{"id":10823,"date":"2011-10-21T03:10:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T03:10:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-21T03:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T03:10:39","slug":"Why-was-little-Yue-Yue-ignored-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10823","title":{"rendered":"Why was little Yue Yue ignored?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plight of the two-year-old girl, nicknamed Yue Yue, captured the public imagination after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiancemagazine.com\/news\/2011\/10\/17\/outrage-as-toddler-dies-on-street-in-china\">surveillance camera footage showed her being knocked down first by a van and then several minutes later by a small truck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At least 18 people were shown walking past the girl as she lay in the street critically injured<\/strong>, before a female rubbish collector finally picked her up and moved her to the curb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Several passers-by can be seen stopping to look down at the girl before carrying on, and their failure to help her has triggered speculation the country&#8217;s rapid development and urbanization has made people more selfish.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Millions of Chinese went online to watch the grainy footage of the incident<\/strong>, which took place on October 13 in a narrow market street in the southern Chinese city of Foshan.   <\/p>\n<p>A YouTube screengrab of the Chinese two-year-old girl, nicknamed Yue Yue, bleeding and unconscious on the street after being hit by two vehicles. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UqVYUzHc5L8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>But there has also been much soul-searching about why both the drivers who hit Yue Yue and the passers-by in China&#8217;s wealthiest province, Guangdong, chose to leave her for dead rather than stop and help.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The little girl&#8217;s destiny made us ashamed because she left this world painfully due to our indifference and neglect,&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>posted one commentator online after the hospital treating Yue Yue said she had died.<\/p>\n<p>A commentary in Friday&#8217;s Global Times daily said the incident had exposed the <strong>&#8220;dark side&#8221; of Chinese society.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The Yue Yue incident reminds us of where China is standing on the ladder of its moral development,&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>it said. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;This is what happens in a modern society when many decisions are shaped at a fast pace.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A senior official in Guangdong said the tragedy should be a <strong>&#8220;wake-up call&#8221; for society.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We should look into the ugliness in ourselves with a dagger of conscience and bite the soul-searching bullet,&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> said Wang Yang at a provincial meeting, according to China&#8217;s official Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Some commentators speculated that the failure to help Yue Yue <strong>was motivated by fear of being blamed for her injuries after a high-profile 2006 case in which a driver who stopped to help an elderly woman was later prosecuted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peng Yu, then 26, said he stopped after seeing the woman fall in the eastern city of Nanjing, but she accused him of knocking her down with his car, and a court later ordered him to pay her 45,000 yuan (US$7,000) in damages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The judge in Peng Yu&#8217;s case in Nanjing has destroyed the kindness of a whole nation and it is difficult to recover,&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> wrote one weibo user on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>One sociologist told the Guangdong Daily that many Chinese today do not know how to act in such situations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;People will rationalize and think, if I try to save her but she dies because I can&#8217;t, how will that make me responsible?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> said Fudan University&#8217;s Gu Xiaoming.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Foshan said the drivers of both vehicles that hit the young girl had been detained and would face trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would the people have acted differently if they knew the camera was on them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Source AFP<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plight of the two-year-old girl, nicknamed Yue Yue, captured the public imagination after surveillance camera footage showed her 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