Help me?

     Last year a story of a Chinese baby getting run over by 2 separate vehicles made world headlines.  It was so shocking because no one stopped to help the 2 year old lying unconscious in the street.  If it weren’t caught on video, we probably would have never heard about the incident. 

     Recently Matt and I read a story where a woman was stabbed in the airport and no Chinese person stopped to help her.  A visiting American was the person that finally asked if the Chinese woman was okay. 

     Once when we were in the subway going up a crowded escalator, a woman walking down the rainy steps fell.  Everyone just walked around her. Nobody stopped to check on her.  Matt and I were trapped  on the crowded escalator and we couldn’t help the lady.

    This all seems unreal to me and it can't help but generate negative stereotypes when these things are publicized.  I found this story that can provide a little explanation to why some Chinese people behave this way. 

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/10/nanjing-judge-blamed-for-apathy-in-toddlers-hit-and-run/