Same situation pervails in China, where modern one-child policy of the authoritarian government and the traditional favoritism towards boys also heavily skew the gender balance in the next generation.
History suggest societies with a heavy surplus of young men and inadaquate numbers of brides tend to become more militarized and expansionist. That the two most populous nations on earth might each over the next few decades be tempted to turn a hundred million young men without domestic marriage prospects into cannon fodder before they turn into agents of internal social instability is troubling.
History suggest societies with a heavy surplus of young men and inadaquate numbers of brides tend to become more militarized and expansionist. That the two most populous nations on earth might each over the next few decades be tempted to turn a hundred million young men without domestic marriage prospects into cannon fodder before they turn into agents of internal social instability is troubling.
