RandAlThorEveryone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor
TransplantedSconieVery optimistic to believe that the human race is gonna survive that long.
“If everyone becomes Sato, we may have to be addressed by our first names or by numbers,” he said, according to the Mainichi. “I don’t think that would be a good world to live in.”
What’s wrong with names?
Lol the professors should talk to all the Taro, Ichiro, Jiro and Saburos in Japan about this.
pseudoNot anyone find it good to be called by first name. And japanese culture is very attach to last name naming or I should say family name cause their are placing it the other way around.
The assumptions are almost certainly going to turn out to be incorrect, but even if everyone ends up with the name Sato, people will just start adding other names to differentiate, like they’ve done in cultures throughout history.
ArugulaZJoke's on you! Humans will be extinct by 2531. Maybe by 2031 if Trump becomes president again.
itslilithThat doesn’t contradict the original statement
But it does though
“Every person in Japan will be called Sato.”
In formal logic, this is equivalent to
“There is no person in Japan not called Sato.”
Since there are no people, no one is not called Sato, and therefore every person is called Sato. Every person is also called Steve. Or Klaus.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Since there are no people, no one is not called Sato, and therefore every person is called Sato.
Uh… No? 🤨
∀P∈{X | X lives in Japan} : P is named Sato
using De Morgan’s negation rule this is equivalent to
⇔ ∄ P ∈{X | X lives in Japan} : P is not named Sato
Since {X | X lives in Japan} = ∅ is the empty set, such a person P can by definition not exist. Which means, the first statement is true. If no person lives in Japan, that means every person living in Japan is named Sato.
Your proof is vacuous and you should feel vacuous!
very much so
SharkAttakI volunteer to marry there, and help avert this catastrophe, even a little bit.
For one, there is no legal requirement that a Japanese partner take the name of their foreign spouse (in fact, it's basically the exception to the rule that all married couples must have the same surname).
tacosanonymousMaking sure you’re not dating a cousin would be a lot more work.
A lot of names came from locations and professions. For example, not every "miller" or "smith" is related to one another (well, any more so than every human is related to another)
This assumes that they only ever have the names they have now. Call me crazy, but I suspect that immigration policies will probably shift a little at some point in the next 500 years.
Hell, I wouldn’t even be willing to bet that any given country would still be around in it’s current form by then, including Japan.
Generally speaking, I find it a little arrogant to think they can predict what society will be in 500 years.
Check out Vietnam, almost everyone here is Nguyen, 30-39% to be precise
That is quite a range for being precise.
Common Vietnam W
No when all Vietnamese people share a name it’s very much a Nguyen-Nguyen situation.
I fail to see how spouses having the same name has any impact on the distribution in the future, the factor that controls that is the names of the children. To fix this you’d need to do something along the lines of girls get the dad’s surname, boys the mother’s, or the other way around. Also Spanish customs are worth looking at.
Given their birth rate they’d be lucky to have even Sato’s around by the 26th century.
katy ✨everyone should be called seto after red xiii’s dad instead
Interesting. I married a Japanese woman, and when she registered me in Japan she changed my surname to hers, lol.
We don’t live there, though.