A, Those of you in the UK of African ancestry, what do you call yourselves?  Not that I expect that everyone calls themselves the same thing (not all of us Americans of sub-Saharan African descent refer... I'm just happy I didn't have to wait for months and months for the Region 1 DVD.  And I asked a while back about Mistresses - they released both seasons on region 1 recently, and I was in hog heaven!

I've a post up at Demography Matters linking to Matt Carr's superb rebuttal of the latest Eurabian tome, Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on the Revolution in Europe . Go, read.

I've a post up at Demography Matters briefly exploring the possibility that, in an age of liberal globalized economics and its accompanying consumer culture, wide-spread replacement-level fertility may be impossible. Go, read.

Over at Demography Matters, co-blogger Aslak takes on the common knowledge that replacement-rate fertilty--the number of children that an average woman in a society must have in order prevent population...fertility rates, female mortality rates and sex ratio at birth--play a huge role in determining replacement fertility. In some unfortuante countries, replacement fertility can be almost as high as 4

blogTo's Rick McGinnis describes the near-complete state of ruin that Kodak's Toronto facilities have fallen into. The Bloor-Lansdowne blog announces that the Gladstone Library will reopen on...complexity and economic success. Window on Eurasia suggests that non-Russian immigrants in Moscow aren't assimilating to the extent that they once did and are retaining their ethnic identities.

I've a post up, here , revisiting after three years the forces which are continuing to shape the Cuban population. Short version: Rapid population aging and shrinking, complicated by internal migration and by emigration, can be expected to complicate the island-nation's future very much.

I've a post up at Demography Matters, examining Iran's recent demographic trends--some rural areas have TFRs as low as many regions in southern Europe--and their implications on the country's economic and political scene. Go, read.

Over at Demography Matters, I've a post up referring readers to two articles at Foreign Policy regarding gender roles and the demographic transition. Go, read.

Over at Demography Matters, I've a post up about how internal and regional migration in West Africa may help support many rural communities caught by climate change, but only if care is taken to avoid a nativist meltdown. Go, read.

Fabio Lo Verso's article in the Swiss Le Courrier ( trans: "Iran culturally defeated" ) makes the very important that no matter what happens to the current Iranian ferment, in the long run the Islamic...protest will not have too too many problems recruiting new ones in the back of coffee shops monitored by internet Basiji. For the ayatollahs, their political victory will lead to a cultural defeat.