My ex adopted a Chinese baby girl who had been abandoned in a train station. It’s not like Americans are responsible for the situation: no Chinese family would have adopted her, and the orphanages are, to put it frankly, pretty ghastly.
And, to answer your question, that is my fear.
That’s your fear? That armies of bachelors are going to overrun the rest of Asia on a Sabine-esque wife snatching rampage? :dubious:
China is actually trying to join the 20th Century, they’re doing OK compared to the rest of the third world. All the phenomenon you speak of is only visible in the countryside, the urban population has more or less caught up.
I’m imagining some retro-fifties cold-war/sci-fi crossover movie: CHINA NEEDS WOMEN!!!
And Russia needs men (and children). Look for some interesting happenings in that area in the next century.
Hang on to your hat, hotsauce–Diceman is idly speculating as to whether terrorism may be attractive to young men who find it difficult to adjust to the pressures of mainstream society–“losers”, and btw the word “ugly” was never mentioned. “Loser” doesn’t mean “ugly”; I’m sure you’ve met otherwise attractive men who could be called “losers” because of their lifestyle or personality. If Diceman had idly speculated that these American men might find (say) drug dealing an attractive career option, would you be offended?
You’re not the first to think of that. Freud thought that young men as a rule should be made to play organized sports so that they’d release their male energy without needing extramarital sex (the latter being an unacceptable option in Freud’s world). That’s how I remember it from freshman Psych, anyway.
And how many of the Muslim/Asian world do you suppose are rich sheiks? I’d bet the proportion is comparable to the percentage of filthy rich in Western societies, even if some of those nations (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt) are better off than others.
Sounds like America to me. My generation (I was born in the mid-1980s) has a lot of only-children like me who grew up hearing nothing but how important and loved we were. I’m not saying my parents were part of the Cult of the Child, but it was there and it’s even worse now.
In China, it is ‘little emporers’ and the term is gender non-specific. Ie, it applies to girls and boys both. With the one child policy, most kids have 4 grandparents in close proximity that basically take care of the the one child. In the cities, it’s a rat race from kindergarten to outperform, overachieve, and spend hours every day doing homework with weekends reserved for music and English lessons.
It’s basically a historic myth in China that sons’ take care of parents in their old age. That’s more a confucian ideal or a property thing. Certainly in post revolutionary China this becomes less and less true.
Boy girl imbalance is certainly noticeable. At China bambina’s first day of first grade, each class had about 3 more boys than girls in it. And that’s in Shanghai were the majority of people don’t care one way or the other regarding gender.
What isn’t being reported is the greying of the Chinese population. Think about it, under Mao in the 1950’2 and 60’s, large families were encouraged and China double it’s population quite quickly. Then in the 1970’s started the one child policy. Well, when the Mao baby boomers retire and need to be replaced, there aren’t going to be a big base of young people to pay the social welfare costs.
BTW, prostitution is rampant in China.
Seems like a good Chinese prostitute could make a killing.
In just the last hundred years the population of the planet has risen from one and a half million to six million,(cite David Attenborough "Planet Earth ") a4fold increase , as the population increases so does the RATE of population increase,more people having more then two children who in turn…!
Every single birth is putting an increased strain on the eco system which cant take it and ISN’T taking it and we all try to point the finger at everyone else as the culprit "its big business,its America,its politicians! Anybody but us,well sorry shipmates it IS us ,any other mammalian species in the same numbers and multiple enviroments would be considered as vermin.
So I dont think I’m going to lose any sleep over Chinas SLOWING the rate of population increase,I salute their forward thinking.
I think your numbers are slightly off 
Then tell me what you think they are then instead of just disputing them AND give me a cite ,dont be shy now.
Unless you are a Brit… :dubious:
In which case we are two countries separated by a common language.
We Brits have generally come round to your way of thinking on this, and now use a billion to mean a thousand million too. 
As others have said, that’s only for the very, very rich. If a Muslim man wants to marry again he not only has to get his wife’s permission but he has to be able to comfortably support his second wife and ensuing family alongside his primary responsibilities. Ergo polygamy is not terribly common at all.