Why China and India Face Marriage Crises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWwhEaFmSno
This seems to be quite a new dilemma for the world. In past centuries, there would sometimes be more single women than men, if a war took the lives of lots of men. The Muslim solution was for a man to be allowed up to 4 wives. Now, the ladies are very much going to have the upper hand.
Was taught in anthropology that monogamy, and polygamy, are the two most common marriage types the world over.
But that there are odd corners of the globe where they practice polyandry (one woman has multiple husbands).
The Himalayan regions seemed to spawn cultures that do that (Nepal and Tibet and north India have little tribes that practice it, though some lowland parts of India also have the practice). A group of brothers will often share a wife. Its all about land tenure usually -keeping land in the family.
Anyway mainstream India and China may have to consider adopting the custom as a norm. Though polyandry appears in tiny pockets in both of the countries in question (India, and China) the tradition is practiced only by remote fringe minority groups. So it would be like White American kids suddenly having to speak and write in Navajo in public school: a culture shock to say the least.
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