Deadline: Monday evening, at latest before Tuesday’s class.
1. Click on the link below and watch the video only until 11:03 minutes in the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E
2. Please post your response (around 350 words) to the following questions in the comments section below.
1) What were the main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture? Do you agree with his conclusions, why or why not?
2) What sort of work does Taslima Khan do?
2a) What are some difficulties she faces in her work? What is your suggestion for her in tackling these difficulties?
3) What is the current situation in your country in terms of population and what is the government doing to deal with it?
You will be marked on the quality of your response and your response to others’ comments:
9-10: Excellent and insightful; response shows superb understanding and critical analysis; contains great details and responds to complex ideas
7-8: Good; response shows thoughtful understanding; contains good details and responds to ideas
5-6: Satisfactory; response shows a basic understanding; contains basic details and responds only to major ideas
3-4: Unsatisfactory; response shows some misunderstanding; contains insufficient details and does not fully respond to the main ideas
1-2: Poor; response shows poor understanding; contains no details and does not respond to the task
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His main idea is the world population continues to increase and fewer births lead to an expansion of lifespan. He showed the history of population change. He mentioned the Industrial Revolution led to the growth world’s population faster. Now there are 7 billion people in the world and the population has been increasing now. Also, the average number of babies born per woman has gone from 5 to 2.5. and the lifespan getting longer than before. There are big changes in the world population.
I generally agree with him, but in some ways, I disagree. I agree with the part that fewer births lead to an expansion of lifespan because birth gives women heavy damage, and it has a strong connection with the women’s lifespan. But I disagree with the part about the increasing population because the world population continues to increase but in some developed countries the population is decreasing. The population is increasing more but there are limits to growth, as some countries make government policies. For example, China had a government policy called the “One Child Policy”. This aim is to prevent for the population from increasing. Too increasing population caused some problems. Therefore some countries will make some government policy. For this reason, I disagree with him on some parts.
2. What sort of work does Taslima Khan do?
She worked at the government Family Planning service. And she goes door-to-door, trying to help others to have smaller families.
2a) What are some difficulties she faces in her work? What is your suggestion for her in tackling these difficulties?
She faces difficulties that some women who have poor education cannot understand well about her advice and her support. My suggestion is to do a sex education for not only women but also men. Because the birth problem is not only women, it needs to cooperate with men.
3. What is the current situation in your country in terms of population and what is the government doing to deal with it?
In Japan, population decline is the biggest problem. Decrying the birthrate and aging population is getting serious. Japanese movement is doing some policy to deal with it. That is the policy is for Marriage, Childbirth, and Childcare Support to prevent the population decline. Because many Japanese people have a negative image of growing children they need a lot of money to support education. Japanese government makes an effort to create an environment that is good for children to grow children.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion. In a society with unequal rights between men and women, men definitely need to have sex education as well.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion!
The fact that your woman’s life expectancy will be shortened due to the damage caused by childbirth is convincing, and I was able to agree again with the opinion that a smaller family lives longer than his large family.
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Thank you for sharin your opinion!
I think your suggestion that men also should have education is sharp! And I agree with you. Beacuse, I think we should share their recognitions of sexual activities. For men, they should know that women give a birth and if they don’t have piriods regurally, they can feel mental distress. Also, for women, they should have condoms even if condoms are tools men use. I think it is important to know each sex and protect each other.
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1) What were the main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture? Do you agree with his conclusions, why or why not?
The main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture is how the world population is changing, and what world it would be. I partly agree with his conclusion that the average number of children born per woman has fallen fast and is growth leveling off; however, the population is still growing and the number of the world population has raised to 8.1 Billion People in 2024.
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2) What sort of work does Taslima Khan do?
Taslima Khan is a family plan worker who educates the family, mostly women, to use pills to avoid getting pregnant again. She and her husband decided to have just 2 children, so she works for the government Family Planning Service, going door-to-door to try to help others to have smaller families too.
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2a) What are some difficulties she faces in her work? What is your suggestion for her in tackling these difficulties?
1. According to the video, the difficulties she faced in her work were that women were not proactive in showing their thought of family plans. They said they didn’t have time to hospital, didn’t get pregnant easily, or felt helpless if their husbands wanted boys they wouldn’t be able to against them. Her work could be hard to get through to them when they’re less educated.
2. I have two suggestions for her in tackling these difficulties. The first is to keep advocating the benefits and importances of reducing the number of babies born per woman. Because as long as she is still providing these pills, condoms, and acknowledgement, the people who are in need or who are seeking for opportunities to change can access these supports. The second is to show her empathy toward those women and family. Some women are passive or reluctant to take action because they don’t know the impact of giving birth or they can’t show their opinion in the family and have to obey whatever their husbands say. But with empathy they will know the plan that Taslima says has considered their obstacle, and the situation might change.
