[lit-ideas] Re: On China's one-child policy
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:01:22 +0100
China's one child policy is hardly consistently enforced, the people who
have some money to pay to the state (it's framed as a fine, but it could be
considered a sort of head-tax) can have a second child.
O.K.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Ursula Stange <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wise and observant, as always, Lawrence. I'm reminded of the
> Aristocratic tendency to give the name and estate to the oldest son and
> send the others either to the Church or the military to make their way.
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> Ursula
> on the shores of a frozen lake
> (and frozen everything else)
> in North Bay, Ontario
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> On Feb 21, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> China’s one-child resolution has bred
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> A generation of soldiers who prize
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> Themselves as their mother’s do.
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> They whine and want to quit. The
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> Generals are vexed. In my case
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> My mother signed so I could enlist
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> At seventeen. She still had my brother
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> Who was twelve and another newly
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> Born. It wasn’t just that though;
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> I was overly independent,
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> Prone to fight and with
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> A chip on each shoulder –
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> Just the sort to be shipped
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> Off to whatever wars
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> We wanted to pursue. As to my
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> Worth my mother said years later
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> She wished she’d stopped
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> Having children after me.
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> She would have been able
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> To cast me into the priest
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> Of her mind’s eye.
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