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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:37 am Post subject: China: Boy-girl gap hits 121 to 100 |
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Boy-girl gap in China hits 121 to 100
09/27/2006
BY NOBUYOSHI SAKAJIRI, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
BEIJING--China's controversial one-child policy continues to widen the gender disparity in newborn babies, according to a new report. In 2004, 121 boys were born in China for every 100 girls, according to the government-affiliated Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). That is up from 2000, when the ratio was 117 boys to 100 girls.
The growing disparity has been blamed on the deep-rooted preferences of Chinese parents for boys. Rural residents want sons as added manpower or to take over their family farms and businesses. In urban areas, many companies treat male employees better than female ones.
The spread of ultrasound technology has also become a factor. Although using ultrasounds to check the gender of fetuses is prohibited, the ban is widely ignored. The 2006 edition of the CASS report on population and labor in China describes how the gender disparity has grown since the Chinese government instituted its one-child policy in 1979.
In 1982, the ratio was 109 boys to 100 girls. By 1990 it had increased to 111 for every 100 girls, to 117 in 2000, and to 121 in 2004.
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200609270157.html |
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:50 am Post subject: |
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How do frustrated young men tend to behave?
A violent future for China. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:24 am Post subject: |
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| This is rather frightening, and conjures up all sorts of possibilities. If I were a Chinese equivalent of a neocon President, I would be busy training up all those extra young boys in boot camps - in readiness for future 'promotion of Chinese interests...' After all, they're only going to cause trouble is they stay at home... |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| manlyboy wrote: |
A violent future for China. |
Or a gay one.  |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| This is rather frightening, and conjures up all sorts of possibilities. If I were a Chinese equivalent of a neocon President, I would be busy training up all those extra young boys in boot camps - in readiness for future 'promotion of Chinese interests...' After all, they're only going to cause trouble is they stay at home... |
Maybe they'll go after the Middle East. OIL. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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Problem is, from a public policy perspective there's no easy, short-term solution for government. They can ease the one-child policy, but that will only affect the sex ratio twenty years down the road. There is always polyandry, but that's unlikely to be a popular response.  Import brides? Where from? China is gonna turn into a girl's paradise...it's almost ironic. |
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Sooke
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Location: korea
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe the men will take brides from the countries China plans to conquer (after imprisoning or killing the local male population.) The victorious members of the PLA may also be given homesteadng land. |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:06 am Post subject: |
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I've had many a conversation with the guy some of you may know as n3ptne about how this very problem is going to lead to the collapse of the Chinese economy in about 20 or 30 years, but he thinks they'll be fine. Either way it will be interesting to see how it pans out.
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| i heard China was one of the places Koreans import brides from... guess it's back to Vietnam. |
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ThePoet
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: No longer in Korea - just lurking here
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I just saw a show about the Ukraine where the boy to girl ratio is 84 : 100
So I guess we might see some trading in human commodities in the future.
It could happen.
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:58 am Post subject: |
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Jackie Chan says take our women, spread the word
DPA , HONG KONG
Wednesday, Jun 15, 2005,
"We can encourage more foreigners to marry Shanghai ladies so their children will be able to speak Chinese," the South China Morning Post quoted Chan as saying during festivities at the Shanghai International Film Festival on the weekend.
"It will help spread Chinese culture far and wide," he said.
His comments are unlikely to meet with approval from China's growing army of bachelors, who are estimated to reach 40 million within 20 years and who face fierce competition in finding a mate from their own countrymen.
In some areas of China, the gender imbalance -- caused by the large number of abortions and the one-child policy -- is as high as 133 boys to every 100 girls.
As a result, some men are forced to seek brides in countries such as Russia.
Zhirinovsky, who sees Chinese men as the biggest perpetrators of the crime of robbing Russia of its most beautiful women, argues for imposing severe penalties on Russian women who "unpatriotically" choose to marry foreigners.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/06/15/2003259354 |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| Korea has a couple cohorts where it's about 115 boys to 100 girls. I think Vietnam has more females than males. |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Korea has a couple cohorts where it's about 115 boys to 100 girls. I think Vietnam has more females than males. |
Yes they do. Vietnam is the largest exporter of women in the world today.
The majority of their population is made up of young people who were born after the Vietnam War. The majority of women are very beautiful and young, mostly less than 30 years of age, highly and exportable to many men in Korea. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| ChuckECheese wrote: |
| The majority of women are very beautiful and young, mostly less than 30 years of age, highly and exportable to many men in Korea. |
Where they will encounter a disproving mother in law who will treat her like a slave. |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| ChuckECheese wrote: |
| The majority of women are very beautiful and young, mostly less than 30 years of age, highly and exportable to many men in Korea. |
Where they will encounter a disproving mother in law who will treat her like a slave. |
Yep, I heard most Vietnamese women end up running away from their Korean husbands within 1 to 6 month period either returning to their home or being lured into Korean sex shops. |
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