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3) What is the current situation in your country in terms of population and what is the government doing to deal with it?
The current situation in Taiwan is that people don’t want to have children. The government published several policies to encourage families giving birth, such as the allowance for each newborn baby, reducing the tuition, extending the parental leave, etc.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion. I agree with your opinion. As you say, some women are passive because they do not know the effects of childbirth, or they are unable to express their opinions in the home and have to follow whatever their husbands say. Therefore, I think that it is an effective way for her to empathize with women and their families.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion. I agree with your opinion. I think the increasing population will cause some problem. However Taiwan has opposite problem.That situation is similar with Japan.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion. You give two suggestions for Taslima Khan that were positive and also a great idea that show empathy to family or women. I think it could be work and women would willing to change this situation.
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1) Rosling presents the latest data from various countries based on the optimistic and facts on how the world’s population is changing and what the future of the world will be, and emphasizes that the world’s population growth is not as serious as the world thinks. He compared the data of past population and longevity, and found that if the number of families is small, they will live longer, and in the case of large families, they are short-lived. His main message was to provide fact-based information about population growth and highlight progress in areas such as child survival and demographic transitions.
I agree with the opinion that the smaller the number of family will live longer, and the larger family will live shorter. Like the Khan family he presented, if the number of children is small, the economic burden will be alleviated, and they can provide a sufficient education, medical care, and nurturing environment for each child. In comparison, large families depend on the income of each family, but the amount of expenses increases, so there is no economic compared to small families. Therefore, there is a possibility that they will not be able to receive enough medical care, so there is a possibility that they will be short-lived.
2) Taslima work at the government family planning service, and she work on cultural shift away from big families (door-to-door visits so that other people can also have smaller families) For example, she provides advice, mental support, and various contraceptives.
2a) Taslima finds it difficult to get uneducated people to understand the impact of having a small family.
The government employs women like Taslima in all villages, so my suggestion is that the government will set up a workshop between employees and set up a place to exchange opinions and knowledge, which will lead to overall knowledge improvement and motivation. After that, they will hold seminars for each village, and deepen the overall knowledge by having not only women but also men come and making positive concrete suggestions that can be obtained by reducing the number of children.
3) The population of Japan has been on a downward trend in the past few years, and the overall population is aging. Therefore, the Japanese government is improving the working environment and promoting work-life balance, such as work style reform to respond to the decline in the labor force population. In addition, we are expanding the acceptance of foreign workers and are working to alleviate labor shortages. In order to supplement the labor force by increasing the employment rate of women, they are also focusing on promoting women’s activities in society more than before.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion, Shiori. I agree with you, and it’s a good idea to set up a workshop. I also think men needs to know about the problem of big family and women’s physical burden.
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1) What were the main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture? Do you agree with his conclusions, why or why not?
Rosling’s main idea is that how much has the earth’s population increased since 50 years ago, and increasing birth rates lead to short life. I agree with him because if we have many children, we need to work a lot to take care of them and get money for their growth. It means we need to work more time than a small family’s parents. I believe it is related to their life span. But an increase in population is not only a bad thing. It makes industrial development. It has many positive and negative ways, so we need to think widely.
2) What sort of work does Taslima Khan do?
She and her husband were grown in a big family, but they decided to have just two children. Therefore she uses her knowledge to work for the government family planning services. She goes door-to-door talks with women and gives them some advice and pills. She’s trying to help other families.
2a) What are some difficulties she faces in her work? What is your suggestion for her in tackling these difficulties?
Most of the women who talk with Taslima couldn’t get a high education, so it can be hard to get through to her advice. Also they think women don’t have the right to decide “how many children we will have”. They think it’s up to their husband.
My suggestion is to give them opportunities to attend the lecture meeting of family plans and give them images of their future, and tell them how important it is to control the number of children they have. Also she needs to keep giving pills, condoms and some advice to them.
3) What is the current situation in your country in terms of population and what is the government doing to deal with it?
Birth rates and Marriage rates are declining in Japan. Therefore Japan’s population has been declining for 12 consecutive years. The Japanese government decided to raise wages and extend the term of child benefits.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion! I like your suggestion because if they have a lecture meeting they would be interested and they can communicate with others so that they can build knowledge with each other.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion! I like that you thought that the number of children each family has related to the needed working hours, which influences the life span. I never think the possibility, thank you! syh
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Rosling’s main idea is that the fewer children we have, the longer lifespan we have. And he mentioned that the average number of babies born per woman has gone from 5 to 2.5 and it is still decreasing. I almost agree with him. Because, people who have many children should spend more money on children for education, medication, and food. In order to do that, parents should work harder. It can cause mental distress or physical distress which connect to shortening their lifespan. But I don’t think that only fewer children can extend their lifespan. If we have children, they can help us after we become older and we become disabled. Also, children can give us happiness. They can give parents reliefs that treat mental health.
