Burma’s Women Forced to Be Chinese Brides
4th September 2011
During her time in China, Aba endured routine beatings, while never being able to communicate with her family or even go outside on her own. Above all, she lived with the knowledge that she was destined to be married to the son of the family that had bought her – as if she was one of the pigs or chickens that ran around their farm.
All caused, of course, by the surplus of Chinese males, which is in turned caused by the Chinese one-child policy and the cultural impulse in China to make that one child male.
“The one-child policy has had a considerable impact. Where you have a demographic imbalance, you have a situation where women are in demand. Sometimes, that demand is met through legitimate marriage brokers. Other times it is met by non-legitimate means,” said David Feingold, the International Coordinator for HIV/Aids and Trafficking in Unesco’s Bangkok office, and the writer and director of the 2003 documentary Trading Women.
Markets work even when you don’t want them to.
September 4th, 2011 at 05:18
“Markets work even when you don’t want them to.” Like drugs…
September 4th, 2011 at 11:38
I am curious why you think this deserves posting?
Are you advocating that we invade China to put a stop to this pernicious practice, or what?
September 5th, 2011 at 04:50
I am as little interested in your curiosity as I am in your opinions.
September 5th, 2011 at 04:51
Very much like drugs: You can never tell what the side effects are going to be.
September 5th, 2011 at 08:34
Your first response is a perfect illustration of the principle that the only thing less common than common sense is common civility.
September 5th, 2011 at 10:13
As you demonstrate daily.