patsfan13

Again think about the demographics, 1 child per couple (2 people, so at best there will be 4 parents (his and her's) add to this the demographic imbalances (120 males to 100 females, from 3-10% gay (depending on whose figures you believe) and children who do not reach adulthood, cultural attitudes (first born SON takes parents legacy, not the wife's parents, I don't know how many of the aging population will have anyone to take care of them. This will be an enormous issue going forward.

This same issue will be happening throughout most of the industrial world, even in America (though to a lesser extent due to immigration into this country (both legal and illegal) of a population that still maintains a high birth rate (the hispanic population).

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Fogbuster

NEM, again you are going after someone, much the same way Box was going after you. It was wrong for Box to do it, and it's wrong for you to do it.


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Fogbuster

It's part of a global cycle. Industry started in Europe, then it went to North America. Next it went to Asia. If you look at photos from 100-140 years ago, the Japanese were already copying the West, even wearing Western clothing. It then began circling around from Japan to the Tigers, and finally landed in the big fish: China.

Where ever there is underdevelopment there are people available for work, by definition. So, even as China gets itself up and running, the ready hands in Africa and South America and everywhere else under-development exists, will be given the opportunity to develop.

Clearly, China has a huge situation to deal with just within its own borders, with one-sixth of the world's population, so while it develops to raise up its own people, the other under developed regions will get into it, as well; no need to wait til China is "developed".

It always starts with manufacturing, as it is the foundation for the whole economic infrastructure.



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Fogbuster

Yes, that is a serious issue. With modern technology and rising standards of living also goes the way of getting into this development, which often means relocating one's self and family to unfamiliar places where they have no roots.

Fortunately, as another poster said, the Chinese do have a long and deeply ingrained sense of family, even extending out to the "king" and "teacher" on the national level, from traditional Confucianism.

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