@@geopoint_yeah South Korea has about 0.40 ratio of fertility, while Japan has almost double that. If we think Japan’s in trouble, then double that for South Korea. Also, South Korea is now the top of Suicide Rates in the world. While Japan is now the same rate as Finland, the happiest nation on Earth. That’s means something.
@@LamLawIndy Working is the key, taxes isn't. Taxes is what makes people work, and the work is what is desired. The government can create currency, but they can't create nurses or farmers. You support pensioners by having enough nurses and the like to give them the care, and farmers to provide the food. Running out of workers means you run out of supply of goods and services. And when you run out, the nation becomes poor. The currency is just an accounting tool. That is why they are now giving out so much currency for children to be born; because they realised the child is more valuable than a million dollars.
Population decline is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as it's managed. If you want everyone in the world to enjoy the same, high standard of living, that's difficult because resources are limited. I don't think there's a workable solution if each country, on its own, has to jerryrig their own demographics. It should be a worldwide coordinated effort. Immigration is a good first step.
When you have a culture that is more focused on careers and work, instead of people and families, less people will marry, and have children. Japan and other Asian countries are reaping what they've sown.
Actually it is the opposite. Japan male politicians try to do a lot to increase birth rate, but zjey do not ask what women want. Same in South Korea. Women are just not acceping anymore beeing slaves of men.
Not just those asian nations. In Europe too. It is this idea of a "career" (originally a military concept) what pushes people to invest all their time and effort on it. It was wrong when it was only something that affected men, but now that women have falled for this scheme, it is destroying entire countries. And no, accepting immigrants (mostly young men) from very different cultures is not going to help, because the root cause is not being addressed.
The idea that people want to have more and more money was invented by Calvin. Before it was a sin to be rich and beggars were cherished. In our days even outside the USA we think it is normal to consume unnecessary things and buy cars.
@@maritaschweizer1117 Vastly overstates Calvin’s influence in the world, as well as Christianity’s influence in general. Early Christian values of caring for the poor were pretty unique and revolutionary in the ancient and medieval world, and not all that dominant even within Christendom.
Japan is not alone. All developed countries and east Asian countries have below-replacement fertility, and in most of them it is declining further. When careers are emphasized, and to get one, a person must spend their youth at university, children don't happen.
@@AgathaLOutahere There are very few areas/regions on Earth where it doesn't have below replacement rates right now. US is definitely not one of them. Only Africa and the Middle East has above replacement rate whereas everywhere else, it's below.
@@AgathaLOutahere It 100% is. Please show me the official source(s) where the US is not below the population replacement level? In 2021, the official birth rate in the US was 1.66. However, in 2023, the birth rate in the US was 1.78 so an increase. Having said that, you need 2.1 kids in order to sustain and replace the dying population. The US is not nearly as bad as what's going on in Japan, S. Korea, China and similar countries, but it's still not at replacement level.
I am from Turkey, I hope our population starts to decrease too. Our population increase has dropped significantly, young people have shifted to secularism, morality has deteriorated.
You touched on the cost but you missed the number one reason that is semi hidden. Employment instability. Japanese people especially men used to start work in their early 20s and be pretty much guaranteed to work at the same company for 50 years with steadily increasing wages. Many young people now work at the same companies but as contractors at a much lower salary and without job security. They never have enough money or stability to start a family.
that's not the reason. Here in Austria, we have both good salaries AND job security yet we still aren't having kids, either. It's about women joining the workforce amd not mentally being willing to sit on two chairs at the same time. (I'm a career woman.) It is expected that after 1yr of age of my child, I return to the workforce like a robot and leave the child....where exactly? Children are a nuisance to the corporate world. And my career will never recover.
@@NoctLightCloud I think you missed the point. MEN had enough salary and job security to support a family to a reasonable degree and that freed the women to have several children and be there to raise them. Now a Japanese young couple barely has enough to support themselves on two salaries so supporting 3 or 4 family members on one unreliable salary is out of the question.
@@NoctLightCloud There you go, my dudes. The real issue is not economic, but, rather, cultural. As long as women prioritise career, freedom and "girl bossing" over children and family, the Western civilisation will continue declining. Turd Flinging Monkey has an idea on how to solve this issues. I would suggest to check him out.
