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Originally Posted by FlameOn
Bystander effect? Wasn't there some lady in NYC like Kitty Genovese (sp? from what I read in freakonomics) or something like that where more than 15+ people watched the lady get stabbed repeatedly and no one reported it? It happens in more than just China.
I'm not disputing that there is an overall problem in China. I think the sheer lack of empathy, manners, culture and consideration in China has a lot to do with the backwards communist era policies and subsequent relaxation more than anything else. Chinese one child policies and subsequent relaxation of economic policies to allow for capitalism has created an environment of spoiled children. Parents and grandparents get vastly richer than the previous generations and their very few children get more and more spoiled/inconsiderate/less empathetic.
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I spend a lot of time speaking with my mother in law about the cultural revolution and life before, during and afterwards. One thing she has spoken of frequently was how prior to the revolution families living next to each other would be very neighbourly and would share openly with each other and take care of each other, but that during the years of the revolution people learned not to trust anyone outside their closest family because you didn't know anymore what a person could say about you that might end up with you being shot, having your hair shaved off, being publically shamed or punished in some other way. I often wonder how responsible that is for the difference in thinking about family vs. others that there is now.
The article Pylon posted in the WRGMG thread was very good for this too.