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Originally Posted by charles brough
But it seems that only a small part of the world is getting wealthier. Even in China, it is only the urbane population that has few children. Most people in India, Indonesia, China and in Latin America as well as AFrica are having large families. Some have nine to twelve or more children.
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Your observation of China is no different than what happened in the US for the first half of the last Century. Initially it was only in the cities that we saw standards of living raise across the board. In rural communities poverty, any large families by necessity, remained very common. As you can see now, even in the most rural areas of the US, you have a standard of living higher than most metropolitan areas of Latin America, Africa, and developing Asia.
Additionally, as borders start to erode more and more to the point of simply being a line on a map, we will see a general standard of living spread. The EU is the first example of that sort of system. Despite their relatively high standard of living before the EU, multiple countries gave up part of their sovereignty in order to form a more stable and more powerful union. I can see that happening eventually, Latin America especially where most people share the same language, rather unique in the world to have so many different countries sharing the same official language. It will require the ousting of chuckle heads like Hugo Chavez first, but it will happen.
