Professor Zhang Wei-Wei proposes to liberate human thought

Posted by: @k-zzz

@naval

you're a winner

Yeah I know, i won the argument because I have facts. 

@naval

China was trying to control its population with the one-child policy. Just imagine if China reaches 2 billion people, it will be devastating. 

@naval

China China China. China doesn't kill any babies. 

you just have isolated incidents in specific cultural circumstances blown up a thousand times, over and over. your brain is just guns, virus, protests. full of junk. 

@jaenelle

read this 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_women_of_China#:~:text=About%2037%E2%80%9345%25%20of%20Chin a's,declined%20to%20119%20in%202010.

Chinese Historical and Traditional Culture: Son Preference[edit]

Son preference is traditional in Chinese Confucian patriarchal culture.^[13] Sons are preferred for a number of reasons: people think sons continue the family line or carry on the family name, have a higher wage-earning capacity, provide ancestral worship, and are generally recipients of inheritance, while girls are often considered as an economic burden.^[12][14][15] After marriage they typically become members of their husband's family and cease to have responsibility for aging or ill parents. ^[12][14][15]

With socioeconomic improvements, modernization and the rise in women's status, son preference has declined in many urban areas in China^[16] but has persisted in some strictly traditional families and rural areas, reasserting itself under the one-child policy. The greatest shortfalls of females appear in parts of rural China where there are instances of 140 male births for every 100 female.^[16]

Sex-selective abortion[edit]

The combined factors of son preference, the one-child policy and the availability of prenatal sex-identification technology have allowed prenatal discrimination to spread since the mid-1980s in both urban and rural areas in China where abortion is legal.^[16] This technological progress leads to a large excess of male births.^[23] About 37–45% of China's missing females may have been missing at birth.^[24] According to China Statistics Press 2013, the sex ratio at birth in China was 111 in 1990, 117 in 2001, 121 in 2005 and slightly declined to 119 in 2010.^[25] China's huge population translates these ratios into large numbers of excess males, which has contributed a large proportion of the global statistics on missing women.^[26] Nevertheless, some commentators argue that sex-selective abortion may have some benefits.^[27][28] Firstly, access to prenatal sex determination has probably increased the proportion of wanted births in the form of sons, reduced relative discrimination against girls and reduced female mortality after birth. India, South Korea and China have all reported lower female mortality in the last decade.^[27][28] Secondly, in terms of the next generation, imbalanced sex ratio may help to control population growth.^[27] Thirdly, the scarcity of women in society leads to girls being highly valued and their social status increased as a result.^[27][28] Such improvements in women's status also lead to a reduction in son preference with fewer sex-selective abortions and ultimately the attainment of a rebalancing of the sex ratio.^[28]