Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA13285 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:32:53 +0100 Message-id: <fc.005b8ff100702b9b3b9aca00c8a78abc.702bef@amazon.shu.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 16:26:35 +0100 Subject: Re: memetics-digest V1 #262 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: I.Price@shu.ac.uk (Ilfryn PRICE\(SED\)) References: <200006020806.JAA11100@alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200006020806.JAA11100@alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Paul refering to Aaron writes
>there is a third stance or perspective
>
>c)in which cultural instructions may be understood as influencing fertility
>levels.
>
>Catholics do have more children than Protestants.
Paul I share some scepticism about the validity of the third perspective but
(according to quotes from Richard Rodgers - a British architect of some renown
for non UK readers - at a recent lecture) Spain and Italy now have the two
lowest birth rates in Europe.
Assuming the statistic to be valid it seems to me more social imitation than
any transmission of memes via birthrates (for a start it has taken less than a
generation for the phenomenon to emerge
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