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A more 'zen' version of the 'One Child Policy' topic. cuurently used by Year 9 Geography students. Based on an article in this month's Teaching Geography magazine.
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Key Idea
We need strategies tocontrol population growth.
What’s the message
here?
1 - 2 - 4 ?
One TwoFour?
In China many
families have...
OnlyOne Child
Two Parents
and fourgrandparents
So
whyOneTwoFour?
The GreatLeap
Forward!
Birth Control is
“Bloodless Genocide”
Mao Tse Tung
Government Policy?
Propaganda?
It’s called the“One Child” Policy
But China is a vast country and....
“The mountains are high, but the Emperor is
far, far away”
Ancient ChineseProverb: No 471
Result ?
In China todaythe Death Rate
is Seven
per Thousand
In the U.Kthe Death Rate
is Nine
per Thousand
There is the “Little Emperor” syndrome!
and the 4-2-1
problem!
Q: Who cares for them, now?
Zen Geography S. Jones 2008
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