Guynextdoor
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The strange thing is that Indian communities settled (almost specifically) in Canada are far more backward than Indians even in several rural areas. You look at honor deaths or dowry in rural areas & you can attribute them to poverty or lack of development. But I read about the same level of highly aggressive defence of backward traditions-the male child, honor killings etc. among the candian indian diaspora. My theory is that unlike Indians elsewhere who migrated because they were professionals (doctors, IT workers etc.), those who went to canada tended to be from rural india and a strange mixture of new money and old customs created quite a mess.I was just checking to see the response. I believe that girls are more precious than boys. I am against abortion so aborting female fetuses is abhorrent to my principles. Indians in Canada have told me that parents must have the right to choose the gender of the child. Many Sikh families have only one son. The female infanticide in last two decades will cause shortage of women in Punjab and Haryana states of India and may raise the value of female babies. In Pakistan, many tribes make marriage unions where one girl from each clan is married to groom of the other clan. So your son cannot be married if you do not have daughter to marry their family. This tradition is called "Atta Batta".