China. One of the earliest forms of writing were oracles made with bones, used to predict the future. One of the oldest inscriptions reads: “Will Mrs. Hao’s son be lucky?” (…) Then the oracle continues the story: “Three weeks and a day later, the baby is born. Not lucky. It’s a girl.” More than three thousand years later, under Mao’s communist regime, with the one-child policy, the birth of a girl was seen as unlucky, and she was often killed for the chance of having a boy. “Culture eats Strategy for breakfast.”
