The sad thing is that if it had been a young BOY that had been run over, people would have cared.
Wonder wtf the drivers of those cars were thinking as they ran her over. Sick motherfuckers…
Pardon me for ignoring the Peng Yu Genovese blah blah bullshit. What about the trucks who hit the girl in the first place? And CCTVs ready to pounce on anti-government activity, but slow to respond to a double hit-and-run? This is Mao’s legacy, when you rid an overpopulated society of empathy.
But as already noted, it’s not like this wouldn’t happen anywhere else (or hasn’t). Like the story about New Yorkers walking over the dying homeless guy who got stabbed after saving some woman from a robber. “Bububut he’s old homeless and dirty!” Nope, it’s just as inhumane.
PS. last I heard the girl was brain-dead.
Maybe if Casey anthony and the bitches who had attacked the MCds employee had been tried in china, justice woulda been served.
Damn, i can’t believe i kinda complimented china.
The same thing would happen in the states. People are scared to leave their safe box and do something.
And me and my hot Taiwanese girlfriend were talking about how the Chinese don’t have souls and are ruthless. Sorry it’s a fact especially in the Southern parts. Didn’t click on the video. I might have to punch some of the Chinese students at school tomorrow, if I did watch it.
On the other hand, good on this shit going viral on the internet in China, if that would mean anything.
As bad as this is China is still better than Japan and anything they could pull out of their ass.
Since I don’t feel like perusing through the wall of text and it’s 3 AM I will just address this. America and other countries will statistically have individuals who behave in antisocial or self-serving ways (not defending people who need help, etc.)- you can cite whatever news article that pops in on a weekly basis. However, in this case we’re dealing with a child who clearly poses no threat and is obviously in need of help. Things that we might worry about like being sued or race relations don’t really matter in this scenario since it’s China.
I’ve lived in New York and witnessed random people grab kids walking in front of buses/taxis or standing too close to train terminals- as well as bystanders alerting a mom that their child is wandering off; it’s simply a general part of being human. So yes, even though there are homeless scattered all over city blocks, tinges of racism, and fumes of malcontent filling the streets, there is enough general decency for people to help children.
My point is, I’m not surprised that no one came to help immediately, but seeing the pedestrians and drivers moving along without even an ounce of consideration of the bleeding child for 10 minutes isn’t something normal by any capacity in most societies. There’s no way you can convince me otherwise.
Extreme case of bystander effect? Though that wouldn’t explain why the drivers didn’t give a damn.
You say that, yet you don’t post pics. I am disappoint.
I remember posting the following in the china v america basketball thread last month:
[INDENT=1]For an British Expat (who has had enough of the Chinese and is about to return home) living in China those scenes do don’t surprise me one bit. The level of contempt that is scorned down on me on a daily basis you would not honestly believe. if you are a “laowai” or foreigner most people have little or no respect for you. Even though they dress in western clothes, drive western cars, watch western movies, ride in a western designed subway system and love everything manufactured by Apple we are just as i get called on a regular basis a stupid foreigner (thank god for my grasp on the Chinese language) They hate America but try to emulate every aspect of their life part from respect for your fellow human being. I have seen people get knocked down of their bikes seriously injured only to see a crowd form to watch the helpless person crawl across the floor, not one person except me bothered to help. These people will send us back to the dark ages if they ever get a chance to rule the world[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]Having lived in Hong Kong, a more “Western” part of China, for the past 21 years I have a few comments. You need to realise that the Chinese are very “tribal”. It’s as if they think the whole world is against them (perhaps from history they have a point) and now as they assert their new power they are inclined to be less civilized about it. That plus the players are young male elite (one child policy) and no doubt have a very high opinion of themselves. How dare a ref give a foul against the home team at 64 all??!! Expect more of the same as China asserts itself on the world stage.[/INDENT]
If even white people are complaining about living in China I think i’ll do my best to avoid going there.
To be honest, I’m surprised nothing exploded.
