Dying toddler ignored in China – but are we any better?
Tuesday 25th October 2011, 12:13AM BST.
We are appalled by those terrible bystanders in the Chinese city of Foshan who saw a two-year-old girl knocked over in the road but did nothing, writes Peter Rhodes.
Video footage shows Wang Yue lying helpless as more than a dozen passers-by ignore her. She is run over again and dies later of her injuries.
The moral, according to various self-righteous pundits, is that China is a land obsessed with money where no-one care about anyone else any more.
Whereas in Britain, what exactly?
Over the years I have seen three life-threatening crises where the Great British Public gawped and passed by (in one case driving around the helpless, bleeding scooter rider) and did damn-all to help.
You think Brits would take more attention of a two-year-old? Then you clearly never heard the evidence at the 1993 James Bulger murder trial. We heard how dozens of adults saw two lads dragging a toddler off to his death – and no-one did a thing.
City of Foshan – twinned with your town, my town, any town.
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”the great british public gawped and passed by….”
i dislike such sweeping generalisations. i’m part of the great british public who you’re so gleeful to deride, but i wasn’t even there, let alone gawping and passing by
you paint such a bleak picture of your own country and its people. go and find a job in the Chinese press and slag their citizens off, and good luck with it sir!
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