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Taslima Khan works as a sort of counselor. She works for the government family planning service and helps people to have smaller families. Specifically, she offers advice, moral support, and contraceptives. She has to go door-to-door to talk with people in every village. And she said that when people are less educated, it is difficult to go through them. To overcome these difficulties, I think it is better to make a simple textbook or document containing basic knowledge about contraception, what they should do after they become pregnant, and how much money they should spend for a child. Also, she should distribute these documents and give knowledge. It can reduce the number of counseling sessions. And I think she should share the worst scenario about pregnancy, contraceptives, and children. Because people who are less educated cannot imagine how difficult it is to raise children and how important it is to use contraceptives.
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In Japan, the total population is decreasing, and the birth rate is also declining. Also, Population decline rate is higher in rural areas than in major metropolitan areas around Tokyo. In order to solve these problems, the government of Japan or the local governments implement some support. For instance, There are some marriage supports as measures to the falling birth rate. The local governments create employment opportunities in rural areas and implement support systems for housing to prevent population loss from rural areas.
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Thank you for sharing your idea. I like your suggestion to a Taslima Khan. You advised her by using specific examples to make poor educated people obtain correct knowledge.
I realized that adjusting family finalcial plan support is also important her job.
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1) What were the main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture? Do you agree with his conclusions, why or why not?
Rosling’s lecture is about how world population is changing and what today’s data tell us about the future will go to be. In this movie, he mainly argues that the world population has been abnormally increasing in recent years, and human will face huge challenges from now on. He shows a data that is the world population transitions in the past 1000 years to previously. The population in 10,000 B. C. was about 10million in the earth, and it has been continued to grow slowly in the thousands of years. In 1800, industrial revolution happened, and the population was growing faster. As a result, it reached 1 billion in just 100 years. Passed 1900s, the number of populations has been increasing 2 billion to 7 billion in just recent 50 years, and now has been rising.
I agree with his conclusion that longer lifespan is possible to lead over population. Even the birthrate average became decrease 5.0 to 2.5, human lifespan is around 20 years longer than before. In addition to that, developing countries’ life span is getting longer. It is a clear evidence that a huge amount of human is living and staying in this planet.
2) What sort of work does Taslima Khan do?
Her job is the government family planning service. She helps the families to make their family plans that less children. Also, she is visiting females and taking their moral and mental supports.
2a) What are some difficulties she faces in her work? What is your suggestion for her in tackling these difficulties?
She thinks that it is hard for people who didn’t take enough educations to get appropriate knowledge about female’s body and the number of children they have.
My suggestion is opening a meeting to let villager both males and females give appropriate knowledge.
3) What is the current situation in your country in terms of population and what is the government doing to deal with it?
Declining birth rate and aging population is the biggest problems in Japan. Because of the less younger people, company is struggling with gaining their employees. It lead to decrease Japanese economy impacts in the world. Also, employees could be given more pressure and stress to work longer. To solve the problem, Japanese government started to accept immigrations from other country twice as many as before to obtain and guarantee Japanese companies economics.
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Korea government also struggle with declining birth rate and aging population. In Korea, our government give some benefits like support education expenses, child medical expenses, and etc. It’s interesting for me to accept immigrations from other country to obtain and guarantee economics!
Thanks you for sharing your opinion!
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1) The main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture is that the world population will decrease, so we don’t need to worry about increasing the world population in the future. He shows that the number of babies per woman is decreasing from five in 1963 to 2.2 today. So he predicts that many countries will have smaller families. I agree with him because I think the population can be controlled by people. If the government implements policies to control the population, as in Bangladesh, the population will not grow too fast.
2) Taslima Khan works for the government Family Planning Service. Her job is to try to help others to have smaller families by offering advice, moral support, and medicine.
3) The Japanese population is declining. To deal with this problem, the Japanese government has implemented various policies. For example, the Japanese government helps young people to get a job so that they can have families. In order to support young people who have trouble working due to various factors, the government has established a network of local youth support organizations. “Regional Youth Support Stations” have been established as a base for this network, providing a diverse menu of employment support services. Another example is child care assistance. The government offers opportunities to talk to counselors about child care and give some money to families who have small children.
