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To: Lane3 who wrote (6836)	12/14/2005 1:12:18 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542059

Good article. I am going to add another straw to that pile of concern. The ratio of baby boys to baby girls has been increasing for many decades due to 'choice' of sex at birth by the parents. In India, China, and Korea where the statistics are pretty well monitored, the ratio of boys to girls is something like 117 to 100. When you extrapolate that over the billions in the corresponding populations, you find that we may now have 50 to 100 million excess young men in those populations. This is the first time in history that the world culture will be impacted by this type of change in demographic. Can we assume this trend is present in other regions? It seems reasonable to me that we could make that assumption. The next couple of decades will be very interesting.

To: Lane3 who wrote (6836)	12/14/2005 4:42:54 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542059

I think a lot of the editorializing in the article you linked was extraneous. Maybe because it's tough to talk about racism, expecially when it's minorities who are engaged in racism, here Muslim-on-non-Muslim racism. It seems interesting to me because so many of the European responses to Muslim-on-non-Muslim racism have been so flaccid. But the response of the Aussie-Brit "boyz" seems consistent with the stereotypes of Aussie-Brit male culture. They seem from afar like a nation of soccer hooligans. Why any dozen or even two dozen Aussie-Lebanese boys would be foolhardy enough to take them on by attacking Aussie women is what amazes me. But, sadly, the ones who will suffer are not the ones who started it. It's all the rest, Lebanese-Aussies all over Australia and people who "look Middle Eastern." Well, that was predictable, no? In Australia, anyway. But not in France. At least no overt anti-Middle Eastern violence. Will the Muslim-on-non-Muslim attacks be without backlash? Oh, I doubt it. The elites will wring their hands and the ordinary people will hate Muslims even worse.