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Gendercide
In January 2010 the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) showed what can happen to a country when girl babies dont count. Within ten years, the academy said, one in five young men would be unable to find a bride because of the dearth of young womena figure unprecedented in a country at peace.According to CASS, China in 2020 will have 30m-40m more men of this age than young women. For comparison, there are 23m boys below the age of 20 in Germany, France and Britain combined and around 40m American boys and young men. So within ten years, China faces the prospect of having the equivalent of the whole young male population of America, or almost twice that of Europes three largest countries, with little prospect of marriage, untethered to a home of their own and without the stake in society that marriage and children provide. Parts of India have sex ratios as skewed as anything in its northern neighbour. Other East Asian countriesSouth Korea, Singapore and Taiwanhave peculiarly high numbers of male births. So, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, have former communist countries in the Caucasus and the western Balkans. Even subsets of Americas population are following suit, though not the population as a whole. The real cause, argues Nick Eberstadt is not any countrys particular policy but the fateful collision between overweening son preference, the use of rapidly spreading prenatal sex-determination technology and declining fertility.' These are global trends. And the selective destruction of baby girls is global, too. South Korea is experiencing some surprising consequences. The surplus of bachelors in a rich country has sucked in brides from abroad. In 2008, 11% of marriages were mixed', mostly between a Korean man and a foreign woman. This is causing tensions in a hitherto homogenous society, which is often hostile to the children of mixed marriages. The trend is especially marked in rural areas, where the government thinks half the children of farm households will be mixed by 2020. The children are common enough to have produced a new word: Kosians', or Korean-Asians. Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-03-08 |
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