Politics of type and gender in modern-day China

[stopharian]

I'm a Chinese. I majored in English and self-employed now.


Dont mean to derail the thread , but wow, hey kevin A real Chinese INTP thats pretty rare, you should introduce yourself in the introductions forum. Huanying nin dao women de wang"forum" (forum zenme shuo, wo bu zhi dao)



I didnt major in English but I did put a lot of extra time into it...kind of like a minor if it had been offered.

[Kathara]

Dont mean to derail the thread , but wow, hey kevin A real Chinese INTP thats pretty rare, you should introduce yourself in the introductions forum. Huanying nin dao women de wang"forum" (forum zenme shuo, wo bu zhi dao)



I didnt major in English but I did put a lot of extra time into it...kind of like a minor if it had been offered.

I think there are round 13 000 000 INTPs in China, that's hardly rare.

Anyways, Keving, how are you handling the lack of girls?

[stopharian]

I think there are round 13 000 000 INTPs in China, that's hardly rare.

Anyways, Keving, how are you handling the lack of girls?


Mao had most of the INTPs killed during the hundred flowers and the cultural revolution. Those remaining have been taught not to show their heads.

Girls however are a dime a dozen. Okay not a dime a dozen but $6/hour or $1200 for keeps, technically not as cheap as russian girls, but certainly not rare.

[Kathara]

Mao had most of the INTPs killed during the hundred flowers and the cultural revolution. Those remaining have been taught not to show their heads.

Girls however are a dime a dozen. Okay not a dime a dozen but $6/hour or $1200 for keeps, technically not as cheap as russian girls, but certainly not rare.

AS far as I know, there are 300 000 000 more boys then girls, as a result of the "one child only" policy that the communists underwent in their late 70s.

[outmywindow]

Thread Split from here (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=20237).

[stopharian]

AS far as I know, there are 300 000 000 more boys then girls, as a result of the "one child only" policy that the communists underwent in their late 70s.

Im not sure about your number, but the one child policy still exists. I taught middle school in china for a while and 1 out of 600 kids at the school had an actual blood sibling and they were famous.

However the imbalance in men and women is a statistical thing across the country and so it isnt felt evenly everywhere. Any woman with average intelligence and looks will probably try to capitalize on her talents and assets by moving to a city if she can, hence Beijing where kevin lives might actually have more women then men and the same may be true of say Shanghai which has around 17,000,000 people. There was a beautiful woman married to a dwarf living next to me and it was always whispered that she was from the country and had only married the little man to get city papers. Who knows if it was true, but really it is farmers in rural villages who would feel the imbalance. That is why in the past women were kidnapped from cites and sold to farmers where there neighbors would keep her from escaping for fear of seeing their life long friend loose his life's savings.

[Jennywocky]

AS far as I know, there are 300 000 000 more boys then girls, as a result of the "one child only" policy that the communists underwent in their late 70s.

I think the percentage was around close to 60/40. (That might be a little high... but really, it's still quite high.)

Our understanding when we adopted our daughter in 2002 was that you'd be fined or have your career halted for having more than one child in the cities... and you'd be fined for abandoning children as well.

Our daughter was abandoned near a police station on the street when she was three. It was the "safest alternative" for the parents, who probably wanted to make sure she was taken care of, yet did not want to get caught and punished.

In the country, you can get away with things more (i.e., have more children).

The guide told us then (in 2002) that their current population at the time would have been reached in 1985 if the policy had not been installed. Yet it had the repercussion of throwing off the gender balance, which contributes to crime and unrest due to lots of unattached males.