2a) She struggles to help others understand the importance of having a small family because they don’t have the right knowledge about having children. In addition, in Bangladesh, women’s position is weak and men have the right to decide whether or not to have children. Even if women have the right knowledge, they can’t defy men. My suggestion is that pregnancy is not just a woman’s problem, so men should be educated about it. It is important for men to have proper knowledge about pregnancy and to create a supportive environment for women. So, she should talk to not only women but also men about having a small family.
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I agree with your views very much. When men have the power in the home, I think it is difficult for women to put it into action, no matter how much correct knowledge they have. So I think that sexual education for men is as necessary as it is for women.
Thanks for sharing your opinion.
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1) What were the main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture? Do you agree with his conclusions, why or why not?
Rosling presented about how the population is changing in the world until today and the world population is changing. In the year 10,000 BC, the world population was only 10 million. As a result, it continued to grow slowly, the population reached 1 billion people in 1800. The population started to grow faster since 1800. Today, the world population is 7 billion and also the number is still rising. In addition, he showed us the average number of babies born per woman in the world. The number has gone from 5 to 2.5.
I agree with his conclusions. Because medical technology is developed now. It helps to extend people’s lifespan. This means increasing the population. It can easy to expect that technology will develop in the future. From the point of vies, I agree with his conclusion that the number of population in the world is increasing.
2) What sort of work does Taslima Khan do? She is work at government family planning service in Bangladesh to help other families and womens.2a) What are some difficulties she faces in her work? What is your suggestion for her in tackling these difficulties?
She advises moral rapport and a range of contraceptives for womens for they can have smaller families. However, the difficulties are to gain the understanding that there is a better way to have smaller families of people who are less educated.
My suggestion is to give classes to them who are less educated, not only women but also men. In the video, Taslima Khan goes door-to-door, to try to helped. However, this problem isn’t only for women. All men need to learn about these things. Giving classes is the best way to make more people understand.
3) What is the current situation in your country in terms of population and what is the government doing to deal with it?
Declining birthrate and aging population are one of the biggest problems in Japan. The number of children a woman has in her lifetime is about 1.2 in 2022, the lowest in 17 years. And also more than one in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older. The government is trying to expand childcare and promote wage hikes for younger workers. However their wage and working environment are not good. This is where things are currently in Japan.
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I think your opinion is good point of view. Developed medical technology helps to extend our life span. At the same time, we can also say working population is increased and it can lead to develop our industries. Thank you for sharing your opinion.
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1) What were the main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture? Do you agree with his conclusions, why or why not?
The main idea of this lecture is changing of world population. He used the example about Bangladesh current situation of population, and also compared the world average birthrate with past and now.
I disagree with his conclusion. He showed the graph about relationship with babies per woman and lifespan, and this graph explains babies per woman decreases, lifespan increases. However, I think they don’t have connection with those. For example, mostly Africa countries(blue dots) locate bottom of left down side, in 2012, also they locate left down side, but higher than 1963. So I think increasing of lifespan is not connect with decreasing give birth.
2) What sort of work does Taslima Khan do?
She works in government family planning service. She goes door to door to try help others to have smaller family, and offers a advice and support contraception. We can check she works to try make less children by giving some contraception methods like condoms and pill to women who already has children.
2a) What are some difficulties she faces in her work? What is your suggestion for her in tackling these difficulties?
In my opinion, the difficulty she faces in her work is low women’s human rights. For example, Taslima asked about make more child to other woman who already has three daughters, and answer was “It’s up to the father” and the answer of other question also was “If he wants a boy, what can I do?”. Like this answers, I can figure out that the important decision maker in family is man in their country.
The best solution of tackling these difficulty is the woman have to make a voice about their opinion. This solution is really difficult, but really easy. I know it’s ridiculous way to improve, but if you want to change tiny things, you have to start with the smallest one.
3) What is the current situation in your country in terms of population and what is the government doing to deal with it?
The low birthrate is one of the biggest problems in Korea. Many couples don’t want to give a baby for their lifespan and also the birth rate in 2023 was
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was 0.78. This number means that the couples have less than 1 child. So Korea government struggle to solve this problem by supporting the economic way. For example, support to newly married couple to get a house and one years old baby’s medical expenses make virtually zero.
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1)What were the main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture? Do you agree with his conclusions, why or why not?
The speaker Hans Rosling who is a statistician presented that how world population is changing as a main point. He explained about population in the world with latest date that shows now there are 7 billion people all over the word even though there were only 1 billion people in 1800. The statistics also showed that from 1800 population started to grow faster because of the industrial revolution. When the world population rapidly increased, many people and experts worried that “The planet can not support more people.” However, the number of population have been added during speaker’s lifetime and the number is still raising. At the same time, He explained to us the average birth rate in the world. According to the latest data the number of birth rates in the world is decreasing compared between 1963 and 2012 . In 1963, the average of the birth rate was 5 while the average in 2012 was 2.5. I agree with his opinion that if we have smaller families, their sons or daughters may have much more opportunities for well-education such as Taslima Khan’s family. Well-educated children can be intelligent and clever therefore our industries or economics or civilization will be developed and we can live comfortable lives.
