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Those "ridiculously extreme" public decorum norms include:
- not blabbing to your mate on the phone on the train
- taking your garbage home with you instead of throwing it on the side of the street
The birthrate has *nothing* to do with this unless you also think China and Singapore also have the same norms. Indeed, norms around behavior were much stricter when the birthrate was much higher.
signüll@signulll
japan is a fascinating experiment of a society that simultaneously has some of the most ridiculously extreme public decorum norms on earth & some of the most interesting anon content along with it. they may have optimized so hard for social conformity & reduced coexistence friction that they inadvertently built a culture where the authentic self has nowhere to go except underground. perhaps not having kids is prolly another form of this too.
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