What is wrong with the Chinese ?  Boy riding toy car in street - no one stopped - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 06:12:09 am
content: This would never happen in the US:Why are they like this? Are they are country of narcissus psychopaths (like my Chinese wife) ?blueskill what do you think? Does it make you not want to return?This is a followup to a topic on running people over (several times) in China to make sure they are dead. I would say this gives that credit.

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 07:03:20 am
content: There is a weird cultural thing where bystanders are reluctant to help people in need. Mainly because they don't want to get sued. It's fucked.https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2011-09-08/in-china-don-t-dare-help-the-elderly-adam-minter

author: P90
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 07:07:28 am
content: Darwinism at work...

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 08:48:03 am
content: At least they didn't run the kid down...

author: setq
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 10:04:05 am
content: This shit happens everywhere. Not just china.Only last Friday I watched a 5 year old get knocked off his feet by a driver after he ran across the front of it here in London. Parent was too busy nattering about unimportant things outside a local shop and he just ran across an A-road. Fortunately just cuts and bruises and new pants for the driver. The parent I know relatively well and is a serial fucktard who is perpetually running around in a panic shouting her kids names because she has lost them.I live somewhere that has had several abductions and a murder in the last couple of years.Idiots that is all.

author: Alex Eisenhut
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 10:48:34 am
content: Oh yes, never.Things far worse and much stupider happen every day in your part of the world.

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 12:02:47 pm
content: China is a little bit different, but many emerging countries where they practice 'fatalist' religions are like this.If you die, you die. God meant for your time to be up, so if it's cancer, tricycle or falling off a cliff - no-one should question it.Odd in our understanding, but that seems to float their collective boats.As education and secular politics reach these places, they are (very) slowly starting to realise that building their shanty hut on a rail track may not be protected by God.Religion has NO place in administering government. None.

author: Homer J Simpson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 12:46:58 pm
content: Could give his parents a ticket since he was going the wrong way.

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 01:04:18 pm
content: Holy crap Alex. That's in my neck of the woods and while those from not anywhere near the Philadelphia area may not be fully aware, that road is bad enough to attempt in a car. Like the white SUV that appears to force the big wheel guy over - doesn't matter if that was a guy on a big wheel or a Big Rig, that SUV driver would have done the same thing. It's how the idiots drive around the city. There's only one worse road in the area, and the one they were on leads right to it.

author: station240
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 03:22:30 pm
content: Obviously not seen this video thenSeriously they could have easily killed someone. The authorities did yell at them afterwards.

author: rstofer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 03:27:40 pm
content: The kid wanted to run with the big dogs. It was either that or stay on the porch!

author: Sal Ammoniac
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 04:00:13 pm
content: Perhaps they just think "no big deal if the kid buys it, there're 1.5 billion more."

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 02, 2016, 05:50:28 pm
content: To be honest people in the UK don't intervene either. As for chine it sounds like accelerated growth in available technology but not the education to deal with it.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2016, 01:12:44 am
content: Another factor is that the child was a lot safer on that Chinese street, than on a Western street. The driving practice (I won't say 'road rules') is that anything at all can be on the road including pedestrians. Drivers just have to do two things - don't hit things, and don't suddenly change trajectory or speed. Knowing everyone is doing the latter, makes the former easier.As a result you can step into heavy traffic and walk calmly across the road. So long as you don't make any sudden changes you will almost certainly be be fine.The real risk with that child was that being low down he could be hidden to cars behind. That nearly got him a couple of times in the video.Point being that drivers are used to seeing all sorts of stuff on the road, and would have to think twice about the child - but wouldn't have time to stop and block traffic if they did decide to.Plus what's been said, about being more insular. I wasn't saying the driving practice was the sole reason, just a factor.Maybe also Darwin has more supporters in China.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 03, 2016, 01:24:58 am
content: Please don't post this off-topic stuff.