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gsxr750r

Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject: Indians killing daughters. You thought China was bad? |
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252677,00.html
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Police in central India found 390 body parts from fetuses and newborn babies � thought to be unwanted girls � buried in the backyard of a Christian missionary hospital.
Both announcements threw a spotlight on female infanticide and feticide in India, where an estimated ten million baby girls have been killed by their parents in the past twenty years. |
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Rteacher

Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: |
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Another example of how advanced scientific technology is sold and used for bad purposes ... |
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VanIslander

Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:44 am Post subject: |
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Fundamental difference between Indian and Chinese contexts: In China it's the GOVERNMENT commiting the evils, on a top-down, enforced through coercion and contrary to local values.
No comparison.
The police in India recognize it as a problem and report it as such. The police in China are part of the problem and receive orders to do such.
Pity the Indian poor.
Curse the Chinese government. |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:25 am Post subject: |
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In twenty years or so those counties will be in deep dudu. |
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Rteacher

Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:27 am Post subject: |
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They'll have to import wives from Brazil ... |
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VirginIslander
Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Busan
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:26 am Post subject: |
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Why go to Brazil when Russia is next door? |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:11 am Post subject: |
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sorry, is this a surprise at all? I thought India was a big deal BEFORE china....
huh. |
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ella

Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Another example of how advanced scientific technology is sold and used for bad purposes ... |
It doesn't take any technology. Infant girls were (and still are) simply left to starve to death in the Indian village where I worked. Too expensive to raise them and marry them off. |
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NAVFC
Joined: 10 May 2006
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Wont this emphasis on males later on create a serious demographic problem? IE: Too many males and not enough females? |
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ella

Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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It's already a problem. The village where I worked is next to a river. All the villages along the river import wives from villages downriver from them. You can imagine the problems in the last village at the end of the river. |
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Adventurer

Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Well, if people in India don't make enough of an outcry to put a stop to this then they shouldn't be so upset when Babu can't find a wife, because a baby who could have grown to be his wife was killed. I think it is sad that people would take a life of a baby, because the baby is a female. I don't have kids, but I think you are lucky to have a nice child whether it is a male or female, and some people can't even have one kid. I think what will happen is disproportionately people from the background of those people who commit infanticide won't have wives for their children. It will hurt the poor of India more than the wealthy, and you will have desperate males probably engaging in homosexual behaviour because of the shortage. |
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