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'One Child Nation' Documentary Explores The Dark Side Of Chinese Policy
NPR ^ | August 13,2019 | Ailsa Chang

Posted on 08/18/2019 5:57:50 PM PDT by OddLane

Filmmaker Nanfu Wang grew up in rural China under the country's one-child policy, which was announced in 1979 and not officially rescinded until 2015.

Born in 1985, Wang never knew a life without it — as a kid, she remembers seeing propaganda promoting the rule everywhere.

"At some point, it just became a normal part of life, just like the air, the water, the tree," she says. "And you just stop paying attention, stop questioning, because it has always been there."

There were propaganda matchboxes, lunchboxes, murals and songs on TV...

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: china; forcedabortion

1 posted on 08/18/2019 5:57:50 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane
"Growing up, Wang remember seeing cartoons that depicted people who had more than one child as "almost criminals, or backward, or uneducated," she says.

Leftist SOP.

2 posted on 08/18/2019 6:09:59 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING!)
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To: OddLane

“Propaganda was everywhere. “

True today, here. Although, advertising is the nonstop assault. Much is commercial, but a lot is PC as well.


3 posted on 08/18/2019 6:13:35 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SecondAmendment

Progressives should be sent to China so that they can eat some of their own dog food.


4 posted on 08/18/2019 6:18:33 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: OddLane
There is a bright side?

Every time the government gets involved in who may or may not have children and how many it always is a bad thing and ends in tears.

5 posted on 08/18/2019 6:20:01 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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"At some point, it just became a normal part of life, just like the air, the water, the tree," she says. "And you just stop paying attention, stop questioning, because it has always been there."

This exactly what the Left is doing with Global Warming.

They are trying to normalize Anthropogenic Global Warming as a fact that everyone believes and accepts.

I read an article just about every day that has some reference to Global Warming. Many days more than one.

I think that Global Warming caused the One Child policy.

6 posted on 08/18/2019 6:34:08 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: OddLane

The “dark side” of the one child policy is that China is a Masculine nation while the USA has become a Feminine nation. In the game of empires masculine nations win out. There are two Masculine Empires in the world. They are Islam and China. Europe and its components are feminine nations. The 19th Amendment made us an unalterably Feminine nation, not immediately of course, but inexorably.


7 posted on 08/18/2019 7:11:54 PM PDT by arthurus (=[ + -O^0 **,.l)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

China now has an excess of men who will not find wives. They are a danger to a society and must be killed off in external wars and conquests, Islam is similar because the women are to some extent monopolized by the rulers and the prosperous.


8 posted on 08/18/2019 7:14:00 PM PDT by arthurus (=[ + -O^0 **,.l+)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

And now they’re having trouble convincing a massive cohort of only children told it is a sin to have more than one to have 2 for the motherland.


9 posted on 08/18/2019 7:18:44 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: arthurus

One of the side effects of the One Child Policy is a wave of kidnappings of women fleeing the DPRK and trying to find sanctuary inside of Manchuria.


10 posted on 08/18/2019 7:46:20 PM PDT by OddLane
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The American Right still loves free sex, so freep them and the ChiCom horse they rode in on. You can’t have free sex and population management without coercive abortion. Don’t think Americans don’t want it: many FReepers are all about getting rid of the “wrong people’s” offspring.


11 posted on 08/18/2019 8:05:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Those who oppose Trump are in rebellion against God, which causes them to become sick in the head.")
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To: OddLane

Lack of women sows disruption in many ways. The classic method to deal with it is external military operations to get the dangerous excess killed off and to gain new territories and colonies in the process.


12 posted on 08/18/2019 8:06:24 PM PDT by arthurus (=[ + -O0oc l+o)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“Every time the government gets involved in who may or may not have children and how many it always is a bad thing and ends in tears.”

Bears repeating. Choosing which children get to be born based on likelihood of genetic defects is also horrible and often accompanies government control of family size.


13 posted on 08/18/2019 8:23:59 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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To: OddLane

Is he still alive?


14 posted on 08/19/2019 12:11:06 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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