Posted on 10/18/2011 8:35:37 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
Horrific footage captured on CCTV in Foshan, Guangdong province Thursday afternoon and now making the rounds on the Chinese version of Twitter, Weibo, shows a two-year-old toddler being run over by a van as she walks across the street.
In the minutes that follow, dozens of passersby walk around the bleeding girl, not stopping to look at or help her. A cyclist takes a wide berth around the body to avoid the body. One woman, holding her daughter’s hand, looks at the toddler and walks past as quickly as she can. And a second truck, apparently not realizing there is a body on the road, rolls over her, too. Not a single person stops to help the child until a trash collector who sees her moves her out of the road.
Shanghaiist, among the first English-language sites to report on the video, wrote Sunday: “Seven minutes, 18 passersby, and not one person decided to lift a finger. The only Good Samaritan, as it turned out, was a trash collector. Somewhere in here is a parable of life.”
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Why would people react this way? Is it the anti-girl culture created by the one-child policy? Is it the soulessness of communism? Is it the legal nightmare that a good Samaritan may face?
Whatever it is, China needs to take a look at what's been created... and shudder.
WARNING: VERY, VERY disturbing video on web page
WTF!?
Communism, unpure and simple.
If you would like to take a closer look at Communism, read a book written by Christian missionary to China, Gladys Aylward titled, Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman. You can also read The Small Woman by Alan Burgess. It’s eye-opening, inspiring, and heart-wrenching.
Sorry, I did a word search first and found no other threads.
It has happened to me also - but it is a good story and some people haven’t seen it.
Such thing happen in other countries too as people do not want to get involved.
A bud of mine here in L.A. works for Universal Studios and he went to Shanghai along with some Universal guys to meet with a Chinese conglomerate who wanted to open a theme park.
The Chinese guys wanted to place Mickey Mouse, daffy Duck, Superman etc in every ride, and my bud said that due to copyright concerns they cannot do that.
The Chinese had no concept of copyright, property and intellectual properties etc that they were shocked they had to explain the concept to these old commie millionaires who apparently thought that stealing of other people’s creations was acceptable. The ride designer on their team said “once we set foot back in L.A, we should be sued if we did what they asked of us”.
WTF is wrong with those people?!?!
I understand completely. A buddy of mine recently returned from Asia. He had been studying abroad, and lived in a region near Communist, China. He was astonished to discover that the locals simply had no concept of liberty. None whatsoever. They could not grasp the concept of freedom as we know it here in this country.
We, as Americans, can’t grasp the concept of the absence to liberty to that extent. I’m grateful for my ignorance.
That wasn’t even the end of the story. My buddy went back to L.A and a team from Singapore wanted him to consult, so he went to Singapore the next 3 weeks and he pitched the same stuff to the Singapore consortium.
On a lunch break with his Singaporean hosts, they asked him how his meetings with the Chinese went, and he went into story mode. The Singapore guys started LOL and he asked them why they were laughing, and they told him “negotiating business with Chinese is like explaining light bulbs to cavemen”. He understood and laughed too.
“negotiating business with Chinese is like explaining light bulbs to cavemen”.
Priceless.
Another buddy of mine worked in S. America for a while. Dangerous job too. He was shocked by how cheap life was treated by the company bosses and workers. Men dyed on the job regularly, and the mentality was, “keep it movin’, keep it movin’.”
They are also refreshingly frank and honest. If you are stuck doing business with the Chi-Coms, it is often well worth the extra cost to work through a trusted intermediary in Singapore to mitigate the risk.
I have a little different take than a lot of people. I’ve lived in a number of foreign countries, and my husband has flown in a lot more. A pilot in a taxi once saw a body floating in a ditch and wanted the taxi to stop. The taxi driver made if quite clear that the guy was already dead and one never stops because they’ll be the one charged with the death / accident. In many countries, he who “smelt” it dealt it. The good samaritan is only understood in a Judeo-Christian culture.
Even those in America who hate the God they don’t believe in don’t realize they are living off the capital of a Judeo-Christian based society that honors and reveres life, and those values play out in society. Read a new book out “A Heart For Freedom” by Chai Ling (heard her on Hugh Hewitt I think) “The remarkable journey of a young dissident, her daring escape, and her quest to free China’s daughters”, she speaks of Tianamen Square, and the devastation of the evil one child policy that has caused so many abortions of females, and the subsequent denigration of girls in that country. It’s no wonder about the hit and run.
Either a lot of identical delivery vehicles or the white van came back by twice.
I’ve lived in China for quite a few years, and their society is actually improving, in terms of compassion and openness. Wealth, more freedom, more respect for law and property over the last 20 years have helped.
But their society is climbing out of a deep hole. Communists destroyed the relations among and between people. Mao and the extreme Left’s goal was to destroy anything that might bind people to anything besides the State. Everything was materialism and everything was politics - absolute control in search of the new Marxist man. It made people cynical, guarded and even brutal.
At least now though, many in their society recognize this.
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