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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Don't forget that Chinese youth have grown up in the Golden Shield/Great Chinese Firewall generation. They don't know anything about the Cultural Revolution or Tibet or Tiananmen Square or anything!
They just know that they can make more money now then was ever possible.
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Oh noes! You mentioned the forbidden words in the thread, now it will be blocked for JohnnyB in Shanghai.
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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
There's definitely a growing battle in the psyche of many Chinese right now between the practical and the valued. Loads of Chinese people do feel genuinely upset about a lot of the unethical choices they need to make, but continue to make them as they feel there is no choice. The expansion of social media (hindered though it may be) is giving those conflicted ethical positions more and more voice though.
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Really its one a many cases where the government isn't serving the people. Unfortunately in China, change doesn't happen unless the government becomes sufficiently embarrassed over an incident. Hopefully the media will pick this up and things will change a bit.
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Originally Posted by pylon
I have been elbow deep in the blood of strangers twice in my life as a first responder. You do not do that for a reward, you do that because it is the right thing to do as a human.
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Would you be a first responder if you could be sued or imprisoned for saving a life? Totally agree with what you said earlier about protection and good Samaritan laws. Needs to be implemented so at least people who try to help don't get punished for it.