Juggling with sex ratios
I have been in a big propoganda about sex ratios and their implications in our society, It all started after I saw this video in youtube .It had a staggering fact, the crux is that there are more females than the males in the western world.Atleast Newyork has 1mn more females and there are atleast 25mn gays in USA which leaves a estimated net deficit of around 30 mn males in the U.S.It is all the more omnipresent in France, Germany, Russia and U.K
When I buzzed this around, my friends were all eager to cramp themselves in to Newyork and the Western world.They had ample reasons, even Adam Smith's grandma can tell you the reason.Those may be jocular moments for people to crack jokes and shows intent to join the bandwagon although most of them didn't have an ulterior motive.The fact remained to thinked about, because Sex is the basic instinct of a human as with any creation of god.Ofcourse "moral values" subjective by itself goes for a toss now if we need to satify the basic needs of a human.
I had some seemingly funny suggestions, we can immigrate more men into the western world where the supply of men is relatively higher.When capital and labour can be moved across borders why not men.The implications of such skewness in the sex ratio was unbelievable.
It was only after someweeks that I came across this video in youtube.It is an AIDs commericial run by MTV (You may have to avoid it if you are in the office although the message is daring).The core of the issue is simple,the fastest group of people affected by AIDs in the US is among hetrosexual women under the age of 30.I guess you can relate the first issue and the second issue.
As putforth in the first BBC report "Let her die" about 300 fetuses are aborted in India once they are identified as females which gathers to around 1mn females in a year.India's sex ratio in 2001 was 933 females/1000 males (1029/1000 in the U.S.A) which handsomely leaves a net deficit of 67mn females in India.
What is the net result?.Men will compete for brides and ofcourse the imcompetent ones( judged by economic & social status) would be driven out of the race.There are about 4mn (reported or estimates) people infected with AIDS in India and men are more prone to get infected than males(you know the reason why).Another interesting article which came across in the web, its core issue is about how cover is not a cover!!
How do we solve these puzzles which might change the entire framework of the scoiety ?
According to the US Census Bureau, as per the 2005 census, the total population of NY city 7.9 million - of which 3.8 million are men and 4.1 million are women (not one million excess!)
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=16000US3651000&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=&_cityTown=&_state=04000US36&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=DEC_2000_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null®=&_keyword=&_industry=
I wouldn't all the stuff that the dude in the video says. The second video - I could see only the first thirty seconds (good stuff he he!)
Posted by
Santhosh |
6:49 pm
I didnt check the figures of Newyork but the 30mn deficit seems to be right(US population 300 mn; sex ratio 1029/1000 which leads to ~ ((1029/1000)-1)*300
~ .029*300
~ 30 mn
It could be that the speaker is talking about the total number of people who move in and out of NY or it trying to exaggerate things!!!
I know Santhosh, you might have relished the second video!!!
Happy times ahead in NewYork..Now that you have been there for the past 4 months!!!
I would not ask you..dont worry !!
Posted by
Sara |
8:16 pm
soory guys missed out of the calculations
~ 0.029*300
~ 10 mn
+ ~ 20mn gays
~ 30mn deficit of males
Posted by
Sara |
8:19 pm