actual japanese people will go extinct and all the immigrants who actually have children will replace them and create a new japanese culture.
And you see nothing wrong with that at all.
Nobody, not even the Japanese government expects that. They are anticipating a difficulty maintaining their culture against mixing with the world. Which has actually been going on for 70 years now, and continues at a breakneck pace.
Japanese people will come to include all sorts of people, who will happily live together and move forward. Without our permission or control, as folks all over the world do.
Are you sure?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64373950
> They are anticipating a difficulty maintaining their culture against mixing with the world.
Of course. If you don't have children, then you need immigration from countries that do. That will obviously change your culture.
A nation is made up of people of a shared origin, history, culture, ethnicity, language. If you replace the people with immigrants and they create a new culture, the nation is no more.
> Japanese people will come to include all sorts of people, who will happily live together and move forward.
That's like saying white people will come to include all sorts of people.
White people already do include all sorts of people -- whiteness is, obviously, not a single unified ethnicity, national, cultural, linguistic, or historical background but an aesthetic conception of someone's skin color. Because ethnostatism is stupid and intellectually inconsistent.
> > Japan will persist
The point is that they aren't doing well on the "persist" front. https://apnews.com/article/japan-birth-rate-record-low-popul...
Yeah, because some empire came and killed your people off and conquered your lands and enslaved your survivors and erased your culture so they could replace it their own.
Not because people wiped themselves off the map because they wouldn't have children.
No culture is "erased" as a result of this. Even if Japan fails to have children, Japanese culture and the Japanese nation will continue. It will look different, certainly. But there's nothing magical or better about the way things used to be simply because they used to be that way. Change is inevitable, and more than that, it is good.
No. Nations are a collection of people with shared ethnicity, land, culture, language, history. If the japanese people disappear, the nation will also disappear. It's not going to magically continue just because the country of Japan is still there. Can't have a nation without its people.
Japan will exist as long as people live there and call it Japan. It has nothing to do with ethnicity, land, culture, or history.
> nation
> A people who share common customs, origins, history, and frequently language
There are nations without states. There are also nation states. The latter is more precise than country which does not imply any dominant ethnic group.
Doesn't change the fact birth rates in Japan are below replacement. Am I missing something here?