‘Little emperors’: Study says Chinese born under one-child policy cautious, less competitive

[FrodosPet]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/little-emperors-study-says-chinese-born-under-one-child-policy-cautious-less-competitive/2013/01/10/01321ebe-5b56-11e2-b8b2-0d18a64c8dfa_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop

BEIJING — They’re called “little emperors” — the children born in China under a law that generally limits urban families to having just one child.

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Concerns about the “only child” practice in China have been expressed before. Now researchers present new evidence that these children are less trusting, less competitive, more pessimistic, less conscientious and more risk-averse than people born before the policy was implemented.

The study’s authors say the one-child policy has significant ramifications for Chinese society, leading to less risk-taking in the labor market and possibly fewer entrepreneurs.

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Last year, a government think tank urged China’s leaders to start phasing out the policy and allow two children for every family by 2015, saying the country had paid a “huge political and social cost.” It said the policy had resulted in social conflict, high administrative costs and led indirectly to a long-term gender imbalance because of illegal abortions of female fetuses and the infanticide of baby girls by parents who cling to a traditional preference for a son.

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More sensitive, nervous, and risk averse, with an upcoming population reduction? Sounds like a win for the rest of the world.

With their population and consequent military potential, if China were macho cowboys like the U.S., they would control at least half the planet.

[DonCoquixote]

1. Not really

What is happening to them is that a culture that was based upon groups is becoming more like America, and the Chinese are not liking it. However, that might make them MORE aggressive, especially as thanks to the one child policy, there are many more young men than females. We do not need a whole nation full of discarded males that have lost their cultural support structure going berserk; imagien America's "angry white male" problem times 20.