This is EXACTLY the reason why I wanted to leave Taiwan. And before any Taiwanese write to me saying "This was in CHINA, not Taiwan." It doesn't matter. I've been to China, and I've been to Taiwan, and you guys drive and act exactly the same. I've stated on my blog a few times that when my daughter was a baby, I was pushing her stroller (in a crosswalk) across a busy intersection in Taiwan and not a single car stopped for us. Nobody gave a shit. My friend David was hit by a car in Taiwan (he was also in a crosswalk, and he was walking with a cane at the time).
You Taiwanese and Chinese really need to look into yourselves and examine your character. I know there are many who are good, decent people, but it's people like this that make the rest of the world feel disgusted with your country. Neither my Taiwanese wife nor I would ever want to raise our kids in such a place as this. To me, this is hell on earth.
WARNING: This video is somewhat graphic.
Hi Ken,
ReplyDeleteThe girl has since died of her injuries.
It may have all come from a court case in 2006 when a man was accused of helping an elderly woman getting back up on the street. The man saw the woman fall while driving by and stopped to help her. The old lady accused him of ramming her with his car and the judge ordered him to pay $7,000 in damages to her. Knowing that Chinese do have very little health insurance and their wages are somewhat on the low side, it makes now sense to think twice helping your brother over in China on the street.
Also, it may be a genger issue, too, as this was a girl, and not a boy.
I experienced the same in the Philippines. Nobody looks after kids here on the street. I once had to stop my car, go to a child sleeping on the sidewalk while his legs were covering the street where cars were just passing by. Nobody gave a shit about this kid, lying there half on the road. I woke him up and told the kid: "Your legs are on the road". He was even surprised that I came to warm him of the danger.
It's a little: "Me first and who cares about others", around here.
Ralph
I hate to call a spade a spade, but i have to say it: The Chinese are Klingons; a different culture with little reverence for life. That is just the way it is. They don't see things the way westerners do.
ReplyDeleteI really get a laugh out of the media in how they say the Chinese are doing some soul-searching about this video. It is doubtful that a handful out the billion people there even gave it a second thought.
The Chinese, for the most part, are developmentally arrested at their ids and have never gotten past it. They are self-centered like children who are never taught their manners. I was reminded of this last night as I browsed watches at Yodobashi, the big electronics store in Osaka. As I stood at the counter, a group of men surprised me by literally pushing me right out of the way to see at the watches I was browsing. I blurted out a profanity and sarcastically said "Sumimasen!", which is Japanese for excuse me. They completely ignored me and kept talking to each other. I then noticed they were speaking Mandarin. That's when I realized. The Japanese clerk behind the counter gave me a sympathetic look, bowed and said Gomennasai (I'm sorry). The Japanese are just as appalled as we are by Chinese behavior.
My friend David (Jesuit Monkey Fan) also wrote an interesting blog about this incident. He put up some other videos too just to clarify his point. You should check it out:
ReplyDeletehttp://meigourenadventures.blogspot.com/2011/10/typical-chinese-drivers.html
That other blog is pure bullshit. The Chinese are noble and honorable people who invented kites and something else. It is not their fault that you are too much of an imperialist to understand that great cultures are about the collective, not the individual.
ReplyDeleteThe differences between China and Taiwan are purely political. The culture, language and food are the same.
Yes is an old post I know but since no one mind saying anything here, there’s one thing I must say
ReplyDeleteTaiwan and Japan culture is almost the same since... Japan establishes themselves in Taiwan for a while BETWEEN 1895 and 1945. The incident with the people speaking mandarin were probably Chinese only they are so rude (most of them at least) but seen how that country is managing itself is no wonder.
I work as a translator in big events where different countries promote their own products, and I once work with a Chinese person... I’m half Latino and half Taiwanese.
My boss wanted me to lie about certain details on the product so it could be sell and get a distributor in this country really quick (which I apologize and said I couldn’t say such things and wondered why I decided to work in the china side that year... instead of Taiwan, Korea or even Japan, since she insulted me for it. saying *IM PAYING FOR YOUR SERVICES, NOT FOR YOU TO QUESTION ME*).
After the 3 days that lasted the event. I remember my boss telling me to ride the bus with them to help her take stuff to her hotel; the interesting thing is that every participant is supposed to pay a fee to keep their stand and all the stuff they use is more of a symbolic fee.
While we were crossing the door she told me to skip that line and we went out without paying, so we finally arrive to the Chinese Merchants bus and surprised all the Chinese ppl somehow was already in the bus, so fast I supposed all they did the same.
The bus was not a pleasant place to be for me at least, they started screaming yelling, and trash talking about other countries participating in the event like *They are idiots for paying the taxes, and all those fees the events requested * laugh and keep insulting everyone that wasn’t Chinese, from Taiwan to Brazil and other countries. Since they were still in line and doing what they are supposed to do and keeping order…. While they were on the bus going to the hotel so they could enjoy the rest of their day.
I really thought if someone in that bus find out I was half Taiwanese I wonder what would have happen… I could see myself been thrown out the window without getting pay for my services.
Last but no less I found a site that explain how Taiwan and Japan culture are pretty much not different… but Taiwan to China THERES THIS HUGE ABYSMAL DIFFERENCE in culture and ETHICS! and.. trust me taiwan and china food are really DIFFERENT in HYGIENE and kind of food principally to verify that go watch bizaree foods with Andrew Zimmern really good show. the only thing we have alike is language mandarin and theres a reason for that which I will leave as homework.
So please don’t be that fast to judge without checking deeper in details I had more awkward experience with Chinese… people but those are other stories. (I look more latino weird right? so for them is hard to tell im asian till I talk in mandarin)
http://www.forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=74070
An extract from the site
"It is said, Culture wise "being a great host" was a custom learned from the Japanese. When you are a visiting friend, Taiwanese folks will usually play hosts, from making you comfortable to treating you dinner. "