What are your thoughts about Korea? Online, I see a lot of pessimism from citizens of that nation about their societies future. Low birth rates, stifling work and academic culture, intense competition, high expectations, high stress, constant comparison where they feel always have to focus on climbing to be elite/successful. Having lived there for several years, I have a much more pessimistic view on the future of USA.I don't want to downplay or deny the existence of rather serious social issues in South Korea. It's moreso I have a higher level of confidence in their populace. Overall while the impression I got of Korea was many unhappy and stressed out people, but also got the understanding that many were highly competent on average they were capable, and had decent awareness and intelligence. I think a paradigm shift will be inevitable in their future, and society won't collapse. Meanwhile, having grown up in and lived in USA most of my life, I have the complete opposite impression about USA. Americans are on average very stupid, very fat, very aggressive, short-sighted, selfish, easily manipulated, deeply hateful and spiteful, have insane beliefs, etc. At the end of the day, what matters most is who your country is actually made up of. The situation is even more dire if you look at the youth, who are the true future of a country. When you spend time around the younger Americans, you are left with a feeling of such intense hopelessness and despair at the thought that these are the humans who will inherit the future. Not to be mean, but the youngest citizens here seem completely and utterly dysfunctional and broken. I get the feeling basic infrastructure will no longer be able to be maintained here in the next 50yrs. Tl;dr: USA is far more doomed than South Korea, even though online people seem to talk about Korea as a sinking ship way more than they talk about how cooked USA is.Feel free to share your thoughts!
>>221182199Both countries are doomed
>>221182199>What are your thoughts about Korea?I've never been but I've known people who are both ethnically Korean and from Korea virtually everywhere I have been my entire life. I weirdly see the presence of Koreans in my life to be some sort of sign from God that I'm at the right place at the right time. They're probably some of my favorite people; they're always nice and friendly, they're always open to being edgy unlike most other Americans, and they tend to be smart and well-adjusted while also having an interesting pop culture and general culture. I respect them more than almost any other group of people.>I think a paradigm shift will be inevitable in their future, and society won't collapse.It helps because they're densely populated, relatively small, and culturally homogenous like Japan or China. In 100 years there will still be a distinctively Korean Korea, the same cannot be said of many other places. Hell NK is somehow still doing midcentury Marxism-Leninism/Stalinism and there's no signs of it collapsing or going away because of how tightly unified the country is culturally.The U.S really isn't comparable. The U.S had a choice between being the biggest Anglo country with some quirky minorities or becoming the biggest Latin American country and being Brazil with nukes and guns, and every faction of U.S politics has consistently chosen the latter since the 1960s.
>>221183123>They're probably some of my favorite people; they're always nice and friendly, they're always open to being edgy unlike most other Americans, and they tend to be smart and well-adjusted while also having an interesting pop culture and general culture. I respect them more than almost any other group of people.Same. And good points. I agree with you and that difference is exactly why I'm optimistic about the future of Korea and pessimistic about the future of the United States. At the end of the day, it is a country filled with Korean people. They'll probably figure things out and make it work. Can't say the same about this country. At all. I believe at this point even American people who are usually unaware and not introspective at all are starting to intuitively get the feeling that this society is a sinking ship.
>>221182199boomdoomer whining
