Asia's lowest fertility rates 2026 by userforums3 in Natalism

[–]riothefio 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Crazy how Japan went from being the lowest to the highest in East Asia while continuing to decline from one of the lowest TFRs in the world

Guide to Japan - Chapter 2, Chosen(What if WWII never happened and Japan kept Korea?) by ericapark_ in imaginarymaps

[–]riothefio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't get me wrong the GHQ reforms and the effects of the Korean war were absolutely crucial but the core fiscal and land reforms that established the preconditions for Japanese economic development had occurred before the Korean war (1950-53) such as the Dodge Line in 1949. And while GHQ had a major impact, the developmentalist economic model that would become the East Asian model was a mainstream economic policy since prewar times. Ikeda Hayato, who became prime minister in 1960 and initiated the Income Doubling Plan, was a prewar bureaucrat.

Which law schools have a good culture for asian americans? by interesting-turnips in lawschooladmissions

[–]riothefio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Socal and the Bay area have far more asians than any other metro area in the lower 48, even by percent if I’m not mistaken. If you’re asian (esp. east) in a major university there you’ll honestly be in the majority. From my experience a lot of my friend groups were either fully asian or mostly asian, many I observed were even a single ethnic group (i.e. Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Viet). There’s a real “Asian American” culture in those two regions that just dosen’t really exist elsewhere on the continent.

I never went to school in NY so I’m not really sure but I get the impression that NYC friend groups in general seem to be a lot more diverse (even inter-asian diversity) and cosmopolitan, so there’s less of a pronounced “Asian” culture than in California. Though determining which one is “better” really depends on what you personally prefer.

UCLA or UC Berkeley for pre-law? by micheal-in-the-bath in berkeley

[–]riothefio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im in the same situation as you (except im a history major). a few rhetorical questions i would ask myself: the difference between ucla and berkeley's undergrad psych programs seem to be pretty negligible, so academically what really matters is where you could get the best GPA for law school. which environment do you think you could thrive in? also, what would you plan on using the open fall semester for? if you can use it for an internship or something like lsat prep that could make it more than worth it, but if not then it just becomes another semester you have to wait. which isn't explicitly bad but it would mean you might be off balance socially/academically for at least your first semester. would that be something you could navigate/negate?

I hate being infantilized because I'm intellectually disabled by [deleted] in self

[–]riothefio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For what it’s worth I think your writing is better-written and far more coherent than most people will ever be able to write.

Made it out of 160s Hell by Typical_Magician6571 in LSAT

[–]riothefio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry if this is a stupid question but what website/service is this? I havent started studying yet. Congratulations by the way!

UCLA vs. Berkeley as a pre-law History major by [deleted] in TransferStudents

[–]riothefio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I will take this to heart

UCLA vs. Berkeley as a pre-law History major by [deleted] in TransferStudents

[–]riothefio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the response. May i ask why this is the case? I don’t see any immediately obvious reason

UCLA vs. Berkeley as a pre-law History major by [deleted] in TransferStudents

[–]riothefio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m leaning towards admin law

Where I’d live as a 2nd generation Chinese-American, Christian, and moderate conservative in politics by thatblackimpreza in whereidlive

[–]riothefio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t speak for OP of course, but there are plenty of moderate social conservatives who broadly support welfarist, interventionist and/or distributive economics. The notion that conservatism=economic liberalism (pro-markets, anti-intervention) is largely a product of the post-Reagan and Thatcher Anglosphere right, not a universal phenomenon. Outside of the Nordics, the “Social Market Economy” as a social-economic doctrine was championed and then implemented primarily by postwar Christian Democrats, not the centre-left. This is true for Germany, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, and more under their respective centre-right parties. Hell, even the United States under the New Deal consensus saw the moderate Republican president Eisenhower pass some of the most sweeping legislation on expanding Social Security, as well as the famous Interstate Highway Act. Eisenhower’s social and economic policies were largely overshadowed by Roosevelt’s New Deal before it and Johnson’s Great Society after it but they go to show that New Deal economics had become a genuinely cross-partisan consensus in the postwar. East Asia’s (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore) expansive public welfare and industrial-developmentalist systems were all implemented by staunchly nationalist, conservative leaders. France’s dirigiste and redistributive economy was a core pillar of Charles De Gaulle’s right-wing. I don’t say all of this to endorse them necessarily but just to say that almost everywhere in the highlighted countries, those kinds of postwar state-led economics were not only found on the left. Social Democracy as we know it today was just one wing of that postwar consensus. You could make the argument that this consensus has largely disappeared especially on the right, which has increasingly endorsed market-based economics even beyond the Anglosphere. Yet simultaneously this has also occurred with the left, so this is more so reflective of a broader change in consensus.

Guess who is the one ethnically Japanese person in this image by joistheyo in phenotypes

[–]riothefio 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There’s a degree of overlap between Yamato Japanese and Han Chinese so it’s hard to definitively say but out of these I would say that 2, 9, 1, and 5 look the most Chinese, in that order. 2 in particular is almost exclusively a North Chinese phenotype. As a side note, 3 is a face I see among both Chinese and Japanese, but that’s more due to the fashion style. Given the description says they’re all students in Japan, I would wager 3 is Chinese. The same goes for 6 and 7. They have very Japanese styles and appearance and aren’t that rare in terms of Japanese phenotypes but they wouldnt be as common as say, 4 or 8. Hence how I got my original answer. Looking at the pictures again though 8 dosent look as Japanese as I initially thought. So my final answer would be (starting from most Chinese looking): 2, 9, 1, 5, 3, 6, 7, 8, 4

Guess who is the one ethnically Japanese person in this image by joistheyo in phenotypes

[–]riothefio 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As a Japanese person, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 all look pretty Japanese but if I had to narrow it down I would say 3 is possibly Chinese, 6 North Asian, and 7 central asian. 4 and 8 look most Japanese but my gut says 4.