Posted on 04/19/2009 5:48:58 PM PDT by ReformationFan
China now has 32 million more males than females. There are reasons for the gender disparity. One of the reasons, according to Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute (PRI), is due to sex-selection abortion.
"[T]he parents will go in at 18-weeks gestation and have an ultrasound done -- and if the ultrasound reveals that they're carrying a little boy, they'll continue the pregnancy," Mosher remarks. "If it reveals they're carrying a little girl, they'll schedule an abortion."
According to the PRI spokesman, that is because of the cultural preference for boys. Most families in China are only permitted one child, so they tend to want males who will then care for the parents when they are aged.
Mosher explains that government officials have been considering a number of ideas to deal with the gender imbalance -- some that would not be considered in Western society.
"Up to and including polygyny [sic], which is several men marrying one woman, if you have a shortage of women," says Mosher. And in order to prevent some men from molesting girls and women, "there have also been proposals to go back to a form of eunuchoid, which would be castrating the little boy and removing their sex drive," he adds.
The gender disparity is having a noticeable cultural effect in China. Crime rates are now up, prostitution is increasing, the buying and selling of women is rampant, and rates of homosexuality are also increasing.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN KNOWN HISTORY, THE CHINESE POPULATION MAY START TO DECLINE.
Well, China has an overwhelming population and fears a shortage of resources.
Actually, the country has loosened its One-Child per couple policy. So this trend may decline in the coming years.
Millions of young men have no hope of marriage in China. Where will these men direct their attention?
It's not "Chinese policies", it's Chinese history, and the root of that is ancestor worship. An ancient -- like 2-3,000+ years ancient -- belief that has sunk deeper roots than most moderns would like to admit.
Broadly speaking, in a belief system in which one has no particular place to go after death,i.e. heaven or hell, one is only kept "alive" (so to speak)is by being remembered down through the generations; hence, ancestor worship.
As a female child once grown and married is lost to her birth family forever, only males of the family can perform those rites. No sons? Then the deceased of that family faced a bleak,deepening gray eternity. A thing of horror.
Right now, they are turning to Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Mongolia, and even Thailand. For many women in those countries, moving to China would be a step up.
To other countries.
You both hit the nail on the head. As an American of Chinese descent, I can honestly say that it serves them right for drowning their female babies or turning them over to orphanages and then not having enough women to go around as their generation matures.
After college, my niece went to work for a European brokerage house in Beijing (she’s fluent in Chinese and Indonesian as well as English). Guys were begging her for a date but she put them all off, sayiing they had worse social skills than the freshmen at Johns Hopkins, her alma mater. My guess is that all that spitting by most men there turned her off.
Even the plainest Jane in Shanghai or other big cities is treated like royalty. So while we’re amused by the men in China resorting to women from other nations, my worry is that all those young single guys will be easy enlistees for the People’s Liberation Army (the PLA encompasses all military services including Air Force and Navy). Saturday’s Wall St. Journal article on the growth and sophistication of the PLA is very troubling.
There are signs that things are changing. I spend half my life in Shanghai... My Chinese employees (three) all have children under the age of 4, and all are female. It’s becoming less of a stigma to only have female children.
Additionally, I know several white collar families (engineers, CPAs, managers) who have 2,3 or even 4 children, all under the age of 5. They have enough money now to pay the fines and penalties to have multiple children...
Yes, they actually think like that. Think on that when trusting to eating food from China. They DO NOT CARE if it gets you sick.
Are there societies and cultures which once practiced this?
With a majority of males in the Chinese population and the practice of male baby preference likely to continue due to their culture, this may be what creates the army from the East that numbers 200 million in Bible prophesy.
We can finally export something to China — the gay agenda.
Asian females are a hypergamous lot. I suspect your niece will marry a white. I hope you don’t have any nephews, there is a not insignificant chance he will end up alone.
Yes, my niece did marry a Caucasian, a fellow classmate from graduate school of business. Her parents in Jakarta weren’t too crazy about the idea at first but the guy is a good fellow.
My nephew, her cousin, is from Brazil, attended Notre Dame and married a Chinese-American. When you look at the skinny sad sacks coming from China and my chubby (he loves cheese) nephew, you can see why it’s an uphill battle for them. He’s got a great personality and he dove into American (specifically ND) football head first. A lot of the gals thought he was cool because he spoke English, Portugese and German.
His brother (another nephew) also plans to marry a Chinese-American. The good thing is she’s learning to play golf, his favorite sport.
You’ve hit upon one of the primary differences between the Chinese and Muslims in Indonesia. While your neice’s parents may not have been crazy about the idea of her marriage, they nonetheless acquiesced. Her marriage means one womb lost to the Chinese gene pool as her children will be by culturally White and her grandchildren will be White period, but they didn’t care. Muslim parents would have been far less forgiving of her “transgression” against their culture, possibly choosing to bring more pressure against such a relationship or failing that to shun her completely or in the more extreme cases, have her killed for sullying the family honor. Thus you will find exogenous marriage among Muslim women is far less common than exogenous marriage among Muslim men, and in the case of the latter usually results in conversion of the non-Muslim wife.
Despite the large absolute numbers, most people do not realize that the Chinese people have submitted to post-modern nihilism and are gradually dieing. This isn’t just in China, but the effect is even more rapid elsewhere particularly in America. Sub replacement fertility rates of barely above 1 child per woman combined with horrendous levels of female exogenous marriage and males unable to pass on their genetic legacies means that the Chinese in America, as elsewhere in the world, will become gradually extinct.
***Where will these men direct their attention?***
More importantly, what will the Chinese GOVERNMENT do about it.
They will start to think that the best way to solve their social problems is to start a war and send all the extra young males into battle.
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