"Why Did Crowd Flee Shanghai Subway After Foreigner Fainted? "

[Skywatcher]

From the thread about “Little Yueyue”:

@Namkcalb

This is all too common. This is the main reason I don’t want to live in Communist China

Part of it is due to the assumption in Chinese courts that the person who helps is responsible for the accident.

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.

@simple_homer

I have been living and working in China for several years.

Before I first went to China I had to have surgery inside my throat while I was still in America.
When I first arrived in China I had to go to the local hospital for a physical and blood tests, as do all foreigners in China on a work visa.

While I was at the hospital I sought out the head of the ENT department, introduced myself, and since he spoke English I explained the surgery that I has recently had and told him I would return to see him for a follow up visit.

A few nights later a blood vessel in my throat hemorrhaged and was bleeding into my lungs and I was coughing up a large quantity of blood. A foreign co-worker rushed me to the same hospital and I was quickly surrounded by 8 doctors including the head of the ENT department.
The doctors stood in a group about 15 feet away from me and refused to go near me.

I was sitting on the examination table crying and begging them to help me.
The foreign co-worker was also begging them to help me.
My Chinese boss stood with the doctors and said nothing.
Eventually I passed out from a lack of blood.

While I was passed out one of the nurses was sent to take a blood sample from me.
My blood was tested for AIDS, and of course I do not have AIDS.
The same hospital had tested me just a few days prior for AIDS as a requirement for my work visa.

Only when the blood test came back negative would the doctors approach me and take me into the operating room to go inside my throat to cauterize and stop the bleeding.

So, I am still in China, but I have no problem believing that accident victims can and will be ignored or watched, and not helped, due to fear and ignorance.