Exactly! used to live and work in rural Japan. taxes depends on previous year's income, fine if you're on the escalator of lifetime employment, not so great if you've been told "you can keep your job, but we're only going to pay you half as much" , in hindsight, losing my permanent residence status due to the pandemic was a blessing; yes I lost the "privilege" of being able to work here, but Japan lost the privilege of being able to tax me. I'm on a tourist visa now, enjoying cheap yen.
Money alone will not help much. Make work life balance a priority so that patents spend time at home with family and basic necessities more affordable and easily accessible. People will only procreate if they have leisure time and money.
...peace of mind, don't forget that. If everything you have can be taken away at the next layoff at no fault of your own, you will never have peace of mind.
Yeah, most weekdays it seems like so many people don't do anything outside of work. How are they supposed to meet new people, date, and make a life outside of work that will lead to marriage and kids? Work is important to a degree but clearly there are more important things
In addition to promoting people living in villages, the government should provide tax breaks to businesses that allow employees to work remotely. That way, people can live in underpopulated villages and work from home!
@@SystemBD They won't. 8 million abandoned homes in Japan. No one wants them because no one wants to live in the sticks. Schools closed down and/or turned into care homes for the elderly. You're talking about a subject you have scant knowledge about.
we can't all be software engineers, somebody has to harvest the cabbages or clean the lavatories at the train station; Japan doesn't have negative income tax for the working poor, there is no rebate in February as in America, no GST rebate as in Canada, instead you get a deluge of demands for payment from City Hall, which is more similar to an Ottoman empire tax farm than a North America municipality.
China’s population started to decrease by 800k in 2022, and a whopping 2 million in 2023, all the while China’s GDP/Capita is still only 10k+, as opposed to to Japan’s 52k. I think China is in a way deeper crisis than Japan; they got old before they got rich.
I married a lovely Japanese woman 24 years ago. We have three children together. If the Government of Japan is listening...I did my part in trying to help with your population issues. The pleasure was all mine*)
So, I'm progressing through JLPT certs, but here in the US I can work a flat 40 hours a week in engineering and go home. If I move to Japan even at a salary match, I feel that I can expect to work 60 hours or more for no gain. I can use Japanese here to benefit my career and company. Japan is really cool with a beautiful language, a rich history and amazing sights to see, but I struggle to realize even with the mindset of adapting to Japanese culture and not bringing my own with expecations for them to change for me, the draw beyond novelty of immigrating my skilled labor with my wife.
They are not alone. Italy is disappearing, China did it to themselves intentionally, and Russia is killing off all of its young men. The world is changing, all over. Same problem, different routes taken, same result.
The problem is worse than simply lower fertility rates. Childbirth is also being delayed. Having children at 38 rather than at 18 means that not only is the next generation smaller, it is effectively skipping generations.
That's probably true in many countries, just because kids grow up and out of diapers pretty quickly while many old folks live many years needing diapers.
Having spent a fair amount of time in Japan, I would add that there are some problematic cultural dimensions as well. Far fewer Japanese are even getting into relationships. Even if the government gave you 80k for each baby you have, you can't make babies if you're not having sex.
Yes, it is! But Japan's population is much smaller and its population decline is happening at a much faster rate, which means its way closer to the "point of no return" than China or any other country. Beyond that, there are some underying cultural issues causing this that I didn't touch on here. Would you watch a video on that?
@@geopoint_yes we would. The hikiko mori situation has had a horrendous impact. Japan also just plain ignored it the same way they ignore mental health and physical disabilities.
Good, will be the best thing for the planet and everyone…. People will start to breed again when the population drops and life becomes more pleasant. Less people, less competition, people will become more tolerable, so people will socialise more and therefore breed more. The population boom in the past 200 years was extreme, this is just a natural correction.the centuries before the boom population growth was glacial.
Number of births in Japan was about 726 tsd in 2023 but numer of deaths is above 1,5 mln. So about 800 tsd less people a year. In a decade Japan will shrink its popualtion about 8 mln. Median age in Japan is 49,1 years,
Amazing how the Middle East where people die in every way possible but suicide is nowhere near this situation, don't you find it interesting that Iraq which suffered from war isn't suffering from population decline while the safest countries in the world are having a hard time convincing their people to carry on living?
