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2009-05-25 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2009-05-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 38 million older bachelors in rural provinces of China have difficulty finding a spouse.

Oi vey

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-05-25 04:42|| 2009-05-25 04:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Modeling on the Islamic system? Where the alpha male gets a harem and the rest of the boys get castrated, or goats, or suicide bombs?

Posted by Glenmore 2009-05-25 08:48|| 2009-05-25 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 North Korea - the U~~seless~~ N~~itwits~~' first great "success."

**spit**

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-25 10:00|| 2009-05-25 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 I can't get fired up over this. It's not what I'd want for a daughter, but then, we don't live in NKor, one of the poorest countries on earth next door to relatively prosperous China.

China's cut its supply of marriageable women by its birth control and favored son policies. NKor has made leaving preferable to staying for most of its people. I think the "human traffickers" in this case are more in the mail-order bride business, with the usualy older fellow getting a comely young bride, and the girly getting what should be a good home. With the exception of abuse cases, it's a relatively humane solution to both problems.

Posted by Fred 2009-05-25 10:51|| 2009-05-25 10:51|| Front Page Top

#5 I have een told that the 38 million bachelors is a statistic; that the ratio of men to women all over China is about the same. When a rural family has a girl, they just don't register her birth and continue to make babies until a son is born.

If anything, there is a surplus in fact of Chinese woman, not a shortage. They're just unregistered children.

Posted by badanov 2009-05-25 12:35|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-05-25 12:35|| Front Page Top

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