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While low birth rates are a worldwide phenomenon (affecting even developing nations), it is prominent in industrialized countries of Europe and East Asia. 

The defining reason for this decline has been proven to correlate directly with the level of higher education among women. 

https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/p/2022-07-08-the-decline-in-fertility-the-role-of-marriage-and-education/

South Korea currently has the lowest birth rate globally, yet its young women (under age 35) are more highly educated than any female population on earth. In fact, all of these East Asian nations now graduate more women from college than men.

From A.I.

Global Higher Education Attainment (Women, Ages 25–34)

South Korea - 76% - Highest in the world. Young women lead young men by a massive 13 percentage points. 

Taiwan - 70% - Similar to South Korea, rapid university expansion in the 1990s and 2000s resulted in over two-thirds of young women holding degrees.

Japan - 67% - Very high attainment, with young women slightly outstripping young men.

Singapore - 64% - Focuses specifically on university degrees for this cohort, surging significantly past the male graduation rate since 2006.

China - Tier-1 Urban Centers (Beijing, Shanghai): - 70% to 75% - Just like in South Korea and Taiwan, young women in urban China are out-studying men.

United States - 56% - Solidly above the overall OECD average, reflecting a standard Western benchmark where women outnumber men in undergraduate enrollment.

United Kingdom - 57% - Matches the broader trend of highly educated Western women outpacing young men in degree attainment.

OECD Average - 52% - The baseline across 38 developed countries.

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/education-at-a-glance-2025_1a3543e2-en/korea_252c9ed2-en.html

https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/education-attainment.html

South Korea industrialized and modernized in just 30 years, achieving what took Western countries 150 years to accomplish. 

Back in 1955, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world, remaining mostly rural and agrarian with a high birth rate of 5.02 to 6.33 children per woman.

Given this history, why do mainstream news articles about East Asia’s demographic consistently fail to mention women’s massive educational attainment which has surpassed Western nations as the sole reason behind the decline? 

Does ignoring this fact simply serve to uphold long-standing, manufactured stereotypes about Asian culture?

Found this old video of a proud Asian woman calling out other Asian women for making public declarations of not dating Asian men and making sure everyone knows about it.

https://youtu.be/uL-pKoJeVdE?si=e2O0Fi_cIv9WERiZ&t=69

This was 11 years ago! Nothing has changed. Of course, we all know already. Water is wet. Why announce it? It is obviously not a declaration of their own preferences but it’s intended as a spreading of racism. They are trying to force everyone to not date Asian men..

Heard one of these public announcements on Netflix's "Love Is Blind” where an AF proudly said she normally eliminates anyone that is Asian, and she was given zero repercussions.

Sure, there have been celebrities with racial preferences (Lindsey Vonn, Tiger Woods, etc.) but they never announce it. It seems such announcements is considered racist if done against all races/genders but fair game for Asian men.

A white male contestant on Married at First Sight Australia, said he wasn’t attracted to Asian women (when he was asked about it).

This brought the AF to tears and another AF contestant publicly trashed the WM, implying the WM was racist (even though both AFs said they don’t date AMs.), so I guess having racial preference is not acceptable if it is against them..

It has gotten worse in the last couple years with the rise of K-pop. I see more and more “subversive mateguarding” videos of these specific groups of AFs telling WFs and XFs that AMs are rapists and misogynistic to prevent them from going to Korea or be attracted to Asian men.

Of course, these mateguarding tactics are deemed acceptable by the media under the guise that 1) You cannot be racist against your own race, 2) You are allowed to have racial preferences.

As mentioned, this is a double standard where the media punishes/cancels such language (regardless of alleged preferences) against all races/genders except Asian men.

The game has evolved where AM can level up and go forward without questioning or caring about these preferences. However, for every step forward, they are met with a deliberate barrage of psychological onslaught to push them back down.

We are just asking for AM to be treated with the same public standards as everyone else..