Posted on 04/11/2010 3:59:12 AM PDT by SkyPilot
In the cruel old China, baby girls were often left to die in the gutters. In the cruel modern China, they are aborted by the tens of millions, using all the latest technology.
There is an ugly new word for this mass slaughter: gendercide.
Thanks to a state policy which has limited many families to one child since 1979, combined with an ancient and ruthless prejudice in favour of sons, the world's new superpower is beginning the century of its supremacy with an alarming surplus of males.
By the year 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women of marriageable age in this giant empire, so large and so different (its current population is 1,336,410,000) that it often feels more like a separate planet than just another country. Nothing like this has ever happened to any civilisation before.
The nearest we can come to it is the sad shortage of men after the First World War in Britain, France, Russia and Germany, and the many women denied the chance of family life and motherhood as a result.
It is possible that the effects of that imbalance are still with us, in the shape of the radical feminist movement which found ready recruits among the husbandless teachers and other professionals of the Twenties and Thirties.
But men without women are altogether more troublesome than women without men, especially when they are young. All kinds of speculation is now seething about what might happen; a war to cull the surplus males, a rise in crime, a huge expansion in the prostitution that is already a major industry in every Chinese city, a rise in homosexuality.
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India has a similiar problem.
GE manufacturers ultrasound machines in India to provide the world market for selective abortion.
Challenge your pro-abortion friends on their support of gender selective abortion.
Checking the history of The Rape of the Sabine Women. In a more primitive age - those young Chinese men would be raping and pillaging for child-bearing females.
We should be concerned how they will play-out this most basic instinct in the age of nuclear weapons and global economics.
Strange days indeed!
I've seen this statement repeatedly, but little or no attempt to show why it is true.
Most civilizations have practiced infanticide to some extent, with girls always the primary victims. Ancient Greece and Rome certainly had a major sex ratio imbalance.
African and Muslim cultures, among others, practice polygamy, in which the more powerful males tie up massively disproportionate numbers of the females, leaving few for the less powerful males.
One common side effect of high male sex ratios has historically been warlike societies, in which the more powerful males aim their less powerful brethren at adjacent societies. Some of these men capture wives in the process. Others die. In either case the competition for women is reduced.
In the 1860s War of the Triple Alliance, Paraguay went from a population of 500k to about 225k, only 28k of which were men. I've read the Church temporarily allowed polygamy, although I've also seen this denied.
IOW, there is a long history of sex ratio imbalance of massive proportions for both male and female predominance. Instead of talking about how today's Chinese/Indian situation is unprecedented, I'd like to see some discussion of the precedents and what they tell us.
And many of the young men without women will be trying to immigrate to West, or any nation which offers better prospects of finding a mate. This problem will be exported, and it’s probably being exported already.
Unless nations adopt a strict policy of only accepting immigrants in equal numbers of men and women, the problem will soon exist in the areas where significant numbers of immigrants from China, India and Asia in general settle.
As totally stupid as the immigration policies of the West are and have been, our ‘leaders’ will probably allow it to happen.
There is always a price to be paid. Everything has a price. The question is “Who pays?”
Those in power are very seldom the ones who pay the price.
Those who support those in power don’t realize that they will be the ones to ‘pay up’, and they probably don’t even realize(because they haven’t counted it) that there is a cost.
Those precious babies were never given ‘the choice’ of counting the cost.
So where are the “feminists” on this? Chirp...chirp...chirp...
Someday, and it might be soon, some illegal alien will apply for refugee status in the US or other Western nation, offering the one child policy of China, or the unfavorable ratio of males to females as a reason to be granted refugee status.
That was all very well when wars were conducted with masses of men in armor bearing swords.
However, nowadays, we use heat-seeking laser-guided missiles, and that sort of thing. Whether these masses of men will be of any use remains to be seen. I suppose they could invade Siberia or something like that.
The absence of men has occurred very commonly, throughout history. Men die off in wars, resulting in polygamy. The absence of women is what is rare.
That's what I believe will happen... China's already loosening the border between itself and Russia, and most of the Eastern edge of Siberia has more in common culturally, ethnically, and economically with China than Russia.
One day Putin or Medvedev will wake to the news that 500,000 Chinese troops sit 300 km inside Siberia, which is now annexed because it is "traditionally more Chinese than Russian".
Russia does not have the men or materiel to stop it, nor the need or ability to harvest the natural resources of Siberia. China has the men, the materiel, the need, and the ability.
Well, unless global warming does indeed arrive, most of Siberia is not worth much. Mining and forestry, and a good place for a gulag.
What we don’t hear about is the skyrocketing problem of AIDS in China. Fewer women to marry, more prostitution, more sexually transmitted diseases.
I recall an article a number of years ago that linked this fact to the question of women in combat.
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