[lit-ideas] Re: What's happening in Japan

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 15:03:36 -0400

  
How do you interpret the reaction of the Japanese authorities to this
apparent crisis of decreasing population, summarized below in John's words:

 they do what frightened people often do, =20
> regress to the "solutions" of their youth=81\demanding a renewal of =20
> discipline, a return to the postwar society in which men were men and =20=
>
> women were women and women had more children and stayed home to =20
> educate them while their husbands went off to work as dedicated =20
> corporate warriors.
>


Andy Amago




> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/2/2005 1:38:57 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: What's happening in Japan
>
> Andy Amago wrote;
>
> 'Clearly the Japanese have no concept of family beyond baby making.'
>
> This is so awesomely false that it comes close to genius.
>
> Robert Paul
> Reed College
>
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