Mainland China has got some issues

[MrMastodonFarm]

"If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands yuan," said the driver over the phone to the media, before he gave himself up to the police.

[schteve_d]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Quote:
"If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands yuan," said the driver over the phone to the media, before he gave himself up to the police.

Holy crap.

[West Karma]

She passed away overnight! R.I.P. little Angel!!

[Byrns]

Ever since I heard this story I've hugged my 18m daughter a little tighter whenever I can. Your life was short, but you touched mine.

[CaptainCrunch]

What a waste, seriously.

Everytime I think about this I see that video of people going by her or steering oround her or that pig in the second truck that casually rolled over her.

If there's a hell its waiting for those two, and the fires are hungry.

[OilKiller]

Awful end to a poor innocent child's life who deserved so much more.

[afc wimbledon]

They shoot enough people in China, please tell me they are going to put two in the back off the head to at least the drivers.

[GirlySports]

I guess the good news here is that because of the video and the attention the drivers were caught. I'm sure there are other such incidents that go unpunished.

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There is no goodwill in China so when someone does something good, it must be for personal gain. That's what people believe there.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

There is no goodwill in China so when someone does something good, it must be for personal gain. That's what people believe there.

I had so many struggles with my Chinese parent-in-laws. They couldn't believe anything at face value. There always had to be some kind of ulterior motive for anything that was good or generous - it had to mean something else, never just common decency or generosity. They were so jaded they thought Canada wasn't even a democracy, that our votes didn't matter and that everything was already decided ahead of time.

[pylon]

I worked with a Chinese guy that could never understand charity. When I was gearing up, and fundraising for the Enbridge Cancer ride, he asked how much of the donations I got to keep... seriously. "I said none, 100% goes to charity." He could not understand why I would "waste my time" with that for people you don't even know, and said I should take some cash donations, and keep them. This is a guy that has been in Canada for 10 years too.

Seeing what is going on with this incident is helping me understand why he thought/felt that way.

[habernac]

Dave Bidini opines:

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/...205/story.html

[JohnnyB]

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Originally Posted by habernac

Dave Bidini opines:

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/...205/story.html

This article totally misses the mark from my point of view. Life certainly is hard for most of China's population, but the way that article is written is ultimately a story of a guy from the developed world looking at poverty and saying "this country is full of sadness". Having to take a dump with pigs is ultimately not a problem that makes a person's life sad. It's injustice, abuses of power, lack of trust and security and rising pressure that makes a life unhappy. No doubt those are realities for many, many people in this country and a much bigger problem than having to squat with pigs.

[Yasa]

This bump is not an update on the little girl, but I figure this would be a good place to post this. There are other problems concerning Mainland China, problems that will take decades to fix. Pretty crazy.

http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/...28ChinaHush%29

October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”