A theory im playing around with that the apparent Vulgarity and crudeness of American country/redneck/Conservative culture is actually an adaptive mode of Counter signaling akin to Orthodox Jewish or Amish cultural adaptations to maintain high birth rates and internal cultural coherence in the face of the homogenizing anti-natalist effects of Mainstream Global-liberal-urban monoculture...
American redneck/conservative culture, and Orthodox Jews especially are unique in being the only wealthy cultures to maintain high birth rates beyond the global middle-income, and that both adapted and are defined by their hostile largely hostile relationship with the the most advanced strains of the global mono-culture found in Urban America and the Urbanized anglo-world.
Nations as far afield as Hungary, China, and Iran are trying to save themselves from declining birthrates... Should they try to import American Country culture?
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One of the lowest native tfr countries is Austria. Austria is a wealthy Western (in the iron curtain sense) European country with extremely generous welfare. Day care and kindergarten are provided by the state. There are generous incentives to have multiple children, including huge tax deductions that not only scale per-child but actually increase by more with each additional child up to four. What’s more, Austrians receive extensive vacation time of 36 days per year, work an average of 35 hours per week and have comparatively cheap housing and transport costs, with high quality, highly-subsidized housing in major cities like Vienna.
Objectively, Austria is a great place to raise children and a good place for children to grow up. They still have rock bottom birth rates that have only been boosted in recent years by migrants.
But do Austrians culturally look forwards to being parents? Because rednecks do, male and female both.
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