Do you think Minnan people prefer boys to girls?

I heard from friends that some provinces and cities in the southeast coast have a strong concept of preferring sons to daughters, but I have only heard about it slightly.

Because my friend is studying law, I went to an immigrant law center as a volunteer and intern in the first summer vacation. I just know that the matter that Fujian people prefer sons to daughters has become famous in the United States.

Let's just say that in California, lawyers who do immigration-related legal aid have basically met Fujian girls who have been sold. They are called walking goods.

He once worked on a legal aid case, and the victim was a 20-year-old Fujian girl.

Her story is very representative: she is the eldest daughter of a peasant family and has a younger brother.

When the girl was a teenager, a snakehead found her parents and said, look, it's no use raising a girl at home. Why not give it to us and take it to work in the United States to earn money? Working in America is profitable. Send money to my son to get married.

The girl's parents hesitated: how much does it cost to send it to America?

Don't worry, the snakehead said, we need a handling fee of100000 USD, but you don't have to pay it. We will take the girl to work, and the girl will pay us back after work. Then she will send money to your home. Working in the United States can earn money, tens of thousands of dollars a year, pay off in three or four years, and then pay tens of thousands of dollars a year!

So her parents gave the girl to the snakehead.

What parents don't know is that their daughter, because she doesn't know the language, will be locked in the back kitchen of the hotel, in a place where manual labor is provided, or forced to enter underground porn sites. Due to the annual increase in interest, the debt of100000 USD is likely to be paid off within ten years.

Those girls, taken to America, have no identity records, sneaking around like underground rats and living like slaves.

Some girls are lucky. They are found by the police for various reasons, and then some public interest lawyers will provide services for them free of charge. They will probably be sent back to China, but if lawyers work hard enough, they can actually obtain legal status. As long as you can prove that you are a victim, you will be in danger if you return to China. If you get this visa, you can legally stay in the United States, work and even apply for a green card.

Those girls who get help are very lucky.

But it helps too much.

A lawyer once said that too many Fujian girls were "disappeared" after being brought into China by smugglers.

No one knows what kind of life they live in underground factories.

They had no contact with the outside world and just disappeared.

Snakeheads in Fujian are still transporting groups of girls to the United States in an organized and planned way.

Do Fujian people prefer boys to girls? Have you thought about it?