@sadhu7191 My point is that cultures without any sort of spirituality and beliefs won't survive long even with the best quality of life, the middle east has strong faith that's why they pull through no matter how hard it is
True I've noticed this too I'm from Somalia, the literal shithole of the world and the suicide rate is almost non existent, then you look at countries like Finland (the happiest country in the world) and they have one of the highest suicide rates in Europe I find it interesting
@zuesadam7143 because Somalia are Muslims, don't be sad brother, have faith in Allah, our test is hard but look at Gaza they have the toughest test yet they haven't given up and they believe in Allah and they always say Alhamdulliah, we must stay strong because Allah is merciful no matter what happens to Muslims Allah will make it ok , and he will be gentle with us because he is closer to us than our veins, he is more merciful than our parents and than ourselves, even if we don't understand the hardships that we are going through we must believe that Allah knows best and that if we believe in him all the hardships we will end well. I'm a Palestinian myself but I live in Jordan not Palestine, it's not dangerous here but we also suffer from poverty lack of basic needs and jobs are scarce, but Alhamdulliah for everything we have here, my relatives live in Palestine and their lives are much harder than we could imagine
@@leenamustafabooks1377 thank you brother, it's heartwarming to see fellow Muslims this faithful despite all the hardships we're going through, Sometimes I get depressed thinking about the situation of the Muslim world but then I see despite all the advantages the westerns have it still isn't enough for them Alhamdulilah for Islam because no matter how hard life gets Allah will always be merciful And I pray for things to get better for you and for the people of Palestine that have endured so much yet so steadfast insha'Allah the sun will shine on us again
@@To411u What's important is their dna is japanese. I would think their children attending japanese schools, watching japanese tv, they would pick up the culture quickly.
Why would they go back...the pressure on the working part of the population will increase every year..longer working hours..higher taxes to pay the old...you give your children a harder life than outside Japan...if i were a Japanese parent i would learn my kids to speak English fluently and give them an international outlook...
Developed countries around the world need to get serious about tackling this problem before it's too late. They need to offer incentives large enough to where being a stay at home mom with 5 kids is a viable career option. I know that sounds weird. But that's the only way to save us from total collapse across the globe. People go where the money is nowadays.
Money can't solve this. It's a (female) mindset thing. People have been brainwashed to be cowards, make excuses, hate themselves and their families etc.
Unfortunately, Japan has a very ethnocentric culture -- foreigners encounter strong discrimination. You are very much a second-class citizen as a foreigner in Japan. As for the Japanese government policies, they simply won't work. The gap between the current birth rate (about 1.2) to the replacement rate (2.1) is simply too great. Japan's policy changes are just tinkering around the edges of the problem.
They would need to reform a lot more aspects of the workforce to give people more free time to have a life outside work Like making overtime pay mandatory if one works more than 40 hours no matter in what industry as a way to incentivize companies to stop keeping people longer at work if not absolutely necessary
If they accept immigrants it's over for Japan. Look at Europe. They got wrecked by immigrants. Hopefully Japan keeps its borders VERY closed except for maybe a few people from China and Korea. Also maybe a few from SE asia but if people from Africa come it will be very sad
I would not underestimate the capability of Japanese society, to change drastically. Japan was the only country, which could change from a medieval society directly to an industrial society and thus escaping colonization. Japan also changed drastically after 1945. I believe, they can also change their demograhic patterns. Of course, that does not happen immediately, but I think, twenty years can be a reasonable time, to achieve a change. And concerning demography, 20 years is a short period. But I think, European societies are not able to change. When Immigration from middle eastern countries will suceed to gain a majority, the most active parts of the European population will emigrate and those, which stay, will finish to reproduce, because they feel, there is no future for their children. To adopt European immigration politics would mean, to destroy everything, what made Japan successfull.
Foreigners can work in Japan but most salary is capped at $2000 per month with no increment. Foreign workers also complain of being isolated by their Jap peers so most wont work long term.
@@schurlbirkenbach1995 In the modern world we often forget that Europeans regarded each other as ennemies for most of history. I think each European country is handling birth rate decline in a different fashion. For example, Poland and Hungary want to remain ethnically pure. Their governments are giving economic incentives for couples to have more kids. Germany has a large Turkish population that is not integrating. Moroccans and Algerians in France are having an easier time assimilating. Similar for the Caribbean black community in Britain. They have a very high rate of out-marriage, mostly with whites. As for Japan, that's an excellent point.
