Some of these are true but not all.
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Originally Posted by ArrackiFalconX10
Alot of the new age citizens wants to break away from the oppressive beliefs. Such as those forced to marry their own cousins
using the elements of the puff fish to sedate their daughters who will not work or marry a relative locking them in ground cellars and pandering them against their will and hooking them to human chains if the girls attempt to escape and the police will just return them to this.
how can you enjoy Nirvana with your daughter locked in a cellar because she don't wanna marry her cousin or uncle?
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What you said had happened a lot and not uncommon before PRC, and it was a part of Chinese culture
at the time. But your knowledge about it really needs some significant updates from this century old impression, since 59 years have passed.
It is one of the major achievements of the GOV to get rid of this and ban marriage between relatives, not within three generations of relatives in fact, and today this sounds ridiculous to chinese people, no matter rich or poor. Even more ridiculous is you said people been put into jail for this.
In China no one can decide a marriage but the the two themselves, and they are free to divorce, too. There are parents who still want their children marry specific people and sometimes result in tragedy if you look at the absolute number, but this happens no more often than other crimes and the parent will be sent into court. In pactice this do have exceptions in places like some rural area in Tibet, which is to respect their culture, and if we force them to abandon this culture, someone will still say we are doing the wrong thing, doesn't it?
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and the poor within the western region who can't afford health care etc. I mean can't a family find another way to get health care, and [id] technology has augmented to where they shouldn't have to depend on a son or daughter to provide for them as in the age of the Dragon. China is not some undeveloped country to have to treat people this way.
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The medical system is a miserable disaster I have to admit, especially for the poor and those live in rural areas which counts for half of the population now. The direct reason for this was everything was "Commercialized", consider the benefits groups behind this, the situation won't be easy to change although GOV already promised this year it will enact new plan.
As for the old, it is part of the chinese culture that children take care of their parents, and they live together, too, until the one child policy came out. Old people will have to depand on their pensions after retirement, in cities most people lives ok with it but not very comfort, in country on the other hand two children were allowed to alleviate the stress.
The national walfare system is just start to form, and the fast urbanization process also helps reduce the rural problem. But I think the pain will continue for some time, you can consider current China as US in 1920s or a little earlier, before the start of the social walfare system.