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| 2010-03-08 |
| 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 women—a 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 countries—South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan—have 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 |
| #8 Lysistrata should return to teach them a lesson! |
| Posted by: Willy 2010-03-08 13:42 |
| #7 These young men won't be the children of successful people. In Chinese cities, girl babies fit in just fine and people don't think anything of it. It's only in the rural provinces where sons mean the difference between a retirement of indolence versus being alone. If they could just have 'both families' like we do, it wouldn't be so much of a problem. But a woman becomes part of the husband's family and must take care of his parents. I wonder who came up with that idea, eh? |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-03-08 13:42 |
| #6 They do not mention it by name but here is the cuase: ABORTION. Any questions now about the evil effects of elective abortion? |
| Posted by: Beldar Threreling9726 2010-03-08 13:08 |
| #5 Procopius, The problem is one of scale. South Korea has half the population of the Philippenes, Japan has 30% more people. China has 15 times as many people. Importing outside women will just be a band aid. I fully expect China to turn its young males loose on its neighbors, where they will conquer or die. Either outcome will be good for the ruling clique. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2010-03-08 11:27 |
| #4 South Korea is experiencing some surprising consequences. As late has the 80s most of the girls in the bars, and many future 'war' brides, outside of American installations were native Koreans. Now it appears from the net, they're imports largely from the Philippines. The Philippines also seems to supply the same trade in Japan. It will be interesting in a decade or so given the degree of tribalism, let alone racism, that underpins Asian societies. Not only didn't the Americans have problems marrying regardless of origin, but they had no reluctance to also adopted the orphans and small ones that their own society refused to incorporate. I suspect the Philippines could also put a dent into the Chinese problem, but the xenophobic elements of Chinese history and culture will probably inhibit it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-03-08 11:14 |
| #3 has the makings of a great army |
| Posted by: 746 2010-03-08 10:39 |
| #2 Excess number of young men. Excess testosterone. Sounds like conditions are ripe for war. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-03-08 10:36 |
| #1 the dearth of young women........ bummer dudes |
| Posted by: armyguy 2010-03-08 10:34 |