Posted on 10/18/2011 4:00:38 AM PDT by Cardhu
A Chinese toddler was run over twice and ignored by nearly 20 passers-by in Guangdong Province in a case that has caused outrage around the world.
It is a story that has deeply unsettled millions in China, posing troubling questions about whether three decades of headlong economic development has left nothing but a moral vacuum in its wake.
It begins last Thursday when a two-year-old girl totters into a narrow lane in a wholesale market in the thriving industrial city of Foshan in Guangdong Province and is hit by a small, white van. The driver pauses, and then pulls away, crushing the child for a second time under his rear wheels.
It is not the accident itself, but what happens next — or rather doesn’t happen – that has left millions of ordinary Chinese wondering where their country is heading.
One by one, no fewer than 18 passers-by are seen on closed circuit television ignoring the girl as she lies, clearly visible in the road, haemorrhaging into the gutter. Not a single one of them stops to help.
The first is a young man in a white T-shirt and trainers. He walks on past the prone form of girl who is by now bleeding profusely, without a second glance.
Next comes a cyclist who wobbles slightly to avoid the dying child and then pedals on, turning his head back momentarily, as if to check he really did see a child dying in the street.
As the pool of blood spreads, a third pedestrian comes by, clearly sees the bleeding girl, but steps out into the small lane to give her a wide berth.
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I’m sorry you feel that way.
Not necessarily true in some Asian cultures just by being associated with the event you attach a type of responsibility to yourself. In this Cade I’m sure there was fear of the authorities assuming some complicity as well fir bringing attention to such a terrible thing. I wonder what happened to the homeless lady after.
The story reads that the mother came rushing up after.
Secondary story, where was the mom?
Or this.....
Others blamed China’s compensation culture for the apparent show of callousness, recalling a famous 2006 judgment when a Good Samaritan who helped a woman get to hospital was wrongly ordered to pay her compensation.
I predicted one detail before I read beyond the headline.
not just Asian, also muslim
You in a car accident in Thailand or Turkey? Especially if a farang? Keep going!
Knew of a GI in a 3rd world muslim country who killed a girl who committed suicide by stepping in front of his car and he had to be hastened out of that country to avoid being jailed
they are all fatalistic about the will of Allah or heaven or whatever, accidents are fate....yada yada yada
but if you are involved, you are guilty. Especially if you are foreign
Again, there are people in America who would do this, just not so many we hope. But at the risk of prejudice, there is something “different” from us, about the Asian (and some other cultures’) views and treatment of human life.
In the US remember the guy who ran over the baby carriage and kept going dragging the baby for miles leaving Grandma and everyone else screaming at him? And the woman who hit the pedestrian and drove home and parked in her garage with the corpse stuck in her windshield?
yeesh
And the communist Chinese government couldn’t care less about this little girl, or the reaction of these people. What they care about is it being filmed and making them look bad to the world, which they are.
I found it interesting that the woman that DID come to her aid was someone considered probably as the lowest of the low in society there. Trash picker looking for recycleable items. In Turkey where I am a LOT, people look down on them as I’m sure they do there. The people that walked by were the more well-to-do, average people. It’s always the folks like that woman that will do what’s right. Hope many rewards come her way.
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