Saturday, April 10, 2010

Two Boys For Every Girl? And We're Not Talking About Some Strange Jan & Dean "Surf City" Bizarro World Over Here...


Instead it's a reference to what's being described as a despicable, systematic and ongoing culture of "gendercide" in "The People's Republic" of China -- which, BTW, is by far the largest holder of American debt from among the world's nations. From a column by Peter Hitchens (younger brother of writer Christopher Hitchens) appearing in today's Daily Mail of Britain:

“Gendercide: China's shameful massacre of unborn girls means there will soon be 30m more men than women -- In the cruel old China, baby girls were often left to die in the gutters. In the cruel modern China, they are aborted by the tens of millions, using all the latest technology. There is an ugly new word for this mass slaughter: gendercide. Thanks to a state policy which has limited many families to one child since 1979, combined with an ancient and ruthless prejudice in favour of sons, the world's new superpower is beginning the century of its supremacy with an alarming surplus of males. By the year 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women of marriageable age in this giant empire, so large and so different (its current population is 1,336,410,000) that it often feels more like a separate planet than just another country. Nothing like this has ever happened to any civilisation before.”