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Yes. And while the cultural aspects are worth understanding, neither they nor the women are the real story in China. As you note, there have always been and w
by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Yes. And while the cultural aspects are worth understanding, neither they nor the women are the real story in China. As you note, there have always been and will always be people of both sexes who are single through choice or temperament. But in China, the real story is leftover men. When you have such an enormous sex imbalance at birth for as long as China has, no amount of natural excess male mortality is ever going to even that out. So when you take the Chinese population, segregate it by broad age groups, subtract out those who are single by choice and pair off the rest, you're left with tens of millions of young and middle-aged single men.
History's solution for this, almost invariably, is both simple and guaranteed effective. The leftover men are called an army, and they either die in combat or conquer foreign lands, where they can take -- by force, usually -- the stock of available women after killing the menfolk in battle. In either case, the imbalance is corrected.
That's the real "leftover" story in China: if those men aren't to be an army, then what are they to be?
- Mikeb85 11y agoIt's been estimated that up to 10% of men are homosexual, so that makes up most, if not all of the difference... Plus migration and things too...
- meric 11y agoThere's a clear trend where Chinese men are marrying Russian women. http://www.chinawhisper.com/6-pictures-of-chinese-farmers-and-russian-wives/ http://www.chinawhisper.com/6-pictures-of-chinese-farmers-an... http://rbth.asia/society/2013/05/25/the_key_to_a_happy_russo-chinese_marriage_46943.html http://rbth.asia/society/2013/05/25/the_key_to_a_happy_russo...
- theandrewbailey 11y ago> The leftover men are called an army, and they either die in combat or conquer foreign lands Or they conquer their own land, i.e. a revolution.
- fredkbloggs 11y ago> Or they conquer their own land, i.e. a revolution. Maybe, but that doesn't solve the problem. They're still single and would rather not be. Something else still has to give. A very long civil war might do it, if that's what you're suggesting.