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I can only imagine that there are a number of secondary effects of creating a skewed male/female ratio. Simply put, there are not enough women to go around. I

I can only imagine that there are a number of secondary effects of creating a skewed male/female ratio. Simply put, there are not enough women to go around. I suspect this leads to lots of overly fierce competition for women. Women treated more as precious commodities and less as human beings. Men lacking experience dealing with women. A certain percentage of men being unhappy much of the time because finding a mate is frustrating, or they've simply given up on it. This is only conjecture but it's hard to imagine it being otherwise.

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wickerman 7y ago
Well I know that in places in China with similar issues the chinese are basically "importing" wives from Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. As for India, I'm not Indian but all of the indian women I've worked with were in arranged marriages or in "matches" that had been made by their parents. Obviously India is a big place but they were all from different areas (two punjabi, one from center-west India, one from Kerala in the south, one from north east). I was told that it's very widespread. I wouldn't know how this translates for men but it seems like it's not like in the west where men or women have to search for their partners themselves; families and match-making sites are a lot more prominent (any Indian around please feel free to correct me).
novok 7y ago
Looking at China, I think it's the opposite actually? By being the rare commodity, you get to dictate terms and be picky with a lot to choose from.
- jacobush 7y ago
  It doesn't automatically follow. There are also stories of women being bought like property from abroad and imported into China.
- Nasrudith 7y ago
  It is probably both really as it varies by agency of the women. Horribly if they can't say no (trafficed) then they can't be picky and the increased demand leverage goes not to them but their traffickers. Economics and literal slavery starts horrifying and only gets worse.
sametmax 7y ago
This may results in many terrible problems: - sexual frustration, which is already booming in India, could increase tenfold. Sexually frustrated males can lead to being apathetic or aggressive, none of which is good for society. - more competition means bigger delta between the winners and the losers. And they already have a large money gap. Making this difference wider can only build more social tensions. - not a biologist, but I imagine this affects the gene pool, and overall (including social) diversity as well. -
- xiphias2 7y ago
  > not a biologist, but I imagine this affects the gene pool, and overall (including social) diversity as well. - I wouldn't worry about gene pool diversity in India (I agree with the first two statements though): ,,A 2005 study from Rutgers University theorized that the pre-1492 native populations of the Americas are the descendants of only 70 individuals who crossed the land bridge between Asia and North America.'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck
  - jacobush 7y ago
    You will find the same population bottlenecks in India. It's really quite extreme: https://caravanmagazine.in/science-technology/what-genetics-reveals-about-indian-origins https://caravanmagazine.in/science-technology/what-genetics-...

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wickerman 7y ago

Well I know that in places in China with similar issues the chinese are basically "importing" wives from Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. As for India, I'm not Indian but all of the indian women I've worked with were in arranged marriages or in "matches" that had been made by their parents. Obviously India is a big place but they were all from different areas (two punjabi, one from center-west India, one from Kerala in the south, one from north east). I was told that it's very widespread. I wouldn't know how this translates for men but it seems like it's not like in the west where men or women have to search for their partners themselves; families and match-making sites are a lot more prominent (any Indian around please feel free to correct me).

novok 7y ago

Looking at China, I think it's the opposite actually? By being the rare commodity, you get to dictate terms and be picky with a lot to choose from.

jacobush 7y ago
It doesn't automatically follow. There are also stories of women being bought like property from abroad and imported into China.
Nasrudith 7y ago
It is probably both really as it varies by agency of the women. Horribly if they can't say no (trafficed) then they can't be picky and the increased demand leverage goes not to them but their traffickers. Economics and literal slavery starts horrifying and only gets worse.

sametmax 7y ago

This may results in many terrible problems: - sexual frustration, which is already booming in India, could increase tenfold. Sexually frustrated males can lead to being apathetic or aggressive, none of which is good for society. - more competition means bigger delta between the winners and the losers. And they already have a large money gap. Making this difference wider can only build more social tensions. - not a biologist, but I imagine this affects the gene pool, and overall (including social) diversity as well. -

xiphias2 7y ago
> not a biologist, but I imagine this affects the gene pool, and overall (including social) diversity as well. - I wouldn't worry about gene pool diversity in India (I agree with the first two statements though): ,,A 2005 study from Rutgers University theorized that the pre-1492 native populations of the Americas are the descendants of only 70 individuals who crossed the land bridge between Asia and North America.'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck
- jacobush 7y ago
  You will find the same population bottlenecks in India. It's really quite extreme: https://caravanmagazine.in/science-technology/what-genetics-reveals-about-indian-origins https://caravanmagazine.in/science-technology/what-genetics-...