Don't even think about it
Posted on 09/11/2007 11:04:45 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
“Import Indian bridegrooms for Russian brides”
Vladimir Radyuhin
New Russian magic mantra to reverse alarming fall in the country’s birth rate
MOSCOW: Desperate to reverse a steep decline in their numbers, Russians are coming up with some bold ideas on how to overcome Russia’s demographic crisis.
A Russian feminist has proposed a radical solution to the falling birth rate — importing Indian bridegrooms for Russian girls. Maria Arbatova, writer and TV moderator, who married an Indian businessman a few years ago “after 25 years of keeping marrying Russians”, thinks Indian men make ideal husbands.
“They are crazy about their family and children,” she said presenting her new book, ‘Tasting India’, here. “What is more, Indians, like Russians, are Indo-Europeans, and many Sanskrit and Russian words have the same roots.”
Indian bridegrooms can help ward off a Chinese demographic invasion in Russia, says the feminist: “If we do not balance off the Chinese with Indians, Africans or aliens, by 2050 China will annex Russia’s Siberia up to the Ural Mountains.”
Russia has a population of 142 million spread across a territory five times the size of India. Its population is shrinking at one-third of a million a year. Under a federal programme launched this year, women who give birth to a second or subsequent child are given certificates worth $10,000, which can be used for education, mortgage or pensions. Monthly support payments to young mothers have been raised from $28 to $60. Afraid that the Government measures are not enough, the Governor of Ulyanovsk has suggested his own way of getting Russian couples to have more babies.
This Wednesday, Ulyanovsk residents will enjoy an extra day off work that the Governor decreed to give them more time to produce babies. The holiday, officially called “Family Contact Day”, was quickly renamed by locals as “Day of Conception”. That day the people will be invited to join a festival, “I Love You”, while teams of gynaecologists, midwives and psychologists will fan out to all parts of the region to advise women on having babies.
September 12 has been chosen for the new holiday so that babies conceived that day may be born on June 12, Russia’s National Day. Couples who hit the target date win prizes, including refrigerators, TV sets and washing machines. The main prize is an Ulyanovsk-built all-terrain vehicle called Patriot.
China has the problem of way too many men (due in part to the one baby per couple rules). I wonder why they don’t go to the Philippines, Malaysia, etc and import willing brides for the young Chinese bachelors?
I don’t know how well this is going to work. It reminds me of our welfare system. Women having babies is not going to save Russia, people having families will.
‘Tasting India’
LOL! I don’t want to know.
The males are a bunch of worthless shiftless sots.They have n’t changed since the Stalin Era! It’s a Genetic thing.
Looks like even Russian women don’t seem to think much of Chinese men...or is this pure racism? Having lived in China for a few years, I can imagine why no one except Chinese women would be caught dead with Mainland men.
Putin, are you listening?
But then, given the inherent racism that is so rampant in Russia, what makes Indian men more acceptable than Chinese, Africans and (sniggering) ALIENS, I really wonder.
Looks like Indians are fast turning into the world’s favorite Immigrant group.
...excellent idea! ...for starting a war with the new fascist Russia.
>>>Looks like Indians are fast turning into the world’s favorite Immigrant group.<<<
If they’d discover deodorant... Geez, if you thought the French were bad...
China doesn’t want all of the extra males it has, and it certainly doesn’t want any of them to get married and reproduce. It wants them to perform useful work and then die childless and as young as possible. So importing brides from somewhere else isn’t going the solve their man surplus. If Mao were still around, he’d probably make them all do forced labor until they died.
And Russia doesn’t want to import the extra males from China because they are fearful of losing their East to China. They already have an exploding muslim population, so that only leaves India as a regional source of men.
Incomes in China are lower than those in the other countries mentioned. And Chinese incomes are only a tad higher than those in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The problem in China isn't too many males - it's too many dirt-poor males making $25 a month down on the family farm. (Middle class Chinese males have no problem finding prospects - it's the peasants in isolated villages who can't find wives. And there's a lot of isolated villages, given that almost 70% of China is agrarian). Many of them will live with and support their parents until they pass on, by which time these bachelors will be too old to get married.
FYI, middle class Chinese are the ones making $125 a month down in the big city. These incomes are still lower than in the countries you mentioned.
In Russia they pay 10,000 for a child... in China they KILL any extra children.
WTF...
I once spent an entire day in Moscow asking women why they only had 2 children. Those kvartera need more bedrooms.
Sorry, did not want to be branded a 'Raza-ist'.
They'll be certainly expecting family-inclined position from the supposed brides like no working for hire.
They won't find enough candidates in any noticeable q-ty.
Because, unlike Russia, China does not have a shrinking population problem.
That's true.
Russian tv labels them
Such statement makes an anware person think that Russian TV intentionally lies about those children. That's not so. On the other hand orphanage children do tend to be engaged in criminal activities due to natural reasons: poverty, poor orphanage keeping, social background.
I once spent an entire day in Moscow asking women why they only had 2 children. Those kvartera need more bedrooms.
Sure. They will say you that. The problem is whether its exclusive. Majority of Russians (women as well as men) just don't want to have many children - they want childless lifestyle. The same attitude is in the Western Europe and in the USA among whites. Official US stats says a there are 1.9 children per a white female in the USA.
True. Russians are nice looking till they hit 30. The transition from a HOTTTT 20 something to a Walrus of a Babushka is scary to say the least.
Besides..met very few genuinely nice Russians. A lot of them were just plain hostile. Some of the polite ones had their racially superior stereotypes.
Lots of Siberian ho’s in China. They re the only “westerners” the Chinese men are confident approaching.
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