kotaku: WORST ARTICLE EVER?

[Esmoreit]

I recieved the following on my wall from Johnny testa, but my wall isn't for debates so I'll continue it here:

"first: anime and wrpgs suck. and japan is f/%&/ up.
second:japan population diminishes? really . japan birthrate is 1,2 per woman, but the netherlands is 1,3 per woman. thats what the demographers call "the lowest low "no human society has ever recover from that. that looks equally suicidal to me. thats what piss me off . i read somwhere that mohammed is the most popular baby name in amsterdam that means that dutchs are not having kids either "the double standar" why is holland different?"

If I may do a first, your first really confusses me.

Secondly, when I meant suïcidal I meant people jumping from buildings, huffing fumes in closed off garages and catching a train the wrong way. 

Thirdly, concerning the baby-names... there is quite a lot wrong with that section that I will do this in bullet-form:

• Did it ever occur to you that muslims can be full-fledged Dutch people as well?
• If one name is extremely popular, it doesn't mean that there are more "foreigners" born (again, these muslims consider themselves Dutch) - example: if in one class there are 5 boys named Muhammed, 1 named Jan, 2 named Kees, 1 named Hans, 2 named John and 2 named Gerard; Muhammed is still the most popular name but there are more native Dutch people in the class.
• You are using the stats of a single city for an entire country.

Fourth, there's the birth-rate. I'd love to see your sources. I prefer the birth-rate used per 1000 people. The Dutch score 10.4 births per 1000 citizens a year as of 2009. Japan scores 7.64 per 1000 and it seems like it is declining (http://www.indexmundi.com/Japan/birth_rate.html)
If you go by the UN or CIA world-fact book, Japan is nearly at the bottom of both lists. Granted, the Netherlands doesn't score either but we average out in Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_birth_rate

Lastly I would like to remind you that the only equation I pulled out of the whole Netherlands versus Japan thing was that of work/life balance - a point which you frankly side-stepped and which to me was my biggest concern and debatable argument.