After Professor Velasco showed us the video about the Chinese-Black girl, I became particularly interested in researching more about China's tolerance about interracial marriage. Surprisingly, I came across an article that addresses the solution to solve China's gender imbalance, and at the same time, discourages interracial marriages. In order to prevent the export of young, attractive Chinese women to other countries, Chinese government officals want to impose a "babe tax." The author of the article states that "while preserving women's freedom of choice in marriage, if they choose to marry an American, or foreigner, a tax will be levied proportionally to the foreign male's salary in his country." This then leads to my favorite line from the article: "No one likes taxes, but we're taxing the foreigners and saving our women!" Obviously, the Chinese are extremely concerned about the disproportion of male to female figures. Yet, this attempt to tax those who are foreign to China reveals the conservative and traditional Chinese culture.
Here is the link and feel free to check it out.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/how-to-solve-chinas-gender-imbalance-the-babe-tax/71440/
I had no idea China felt so strongly about keeping their women!
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