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Barbarism and total lack of humanity ,, where were the parents tho , why was she alone , Col , am I right in thinking a girls life is looked upon as not as important as a boys in China ??
Last Thursday, a two-year-old girl crossing a street by herself in the city of Foshan in China’s southern Guangdong Province was hit by a car. The driver paused briefly as the girl lay between the front and rear wheels and then tore off, thumping her now-limp body again.
Soon after, a second vehicle rolled over the girl, with the driver presumably unaware that a body lay on the road. The second driver also did not stop.
As if both these acts were not outrageous enough, 18 more people – on foot, on motorbikes, or on bicycles – passed by the girl, lying inert on the ground, and did nothing. Even a mother with her own child ignored the victim.
(Warning the video is very graphic, but it can seen here from a Chinese broadcast or here from the BBC).
It wasn’t until a female trash collector saw her and proceeded to pick the girl up that she was moved to the side of the road. The trash collector asked passers-by who the girl belonged to, and eventually the mother appeared, distraught, to claim her daughter named Yueyue.
All of this was caught on surveillance cameras. A clip was posted on China’s popular micro blog, Sina Weibo on Sunday, generating a huge outcry as netizens counted the number of people who glanced at the girl and ignored her plight – all in the seven minutes she lay on the road until the Good Samaritan carried her to safety
Behind The Wall - Tot, 2, run over twice, and no one helps
Barbarism and total lack of humanity ,, where were the parents tho , why was she alone , Col , am I right in thinking a girls life is looked upon as not as important as a boys in China ??
"When England was a kingdom, we had a king.
When we were an empire, we had an emperor.
Now we're a country
Her parent are partly to blame but as we all know it only takes a few seconds for a youngster to move out of sight. To run over a child then drive away is despicable and to have pedestrians to walk away without one iota of humanity is deplorable. I hope the authorities come down heavily on all involved.
The first one is the one who needs to be run over themself -especially bad - stopping on top of her - clearly no doubt what happened - then running her over with the back wheels too? Scum! Maybe the 2nd driver didn't see her - I hope that is the excuse. The people who looked and did nothing? One hopes they will get similar help when they need it.
"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children."
To an extend, but it's not nearly the same thing as what is going on in the Arab world, and the one child policy thing is quickly changing the perception anyway.Originally Posted by tankie
From a realistic POV, becaus now there's significantly more young men then young women in China (not to meantion the problem where young women are far more likely to marry older men then vice versa), young women are in fact much more thought after and valuable. For example my cousin runs her husband like a house servant and he has basically no complaints (AND he's a mid level manager at a foreign company in Shanghai, certainly amongst the very well off people of their generation). And they have no complaints with their only daughter.
To me, this isn't particulary shocking, if you read a hugely popular book in Taiwan in the 80s called "Wild Fire" (a collection of article reflecting on Taiwan of the day) the FIRST article was how she was shocked on seeing an old man being hit on the street with no one stopping to help (the Author had returned after a fairly long stay in the West for her PHD and also spent some time as a Professor.), sounds familiar?
China is now in a fairly similar stage of developement. where the ridiculas rising speed tend to throw a lot of things behind them. morality is certainly one of them (see USA late 19th C to early 20th C, or Britian in the time of Charles Dickens), though if Taiwan and most other developed society's case is any guide, it should catch up again eventually when the economic development reaches a more stable platue.
Last edited by RollingWave; 18 Oct 11, at 18:39.
Thanks for clearing that RW, but do you have a POV ref the hit and run and the lack of humanity shown towards the victim ?
"When England was a kingdom, we had a king.
When we were an empire, we had an emperor.
Now we're a country
Just unbelievable.
Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.
I can't believe I watched that horrific video. That baby was treated like a rag doll, not a human being. What the hell is wrong with people.
I hope there's a hell, and then a special place in hell for people like that.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
By the reactions here and what I could read in the media, I admit I don't have stomach to watch that video.
No such thing as a good tax - Churchill
To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.
And yesterday there were people asking in the media if that trash collector / street cleaning lady was trying to help only to be famous. One journalist even had the stomach to ask her in the face. Seriously, what the hell is wrong with them.
夫唯不爭，故天下莫能與之爭。
Like I said, there's two issue here.Thanks for clearing that RW
A. the volunteer dilema: due to unclear laws (and poorly enforcement of law in general anyway) in China , there were incidents a while back where someone DID help an old man on the street only to be accused (falsely) as the assaliant, things like that obviously don't help the confidences of people going out their way to helping people, and these days fraud scheme runs like crazy in China (which unfortunately, Taiwan has a hand in starting.) So there is a strong inherient motive for the average person in China to try to avoid any unneccesary involvment in anything not directly related to themself.
B.The Crazy development speed causing a dramatic and rapid shift in social order which throws previously established morality codes off, not that the Cultural Revolution didn't already done half the job anyway. but you can imagine if your born a poor farmer in a remote village and then move into the cities in your 20s, the social order shock would be fairly obvious.
