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China: WTF are you thinking?!?
Posted: July 18, 2002, 3:14 pm
by Fairweather Pure
http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/07 ... 0000148688
America has it's problems and issues, but goddamn! That is insane!
Posted: July 18, 2002, 3:20 pm
by Voronwë
yikes
Posted: July 18, 2002, 4:04 pm
by Akaran_D
I can't get it to load.. whole page is filled with too many connection errors..
Posted: July 18, 2002, 4:08 pm
by Voronwë
basically, according to the Taipai Times, Chinese women who are married to Taiwanese men are being forced to have an abortion if they are pregnant or undergoe tubal ligectomy.
Posted: July 18, 2002, 4:10 pm
by Fallanthas
Chinese birth-control policy is very harsh, and their xenophobia is legendary. Unless one can prove birth of an ancestor on mainland China, you cannot assume any rights of a citizen, regardless of how many generations your family may have resided there. The abortion of female babies is a well-known fact. So is the exposure of female children after birth.
It ain't like home.
Posted: July 18, 2002, 4:27 pm
by Adex_Xeda
To me, the collective personality I see from the Chinese leadership is that of a tempermental teenager.
They get indignant over the oddest things.
Stranger yet, the Chinese students I've shared classes with refuse to go in depth about things there. My every honest inquiry is quickly evaded.
There was only one guy who ever said much to me. He studied like a banshee. He lived and breathed his books. One night I asked him why he didn't kick back a bit and relax. He told me that his family took out a loan with the local mafia in China to finance his education. His job was to quickly get a degree and return to pay off that "loan" or his family would be at risk. Now that's what I call motivation.
Posted: July 18, 2002, 4:31 pm
by Nick
I used to live with 2 pricks from Uzbekistan (they claimed to be in the Taliban until Sept 11, see what I mean, prick pricky pricksons)
They also had to take a loan, if the failed their family was going to be fucked.
Of course, they may have been lying through their ass, it wouldn't surprise me.
Posted: July 18, 2002, 5:15 pm
by masteen
In 50 years, there won't be a woman in the entire country, and we'll have 3 billion VERY pissed off Chinese dudes to deal with.
Posted: July 18, 2002, 5:19 pm
by Fairweather Pure
I heard that the mafia thing was an issue with Russian players in the NHL as well.
Posted: July 18, 2002, 5:29 pm
by masteen
I was talking with some friends (citizens of the Czech Republic, but they have family in the Ukraine and Russia) and they say that it's getting increasingly difficult to tell their Mafia apart from the government. That is a VERY scary thing to me.
Posted: July 18, 2002, 5:48 pm
by Arundel Pajo
Nothing would surprise me about the mafia in Russia. It's scary.
Moscow, for example, is almost entirely mob run.