India to soon become most populated country?

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ShawnD1

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hal2kilo said:
Hindus are like Catholics and Mormons when comes to birth control. The more the merrier.
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I don't have the link handy, but I remember watching a TED video that debunked the correlation between religion and children. Across all religions, the strongest predictor of birth rates was money. Places that are ghetto poor have very high birth rates. Different regions within the same country or even within the same state see wildly different birth rates, and it's almost always correlated with money.
 
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ShawnD1 said:
I don't have the link handy, but I remember watching a TED video that debunked the correlation between religion and children. Across all religions, the strongest predictor of birth rates was money. Places that are ghetto poor have very high birth rates. Different regions within the same country or even within the same state see wildly different birth rates, and it's almost always correlated with money.
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I have no doubt that's also true.

Additionally, if it weren't for the policies of the Communist Chinese government, China would probably still be way ahead of India. Traditionally, the Chinese also like big families especially males.
 
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This has been the trend for some time.

China may not be a democracy, but the one-child policy was the right move.
 
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What the F have they been doing, i could have sworn China was ahead by like 400 M, 1.4B to 1 or 1.1B in India.
 
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Why don't India make an effort to reduce their birthrate? It's ridiculous and not good for the country.

Say what you want about China, but they are expected to drop to about a steady 800m in around 50 years. India will be double that and in a country a third of the physical size.
 
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The sad thing is that the Indians I have known were highly intelligent, competent, and reasonable people. It's shocking that their homeland is so overpopulated.
 
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ShawnD1 said:
I don't have the link handy, but I remember watching a TED video that debunked the correlation between religion and children. Across all religions, the strongest predictor of birth rates was money. Places that are ghetto poor have very high birth rates. Different regions within the same country or even within the same state see wildly different birth rates, and it's almost always correlated with money.
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I agree that this seems to be true, and it's totally shocking to me. Raising kids is expensive and consumes a lot of time and effort...not only does more money and time NOT translate into more kids, but the ratio is exactly the opposite of what you'd expect. I hate to jump on the obvious stereotype, but in this case it's hard to conclude anything besides poorer people just being too stupid to make good decisions about having kids...
 
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ShawnD1

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I hate to jump on the obvious stereotype, but in this case it's hard to conclude anything besides poorer people just being too stupid to make good decisions about having kids...
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Yeah probably. I left work 2 hours early today, so I had the joy of riding the bus when most people are at work. The people on the bus during regular work hours make me lose faith in humanity. Two people were talking at each other (not with each other), making random comments like "that's where billy got his truck." The female said something like "that's a picture store. we should get baby photos there." That's when it hit me - these people are reproducing. We are so screwed.
They were two white people who seem to perfectly fit the stereotype of an inbred hillbilly from the southern US. They even had the accent, which is weird because I'm thousands of miles away from the southern US.
Another woman on the bus was talking on her cell phone, saying something crazy "you and your super sperm" then saying something sexual that I can't remember. wtf man.
As mentioned in previous posts, I live close to the ghetto and the bus passes through the ghetto. I swear there is something genetically wrong with the people living in the ghetto. They have weird accents, they talk slower, and they don't seem to feel shame or embarassment. They'll have conversations about "oh my buddy started selling mushrooms" or "kayla literally had her chery popped at that party" (that's not what literally means!). God damn ghetto. At least they don't hassle me.
 
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ShawnD1 said:
Yeah probably. I left work 2 hours early today, so I had the joy of riding the bus when most people are at work. The people on the bus during regular work hours make me lose faith in humanity. Two people were talking at each other (not with each other), making random comments like "that's where billy got his truck." The female said something like "that's a picture store. we should get baby photos there." That's when it hit me - these people are reproducing. We are so screwed.
They were two white people who seem to perfectly fit the stereotype of an inbred hillbilly from the southern US. They even had the accent, which is weird because I'm thousands of miles away from the southern US.
Another woman on the bus was talking on her cell phone, saying something crazy "you and your super sperm" then saying something sexual that I can't remember. wtf man.
As mentioned in previous posts, I live close to the ghetto and the bus passes through the ghetto. I swear there is something genetically wrong with the people living in the ghetto. They have weird accents, they talk slower, and they don't seem to feel shame or embarassment. They'll have conversations about "oh my buddy started selling mushrooms" or "kayla literally had her chery popped at that party" (that's not what literally means!). God damn ghetto. At least they don't hassle me.
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Your Corolla broken down? :D
 
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Infohawk said:
This has been the trend for some time.