2)What sort of work does Taslima Khan do?
She works for the government Family Planning Service which employs women like her in every village. She recommends women to have smaller families, most importantly a range of contraceptives
2a) What are some difficulties she faces in her work? What is your suggestion for her in tackling these difficulties?
Her difficulties are to persuade the women who are meeting with Taslima Khan to recommend having smaller families when they are less educated.The women who are less educated tend to consider that if they consider whether they have more children or not, they think it is up to their husband. My suggestion is to repeatedly tell the reason why she recommends small families and it’s not up to your husband to make a decision about having a baby.
3)What is the current situation in your country in terms of population and what is the government doing to deal with it?
The population in Japan is decreasing.The birth rate is 1.3 according to the 2021 survey. Even though the government offers financial childcare support using our tax, the Japanese birth rate is decreasing from 50 years ago.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion. I feel your opinions are interesting. Because desip in spite of I agree with your opinions, but I could not come up with “repeatedly tell the reason”. It is nice advice for these people.
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1) The main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture were that the future, in which the population continues to increase may not be so dark, and mankind is already doing against the population problem better than many people think.
I agree with his opinion because I think a lot of works is being done on population issues. For example, as discussed in the presentation, family planning efforts will lead to population control because it enables people to have children that they can support in their daily lives. Also, educational support is being tackled to increase employment opportunity because prolific production for the purpose of labor is found in certain areas. Therefore, we can say people have already started to address the population problem and are looking for solutions so that the problem can be improved in the future.
2) Taslima Khan is working for the government family planning service, which is the jobs help people have fewer families. Specifically, she visit homes to give advice and moral support for creating fewer families and provide a variety of contraceptives.
2a) The difficulties she faces through her work are lack of education on sexuality and Male-centered family structure. As Taslima said in the video, if people are less educated, it is hard to get through because they don’t know how to use contraception or have incorrect knowledge about sexuality. Also, the woman’s statement in the video suggests that men have decision making power in the home and women are not able to reflect their own will. Through these difficulties she faces in her work, I would suggest her to share the sexual knowledge and counsel not only women who has children, but also men and young children as well. Especially when men are highly influence in the family, they will not be able to take the right steps without proper knowledge of sexuality. Also, having the right knowledge from childhood will help them have a family in the future to the extent that they can provide for it.
3) The current situation in Japan is that population has been declining in recent years. While life expectancy is increasing and the population is rapidly aging due to improved medical care, we are also facing the problem of declining birth rate. As a solution to this problem, the government has been working to improve support for childcare and promote a work-life balance.
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Thank you Mana for sharing your answer. I strongly agree with you that sexual knowledge and counseling not be only for women but also for men. Since they are often the main family providers, they are the ones who will make the decisions.
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1) What were the main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture? Do you agree with his conclusions, why or why not?
Rosling’s lecture talked about world population changings and how the future population will be. He pointed out some challenges such as huge immigrations of to megacities, the rise of slums, climate change and population growth. Despite these challenges he concluded that the future is not glume as some may believe and highlighting that mankind is actually doing better than we think. I agree with Rosling because today we have much more information and access to a resources than before, witch enables us to move towards a new and better future.
2) What sort of work does Taslima Khan do?
Talisma works for the government family planning services. Where she offers advises to help people in her community have smaller families. Additionally, she offers support and provides a range of contraceptives to assist women in making better decisions about their family size.
2a) What are some difficulties she faces in her work? What is your suggestion for her in tackling these difficulties?
Talisma faces some cultural and educational difficulties with the women she assists. They express concerns about the husband’s desire for a male child, and also they will show insecurity about using contraceptives and have problem to get pregnant. My suggestion to Talisma in tackling these difficulties is to provide educational sessions about the cultural misconceptions that can include various activities such as workshops, community meetings. Moreover she can organize campaigns with local leaders, such as religious leaders, community elders, or influential individuals and organizations to raise awareness about the benefits of having a small family.
3) What is the current situation in your country in terms of population and what is the government doing to deal with it?
Despite Brazil being one of the 10 countries with largest populations in the world, the population growth rate has been gradually decreasing over the years. The government has various policies and programs to educate children, teenagers and women about sexual education and contraceptives. Also, the government provides access to contraceptives and reproductive health services through the public health system called SUS. Moreover, the government has maternity and child health programs, to improve maternal and child health, including prenatal care for the pregnant women, maternal healthcare services, and many child vaccinations programs against various infectious diseases such as measles, polio, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and influenza among others.