Japan is doomed, and it has no one to blame but itself. You can't just throw money at the problem, hoping it will go away, especially when the older generation, especially the leaders, still run it the old way: 1) group first individual not at all, 2) Seniority over creativity, 3) Work over family, 3) Low wages, 4) discrimination against women and foreigners, etc. Those responsible should Seppuku to save the country.
And the money they give is laughably not enough, are they even serious at trying to fix it? It's like what, $4000 per child? That barely covers anything
Sorry guys it's worse then that. Humanity has 18 days before the great reset. The world population peak was in 2018 at 9.176b ppl. Now we at 1750million world wide with 10million ppl dying a day since COVID began. Every country world wide Japan, China India all has drop to extinction lvls when then then the world with most populated countries including south and central America. All you have to do is open your eyes and see there ain't as much ppl in your home town as there used to be
In about 100 years or so, Japan may end up like Mongolia. The capital is heavily populated but the rest of the country is mostly empty. This means many popular tourist destinations around the country would probably be abandoned and the country’s iconic bullet trains would probably go bankrupt since not many people may ride them as they’d go to cities/towns with little to no population, let alone civilization.
Without any major intervention, what might happen is: economic and societal collapse, which would indirectly cause birth rates to go up again. This may not cause rapid increase in population earlier on, but it stabilises the population, which then starts to grow again once society re-establishes itself, and grows rapidly in the early stages of an established society , until things get comfortable again, then the cycles repeats.
As someone that gave birth in Japan, it’s not enough. Funnily enough, currently I had to take a long break from work because I had to move neighborhoods, meaning I need to find another nursery. But there aren’t enough nurseries available, and it takes so much time and effort to get in one. Imagine you can only apply latest by a month before admission, and there is a 22 people waiting list 🤯 People only use bicycles and trains so if there is no nursery in the vicinity, I would have to go more than 5km by bike with a child, then go bak the other direction just to get to the train station?? So basically I’ve been waiting for months to get into a nearby school and at this rate my child cant get into school until the new school year in April. To put into perspective, I live in Osaka. There should be more nurseries available. And my company is making me write a list of reasons, coupled with documentation from the city hall on why my kid can’t get into school cuz I’m not allowed to take long breaks. I mean I’m not even getting paid so why is it a problem. Crazy thing is my job is remote workable but thy prefer me to the office. Now I have no salary and trying to raise a kid with hardly any help from the government. All I got was around 120 USD a month but that isn’t even enough to cover buying diapers and milk a month. Rather than feeding us this meager amount of money, create more situations where women can live a healthy lifestyle juggling work and having kids. And companies should have more empathy on mothers and stop penalizing them for not being men that can leave all home issues to their wives
Population collapse in Japan is not a problem. The wealth of the country will be shared wit 1/2 the population. Fine. Please do not destroy Japan by allowing foreigner's to replace Japanese.
Tokyo is too big. They need to decentralize. Incentivise big companies to move to other large or midsized cities. That will grow the suburbs around them with people looking for work. Aside from that the black companies are mostly to blame for depopulation because of the unpaid overtime. Dying at your job from overwork is a reality there so much that even has it's own word in Japanese. Maybe create worker protection hotline so workers can report bad business practices anonymously. That will allow for workers to be with there families and not just when they are asleep. You can't make babies if you're too tired to do your wife or if your dead at your desk. 😅 I really wish they could get this done. I always wanted to visit Japan but at this rate it will become a new Part of China before I can save up because the country will disappear and the Chinese will move in.😢
So I'm just a regular with a regular thinking process 🤔 why don't you make it so beneficial to have children that it would be dumb financially not to? like people with children don't pay income tax or some kind of crazy incentive like that
"Functioning" means different things to different people. When workers are harder to get, employee salaries and benefits increase. The thing that causes governments trouble is the fact there are fewer young people paying taxes, part of which supports "old folks". This decline has been going on for years. Women became more liberated and got tired of sitting at home evenings while the hubby was "out with the boys".
Nah, the people don't really emphasize on career either as most people don't even have career planning/strategy Their focus is simply scattered No life plan No career plan and it's just getting worse with social media
Foreigners will work just look at europe! Despite low births population grew! Otherwise total cultural u-turn needed. Woman at home and men working less.
Either labor gets to be in such short supply that there's premium on wages and people can afford kids, or they die out. Immigration is just a stop gap.