China may not be a democracy, but the one-child policy was the right move.
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Actually, the system w/ rife with corruption, where if you know the right people, you can avoid paying the massive fine, or just have the amount reduced. Also, in some rural places, they take women who are basically about to give birth, tie her down, and force abort her child.

And having only one child can't be good for the upbringing of the child, especially in Asian cultures, where parents dote on their child too much.
 
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PokerGuy

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Yay for more overpopulation ... ugh. I'm absolutely thrilled I don't live in either of those crappy places. Hasn't anyone heard of birth control over there?
 
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PokerGuy said:
Yay for more overpopulation ... ugh. I'm absolutely thrilled I don't live in either of those crappy places. Hasn't anyone heard of birth control over there?
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Well, if the Republicans get there way we won't be hearing about birth control over here.
 
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PokerGuy said:
Yay for more overpopulation ... ugh. I'm absolutely thrilled I don't live in either of those crappy places. Hasn't anyone heard of birth control over there?
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Actually there is a very huge BC problem over there, some people are even calling it a genocide.


"Female Genocide" in India
Though much has been written about the deliberate killing of girl children and women and the overwhelming preference for male children in India, it is recently that this trend has been termed as genocide or a holocaust. Prof. Amratya Sen's 'missing women' sparked a nation-wide debate on issues like female feticide & infanticide; sex-selective abortions; dowry-related homicides; neglect of the girl child and the skewed sex-ratios in the country. Many estimates say that 50 million females are "missing" in India.[1]
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http://www.wikigender.org/index.php/"Female_Genocide"_in_India
 
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Your Corolla broken down? :D
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You mean "still broken down" and yes. I wouldn't expect anything better from Toyota at this point.


Yay for more overpopulation ... ugh. I'm absolutely thrilled I don't live in either of those crappy places. Hasn't anyone heard of birth control over there?
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Melinda Gates gave an interesting TED talk about birth control in the shit parts of the world. IIRC she said women would be paid something like $2 to get IUD birth control, but it costs only $1 to take it out. That means there's financial incentive to put it in then take it out. Government fail.

For those who have not been paying attention, USA has many of the same anti-woman problems as India. I don't want to say all republicans are guilty, but the ones who listen to Rush Limbaugh certainly are. Remember a few months ago when he was outraged that women want the government to pay for birth control? Guys like him are the problem because he thinks the average person is not retarded. He's wrong. A very large percentage of people are extremely retarded and can't understanding things that have long term consequences. Pay $50/mo for birth control or risk having a baby? They risk having a baby. It's absolutely mind boggling that someone could risk pregnancy for as little as $50, but that's the reality of it.
 
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techs said:
Well, if the Republicans get there way we won't be hearing about birth control over here.
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Riiight. Of course. :rolleyes:

Orignal Earl said:
Actually there is a very huge BC problem over there, some people are even calling it a genocide.


"Female Genocide" in India

http://www.wikigender.org/index.php/"Female_Genocide"_in_India
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That's not "birth control", that's rampant stupidity and lack of human decency. Between China and India, that's going to cause some MAJOR problems down the road.
 
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PokerGuy

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ShawnD1 said:
For those who have not been paying attention, USA has many of the same anti-woman problems as India.
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Yeah, we have a massive number of selective sex abortions because nobody wants girls. Oh wait, no, we don't. What a stupid comparison.

but the ones who listen to Rush Limbaugh certainly are. Remember a few months ago when he was outraged that women want the government to pay for birth control?
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Yeah, because disagreeing about who should pay for something is the same as aborting female babies because of their gender. :rolleyes: Are you seriously that dense?
 
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PokerGuy said:
Riiight. Of course. :rolleyes:



That's not "birth control", that's rampant stupidity and lack of human decency. Between China and India, that's going to cause some MAJOR problems down the road.
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That's why people call it a genicide.
This has been going on for a long time and is already a major problem.
 
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PokerGuy said:
Yay for more overpopulation ... ugh. I'm absolutely thrilled I don't live in either of those crappy places. Hasn't anyone heard of birth control over there?
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What do you think we'll be doing in another 100 years? Our population increase will not stop either.
 
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