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I recall I've read somewhere that the problem of finding a partner exists in China as well.
by rumcajz 9y ago
I recall I've read somewhere that the problem of finding a partner exists in China as well.
- gaius 9y agoChina is said to have 60M men who will never be able to marry. I wonder how that will play out.
- danieltillett 9y agoThey won’t get married. A interesting historical parallel is early Australia. Due to more men than women being shipped as convicts to Australia (something like 50:1), many women in Australia were rather reluctant to get married. Why get married and be under the power of your husband when you could live “in sin” and move on if your defacto husband was not up to scratch.
- virgilp 9y agoInteresting. What were the long-term effects of this? Did women get more rights/sooner, compared to other parts of the world? Or was it just "a phase" with little long-term impact?
- danieltillett 9y agoYes it did. Australian women were amongst the first in the world to get the right to vote (1901)[1]. 1. South Australia (now a state) was the first country in the world to allow women to vote (in the 1890s) although from memory New Zealand was the first “country" to allow women to vote - I should mention that NZ was as much as country at the time as South Australia (all were British dominions).
- chillydawg 9y agoIn the opposite case in modern day USA, black men are much less likely to marry than their peers. The sad cause of this is that such a high proportion of marriage age black men are in prison, that the ones that are not have their pick of all the women left. It turns into this: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02/revisiting-the-marriage-supermarket.html http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02/rev...
- danieltillett 9y agoYes marriage doesn’t work whenever the gender demographics gets extreme. My favourite example is the Paraguayan War [1] when almost all the men of Paraguay were killed. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War
- sparrish 9y agoEven though the gender imbalance is long gone from that war, there's still an attitude among Paraguayan women that there aren't enough men around and they'll have to share. Wife and a mistress or two is pretty common still. (Lived there for several years)
- ta101010 9y agoAre you sure prison is the cause ? Is the situation any different in Africa ? I wonder if the real cause is penis size. Also maybe the real underlying reason for racism and not skin color or culture.
- dang 9y agoTrolling like this will eventually get your main account banned as well. Please don't vandalize HN.
- gaius 9y agoThey won’t get married. Well, sure, but what about the second-order effects? Will we see a mass emigration of Chinese men to countries where they have more to offer than local men? Will we see an effort by the Chinese government to attract foreign women to the country? Will those men head off into the hills to eat barbecue, fire their AKs and forment revolution with their bros? There are not many large countries with a female surplus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio - well Brazil and Canada I guess. Interestingly there is even a page for China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative_divisions_by_sex_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative...
- danieltillett 9y agoIf we use early Australia as an example then they will die without ever getting married. There is a theory that the historically extreme anti-homosexual culture of Australia was a blowback from this time [1]. 1. I should say this has changed a great deal in the last few decades (we just passed a referendum/plebiscite on legalising SSM), but I am old enough to remember that to be called a “poofter” was the worst insult any man could receive.
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- yodsanklai 9y agoThey may not be able to marry a Chinese woman, but maybe they can find a foreign wife. It's common for men to "buy" women from poorer countries. Who knows, maybe they'll find American or European brides.
- ryacko 9y agoWar. 20 million Chinese died in WWII.
- gaius 9y agoWar against whom? The only likely options are those with land borders to China, and massive populations of their own.
- ekianjo 9y agothere are already services to "import wives" from poorer countries. Money wont buy you love but it can buy you a partner.
- B-Con 9y agoThere is an officially recognized gender imbalance[0]; there is more incentive to prefer a male as a sole child. But the problem is slightly dampened by the fact that female children are under-reported[1]. [0]: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/opinion/china-challenges-one-child-brooks/ http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/opinion/china-challenges-one-c... [1]: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/asia/china-missing-girls/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/asia/china-missing-girls/index...