As I said, if we look at many countries in their historical phase of similar developement (say Taiwan in the 70s / 80s, the USA in the early 20th C, Britan in the later half 19th C etc) there's are strong paralle you can draw between something like this, and A Tale of Two Cities / Oliver Twist etc..
Last edited by RollingWave; 19 Oct 11, at 03:51.
Sick.
And why did weaponvw only copy/paste half the article?
The story, which has been a leading headline on all of China’s news sites, touched a nerve in the country, with many decrying the lack of moral standards and general disregard for fellow human beings.
One report quoted the first driver as saying, “If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands yuan."
Some news reports and online discussions made the point that civil behavior is not always rewarded in China. Many people fear they’re being subject to some sort of scam while others remember still a well-known case from 2006, when a man helped a woman who had fallen only to have her accuse him of causing the injury to begin with. She filed a suit against him, in which the judge ruled the man wouldn’t have come to her aid had he not caused the fall.
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State-run news agency Xinhua has reported both drivers of the vehicles that ran over the girl have been apprehended by police.
Yueyue, meanwhile, is in critical condition with serious brain injuries, breathing with the help of a ventilator. Her parents are asking eyewitnesses to come forward with any additional information.
The story of Yueyue’s hit-and-run stands in stark contrast to another story that picked up steam online over the weekend.
Last Friday afternoon, a woman fell into a scenic tourist lake in Hangzhou, the capital of the eastern province of Zhejiang. A Western woman who was walking by saw the Chinese woman struggling and quickly jumped into West Lake to save her.
After swimming back to shore, the foreigner dragged her onto the bank. The victim remained conscious and appeared out of danger. Police turned up ten minutes later, and the Western woman left quietly. Several websites reported she was American.
What was notable in this instance was the response of those who read the story online.
In addition to giving the rescuer high praise (“That American girl is great, she has a beautiful character”), people also made unfavorable comparisons to Chinese behavior:
“According to Chinese laws and regulations, if she hadn’t pushed the girl into the water, why ever would she save her?”
Thanks to China Digital Times for the translations.
She died today...
Chinese girl dies in hit-and-run that sparked outrage
Reuters) - A two-year-old Chinese girl run over by two different vehicles and ignored by passersby died on Friday, state media said, in a case which ignited public uproar over what some called a moral numbness seeping through society.
Both drivers who ran over the girl have been arrested, but Internet users have flooded microblogs decrying the apathy of the people who left her for dead, after graphic footage from a security camera of the incident went viral.
Wang Yue died of brain failure more than a week after the accident in Foshan in the far southern province of Guangdong, Xinhua news agency said.
"The hospital went all out and made utmost effort to save her. But ... her injuries were too severe and the treatment had no effect," Su Lei, the director of the Guangzhou Military Hospital's intensive care unit, told a news conference.
The surveillance video from the October 13 hit-and-run, aired by a television station, shows the girl run over by a van, which drives off leaving her to bleed on a narrow street.
More than a dozen people over the next seven minutes walk or drive past the girl on bicycles and she is run over by a second truck. A woman then pulls the girl to the side of the street before her mother, a migrant worker, rushes into the frame.
China's economic boom and the growing disparity between the rich and poor have made changing social values a contentious topic, with some lamenting what they see as materialism replacing morals.
"Now people have become so selfish. So many people walked by but no one helped her because they didn't want to get into trouble," said Yang Yaying, a 21-year-old Beijing resident.
Wang's death quickly became the most talked about topic on China's popular Twitter-like microblog service, Sina's Weibo.
"I hope that this little angel who was discarded by society can act as a wake-up call to the nation about the importance of moral education," wrote one blogger, "gongzai xiaoben."
"Hope you can find some love in heaven. This world is full of apathy," added "Winter space."
Xinhua said her father had received more than 270,000 yuan ($42,280) to help pay for Wang's medical treatment, with donations flowing in from Chinese people all over the world.
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A senior provincial social worker, Liu Runhua, said he did not believe the case reflected a wider malaise in Guangdong.
"Those who ignore the dying make up only a handful of people in the province," the China Daily quoted him as saying.
"But cases when dying persons aren't given help, or when good Samaritans get into trouble, are often widely reported in the media, which tends to make the public concerned."
The provincial capital, Guangzhou, plans a law to protect good Samaritans and give rewards of up to 500,000 yuan for such actions, the newspaper added.
The provincial Communist Party chief, Wang Yang, urged "searching reflection" on the incident, the official Guangzhou Daily reported.
"Take active and effective steps to raise the moral standards of the entire society," he told a meeting of province officials, according to the paper.
"We should look into the ugliness in ourselves with a dagger of conscience and bite the soul-searching bullet," Wang also said, Xinhua reported separately.
Many people in China are hesitant to help people who appear to be in distress for fear that they will be blamed. High-profile lawsuits have ended with good Samaritans ordered to pay hefty fines to individuals they sought to help.
Chinese girl dies in hit-and-run that sparked outrage | Reuters
May God rest her little soul, and may she rest in peace.
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