This article annoys the fuck out of me. The fact that a little girl was run over is just wrong. Just because they’re over populated doesn’t mean they should ignore a little girl. Hell, if it was them laying on the ground. They’ll beg for mercy and for attention. But, she’s 2 years old. She can’t even beg for help. The fact that the parents weren’t there to supervise her. China might supplies us with a lot of stuff. But, they need to act as a human being and help someone if needed. Not ignore and walk away from it.
that’s pretty fucked up but to put it in perspective there are dudes kidnapping children for human sacrifices in order to help their business/whatever they want to do well at the time.
“happened in guangdong”
Yep sounds about right
Is that area known to be fucked up?
(Oh, shirokage.)
You’ve been in Guangdong before, Weeks?
While I grant you the race relation thing (which I only brought up because you were saying this definitively wouldn’t happen in most other Western societies in most instances, even though Chinese would minorities there, which tends to less people’s want to help you), you act like kids haven’t been used to pull scams before, even ones this young. It’s unlikely, but then so is (or was) some (elderly) asshole suing you when you helped him/her. Again, I’m not excusing the people for her leaving there, but, for the most part, I can unfortunately understand why and very little of it has to do specifically with China.
I don’t recall ever saying there wasn’t. Just that being a child in obvious danger doesn’t automatically mean that someone is going to help to you or, worse, not take advantage of you if they do interact with you; they’ll be more inclined to help you, sure, but like I said before that’s arguably a horrible thing in and of itself.
I don’t really care to. We “know” each other well enough by now to know one what things we’re not really going to ever see eye to eye on and both are generally okay with agreeing to disagree. So let’s just do that here, shall we?
Regardless, I just felt you were coming off as needlessly morally superior in explaining China’s many social abuses & problems and infamous issues with “human rights” when you didn’t need to at all considering how many of those things are horribly apparent even from an outside view beyond one-note sensationalist news stories. One-note sensationalist news stories that no one is ultimately going to do anything about besides being “outraged” about it.
It’s a rather predictable cycle of “horrible news story --> Salamence used OUTRAGE! --> forget about it in a week or until next…–> horrible news story…”. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. Just seems rather pointless is all, at least if you’re not going to do anything about it besides comment on how obviously shitty the situation is. Yes, I’m sure China’s “moral decline” will halted solely by angry text on the Internet (and I’m not directing towards you, necessarily).
If this somehow causes change for the better, then I’ll be glad to support that (somehow). However, I’m not going to hold my breath that people aren’t just going to forget about this after she dies (if she isn’t already dead or effectively so) like almost every other fucked-up piece of news and ultimately do nothing but comment on it so they feel superior. (For the record, saying “this doesn’t surprise me” isn’t the type of comment I’m talking about when it comes to feeling superior, so this again isn’t directed at most people on SRK [thus far].)
Also, do we even know how many people actually passed by her on that street? I know the answer is, of course, “too many”, but it honestly didn’t look very busy at all. If it was even moderately busy, then I doubt she would have survived long enough to even get to the hospital.
free seinfeld, victim of unfair good Samaritan law
19 pedestrians passed by without stopping. It was in another article covering the story, but I’m too lazy to look for it right now.
(I thought Seinfeld and friends were more jailed for being assholes.)
Oh, Guangdong is the name of the province that Hong Kong is in. No wonder you’ve been there, Weeks. Also, no wonder the name sounded vaguely familiar.
Ah, thanks. I suspected it wasn’t that many people, comparative to the amount of time that passed at least; considering she “only” got ran over by one additional car in that amount of time, I doubt there were that many cars either. It sounds like some sort of side-street from that description.
Not that it’s anymore excusable, but it gives it more context so it doesn’t seem like it was hundreds or even thousands of people that just passed her up. Unfortunately, a few dozens of asshole not giving a damn about a stranger for one reason or another is definitely nothing new or at all exclusive to China, child or no.
Probably China’s fault for not having this, especially after a social phenomenon is labeled after just this situation happening in your country previously.