I have a mixed feelings about population control. Abortion is a great No..No to me, but I am leaning on the positive side of contraceptives.
Back to China, according to google, its population is 20% world's total. That means 1 every 5 people is a resident of China. Whewwww!!!!
The Chinese are an example of human growth throughout the histories. Its rather interesting to see that China has grown to such epic numbers (population ranges) , but then again the land of China has existed for more than 5000 years (older than ancient egypt or even israel). The Chinese have been agrarian farmers throughout most of their vast history, fishing the waters has been almost instinct for them, as well as development of land and the basins around the Yangtze.
The former Chinese leader, Mao Zedong, once said that the strength and treasure of China are not its non renewable/ renewable natural resources , but its people. It is the people of China that produce and make up the state, and it has always been the people to give the mandate of heaven (confucian political thought) to the emperor and or similar governmental unit (in this case, the communist government).
The implementation of the one-child policy will probably be done away with after some generations considering that the Chinese population will begin to fall when the gerontology will die off (a considerable part of the Chinese population are those >60 of age). It will be a necessity that China does away with the one child policy.
In Chinese culture (and i speak because my grandmother was Chinese, and my own mother raised in a Chinese-Filipino household) glorifies children and motherhood as well as fatherhood; especially the male child (for practical and cultural reasons; to carry the family name {Tan being the family surname of my maternal grandmother ; my Lola's line hails from Guangzhou Province, CHINA..}). It is looked kindly by relatives and family friends when a mother and father bear children, especially many children. Children and the abundance thereof represents the wealth and health of a nation, in Chinese culture. In regards to the Philippines, our strong and healthy birth rates (seeding processes) represents the fertility and the longevity of the Filipino and the Filipina. We have always been a prodigious and abundant race.
When the Spaniards arrived, our population was no more than 500,000 as documented by the Augustinian and Dominican missionary priests. By the end of the 19th century, the population had skyrocketed to some 8 million.
In my personal point of view, the racial homogeneity of the Filipino and our healthy birth index represents our growing nation. As compared to many countries in the west (which experience a negative birth index; meaning more people are dyng than being born), the Philippines is the antithesis. We produce 2 million Filipino babies a year, which soon will take up their role in society when they reach of age. I don't see this as a hindrance, but come in accordance with Mao Zedong's thought: "The people are the natural resources of the nation. The People are the future."
The Healthy Birth Rate of the Philippines manifests the longevity and the strength of the Filipino Race. We , unlike many nations, will survive the tests of time, and only through genetic processes can the population of a nation survive climactic events. In biological processes, the more population you have, the greater competitive variance, the higher , more likely for a said species to survive an event.
Life, throughout its forms in biology and in life science will want to procreate. Will want to multiply. The very act of trying to 'limit' a population and actively killing population is in itself unnatural and self-defeating.
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