| There is great ignorance on the one child policy. The analysis of China collapsing because of demographics is absurd. The USA has worse demographics. The age old fear of bigoted people is one race having more children will result in that race overrunning the country. China will not be overrun by muslims or any other ethnicity. This was the same thinking in the 50's in the USA that with a declining white birth rate that white people would be in the minority it hasnt happened. Islam is a religion and not a race so you may see that adherents switch or dont strongly follow the creed. Bellevue you really have some social agenda to grind. Have you ever even been to China? The one child policy has caused some social issues certainly but lets compare it to India where the population growth is out of control. China is not the only country where girl births are not highly valued. Education will solve this over time. The thought that the imbalance of males to females will result in war is also unwarranted. As my buddy suggested it will just result in more men coming out of the closet. Even if there are 40 million more men than females by 2010 that is about 3 % which is probably similiar to other countries. Not a receipe for war. Also China does not live in a vacuum women come to China from Mongolia, Russia etc . As was stated the policy has been relaxed. It was never mandatory you could have multiple children if you could afford it. You can not impose democratic ideals on a country that for 5000 years has never had democracy. The undeniable fact is things are better than they have been this century and maybe even before. Managing 1.4 billion people is a big job. Its will take decades for China to impact all the people but positive progress is being made. Look at the USA in the 1930's depression, child labor, pollution, racial persecution, low literacy etc It took decades to grow out and educate the population with only less than 25% of the polulation. It will happen with political stability and sustained economic growth. |
One Child Policy in China