The Bystander Effect, named after the Murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964. She was murdered mere feet away from her apartment building, while people just looked.Berithil said:
A public beating... against a child
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The sense of "justice" in that part of the world is perplex and as Christianity is taught from birth over there, the sense of "justice" is taught there.
If that kid is a pickpocket then they are not racist but preforming what they believe to be their civic duty. In Kenya if you shout the words "stop thief" and point, an entire mob will drop what they are doing, charge after the individual and in most cases beat them to death if that accused person runs.
Different people around the world, different customs. We can't judge them by our own standards (though that doesn't mean we can't damn try to change them).
Its horrific but... that's their world.
(I can't speak Chinese but if you can please tell us if they are beating a thief or a child for being a different race, as if its the latter all I just wrote is irrelevant and they are evil etc)
If that kid is a pickpocket then they are not racist but preforming what they believe to be their civic duty. In Kenya if you shout the words "stop thief" and point, an entire mob will drop what they are doing, charge after the individual and in most cases beat them to death if that accused person runs.
Different people around the world, different customs. We can't judge them by our own standards (though that doesn't mean we can't damn try to change them).
Its horrific but... that's their world.
(I can't speak Chinese but if you can please tell us if they are beating a thief or a child for being a different race, as if its the latter all I just wrote is irrelevant and they are evil etc)
Why does this have to be racist? Maybe the kid stole something and it pissed them off. Maybe they would have doen the same thing regardless of colour.
Personally, I couldn't make it more than a minute into the video. It is disgusting awful behaviour, but it's not necessarily racist. Right?
Personally, I couldn't make it more than a minute into the video. It is disgusting awful behaviour, but it's not necessarily racist. Right?
Chinese culture is generally opposite to the western cultures. I have a few friends from China (or with parents from China) and they said the reason they moved to Canada was to get away from this shit. They even say that the only government worse than China's is North Korea's. Never would have guessed it would be this bad though. How about we make them the new Russians for videogame enemies? Its not like they would care anyways.
I believe that the Bystander Effect, while it is certainly in play here to a degree, isn't the only reason. The Bystander Effect simply means that people will push off responsibility and often ignore certain events.TrilbyWill said:
Not only did these people gather around the beating, which means they do not choose to avoid it, some of them were actually laughing and commenting on it. So no, it might be easy to just say "Bystander Effect" and be done with it, but it alone doesn't cut it in this case.
If this is really true, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.Berithil said:
Seriously though, this is fucking sickening to watch. So is that one case where a little kid got crushed by two trucks and everyone just walked by. Some of them walking around the poor kid.
What the fuck is wrong with people!?
http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/masonry/000/115/702/128978689697120110725-22047-1urgw2g.png?1318992465TheDarkEricDraven said:dead.juice said:
Are...uh...are you sure about that?
Owned.
Bruce, Sonny, Jet and Jackie are exceptions. Also Sonny is the most badass out the group. The REAL Street Fighter movie was so violent it got an X rating on the sheer violent content that was in it. It's still in my top five action movies.TheDarkEricDraven said:dead.juice said:
Are...uh...are you sure about that?
It's sick, but yeah, thats kinda how it works, the more people there are, the more likely people are of thinking that something is okey, or that someone else would step in and stop it if it wasnt okey.Berithil said:
Much like a social experiment they did in Norway many years ago, cant remember exacly where/when though, but what they did was they hired a male and a female actor/actress, who then went to a certain street, where the male actor started harrassing the female, *****-slapping her and pulling her hair, screaming at her and spitting on her, pretty much every nasty thing someone can do to another person, it took over 20 minutes of abuse until someone actually stopped him, and this was on a very busy street.
I've seen the video before, and I showed it to a Chinese friend who told me that he has seen it before and that the kid was caught stealing, apparently this is not the first time he was caught either. Hope that makes things clear.Random berk said:
This is some sick stuff, I wish for them all to be castrated.
Seriously, all I could think of is how much that little kid reminded me of my own son.
Seriously, all I could think of is how much that little kid reminded me of my own son.
I don't think I could ever do it myself...
But my friends different cultures, well, they differ.
Alot of us being from the western world see this and it's shocking. But it probably isn't too out of the ordinary over there. (excuse my ignorance if I'm wrong.)
Apparently he was caught stealing and this was the disciplinary action. It's not nice to hear a child cry and certainly worse to watch a large group of fully grown adults bully one. But I guess that is their methods. It's not like there was any permanent damage caused. Physically, at least.
But my friends different cultures, well, they differ.
Alot of us being from the western world see this and it's shocking. But it probably isn't too out of the ordinary over there. (excuse my ignorance if I'm wrong.)
Apparently he was caught stealing and this was the disciplinary action. It's not nice to hear a child cry and certainly worse to watch a large group of fully grown adults bully one. But I guess that is their methods. It's not like there was any permanent damage caused. Physically, at least.
I don't know what this kid could've done to deserve that. Small and helpless, with no means to fight back, surrounded by people who laugh while they're kicking you - fucking horrible. I'm rarely surprised by extent of human cruelty but I couldn't watch this whole video because of that overwhelming, gut-twisting mixture of anger and sorrow.
Different cultural standards.
Judging them based on Western standards is ridiculous.
Where do you think the term 'savages' originated from? People who were raised in a completely different social environment judging other cultures by their own messed up standards.
Judging them based on Western standards is ridiculous.
Where do you think the term 'savages' originated from? People who were raised in a completely different social environment judging other cultures by their own messed up standards.
It's called the Bystander Effect. Essentially what it boils down to is that the more other people are around, the more each individual believes one of the others will resolve the problem. Thus, it's Somebody Else's Problem and they don't have to give it a second thought.Berithil said:
It's depressing as all hell, but definitely true.
As for the OP: I can't watch the video, what with being at work, but from what is described, it sounds bad. I don't have enough information to confidently state the morality of the situation (you never know, the kid may well have deserved it), but based on the information I do have, I'm gonna go with "It's kinda depressing that no one actually stopped it".