Bitcoin solves this. If it's true that money is ultimately the main reason behind it, then the sooner Japan adopts bitcoin and educates its people about it, the better off they will be. If they do it before most other countries, they can benefit massively from it. If they drag their feet and do it later, they will get fucked over.
Debunk ! the People that die are old people and that means less pensions to pay and that's good for the economy ! As for population with all the people that want to come for South East Asian and Europe , etc if japan allow them all in that will mean more that 10 million people !
Pay one person female or male to be full time parent. A small amount extra for extra kids. Otherwise, only those already going to have kids by choice will have the benefit. Government saying I'll give you $100 to go buy a car and the rest is up to you. Not a good deal!
It sounds as if Japan is moving in the right direction to help their population problems. Once people start moving to smaller towns and working online they will be together more to let nature take its course. Maybe the other countries with this problems should do the same. None of these countries be ignoring their orphan children. Maybe the seniors can be paid to adopt these childrens and give them a home in a small town in the country.
I have an idea... A really popular TV show or anime/ franchise that somehow glamorizes having lots of children There have been lots initiative and programs to get women into STEM courses and careers now. When I was in high school, 90% of boys in AP physics were male and 10% were female. IMO, the most successful thing was purely accidental. It was the show The Big Bang Theory. Physics majors for both men and women skyrocketed and some articles even said "we have no idea why". There was kid's show called Project MC2 which I thought was fcking brilliant because it associated science with girliness, fashion, spies, gadgets, adventures and dolls. Literally each science experiment toy kit came with a doll and .. well it worked lol
No problem, Japan already has literally the final solution for aging population problem. That's called 'ubasute-yama' or oldies dumping yards, which has been part of Japan's history for thousands of years.
This is what happens in every places ahead that chooses profits above all. You get people living individualistic lifes working their ass off to barely pay the bills in + and + bs jobs that could be soon or already remplaced by machines. Corporations are the "new" force of power. Sure you can vote, but in masses I think people don’t realize how much power they have in selecting they purchase of good by buying, only when it comes to boycotts ppl do that bc they also want the cheapest above all, thats a vicious circle. This phenomena has been at the root of most of modern societies major problems economically ecologically socially families/birth rate geopolitical etc ..
The stupid part is English speaking clever people would say "all you have to do is import a bunch of people who aren't like you, don't like you, and don't want to be like you." You know, because Japan would still be Japan if the Japanese were replaced by, well, anybody. It would not be so bad if old people had the ability to pick up and carry stuff. And to think. I'm on the cusp of old, and I am shocked at how many 55+ people just decide to stop thinking. Is that the case in Japan, too? And Japanese government forces retirement? Did I hear that right?
The “west” is importing millions of people. That’s the only reason it’s not as bad as Japan. Actual home grown people don’t have kids anymore, I think it’s a good thing.
@@TheSilverShadow17 Can't keep growing forever on a finite planet. Planned degrowth is the answer to avoid horrible pain, suffering and collapse. We won't do that will we? How about some evidence from you?
@@maglemose7843 The Earth is capable of supporting more than 8 billion of us but I can see why that isn't feasible in the long run. That being said it's not impossible for some countries to maintain and stabilize their population either. I mean yeah less people means more room and resources and all but at the same time there are downsides to it as well.
Japan could probably do it if they became the “America “ of Asia. Open their country to up to citizens from other Asian countries especially ppl looking for a better life. They could probably invite ppl to populate the country towns.
How is it collapse if it will be like in the 1960s? I mean in the UK that'd be great as houses will be cheaper since the corrupt system won't allow new social housing
Somehow someone keeps gaming the market to avoid letting property prices be influenced by supply and demand. Sure there’s plenty of land for everyone to live on but it is all owned by oligarchs who use it as uncharitably as possible. Just google for the Highlands Clearances in Scottish history, but realise it’s not unique.
When I was living in Japan, Japanese women told me that they don’t want to become the caretakers of their husband’s elderly parents as is the tradition in Japan for centuries. The Western Women I know who married Japanese guys say that he was so sweet and nice when they were dating but he then turned into a totalitarian dictator once they were married. Young Japanese Women want to have fun. They want to travel, have their own interests. And it’s extremely difficult for Japanese kids who are under pressure cooker type conditions to excel academically. They are under far too much stress. Young people don’t want to have kids and put them through all of that. A father and son both committed suicide together when I was there because the son didn’t get accepted to the university they’d chosen.
