MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Abstract: Different cultures have different viewpoints on family, children, and marriage. However, combined with legislation and modern technology, certain cultures have unintended, compounding effects. In China and India, male children are desired more than female children, creating a culture of sex preference. Cultural norms, modern technology, and other circumstances are promoting disastrous gendercide within China and India. The effects are widespread and cause demographic cultural, and economic harm. In China, an estimated one out of four men of the one-child policy era will not be able to find a wife. In India, girls and women face harassment and prejudice. In China and India, men are growing older without having the chance to date or marry women. These men will be a legacy that will stick with the countries for many decades. Sex trafficking, housing costs, and/or demographic instability are rising in these countries. Gendercide not only threatens demographics, economics, and society, it majorly threatens social justice and sustainability. Gendercide also affects other countries through the international world. To create a sustainable world, both the environment and the people who live with the environment should be cared and treated for. This seminar paper aims to educate and spread awareness of the gendercide problem and its importance in sustainability.
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Reader Profile: I believe the topic is interesting and strong enough to catch the attention of most readers. Addressing gendercide is also something readers would not be hostile against. The most difficult readers are those who believe they have no reason to care about the topic since the problem is in foreign countries.

Reader Response: The evidence the paper has presented is intriguing, but does it influence my life? This paper sounds like a topic I read about then forget about. Why should I care about this? Wait, it affects the economies of China and India? Then, by extension, the problem should affect the United States’ economy. Gendercide not only affects the countries with it, gendercide affects the countries surrounding the countries with gendercide and the countries tied economically to the countries with gendercide. So, gendercide is something I should be aware of.

G, you look to have a good plan for this. I like how your reluctant reader can be persuaded to spend more time on this document due to global economic fall out. You may want to use this strategy in the document, say, early on, as a way to convince your reader to stay with the entire analysis.

Just FYI, here is the RD piece. You do not have to incorporate this but I expect you will appreciate reading this as part of your wide ranging interest in such social problems
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/opinion/incels-sex-robots-redistribution.html

By the way, I know someone who often speaks on panels with RD, typically to counter his views.