Birth Tourism and China

Over population is an extremely serious problem facing the world today. According to an article from Newsweek in Oct. 2009 called “Where do babies come from?”, today’s world population has reached over 6.6 billion people. Also the article mentioned that in 2009 57.4% of all new born babies who were born this year came from Asia alone. This is an issue because over population can lead to hasty consumption of resources. China who has one of the largest population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, has taken a stance against over population.

China has changed in certain ways and remained the same in others from the early Golden Ages to the late 1900s. China has experienced a series of cultural and political transformations, shaping the lives of many Chinese citizens. Culturally, the country’s art and literature hardly changed for almost eight hundred years. Along with their culture, China remained politically the same from the beginning of the Golden Ages all the way until the 1800s. On the other hand, China’s government and society were restructured after new leaders took over. From a monarch to total communism, China’s society had a multitude of new ideas and policies they had to adapt to.

policies. Over the years, Hong Kong has been considered the “door to China”, meaning that

Hong Kongers protest procession to “kick” out all mainland Chinese. They call the visitors from the mainland as “locust”. I know what mainland Chinese done is wrong, but that does not represent everyone will do the same things. Due to this contradiction, Hong Kongers start to give tourist nasty looks if they speak Mandarin. Some Hong Kongers will discriminate and abuse, force innocent visitors to open their suitcases to show what they brought in Hong Kong! Even though Hong Kong’s reversion to China occurs, a lot of local residents still despise Mandarin and simplified Chinese characters. Hong Kongers believe they have their own culture, currency and system. They have all the requirements to build a country, thus they don’t want mainland China to step in or get involve with them. Although I have not experienced this bias behaviors directly, I still this kind of discrimination should be

China’s one-child policy has interesting origins. Although,” China’s fertility rate began to fall in the 1960’s, there was no national policy aiming for a population of smaller families until 1971. In 1979, “Wan Xi Shao”, a program that encouraged later marriage, longer birth intervals between births and fewer children is what evolved to the well-known “one-child policy”.”(Gilbert, 24) Under the one-child policy, couples are given incentives to have a single child. Couples who pledge to have a single child receive monthly allowances for child support until the child reaches the age of fourteen. “Along with the money received monthly, they are promised more spacious housing and higher pensions for retirement”(Gilbert, 24). However, for

We have the Irish and the Chinese. They both came to the US for wealth to take back home to have a better life. The only problem when they got to the US. They were not treated equals. They fought to get that treatment but in different ways. They came from different backgrounds, they migrated differently, they economic incorporated differently, also socially and political adapted differently. In the end they came to the US with the same goal. But the whites made it hard for them.

This all altered in 2003. Hong Kong was punched by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) which travelled over from southern China.

There are two mainly waves of Chinese immigrates to the United States: the first wave occurred in the 1850s, because of federal law to restrict Chinese immigrant and stop; the second wave form 1980s, conform to the normalization of Sino-American relations and change of immigration policy. At present, Chinese immigrants is the third largest U.S in row after Mexico and India. Population of 2013, according to the number of Chinese in the United States more than 2 million, accounting for 5% of the total immigrant population. The U.S. census report shows that Chinese residents in the United States has a population of more than 1 hundred thousand people, nearly 3 hundred thousand Chinese immigrants to the United States during 1850-1889. But the waves

In the last two decades, China’s economy has grown rapidly, becoming the world’s second largest economy after the U.S. China has gained this achievement by becoming the factory of the world and exporting cheap products to oversea markets. However, recently China has been losing its advantages in the export sector, which its economy is heavily reliant on. New data shows a visible slowdown in manufacturing in China and it’s time for China to reform its manufacturing model to resist this slowdown.

With the constant economic and social changes occurring in the United States year after year, one should expect that something written hundreds or years ago for this country would need revision. The expectation that an amendment written in 1866 and ratified in 1868 would still fit perfectly in today’s day and age is simply unrealistic. With the United States as popular destination for “birth tourism” the 14th Amendment should in fact be reinterpreted in order to enforce stricter requirements for citizenship.

The line chart illustrates the percentage of American and China births and how these rates changed from 1920 to 2000.

In the early twentieth century under Mao Zedong’s leadership, the Chinese government encouraged population growth, condemning contraceptives and praising large families. This led to birthrates of over four children per couple. In just a few years, the population had doubled, severely straining Chinese agriculture. From 1959 to 1961, a horrific famine killed as many as thirty million people. Thus, by 1975, the Chinese government had reversed their policy on population growth (Clarke), adopting the slogan “Later, Longer, Fewer.” This campaign urged couples to have two to three children and to begin reproducing at a later age, as well as promoting improved sanitation and healthcare to as to increase life expectancy (“5 Things to Know About China’s 1-Child Policy”).

There are more than 1.3 billion people living and building families in China. Until a century ago, many Chinese families included multiple generations living in the same household. Today, though, it's no longer the norm. A typical Chinese family today includes a married man and woman with one child, and this is generally known as the core family. The percentage of core families continues to rise above other types of family units. This not due to a social coincidence, but a direct reflection of the Chinese government's population control policies.

All over the world, the human population fluctuates throughout each country due to several different factors. Some of the factors that can lead to an increase or decrease in population include industrialization, economic instability, poverty, laws, disease, resource destruction, sanitation, natural disasters, birth control, and access to education (Class notes). Although population decline is possible and relevant in some countries, the more important issue facing many countries today is overpopulation. Some over population problems include decreases in food sources, housing needs, land, increase in distribution problems, decrease in job availability, and poor health care environment (HowMany.org, 2014). One important question related to controlling

Hong Kong,as one of the world's leading international financial centres,it has a major capitalist service economy characterized by low taxation and free trade. It is known of the world's most services-oriented economy, with services sectors accounting for more than 90% of GDP.