The global population was 1 billion in 1804. The population exploded to over 8 billion. That was extremely concerning, on which we didn’t talk. The explosion of the population is the major reason for global warming, ocean acidification, disappearing forests, pollution of the entire earth and extinctions of numerous species. “Collapse” is a vocabulary of fear mongers. When the population decline slowly till 2100, we can manage the transition. We have lots of technologies to manage it. And it is in our hand, to do it in a socially acceptable and human way. The last years since pandemic made us clear, that the majority isn’t immune against deception, manipulation and brainwashing. It made us clear, that our greed, laziness and negligence is the real threat. The USD is “collapsing” ( fear monger alarm :-) right now. And it gives us the chance to reflect on our own thoughts and improve our future.
It is the precursor of Urban modern society. The major key factor is house is getting more expensive and size decrease so it is too crampy to start family. This is the mismangement of most country by builidng smaller and smaller house. In affluent societies, the cost of raising children is too extorbitant.
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Same like in the rest of the world. Only africa have population rise. And Japan is in better situation than western europe. Without mass migration they keep stability of the society.
7:01 this is the best and goodnews for people want working in japan expecially young people from southeast asia like malaysia thaialdn vietnam philipines and indonesia also have even the basic japanese language that need to help and increase they ability to help japan economy for two country benefit
Foreign workers are discrimunated in Japan. Their salaries are capped and they cannot progress up the corporate ladder...many professional migrant workd will leave Jaoan after a year or two after realizing they cant progress...so many professionaps in South East Asia will prefer to go to other countries that are more progressive towards migrant. workers like Australia, Germany, Canada and even US that need young prifessoonals.
@@hijazzains ok thanks for telling me, I'm sure if I had the power I would have pissed off the Japanese even though I respect them doesn't mean I have to let them go. did they make a mistake? if you have a friend who does wrong, you don't want to let it go, do you? you have to be angry and reprimand him so that he realizes that his actions are wrong and bothering others, about discrimination, my country has faced a lot of racial discrimination, the economy and many other things, so we are used to that situation even though our country is safe but the security is not remain for a long time if the people of his country fail to solve the problem, great chaos will be triggered not because of the war but because of the attitude of the rebels, that must be avoided no matter what happens, it is not like the UN which failed to solve the problem of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which only increases the number of Muslims who will embrace the religion that's beautiful and true because of our steadfastness, God's pepper never goes out, Japan should also understand that every nation has the same spirit as them, if they have a reason to discriminate us, please, we have the right too, our intention is to help, can't we do more, right??? you are human he is human Otherwise, if Japan is a robot, it will be difficult to understanding 😒😒 anyway i knoe japan is not like that, they just so protect what they like to follow, so genius but also stupid
@@afizi1213 japan is not solving their problems, their economy is in long term decline, only Toyota is in the top 50 fortune company, Japanese are increasingly lookiing inward unfortunately
If they want to increase permanent residency of immigrants, they are eventually going to have to repeal the law that prohibits non-ethnic Japanese from owning property in Japan. If you want foreigners to stay in your country, you have to give them the option of eventually OWNING their houses, not just renting them forever. Plus, let them own property and they may build more houses themselves (I know there is very little shortage in housing in the non-urban areas, due to the population drop, but a big family needs a big house, and there are fewer of those.
I own property in Japan, bought it when I realized I'd never be able to afford land in Canada. City Hall is so desperate for cash that they don't care where it comes from. Permanent residence timed out in 2020, on tourist visa now. BTW, half the houses around here are empty & abandoned.
China has also passed peak population and it will be entering a fast population decline soon down to 600 million this will mean it will decline as an industrial powerhouse because an aging population means fewer people will be able to do the jobs. Both China and Japan have no immigrants coming to replace the population and there is no indication that policy will change.
@@edheldude why don't you try to explain this to a 9 year old child dying from cancer or to the people dying from starvation in Yemen because of war or to the families living in extreme poverty from 10 generations...
@@ameygade1977 Well in Yemen's case you have to forgive your parents for being such f%ckups and not taking better care of their society and culture. Pain they have is the direct consequence of their actions and inactions. Depending on cancer it can be the result of your lifestyle choices or in rare cases some genetic glitch. You can accept the pain of the situation in either case. Imperfection, or dukkha in Buddhism, is painful and you can free yourself from it by accepting it. I myself lived in hell for 20 years and am now pain-free.
