Chinese girl dies after being struck by truck - WARNING: Links contain graphic images.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is sad what happened. I cannot imagine ever leaving someone to their death without helping.

That said, in reading some of the responses in this post, I hope that this will not translate into discrimination or typecasting of asians (chinese or otherwise).

This has nothing to do with asians, or even Chinese people. It has everything to do with the current societal culture in China. In a country of 1.3 billion people, there are obviously countless kind, giving, empathetic individuals. But overall, it's nasty, brutish, and unforgiving in a way that makes the US look like a bastion of compassion.

adding to this, i think you can say this about many countries, not just china. this includes the US. people just seem to be losing the humanistic touch these days because of technology. we hide behind emails, twitter, facebook, texting, surfing the internet, etc and are not connecting with one another. i am saying this as someone who loves technology any my latest devices. my thoughts are with yue yue and i wish her peace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do not watch the video. Do not.

I did. And I'm very sorry that I did.

+1

I can't get the images out of my head.

+1 me too. I kept thinking about that little girl who was suffering in unimaginable pain while people just walked by. Sickening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do not watch the video. Do not.

I did. And I'm very sorry that I did.

+1

I can't get the images out of my head.

+1 me too. I kept thinking about that little girl who was suffering in unimaginable pain while people just walked by. Sickening.

[Anonymous]

What's worse? Good citizens who are not allowed to be kind because of a stupid law or a place where there's freedom and people choose to ignore or mock those in need?

[Anonymous]

I am furious at the driver who hit her. She was right there, walking down the middle of the street. The driver MUST have seen her! This was not a case of a child darting out into traffic at the last minute. She was right there, toddling down the center of the road and the van just drives straight on-- it's sickening!!!!!

[Anonymous]

UPDATE:

According to CNN, the child has died.

I also read a report that the woman who pulled the child out of the street and called for help was given a reward for doing so, and that immediately people in that city felt the woman had only done this act in order to get a reward and as a result, the rescuer now feels threatened and had to go into hiding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did not click on the link but this is so very horrible. And was the video shot with a cell phone? If so, who stands there with a cell phone watching a child go through this? Monstrous.

I believe the video was shot by a mounted survelliance camera. No person was filming.

[Anonymous]

I love China and have traveled extensively in China (months at a time) on several occasions.

Anyone who has spent any length of time in China recognizes that there is very subtle but fundamental disregard for human life there that is very disturbing. Millions of people live in horrible poverty and the government does nothing. 100 people will die in a government sponsored bridge project (because it was cheaper to do less safely) and by-in-large the society doesn't bat an eye. Female abortions occur by the hundreds of thousands (and infanticide is common in some parts) It's so striking to me and in sharp contrast to life here in the states where regardless of one's religion (or lack of religion) there is a fundamental belief that human life is sacred and to be protected at all costs. Not true in China and it definitely originates from the government and trickles down into the subconscious of the people.

That said, i individually met hundreds of gracious and compassionate Chinese people.

[Anonymous]

It is a mistake to ignore the cultural implications of a government and society built on the ideas that human life is not intrinsically valuable and the state is God. China currently has about 30 million men with no hope of getting married, and that number grows every day. This has never happened before in human civilization (just as Japan's age imbalance has never happened). Human trafficking, cheap abortions, "sharing" of females--this is all happening at an unimaginable scale already. And it is all taking place BECAUSE human life is not seen as sacred. And these attitudes are being exported (India, for example).

Ideas have consequences. Political theory changes the direction of humanity. What will China do with its millions of "surplus" men, especially as they start to destabilize society?

This article should give several foreboding hints as to how this little girl died such a horrible death--it was written about a year ago:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265068/China-The-worlds-new-superpower-beginning-century-supremacy-alarming-surplus-males.html

[Anonymous]

What's more, China's going to have an old person surplus in about 20-30 years just like Japan is, as the little emperors' parents begin to age.

[Anonymous]

This really scares me. A journalist once wrote how dangerous it will be for all of us if they decide to create an army of bomb men or kamikazes... they don't care about other human beings and they have no perspective of a better life for themselves. So so scary!

Anonymous wrote:It is a mistake to ignore the cultural implications of a government and society built on the ideas that human life is not intrinsically valuable and the state is God. China currently has about 30 million men with no hope of getting married, and that number grows every day. This has never happened before in human civilization (just as Japan's age imbalance has never happened). Human trafficking, cheap abortions, "sharing" of females--this is all happening at an unimaginable scale already. And it is all taking place BECAUSE human life is not seen as sacred. And these attitudes are being exported (India, for example).

Ideas have consequences. Political theory changes the direction of humanity. What will China do with its millions of "surplus" men, especially as they start to destabilize society?

This article should give several foreboding hints as to how this little girl died such a horrible death--it was written about a year ago:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265068/China-The-worlds-new-superpower-beginning-century-supremacy-alarming-surplus-males.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do not watch the video. Do not.

I did. And I'm very sorry that I did.

Thank you. Actually I saw this on another website yesterday, and as soon as I hit play and saw the white van approaching the little girl I paused and could no longer watch. I'm so glad I didn't see it. May you rest in piece sweet Yueyue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do not watch the video. Do not.

I did. And I'm very sorry that I did.

Thank you. Actually I saw this on another website yesterday, and as soon as I hit play and saw the white van approaching the little girl I paused and could no longer watch. I'm so glad I didn't see it. May you rest in peace sweet Yueyue.

Sorry, that should be "peace".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I should preface the rest of this by saying that we have a lot of Chinese and Chinese-American friends and that they have been nothing but kind to us.
However, last year I was somewhere where lots of Chinese families congregate regularly (don't want to give any further details). All of a sudden, I heard high pitched howling through the crowd, and looking around, saw people's stares fixed on one specific spot beyond my sight.
I walked through the crowd towards the howling and saw a little boy lying on the ground screaming and holding his head, while another boy sat next to him and was trying to comfort him. None of the adults around had moved to help.
I knelt next to the boy and asked what had happened and his friend told me that they were rough housing and the boy had slipped and hit his head on the ground (hard paved surface). I asked the boy to try to see if he could stand up (he could), and checked him for one of the immediate tell-tale signs of head trauma (I'm not a doctor but my kids have hit their head on the ground on occasion too), asked him where his parents were (they'd dropped him off), and took him to one of the adults responsible for the event and explained what had happened.
Throughout this, not a single other adult around intervened in any way. I have wondered since what would have happened if the kid had had some serious issue and I hadn't happened to be there--I assume someone would have intervened, but how long would it have taken?

three questions: 1) are you certain they're Chinese? 2) are they Chinese immigrants or native-born Chinese American? 3) race of the boy?

1/yes mostly Chinese parents ( a few Chinese Americans, meaning second generation) with American-born kids
2/see 1
3/Chinese-American

why is 3 even relevant to anything? It's a kid in pain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where were her parents???? She was laying in the road for quite some time-- why did her parents leave a 2 year old to wander by herself on a busy street?

That's what I want to know.

Did the child wander? Were her parents looking for her?