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China: The rise of the 'Precious Snowflakes'
The Telegraph ^ | 1-8-12 | Malcom Moore

Posted on 01/08/2012 12:54:34 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic

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To: afraidfortherepublic

Really, no aunts or uncles, basically no family. So the state can be your family I guess. But, I wonder if that’s not in store here too, at least for many families. I know many people with one child or no children. Another interesting (but sad in my opinion) phenomena is that because so many American couples are waiting so late to have children their kids don’t have Grandparents as they get older. It’s really changed the dynamics of being a family (and not for the better in my opinion).


21 posted on 01/08/2012 1:21:57 PM PST by brytlea (An ounce of chocolate is worth a pound of cure)
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To: null and void

Yes they do. You know, its actually even worse than indicated because the one child policy causes a skewed sex ratio. There is a surplus of males...males with no relatives and with a stunted ability to socialize...and nothing in their lives to compete with the state’s agenda set for them.

The ruling elite of china have created for themselves a vast nation of worker drones. But at the expense of a future, if the one child policy persists. I don’t think the fact that many of them are pampered spoiled brats with no skills will hurt their economy though. At 3 billion people, even if 2/3rds of every generation is disfunctional, they still have more than enough worker drones to keep the system flourishing. For now.


22 posted on 01/08/2012 1:27:11 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre
This never even occurred to me. I have never even thought about what it would be like to be the only child of an only child of an only child. You literally have ZERO living relatives other than your parents...and if your spouse is also the only child of an only child of an only child...MIND BOGGLING!

I have friends like that. Actually, I haven't heard from them in a couple of years, so I don't know if they are still alive. Not only are they both "only" children, they elected to have no children of their own. He was a highly successful attorney and they both inherited a good bit of wealth from their parents,so they are "set" financially. All they did was fight over it.

Now, they spend all their time with the Sierra Club, climbing mountains, travel, skiing, worrying about their genealogy (strange for people with no heirs), and (him) playing with model trains with the local train society. I would not consider it a happy union (alcohol for him; nit picking for her).

23 posted on 01/08/2012 1:30:38 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

These precious snowflakes will make ideal soldiers one day.... LMAO!!!


24 posted on 01/08/2012 1:35:52 PM PST by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: mamelukesabre
As a baby-boomer, I had a revelation when one of my students told me "You don't get it. Children today have more parents than parents have children."

I realized that he was correct. In my circle of friends there are more adults than children and the kids have the two biological parents plus step-parents, half-step-parents not to mention God-parents and assorted childless adult relatives.

25 posted on 01/08/2012 1:41:15 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Rights begin where power ends!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Who was it that said nature abhors a vacuum?

This sounds like a cultural vacuum to me. And we've seen that sort of vacuum filled constantly throughout history.

Visigoths, Huns,Vikings, Mongols, . . . vacuum fillers all.

26 posted on 01/08/2012 1:52:01 PM PST by hfr (Liberalism is a moral disorder that leads to mental disorder (actually it's sin))
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The process is change......... from chicoms to chicaps


27 posted on 01/08/2012 2:02:14 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I was kind of glad to see this...and, (sort of) sorry to say, more glad to see that this segment of society may, in their boredom and life of leisure, turn to drugs. Normally I don't wish drug use on a people, but if what is bad for China is good for us--especially if they are trying to kill us.

But what I realized soon after, was that we have the equivalent--and it is a much larger percentage of our population. Not to even mention the kids of various ethnic backgrounds that seem to identify more with their "home country"-whether they were born here or not. Even if there are 10 million "snowflake kids" in China, that is a drop of in an ocean. They have plenty of hungry kids who will be more than adequate to serve as cannon feeder, cannon fodder against us...or guard in an extermination camp for the lazy, no good "snowflake kids"

28 posted on 01/08/2012 2:12:33 PM PST by Captainpaintball (We don't have much time left)
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To: mamelukesabre
“The second generation is even worse: they do not have cousins, uncles or aunts either”

My mother is an only child and my uncle on the other side died when I was very young. I have two sisters and no brothers. I had trouble socializing in school and I think this may have had something to do with it. When other kids would talk about having a full house at Christmas I had no reference. I can see how a whole country like this could have some serious social problems.

29 posted on 01/08/2012 2:20:56 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

re:Ah, the unforeseen consequences of the State managing families.

Yes, it is not nice to fool Mother Nature!


30 posted on 01/08/2012 2:33:29 PM PST by Nevadan
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To: afraidfortherepublic
"They are more aggressive, and also more weak. They cannot control themselves and they give up when given tasks to do. Because their parents do everything for them, they do not believe they can do things themselves. They cannot even do up their buttons," she said.

I guess this is the answer to the China problem people worry about.
31 posted on 01/08/2012 2:34:41 PM PST by aruanan
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Where have I heard about precious snowflakes before? Oh yeah, HERE
32 posted on 01/08/2012 2:34:48 PM PST by JaguarXKE
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To: afraidfortherepublic
She said the current generation of students had been banned from making any "big movements"

So it's xiao bian all the time?
33 posted on 01/08/2012 2:35:41 PM PST by aruanan
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To: mamelukesabre
This never even occurred to me. I have never even thought about what it would be like to be the only child of an only child of an only child. You literally have ZERO living relatives other than your parents.

You're right. That is weird to contemplate. No uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers, sisters. I guess one would have or might have grandparents, but that's it.

34 posted on 01/08/2012 2:36:06 PM PST by 6SJ7 (Meh.)
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To: mamelukesabre
Imagine a whole nation...billions of people...all are in this same boat. FREAKY!

It's not like that in rural areas.

35 posted on 01/08/2012 2:40:30 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: freedumb2003
A Zager & Evans reference!

I feel old ;-)

36 posted on 01/08/2012 2:44:14 PM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: mamelukesabre
At 3 billion people,

1,338,299,500 Chinese, not 3 billion.

37 posted on 01/08/2012 2:44:51 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: JaguarXKE

re: Where have I heard about precious snowflakes before? Oh yeah, HERE

excellent!


38 posted on 01/08/2012 2:47:27 PM PST by Nevadan
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To: CrazyIvan

Yeah, I had some problems socializing as a youngster(but for different reasons) so I can relate. I took everything literally, and expected others to do the same. I think I was nearly twenty before I started to feel halfway comfortable with popular phrases and the fact that people don’t mean things literally. I still remember being disgusted with people for parroting the stupid things we say to each other as greetings...hi, how is your day...are you having a good day...how are you doing today...and other nonsense. My feeling was if you couldn’t think of anything more meaningful to say I would prefer you keep your thoughts to yourself. And I had a habit of telling people literally what I thought, although not with insulting words. So you can imagine what the average small talk was like for me...pure torture is what. They would almost always end up calling me names which would result in me literally punching them in the face. Yep, age 5 through 15 was not exactly a fairy tale for me. I think part of it was genetic. I still remember my mother and grandmother both saying sternly “state your business” when a stranger would approach them with meaningless chit chat.


39 posted on 01/08/2012 3:22:55 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why isn’t it?


40 posted on 01/08/2012 3:40:05 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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