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Thank you for your comment. I am suprised that even Brazil have problem of decreasing of population. I think the government initiative in Brazil is effective to this problem. Also I think, compare to Japan, the movement of government in Brazil has a point of the problem.
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1)What were the main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture? Do you agree with that?
The main idea in his lecture is the number of the world population is rising, and the world tend to make the small family and live the long life. And he said because of rising of population, human will face to huge challenges in the future, but it is not quite bad. He mentioned about the changing of the population in the world and the relative of lifespan and the number of the babies born per women with using the data. And he talked about the situation in Bangladesh as an example of moving of care about the size of families.
I agree with his argument that small family cause a long lifespan and large family cause the short lifespan. Because, if people do not make the family plan and have too many children, parents can not care the all children equally and sufficiently. It results in a food shortage and lack of health care for their children. As Hanna said, having only few kids lead parents to buy what their kids want. These reasons why I agree with his idea.
2)What sort of work does Taslima Khan do?
Her work called “Government Family Planning Service“. Main job role of her is to help people to have smaller families the same as her. She visits the house in Bangladesh and grasps the health situation while talk with mothers. After that, depending on the situation, she offers advice, give the moral support, and give a range of contraceptives.
2a) What are some difficulties she faced in her work? What is your suggestion for her in tacking these difficulties?
There are some people who are difficult to get her massage across to because of poor education. I want to suggest her to hold the gathering with mothers to tell about sexual problems, and give an opportunities for mothers to share their worries.
3)What is the current situation in your country in terms of population and what is the government doing to deal with it?
In Japan, the population and birth rate is tend to decrease. Today, the population in Japan is125.58 million. And it estimated to drop from its current number to 86.74 million in 2060. The government makes the measures such as increases to the child allowance and financial aid for young couples to solve these problems.
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Thank you for sharing your answer! I agree with you that we should consider the number of children people can care. On the other hand, the declining population as in Japan is also a problem. I cannot figure out the appropriate number of babies. It’s difficult for me to find the answer.
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1) Rosling used data to show changes in the world’s population,noting that it continues to grow at an alarming rate. He suggests that the lower the birth rate per woman, the longer the children tend to live. I agree with him. With fewer children, a family can spend more on each child, leading to a healthier upbringing and potentially longer life spans. In the long run, the number of children will decrease, the shortage of schools will be solved, and each person will be able to receive an adequate education and grow up to be an intelligent person.
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She works for the government’s family planning service, helping to increase the number of small families instead of large ones, specifically by providing various contraceptives, as well as emotional support. The women of Bangladesh have not been very receptive to Taslima’s persuasion. This is because they have not received adequate sex education.I believe that having a child is not possible for a woman alone, it is something that is made up of a man and a woman, it’s essential that men also receive sex education and possess the correct knowledge from an early age if possible. Furthermore, considering her role as a government employee, it would be beneficial for her efforts if a professional doctor or sex education specialist accompanied her on visits, underscoring the necessity and importance of contraception.
3) Japan is now an aging society. The declining labor force is becoming a problem, so the retirement age is being raised and women’s parental leave programs are being enhanced to make it easier for them to return to society.
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Thank you for your comment.
You mentioned about aging society in Japan. Government takes measures to prevent aging society, however, it seems to have few effects. I want to think what is needed to increase the number of children.
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1.The main idea is to understand rapid population growth and change, and to show how developing countries, in particular, are facing this problem. I agree with his conclusion. Because I think the future is not so bleak as long as people grow up, think about what to do about the problems, and follow the right information.
2. She works for the government Family Planning Service. Her job role is to try to help others to have smaller families. Every village employs a woman like her, who faces each family and encourages them to make the right decisions. As a result of these and other efforts, the number of babies born per woman in Bangladesh has decreased from about seven to two in 40 years.
3.There are some problems which she faces. One of the most serious problems is the lack of sexual education in Bangladesh and other developing countries. It can be hard to understand when they are less educated. In addition, there are not many women who have as few children as she does. As a consequence, it would take a long time to help each family, and help may not be forthcoming.
My suggestion against these problems is that parents and relatives teach correct sexual knowledge to their children. Since it takes time and money to set up an education system in developing countries, those who are closest to the children should teach them seriously.
4. In Japan, now we have a big problem about population as well. It is a declining birthrate. What is wrong with this is that the economy will grow at a lower rate due to the decline in the working population. The government’s measures include: 1) strengthening economic support such as child allowances; 2) expanding support for childcare for school children, sick children, and postpartum care; and 3) promoting reform of work styles. However, the birth rate has not increased even after the implementation of these measures, so it can be said that they are not effective.
