7. Women Are Treated Like Trash
Due to small families preferring boys over girls for their one allotted kid in the past 35 years, the boy to girl ratio is a bit off. In Jiangxi, a province of southeastern China there are 143 males for every 100 females. So the boys club of China demeans women like it’s no big deal. Chinese women are objects to be controlled and owned, and for them to hold a place in the professional world is laughable. Globalization has spread whispers of feminism, but women in China are still considered Shengnu, or leftover women, if not married by the age of 27. And when they do marry they’re expected to be virgins. If they’re not, there’s common hymen restoration surgery, for a bargain at $700.
6. Jacked-Up Real Estate
If you have a lot of people, then you’ll need a lot of homes, but China went way overboard with that idea. In 3 years, between 2011 and 2013, China poured more cement than the USA poured in the entire 20th century. They were building a new skyscraper every 5 days; that’s over 70 a year. China has 15 megacities! A megacity has at least 10 million people. Colossal NYC only has a population of 8.4 million. But at some point during China’s rapid urbanizing, the bubble unexpectedly burst. There are 64 million vacant homes, including entire cities which are totally vacant.
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