Backwater? Growing power?

  • Pronell@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    While that definitely happened, the thankful reality is that many families raised their daughters unofficially.

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        1 month ago

        My point was more that some people did the right thing, not that it’s enough to eliminate a statistical slump.

        Some people of the time would think the Chinese were heartless people to do what they did, and some quietly raised their other children, that’s all.

        And if even that isn’t true, so be it, as I could have fallen for propaganda and cannot locate the original source, but here is another showing that some people didn’t just fall in line.