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asylum seeker
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 Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:46 pm Post subject: 'Gender Imbalance 'to Reach Crisis Point in 2014' |
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If you're a single guy here in 2014 you're going to have a lot of competition thanks to pre-natal sex screenings and sex-selective abortions:
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One in every five men is likely to have trouble finding a spouse by 2014, a study suggests, when the ratio of men to women at the ideal marriage age will reach a record high.
The study by the Gyeonggi Province Family and Women's Research Institute put the ideal age for marriage at between 29 and 33 for men, and between 26 and 30 for women.
The number of men in the age group stands at 1.98 million this year, some 70,000 more than women (1.91 million), but that gap will widen to 134,200 next year and reach a record 381,300 in 2014, the institute forecast.
...for the third and fourth child, the institute said it was an "open secret" that couples have pre-natal sex screening and sex-selective abortions
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http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/12/19/2009121900226.html |
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mc_jc
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Hence- AES |
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Old Gil
Joined: 26 Sep 2009
Location: Got out! olleh!
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| Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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I think an impetus behind these maudlin Korean dramas is to promote the image of Korean men in the region. I've heard Kuys clean up in China.
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janafromfrance
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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'great news' for the women of
Vietnam
China
That tribe in Indonesia
woo hoo  |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| The male to female sex ratios they call "normal" are really wacked. Normal usually means the number of female babies born are at a slight advantage. Messed up. Why in tarnation would anyone want an emotionally backwards, intellectually slow to develop boy with a host of behavioral problems when he or she could have a nice and compliant girl. Crazy Confucianists. |
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BoholDiver
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| I heard that radio wavs from machines and stuff kill Y chromosome sperm more easily than X. It should be opposite. |
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asylum seeker
Joined: 22 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:46 am Post subject: |
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| I heard that radio wavs from machines and stuff kill Y chromosome sperm more easily than X. It should be opposite. |
Um, try reading the OP? The reason is right there:
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...for the third and fourth child, the institute said it was an "open secret" that couples have pre-natal sex screening and sex-selective abortions |
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Sadebugo1
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Those who refuse to adapt will die off. Ironically, it is the technology that is allowing Koreans to do this to themselves.
Sadebugo
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mc_jc
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| Those who refuse to adapt will die off. |
Extremely interesting notion.
Do you think that Koreans (as well as the Japanese) are going to be underpopulated in the next half century because of this gender imbalance?
Almost like non-breeding themselves out of existence. |
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Wishmaster
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| For a country supposedly so good at math, they can't figure out the most basic math of all. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| The Gipkik wrote: |
| The male to female sex ratios they call "normal" are really wacked. Normal usually means the number of female babies born are at a slight advantage. Messed up. Why in tarnation would anyone want an emotionally backwards, intellectually slow to develop boy with a host of behavioral problems when he or she could have a nice and compliant girl. Crazy Confucianists. |
What, exactly are you implying about the pureblood 'rents?
Oh no you din't!!! |
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Aelric
Joined: 02 Mar 2009
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| There is an even bigger Bachelor boom starting to hit China due to both eh sex-selective abortions and the one-child policy. It's a good thing, in the end. The crisis that this creates in these countries will give a good impetus to actually have and raise girls. It'll be a good 10 to 20 years before the shows results, but that is true with everything in Asia, it seems. Always roughly 10-20 years away from evolving into modern cultures. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:10 am Post subject: |
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For real, if the AES really wanted to do something about "the problem" it would encourage the raising of female children.
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| Those who refuse to adapt will die off. Ironically, it is the technology that is allowing Koreans to do this to themselves. |
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| It'll be a good 10 to 20 years before the shows results, but that is true with everything in Asia, it seems. Always roughly 10-20 years away from evolving into modern cultures. |
Look at birth rates amongst "native" people in first world countries and you see similar population decline trends.
It's not Confucianism or Koreanness, its wealth that's causing the population decline. |
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Old Gil
Joined: 26 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Wrong. Why is Korea, only 20 years removed from 10k/yr per capita (if that), at the lowest rate in the OECD and ye the world? That can't be laid at prosperity's door. It's cultural, oh yes, it's so true. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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Some people here are conflating two separate issues. There is the low birth rate in general and the gender imbalance problem. The low birth rate is due to economics. The gender imbalance is cultural.
There are several policy proposals the government is looking at to address the low birth rate problem. There are already programs in place to help smooth the entry of non-Korean women into Korean society. |
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