E-China Cities says:
On October 13th, this common expat anecdote reached a new all-time low, when a two year-old girl snuck away from her mother, wandered into the street of a hardware market in Foshan (Guangdong Province) and was run-over by a vehicle… twice. Meanwhile, a surveillance camera filmed 18 people, completely ignoring the situation, while they passed by the small crippled body lying in the middle of the street. Seven minutes after she was hit by the first vehicle, a 57 year-old rag collector finally noticed the girl and moved her to the curb. The woman tried asking the nearby shopkeeper to help find the girl’s mother to no avail. Moments later the mother appeared and rushed away with the girl. Footage from a surveillance camera filmed the entire shocking and heartbreaking scene.
As an expat living here in China, it is in moments like these we might feel that, for all of our hard work learning the language and adapting to the cultural differences, we apparently still don’t understand why people act the way they do here (or in cases like this, don’t act). Why do Chinese display such apathy in these sorts of "life or death" situations? Simply put, where are the Chinese Good Samaritans?
Read more: http://www.echinacities.com/expat-corner/why-chinese-see-a-stranger-suffering-and-do-nothing.html
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