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"sometimes I think that a 40/60 ratio of men to women would be favorable..." Without wanting to turn this into a race thing, there are sociological circumstanc
by roel_v 12y ago
"sometimes I think that a 40/60 ratio of men to women would be favorable..."
Without wanting to turn this into a race thing, there are sociological circumstances which sort of give us a glimpse (in subsets of the population) of what that could look like - and it's not pretty... See e.g. http://www.economist.com/node/21532296 http://www.economist.com/node/21532296, which is one of the lesser emotionally charged discussions of it, but I'm sure you can find the right Google terms to find dozens of other articles about it yourself.
- _pmf_ 12y agoChina's and India's fad of aborting female offspring is not really very helpful. They're setting themselves up for some really, really nasty future.
- vijayr 12y agoNot sure about India, but China is already in trouble http://www.forbes.com/sites/china/2011/05/13/chinas-growing-problem-of-too-many-single-men/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/china/2011/05/13/chinas-growing-...
- draugadrotten 12y agoSweden have imported so many males from middle east that it's now more men than women in Sweden for the first time in 300 years. "More boys are born in Sweden, the average life expectancy of males has gone up and it's mostly men who move here from other countries." http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=6127590 http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&art...
- pikachu_is_cool 11y agoThank you for that link, that really changed my perspective.