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Agricultural society needs more hands on board to plough the fields ,so more children means more farm hands.
A Chinese farmer will find their new born son a 10-12 years old bride so his wife can help him in the fields.
Also someone once points out the diet of mostly veggis and little meat goes a long way to feed large family while the Caucasian eat meat and it takes months if not years to raise a pig,a cow .
also weather does make a difference,colder climate ,women do not bear too many children,it is all mother nature way of fairly distributing resources .
Finally ,farmers have no TV and no streaming,the only entertainment after a day hard work is have fun in bed !!
Agricultural society needs more hands on board to plough the fields ,so more children means more farm hands.
A Chinese farmer will find their new born son a 10-12 years old bride so his wife can help him in the fields.
Also someone once points out the diet of mostly veggis and little meat goes a long way to feed large family while the Caucasian eat meat and it takes months if not years to raise a pig,a cow .
also weather does make a difference,colder climate ,women do not bear too many children,it is all mother nature way of fairly distributing resources .
Finally ,farmers have no TV and no streaming,the only entertainment after a day hard work is have fun in bed !!
You need to write this post in the past tense, not present.
This is not how it has been in China for a couple of generations. Surely you have heard of the one child policy, which has been overturned now.
I wonder if you have been to China. You might get a shock.
Well population actually declining. Shift from agriculture to industrialization to white collar high tech. In Japan the lower marriage rates. The need for both partners to work due to high cost of living.
I'm going to describe Chinese life. Chinese has a high rate of bad health. Like heart attack or cancer. If you'll notice a Chinese family has a one core system, they stick together. So if they catch a disease, it remains in the family and partly a inheritance thing going on in a family. The Chinese for the most part are labor workers and not white collar class workers. One works, while the rest of the family stays away from sunlight, and remains indoors at all cost. If you notice some Chinese prefer to white look skin. If they get any darker, they'll turn to the darker color skin and die of some disease. Cancer or other ailments. For the most part, a Chinese family all remain together and this is their signature. What they do. How they look. And What they're interested in doing. That is the Chinese Culture. Capitalism plays little role in their lives.
While Asia is the plurality of Earth's landmass, most of it is uninhabited and pretty inhospitable. Places like Siberia and the steppes hardly have anyone in them.
Population in Asia is concentrated in the Indo-Gangetic plain, the north China plain, the Kanto plain in Japan, the Pearl River delta, the Sichuan basin, and the island of Java.
The population density is very, very high in these places. And has been for a long time. I think it's a worthwhile question to ask, why?
Because the places with the most arable land on earth are the north European plain, the North American plains, and the Amazon basin. Aside from some parts of the north European plain, none of these places has population density anywhere near what you find in parts of Asia.
Last edited by Avondalist; 01-23-2022 at 05:00 PM..
Agricultural society needs more hands on board to plough the fields ,so more children means more farm hands.
A Chinese farmer will find their new born son a 10-12 years old bride so his wife can help him in the fields.
Also someone once points out the diet of mostly veggis and little meat goes a long way to feed large family while the Caucasian eat meat and it takes months if not years to raise a pig,a cow .
also weather does make a difference,colder climate ,women do not bear too many children,it is all mother nature way of fairly distributing resources .
Finally ,farmers have no TV and no streaming,the only entertainment after a day hard work is have fun in bed !!
Agricultural society demands less from individuals than hunting and gathering so by that logic agricultural society would have less people than hunter gatherer society because fewer people could extract the same amount of resources, but that’s backwards! Agriculture is more efficient than hunting and gathering, therefore available resources increase and thus more people can be supported. The thought process of an individual couple might be “we need lots of children to help on the farm and support us when we can’t work ourselves” that’s only enabled because farming is productive enough to allow for high fertility and to feed lots of children. As for your point about meat and veggies that’s incoherent, aside from some North Indian cultures Asians eat tons of meat, and Asian staple crops like rice are no less labor intensive or time consuming than European staples like wheat, oats or barley and nobody had television or streaming until modern times, and in modern times farmers have access to as much technology as anyone else. Chinese and Indian peasants go on social media, they text, they use streaming services etc. What do you think, they live how Westerners did before the industrial revolution? Have you ever been to rural Asia?
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