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This has been expected for a while. Hopefully it can help address the increasing gender imbalance. It has reached 6:5 male to female births, resulting in huge
by paublyrne 11y ago
This has been expected for a while.
Hopefully it can help address the increasing gender imbalance. It has reached 6:5 male to female births, resulting in huge numbers of Chinese men who cannot find marriage partners.
- elcct 11y agoSounds like a great opportunity to create service like Uber, but with wives
- madeofpalk 11y agoYou mean, tinder?
- TeMPOraL 11y agoHonestly, for Tinder-like service you just need to turn on WeChat in the evening and run "people nearby" search so that you pop up on a list with updated location. The offers stream themselves.
- JonnieCache 11y ago> The offers stream themselves. Interesting turn of phrase there...
- TeMPOraL 11y agoThat's how it actually works. You don't even have to do anything. Just opt-in to temporarily share your location by running a "people in the neighbourhood" scan. "Girls" start writing to you offering "door-to-door full range of services". I say "girls" because I strongly suspect those are fake accounts run by some agency that will dispatch actual workers to you when you agree for the service. I think so, because otherwise China has a really big evening employment and entertainment problem.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoAnd this is why my wife won't let me use wechat. Many of my laowai friends had a lot of fun with that.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI installed it like few days ago in hope to establish some unfiltered communication to home, and I already want to uninstall it, because deleting the offers that start coming after midnight is just an annoying hassle. I think it's a fine app to use, but never, ever do a location search after the sun is down. (That is, if you're not interested in the serivces. If you are, then I guess WeChat is paradise on Earth for the Laowai.)
- vincentleeuwen 11y agoYou mean, grindr?
- sugarcube 11y agoIf only they could send unwanted girls from India to China.
- Rubu 11y agoReminds me of this[0] article that showed up a couple of days ago, which is about a Chinese economist that suggested to legalize marriage between 1 woman and multiple men. Didn't go over to well as I'm sure you can imagine. [0] http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/china-polyandry-gender-ratio-bachelors/ http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/china-polyand...
- lalalandland 11y agoThere are 9 million more boys than girls, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China. That is a massive number.
- adaml_623 11y agoSorry I'm not sure which bit of the article you are referencing. The 2011 projection says 19 million more boys than girls (Age 0-14). And 34 million more males than females if you look at the whole population.
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- joeclark77 11y ago>spouses? wives
- Dirlewanger 11y agoMy very basic understanding of it was that boys were preferred since they were able to help out in the fields and as a result, girl babies were killed. I wonder if it would just continue since this means 2 able bodies vs. 1? I feel like some state-sanctioned benefits would need to be put into place for the rural populations to prefer raising girls. A 1.2 male-to-female ratio is an appalling metric for a country.