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Originally Posted by GirlySports
To expand on my economic improvement theory from above, I think what will break the Chinese people is the race to be successful and how expensive it is. It's starts with the one-child policy. If you have one child, you're going to pour all your resources into that one child. From Bankai's story above, I'm guessing his wife is an only child and his mother-in-law pour every dollar to allow his wife to study abroad, at triple the tuition.When China relaxed the one-child policy a couple of years ago, the first cry was, thanks but no one can afford a second kid!
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I think what you are getting at is the Little Emperor Syndrome where a generation of only children created a culture of over indulgence of that one child to the point that second children can't compete as the bar has been set so high. All the resources have to be poured into one child to make them competitive.
You see it to a degree in the West as well. In families that have multiple children, you often see the younger children get fewer family resources handed down. The younger children get more freedom but less discipline and financial assistance. If one child excels at something, the family focuses efforts more on that one child's success. It's probably more just the nature of capitalism and a big reason that birth rates in Western nations are so low despite not having a policy on it.