This is a video that has shaken Chinese society to her roots. It shows what China has become. A two-year old girl is hit by a truck and run over. The truck doesn't bother to stop. A second vehicle also runs over the child. A total of eighteen people walk by the critically injured tyke yet no one stops to help until a cleaning lady happens by.
This is a very shocking video. Parental discretion is advised.
That poor dear child. This tears my heart out.
I have been to China several times and have seen how people will not lift a finger to help someone laying in the road. It is truly shocking. Some westerners who go to China and do help people in the streets are often celebrated on TV as some sort of heroes!
Some people have told me that China today is that way because of years of poverty and the government doing little to help so that people have come to think that they must fend for themselves and that other people do not matter.
In 2010, I was the marketing director for a Macau based airlines and, one day, the government of China revoked the airline's license causing nearly 5,000 Japanese to be stranded. That's just one example, but that sort of thing would be impossible in Japan. The Japanese government might revoke a license, but they'd make damn sure the people were taken care of and could get home first.
The Chinese government? I don't know what to think.
It is for this reason, and the related causes and symptoms, that I do not believe China can ever be number one. The social fabric of that country has come apart and there is no respect for private property and the concept of social responsibility has virtually disappeared.
Mish Shedlock has his own comments about this video. He wrote:
There is quite a difference between failing to act out of
fear for yourself or life vs. complete indifference as to
what happens to a little girl run over by a van.
The video represents the tragic state of everyday affairs in China.
fear for yourself or life vs. complete indifference as to
what happens to a little girl run over by a van.
The video represents the tragic state of everyday affairs in China.
