Why are you letting yourselves fade out of existence? The EU fertility rate is a pathetic 1.47 babies per woman. 2.1 is required to simply replace the population. Even if there is an immediate return to fertility replacement levels, the future population loss is still enormous. Since you're unwilling to have kids, immigration is the only solution. Naturally they're going to bring their culture with them, thus diluting the current European culture and heritage. I'm even willing to bet that the 1.47 fertility rate is inflated by newer immigrants. In comparison, the U.S. is at the 2.1 replacement level, and even non-hispanic whites reproduce at near replacement levels. However, Japan is also at a very low fertility rate (1.4), and other more developed Asian countries are also at low rates. So right now, with the exception of the United States, the developed world doesn't feel the need to replace themselves. I personally believe there is something wrong with a society that doesn't want to replace themselves. Of course the environmentalist will say that this is a good thing, but there's no way that the masses of people in Europe and Japan consider population control issues in family planning. There has to be another reason. Greed? Depression? Low self-esteem?
By the way, people can be very sensitive, so let me just mention that I'm not against immigrants. We Americans are all immigrants.
By the way, people can be very sensitive, so let me just mention that I'm not against immigrants. We Americans are all immigrants.