All the simply cant be bother pedestrians! terrible.........

[verykiasu2010]

tankee:

I know of 2 different elderly Singaporean that would pick up litters in their neighbourhood. 1 in Marine Parade and the other in Kembagan.


:offtopic: :siam:

I know, one of them is tankee

[verykiasu2010]

BeContented:

tankee:

[quote=\"sall\"]It is their culture not to help others or they'll be accused of doing something wrong. When dh was in china once, a man dropped his stuff but did not realise it, so dh told him but instead of thanking him, this PRC actually scolded dh and told him to be careful next time. He assumed it was dh who knocked his stuff down. So everybody will just mind their own business or they'll get scolded if they try to be helpful.

:faint:

That's why they are all turning to be so 'cold'. Read somewhere that sometimes kind souls are instead being sued by victims who wanted to get compensations. Since the victims can't get from the culprit, they accused those who helped them instead....
I sure hope Singapore WILL NOT become like this. We must teach our children well and lead by examples......[/quote]truth be told, most of the accident victims would lie on the road and pretend to be seriously injured, hoping to get max compensation; and sometimes passerby can't tell whether the victim's injury is real or not

(not referring to Yue Yue's case)

[poppy15]

verykiasu2010:

tankee:

I know of 2 different elderly Singaporean that would pick up litters in their neighbourhood. 1 in Marine Parade and the other in Kembagan.


:offtopic: :siam:

I know, one of them is tankee

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

and the other one is vk2010..

[MummySTay]

poppy15:

verykiasu2010:

[quote=\"tankee\"]I know of 2 different elderly Singaporean that would pick up litters in their neighbourhood. 1 in Marine Parade and the other in Kembagan.


:offtopic: :siam:

I know, one of them is tankee

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

and the other one is vk2010..[/quote] :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[tankee]

verykiasu2010:

tankee:

I know of 2 different elderly Singaporean that would pick up litters in their neighbourhood. 1 in Marine Parade and the other in Kembagan.


:offtopic: :siam:

I know, one of them is tankee

but but but .... I'm still young .... at heart at least :sad:

[tamarind]

tankee:

sall:

It is their culture not to help others or they'll be accused of doing something wrong. When dh was in china once, a man dropped his stuff but did not realise it, so dh told him but instead of thanking him, this PRC actually scolded dh and told him to be careful next time. He assumed it was dh who knocked his stuff down. So everybody will just mind their own business or they'll get scolded if they try to be helpful.

:faint:

I don't think there is anything in the chinese culture that says you should not help people. Recently there was a case in china when someone helped an elderly who fell down. The elderly's family actually sued the person who helped, falsely accused him of causing the elderly to fall down. The family won the case and the kind person was fined a lot of money. Ever since this case, there were a few other cases of 见死不救. The problem is with their judicial system and government. We cannot make a such general statement of the chinese culture.

[sall]

Maybe shouldn’t use the term ‘culture’. But a lot of PRC behave this way. A lot thought that shouting and pushing and behaving aggressively will get them what they want. So the young kids watch and will follow when they grow up. When they think there’s a chance to demand compensation, then they will do anything to get it, feigning more serious injuries or falsely accusing others.

Of cos, there are still some morally upright ones around.

[verykiasu2010]

sall:

Maybe shouldn't use the term 'culture'. But a lot of PRC behave this way. A lot thought that shouting and pushing and behaving aggressively will get them what they want. So the young kids watch and will follow when they grow up. When they think there's a chance to demand compensation, then they will do anything to get it, feigning more serious injuries or falsely accusing others.

Of cos, there are still some morally upright ones around.

in their overcrowded environment, the loudest got heard first

[tamarind]

I don’t even know whether we should generalize and say that all mainland Chinese people are like that. Perhaps the people in Guangzhou are worst ?


China is a vast and diverse country. When I was working in Wuhan, I actually encountered people who gave up their seats to me on buses without me asking, probably because they thought that I looked very tired.

In June this year I just bought my kids to Lijiang, Yunnan, and we did not encounter any problems there, probably because we stayed at 5 star hotels and got the best service. However, after reading about this incident, I don’t think that I will ever bring them to China again. When they grow up I will let them go to China on their own if they want to. I have been to more than 15 cities in China, and there is only one place I want to go back to on my own, which is Shangri-la. After that I probably will not go back to China again.

[BeContented]

tamarind:

I don't think there is anything in the chinese culture that says you should not help people. Recently there was a case in china when someone helped an elderly who fell down. The elderly's family actually sued the person who helped, falsely accused him of causing the elderly to fall down. The family won the case and the kind person was fined a lot of money. Ever since this case, there were a few other cases of 见死不救. The problem is with their judicial system and government. We cannot make a such general statement of the chinese culture.

Cannot just push to the judicial system and govt.
In the first place, the elderly & the family is seriously sick in the mind to even try to accuse the kind person. 忘恩负义。

For me, I will not want to go China & definitely will not bring my kids along.