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...better than my contemptuous friend was to me. Part of the beauty of Harvard is the diversity of regional dialects, and all the mix of cultures and backgrounds it signifies. Everyone from your Brooklyn-bred roommate to the “SoCal” girl in your section thinks her vernacular is the best. Our education isn’t just about response papers and problem sets; it’s also about exposing us to different ideas and perspectives, with the hope of producing cosmopolitan, tolerant and open-minded individuals. And part of that is learning to listen...
...family name and care for parents in their old age. And like China, Vietnam has a history of strict population control. Until recently, couples were forbidden to have more than two children, and families went to great lengths to ensure that at least one was a son - including aborting girl babies, especially if they already had one daughter. Vietnamese online forums carry threads devoted to how to ensure conceiving a boy - everything from special diet to especially rigorous sex to pre-intercourse douching with an alkaline solution. "I've tried everything, and even cleaned with the special solution...
Vietnam's government last year banned sex-selection abortion and even barred doctors performing routine ultrasounds from revealing the sex of the fetus. But the laws are all but impossible to enforce. Every expectant mother somehow learns whether she is expecting a boy or a girl. Abortions are readily available for around $5 in government clinics. "We must expand our propaganda activities to educate people aching to have boys," says Nguyen Ba Thuy, deputy minister of health. Other Asian countries have seen the sex imbalance towards boys reverse, including South Korea, one of the first countries to report the missing...
Vietnam's pro-girl campaign depends on changing the attitudes of its own post-war baby boom - nearly 60% of the population is under 30 - who are now busy starting families. It's an uphill battle, but the country's previous success at changing attitudes is encouraging. Thirty years ago, most Vietnamese had a strong preference for families of four and five children. That has now been replaced with a general desire for smaller families, enough so that the official two-child limit has been eased. Sultan Aziz, the U.N. Population Fund's Asia-Pacific director, says Vietnam might still...
...Hanoi Maternity Hospital, there's at least one encouraging sign. Dao Thi Kim Oanh already has a 5-year-old daughter, and she says she saw the disappointment in her mother-in-law's eyes when she learned the second baby was another girl. But Oanh, 41, couldn't be happier. "Wanting only boys is the old way of thinking," she says, protectively curling an arm around her bulging tummy. "I hope that when my daughters grow up, it won't matter to anyone if their children are boys or girls...