Unnatural selection
by Mara Hvistendahl · first published 2011
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"Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women. The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant imm
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…Also, please look at the podcast from this timestamp[2], where he further shows why people in general but Indians specifically should be skeptical of Western narratives. This is also supported by the book Unnatural Selection by Mara Hvistendahl [2]:https://youtu.be/gNVMvlfMbCU?list=PLgZQtm7d9Z1K9TCynoA3S0QWv...
on “India's Battle to Control the Democracy Narrative” ↗"Unnatural Selection" great book to read.
on “First Big Survey of Births Finds Millions of Missing Women” ↗…Sadly many recent articles follow the typical propaganda based approach and look at blaming patriarchy etc. src: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/04/what-money-can... https://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-Selection-Choosing-Girls-Co... http://indiafacts.org/was-ford-foundation-culpable-in-aborti...
on “China, India grapple with the consequences too many men” ↗…are quite obvious. I hope the Elephant remains a witness. [1]. Oldenburg, Veena Talwar. Dowry murder: The imperial origins of a cultural crime. Oxford University Press, 2002. [2]. Hvistendahl, Mara. Unnatural selection: Choosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men. Public Affairs, 2011. [3]. Sanu, Sankrant. "The English class system." South Asian Language Review 17, no. 1 (2007): 69-85. https://sankrant.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/The-English-...
on “Why China got rich and India didn't” ↗