I've just read about that issue women in India have when they give birth to a child who happens to be a girl... and most of all, not the first-born.

Right in the beginning I want to admit that what I will say does not have to be taken for a tenet or something because first I'm not that familiar with India's cultural matters and neither I am wise enough to judge people what to do or not.

I don't think we have to intrude on their way of life or try to change their world with our western cultural methods. I stand for the contraceptives but we have to let them take their own decisions. I mean most cultures are usually suffering now becuase of the western develloped nations who try to take some control over them. I hate when this happens.. Most of you wouldn't agree or won't understand.. I'm living in a country where we have a similar situation with the EU, who are trying to melt our culture with theirs... I don't want people to intrude in other people's culture with the intention to help them. I read an article in National Geographic about that problem with the marriage traditions in India and how most girls never get married because they don't have enough gold to give to the groom's family. It was really a good one and gold really means more than just money there... but those people have decided to take that rule and this was the only option they got. So is it wrong or is it right? Does it even matter... it's real, that's what matters. And if they wish to live a life like that well it's their own land, their own conceptions hold good out there.

Nobody ever thinks about the people who suffered in the human sacrifice rituals of the ancient tribes. Why should this be different? Looked from a different point of view...this could be the Indian's women sacrifice to help their people out of misery... Of course I'm a humanist, no matter I found people guilty for all the bad in the world, I don't think human sacrifice is necessary to ask for gods' mercy. But hey! I haven't grown with any if their beliefs and traditions.

Once I read about an outcast mathematician .. it's a shame I don't remember his name.. he had once said that human famine is an inevitable dissaster and nature has almost no power today to control the number of the population. The only way it could be adjusted was by wars, massive disasters and the consequences of people's actions... which are more or less another forms of massive disasters... and of course, the personal sacrifice. Then people hated this guy for telling the truth and blamed him to see the glass half empty rather than half full. Now these people who live in their cosy flats obviously don't see what are the poorer cultures driven to. I believe India's women never had the intention to kill their own kids.. but this is the only way they know the world now.. the only way to help them is make them realise that they could make the change themselves using contraceptives. I don't know if that could be successful as well.. It all depends on them. I really should start looking for some more details and then say it.

Anyway! Thanks for making my mind busy with it.. I'll be posting some about it soon. I hope so! With this job and exams.. :(