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To: NAG1 who wrote (495066)	7/21/2022 11:02:13 AM
From: Cautious_Optimist	Respond to of 541370

but in China, men who want to marry are trying to import brides from other countries, like Vietnam. I thought I saw a piece that said the bride shortage in China was in the 10s of millions range. Off topic maybe, what you say is very true. As you may know, I shave spent significant time in Vietnam pre Covid. Post 70's Vietnam saw a statistical excess of girls and women for decades, due to wars. There was a boom in voluntary bride brokering, also kidnapping for and selling girls profits in East Asia. The Vietnamese people are incredible. Not perfect but predominantly amazing and forgiving, and it touches my heart. Two of my friends here in the East Bay adopted (undernourished/forgotten) girl babies from orphanages in China during the one- child years; these babies have grown up to be amazing Americans. Altruism and love in adoption are a noble foundation. Of course these were parents who could afford it, that helps too. The preference for boys is bigger in China than other east Asian nations, however I have anecdotally observed a gender-based disparity of wealth and opportunity which is a legacy of third world developing nations where boys were seen as an economic advantage for labor intensive work while females ran the families. Girls have fewer choices, especially in rural east Asia -- including "the world's oldest profession" servicing men. The elephant in the room is class-driven gender inequality in Asia combined with cultural submission to men. I'll be back in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) for a visit in October. Plenty of wifi there so I'll be posting.