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1) Rosling’s main stance is that people don’t have overwhelming fear about population.His main idea is that even though after the industrial revolution, people increased from 1 billion to 7 billion on the earth, all countries currently have less babies and their lifespan is longer than before. I disagree with Rosling’s conclusions. My stance is that people take the population seriously and make some measures to resolve it. That is why the population can little be controlled and not to cause other issues in the future. For example, Rosling mentioned China, Bangladesh where they reduced the number of babies because of the government’s policy or advocate slogan to their society. Diminished babies number and at the same time parents who can have more time to attend to their children that is why lifespan gets longer.If the government hadn’t relevant measures,it would not happen.Therefore, I’m not completely agree with Rosling’s main ideas.
2)Taslima works for the government family planning service which attempts to help her village to have smaller families in Bangladesh by door-to-door. She offers advice for women, moral support and a range of contraceptives, such as pill, condoms.
2a) Taslima’s work has two challenges：less education and traditional notions. First, women lack education about why women get pregnant and how to avoid it.Secondly, traditional notions that male are better than female , therefore, parents keep trying until they have a boy. Therefore, my advice for these two difficulties is that every month held propaganda acitvity about teach women about pregnancy knowledge and men about gender equality. This activity offers some prizes like food or clothes to attract them to join and learn it.
3) In my country, Taiwan, the current population is aging and fewer children. Government data shows that there were 135 thousand children born last year with a fertility rate of 5.82 %. Therefore,the Government has some policies to encourage family fertility. For example, increased children allowance for babies under two years old, reduced tuition fee in kindergarten and third child would supply more subsidies.I think it is work because this year compared from 2020 to 2022, it turned to growing in 2023.
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Thank you for sharing your idea.
Your perspective of providing food and clothing as a reward for attending, rather than just an activity, is interesting.
I think this is an effective way to reach people who are less interested in gender, although I think they should learn proactively without those things.
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Thank you for sharing your comment!
I agree with you. I also think that people need to take the problem of overpopulation seriously and take some measures to solve it.
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1) What were the main ideas presented in Rosling’s lecture? Do you agree with his conclusions, why or why not?
The speaker, Professor Hans Rosling, suggests how it goes about the increasing population in the world, and whether is it a good thing or not. He gave an example for the one of a family in Bangladesh that has only two children and the lady tries to educate others not to give birth to more than two. He supports this policy because people with less than two kids could live longer than people with more than two kids. In addition, developing countries tend to have more than two kids because of the lack of knowledge. I agree with this opinion because people who have at least a minimum of knowledge will try to manage their family structure and financial statements and the reason why people have more than two is not only the lack of knowledge but also there is possible an unwanted pregnancy.
2) What sort of work does Taslima Khan do?
Taslima Khan works for the government Family Planning Service, which employs women like her to help others have smaller families in every village. She and her husband decided to have only two children so that they could afford for their children to give anything that they wanted. Then, she used that experience to educate and support others physically and mentally.
2a) What are some difficulties she faces in her work? What is your suggestion for her in tackling these difficulties?
She is worried that is hard to understand because of their lack of education, they cannot realize why she tries to do so but she notices that they understand eventually.
I would like to tell her that the most important thing is how people stay educated over and over generations, which is how much longer and how many people she can educate others is the biggest problem. Because what she does is very important to educate women. But if she educates only women, she needs to keep doing the same thing and it never processes ahead. Having a baby might be in both partners business but they can educate also children on why they need to control having kids so that they can keep remaining that knowledge, especially in developing countries where there are some traditional rules or historical policies.
3) What is the current situation in your country in terms of population and what is the government doing to deal with it?
The current situation in Japan in terms of population will always come with problems with a decreasing birth and an increasing aging population. Following Japanese history, people were born during the Baby boom, they turned around 60-70 years old, and their children or grandchildren took care of them although their generation population is less than the older population those people take care of each other because of the lack of care workers.
The government tried to give more birth easily yet it did not work and currently they are trying to get employees or social workers from other countries.
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1) The world population has increased but He explained that we can control the population. He showed audience population trend in the world, and he stressed most of countries tend to have small families and long lives especially Bangladesh. Each people especially women decide a family plan which they can live their life affordly.
He said restricting having children lead to control the world’s population.
I’m agree with him mostly. There are a lot of problems in the world caused by rapidly growth population. I think we have to change situation this situation for our future.
However, in case of developed countries, declining child population cause other problem compared to developing countries. I think changing the world which people can decide their reproductive health is important regardless of countries.
2) She works for the Government Family Planning Service which employ women like her in every village. She goes to door to door to try to help others to have smaller families too.
She offers advice moral support and most importantly, a range of contraceptives.
