This is purported to be from mainland China. I can’t understand the reporter in the video, so maybe someone who speaks the language can confirm it, but if it is mainland China, and the video is real… it’s beyond words. What kind of people are these?
I am kinda neutral towards China / trade with China / the whole US vs China thing. Live/let live, to each his own, different cultures hard to judge etc. But if this video is not fake, this is forcing me to change my mind.
For those who don’t want to see the disturbing video - a mini-truck runs over a girl (child I think) in the street and just continues on. People are walking by the injured (dying?) girl on the pavement without paying any attention whatsoever.
Another reason is Chinese sort the world into two sharply dimarcated categories. 自己人(Our people, ie. family and close friends) and 外人 (outsiders, ala everyone else.) Chinese care more about the people close to them, thus they have less energy for outsiders.
Is it really an assumption of the court or a finding of the court? Look at the case the article cited. The court didn’t just automatically tell Peng Yu he had to pay for Xu Shoulan’s medical treatment. There was a hearing. Xu testified that it was Peng who had originally knocked her down. Peng testified that it hadn’t been him and he found her already on the ground. The court decided Xu was more credible and ordered Peng to pay a portion of her medical expenses.
Unless you were present and saw what happened, you have to admit it’s quite possible Xu was telling the truth and the court’s ruling was correct.
Recently I came across a Chinese Joke in an English text book here…
“A mother and her 6 year old child are walking on the street, when they see a little girl trip and fall. The son goes to help the girl up and the mother says ‘if you help her, people will think you knocked her down. Stay out of it’ Later they go home. The Mother is cooking dinner, and she goes into another room, and knocks over the bottle of oil. She doesn’t notice, but her son does. As she come back into the room she sees the oil has all run out of the bottle. Angry , she says to her son ‘Why didn’t you pick the bottle back up?’ Her son says ‘If I picked it up, people would think I knocked it over.’”
That looks extremely fake. The toddler was fine but the actual running over, come on sheeple.
The commentary is in Cantonese. Eg, very likely to be sensationalist “news” in Hong Kong.
I didn’t watch the whole thing. After living in mainland China for over 15 years, this does not pass the smell test.
It’s the “national sport” in China to gather around and gawk at anything: street arguement, couple arguing, a Westerner, an accident, etc.
You obviously don’t have much understanding of China if you think that toddlers would get run over and there would not be a crowd of people forming instantly. Now, agreed, that crowd *may *not do anything but in my experience they certainly *would *do something.
You have a better cite than that article? Not saying that it couldn’t happen in China, after all it’s a big country and a lotta shit happens there. That said, it has not been my experience in 15 years that helping someone means you are responsible.
Translation
A girl around 3 years old was playing in the market [off the road[. A car suddenly knocked her down. From the pressure of the front and back wheel, the girl’s heart stopped and she lay prone. She was still alive(lit. She still had lifesigns)， but many people just walked on by, utterly indifferent and unconcerned. A few minutes later, a van drove over her, crushing her tiny body. As she lay dying, she unceasingly waved her tiny hands in a futile attempt to make one of the many passing people help her. They just coldly ignored her and walked on by. More than a few cars passed by, it was very dangerous. A friend counted 20 people who walked past her in the 9 minute video, even mothers carrying their own children didn’t care enough to stop.
Some motorists stopped to gawk at the hurt child but none was willing to pull her to safety nor call the emergency services. Her crys of pain were ignored until a poor street scavenger found her and carried her around and went to to find her mother.
I’m almost crying… by the time the street scavenger found her, she was entirely like a noodle. Where is human [decency]!!!
Get your hands moving, share this on your microblog, lets round up a mob and cage this beast of a driver.
Doesn’t anyone else think this is faked? Look, there is no freaking way that people would walk by and not even glance down at the kid. And there is absolutely no freaking way in China that a crowd would not form.
Having never been there, I have no idea how Chinese society reacts.
I hope like hell it’s fake and am most happy to have someone with experience to say they believe that also.
I know people can be uncaring asses, but that is beyond the pale. I would be profoundly grateful to have it be fake if only to not have it be real in my imagination.
Who remembers Kitty Genovese (wikipedia)? – 36 to 38 neighbors watched and did nothing. Later reports raised controversy over whether that’s the way it actually was. But the sensational after-the-fact publicity provoked national soul-searching (or at least nationwide talking-about-soul-searching). But these kinds of things seem to keep happening here and there every so often.
Actually the Genovese incident has been pretty much entirely debunked. There were never the amount of witnesses early reports claimed, nobody witnessed the entire crime, and those who did witness part of the crime took action. There were calls to the police and at least one person who came out to help Genovese.
the program is sensationalist, but the video doesn’t look fake. the street has no sidewalk and the timeframe may not have been long enough for a crowd to gather. the passers-by did glance down at the kid. (including the first monster who all but walked over her when he skirted passed. )
the girl was animated, there was a trail of blood(?) and the car did bump over something. you brought a good point on the gawking, but otherwise it appears genuine enough.
It’s also typical behavior in totalitarian societies. Don’t stick out, don’t get involved, don’t get the authorities interested in you; nothing good can come from it. It’s a survival mechanism.
It’s not like the Hongkies have anything to be proud of. From a post I made in a thread eight years ago:
Though the Beijing story confirms that you’re likely to have a huge group gawping. Pretty much every street incident I’ve ever seen in China involves Olympic standard gawping.