I was talking to people at a bar and they brought up the one child policy as an example of China being authoritarian and I tried to say that was a just a policy when famines were a real concern but yeah I thought this was like a 1970s thing. Why did China keep this policy for so long?
I see the word abortions in the Wikipedia article a lot, and while I haven't dont the reading to properly understand the topic, there's also mentions of 'fines', imo its comparable to western nations giving tax breaks/ financial incentive to families with x amount of children, abortions are still available in (many) places.
I'd suggest that the one child policy has been greatly blown out of proportion in terms of it's 'big scary bad communist government' propaganda
if you do the work and find more information i'm sure a lot of people here would love to read more about it
I'd suggest that the one child policy has been greatly blown out of proportion in terms of it's 'big scary bad communist government' propaganda
When I lived in Oklahoma and went to a fundamentalist christian school, I specifically remember my social studies teacher (an Israeli christian convert I shit you not) talking about how parents in China will often drown their newborn babies either because they already have one child and/or they want a son so much that they kill the girls since they're only allowed one child.
I will say I called the west an empire and the two people I was talking to didn't even blink or push back at all and the guy told me he's read confessions of an economic hitman before. Very encouraging.
I was talking to people at a bar and they brought up the one child policy as an example of China being authoritarian and I tried to say that was a just a policy when famines were a real concern but yeah I thought this was like a 1970s thing. Why did China keep this policy for so long?
I see the word abortions in the Wikipedia article a lot, and while I haven't dont the reading to properly understand the topic, there's also mentions of 'fines', imo its comparable to western nations giving tax breaks/ financial incentive to families with x amount of children, abortions are still available in (many) places.
I'd suggest that the one child policy has been greatly blown out of proportion in terms of it's 'big scary bad communist government' propaganda
if you do the work and find more information i'm sure a lot of people here would love to read more about it
When I lived in Oklahoma and went to a fundamentalist christian school, I specifically remember my social studies teacher (an Israeli christian convert I shit you not) talking about how parents in China will often drown their newborn babies either because they already have one child and/or they want a son so much that they kill the girls since they're only allowed one child.
I will say I called the west an empire and the two people I was talking to didn't even blink or push back at all and the guy told me he's read confessions of an economic hitman before. Very encouraging.
Not a fan of John Perkins tbh but I'll take what I can get.