She urges women in the village right of self determination to have children.
2a) Some women in Bangladesh are hesitate to decide to their family plan without husband.
They seem to think they have to more children.
If I were in her position, I would talked with women many times. I would explain why self determination is important, the importance of birth control, the effective of pill, the contraceptive until they could convince. I want to advised her that it’s important to tell them how important they can control their body and their lives themselves.
3)Japanese population is rapid aged and declining child population. Due to this, Japanese population are declining 14 years in a low. Japanese government take this problem seriously, so they take some measures. the government has made efforts to resolve the issue of children waiting to enter nursery schools. They also ease the financial burdens on child expenses, for example, making preschool education free, in addition to expanding childcare leave. However, these measures didn’t able to solve the problem. It’s said that the things most Japanese need and government’s measure have a huge gap.
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One of the main ideas presented in Hans Rosling’s lecture was the importance of using data to accurately identify global trends. He demonstrated the importance of looking objectively at the current state of the world through objective data and the relationship between the number of babies and life plans as an example.
I agree with his conclusions. It is important to show a problematic attitude toward one’s own situation, but it should be based on proper analysis. The more subjectively people think about an issue, the less likely they are to understand what is really important.
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Taslima Khan works for the government family planning service. She offers moral support and advice, and various contraceptives.
She faces the difficulties due to differences in women’s awareness of contraception, and when they are less educated, it also hard to get through to them.
My suggestion is to set up a place where people can share their thoughts on contraception and number of children. In this case, in addition to people’s low level of education, I think the problem is that they have had fewer opportunities to hear other family situations and the opinions of others. if people can know other ideas or have an opportunity to talk their minds, they would understand the issues that are happening to them contraception and childcare.
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In Japan, population is currently in a declining trend, with a declining birthrate and aging population as problems. The government supports to create places where young families can raise children with peace of mind through measures, such as expanding childbirth allowances and childcare leave, developing and expanding childcare facilities, providing educational support, and introducing tax incentives for households raising children.
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His main point is that although the population is still growing, don’t need to panic. He said that while population growth will present great challenges for humanity in the future, it is not necessarily a bad thing. He cited data on the relative changes in global population and life expectancy, as well as the number of births per woman, and spoke about the situation in Bangladesh as an example of a shift in considerations regarding family size.
I disagree with him because I think it’s better to panic a little. In fact, there are people who are suffering from food shortages, water shortages, and housing shortages due to overpopulation. Even if most of the world is living well, some areas are not able to live a normal life. So instead of thinking that the world is going well, shouldn’t we focus on the areas where people are struggling?
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She works for the government’s family planning service, which employs women in every village. She goes door to door, trying to help others have smaller families too. She offers advice, emotional support, and most importantly, different contraception methods.
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The difficulties she faces are lack of education on sexuality. She said, if people are less educated, It can be hard to get through to them when they’re less educated . They don’t know how to use contraception or have misconceptions
about sexuality. Also uneducated women believe that it is up to their husbands whether they will have children or not.
I think that women should be educated about sex. If education is difficult, we should pass on the information we know, like she did, and pass it on from person to person. The idea that if a man wants a child, the woman should give birth is also wrong, but this is a traditional culture, so it is difficult to change people’s way of thinking. However, we need to convey that it is the woman who gives birth and suffers, and that women should take care of themselves.
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In Japan, the child population is decreasing and the elderly population is increasing. Also, more and more women are choosing not to have children. The reason is that raising children is expensive. To prevent the declining birthrate, the government provides subsidies for young people’s independence support and infertility treatment.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion.
I also think that women need to get sex education and related information, and above all, they need to take care of themselves.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion.
By reading your comment, I changed my opinion.
Being optimistic is not a bad thing, though, people should worry about the future problem caused by overpopulation.
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1)His main idea is that the world population continues to grow, and he showed population changes based on history and background. I disagree with his conclusion because increasing population and population density has many disadvantages. For example, We lack of enough food and education, and it causes air pollution and so on. So, I disagree with his conclusion.
2) She works for the government Family Planning Service. And, she goes door-to-door, to try to help others to have smaller families.
2a) some difficulties she faces in her work is that she can’t get the women to accept her advice, because they don’t have the right sexual knowledge. So, my suggestion for her in tackling these difficulties is that each country should promote appropriate sex education. It is desirable for as many people as possible to have correct sexual knowledge and use contraception.
3) Japan’s declining population is becoming a problem. We have a declining birthrate and an aging society. One of the reasons for this is the diversity of ways of life. We don’t have to love someone, we don’t have to get married, and if we do get married, we don’t have to have children. Therefore, the government should have policies that address the benefits of having children and policies directed toward them. For example, we can get aid money for having a child.
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