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if this is true, then we will see soon Chineese men behaving like conquering Vikings :) (ratio of men vs women is one of the highest in the world due to singl
by mtw 18y ago
if this is true, then we will see soon Chineese men behaving like conquering Vikings
:)
(ratio of men vs women is one of the highest in the world due to single child policy)
- j2d2 18y ago(due to abandoning woman since they prefer men and get one child)
- gruseom 18y ago(ratio of men vs women is one of the highest in the world due to single child policy) Single child policy can hardly be the reason for that.
- arockwell 18y agoNot by itself, but there's strong economic incentive for your one child to be a boy rather than a girl.
- eru 18y agoTo say it bluntly: Sometimes girls are neglected until they die or killed outright.
- gruseom 18y agoRight. And to call this "single child policy" is a nasty euphemism.
- netcan 18y agoI think selective abortion is more common then selective infanticide.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoAbandonment is common too. My sister worked part-time in an orphanage in Xian for a year and saw a lot of sad things.
- gruseom 18y agoPeople who kill their own daughters for "economic" reasons stretch my ability to be non-judgmental.
- asdflkj 18y agoInfanticide for "economic" reasons is an evolutionary adaptation common in many mammals, including humans, including in rich societies. In the US, it usually gets classified as SIDS. I'm yet to see a convincing argument for why it's unethical.
- pmorici 18y agoIsn't SIDS when a baby suffocates because they are sleeping on their stomach or in a room with poor ventilation? Or are you saying it isn't as sudden and accidental as we are led to believe?
- asdflkj 18y agoNot always accidental, apparently. Wikipedia has references.
- DabAsteroid 18y agoAlso, in the Netherlands, child euthanasia is openly practiced. http://www.google.com/search?q=netherlands+euthanasia+child http://www.google.com/search?q=netherlands+euthanasia+child 280,000 hits.
- DabAsteroid 18y agoDo you judge sexual abstainers? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22abstinence+is+murder%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22abstinence+is+murder%22
- emmett 18y agoActually, that's incorrect. There's a strong social prestige incentive for your one child to be a boy rather than a girl. There's a strong economic incentive for you to have a girl: there's a tradition of reversed dowries in China, and girls are rare, so the benefits are high.
- arockwell 18y agoI thought the reason they wanted boys was that they were the ones who had the means to support their parents in old age?
- emmett 18y agoPerhaps that was the historical reason boys are high prestige, but modern China has huge opportunities for women (who "Hold up half the sky", as Mao put it). China was a society of prima genitor, like Europe; boys are high prestige because they carry on your family name. All praise to the eldest son!
- wmf 18y agoNo smiley needed; I've read serious predictions that China will invade neighboring countries for water and women within a few decades.
- netcan 18y agoOr for women & wine
- omouse 18y agoWell if you're a Christian/Catholic, water = wine.
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- rms 18y agoIt seems a lot more likely that they will import water and women.
- rgrieselhuber 18y agoMay be one reason why Japan is working so hard to develop robot women. :-)
- pmorici 18y agoI've heard people cite this as a reason from Islamic terrorism as well. Since it's common to take multiple wives in religion.
- netcan 18y agoIt's not very common in practice though. Not enough to create demographic problems.
- dimitar 18y agoThe marriage ceremony is expensive - especially in the Middle East. And in countries like Egypt have low economic growth and huge inflation in marriage prices, so males have to work long and hard into their 30es to get married. And they can't just get a girlfriend and marry her in a inexpensive ceremony with only a civil unions - the religious leaders made sure its illegal (they have a interest in preserving the expensive traditions, you see). Most men in the Middle East can hardly afford a single wife. Only really, really rich men have harems. Of course the reasons are way more complex. I'll recommend this excellent article from Fareed Zakaria: The Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us? http://fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/101501_why.html http://fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/101501_why.html