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Captain
China has some really f-ed up courts. You can get jailed for self-defense, and you can get sued for helping someone out.
Of course, the counter-point is that there's always more than one side to a story, and tales circulated on the internet often only present one viewpoint.
What the Chinese society needs is more education on legal matters. Court verdicts in high-profile cases need to be publicized so people can see the facts for themselves.
You are exactly right, although I fear it's not just these. It's these types of culture which reinforces the wrongs and the unjust. When you do the right thing, you not only won't prevail, but actually get punished. In such a community, everyone will resort to selfishness, self-preservation of fending for self interests only. I also feel not only the Chinese society needs more education of legal matters, but also to change the culture of not speaking out. I hate to get political or tie politics into this (as it's not my original intention), but I honestly do wonder if the culture of censorship and silencing voices, along with culture of corruption, has an impact on each person's social responsibility. Also, I wonder how much of maintaining adhesion of collective harmony has an impact as well. Again I am genuinely not attempting to tie into politics on this , but rather I am more genuinely concerned and curious about this culture/phenomenon and how it can be changed. (as much as I'm enraged by it
All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
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I asked my brother for his thought and he said one of the cultures prevalent there is through the uses of money, power, and bullying tactics to get what they want, therefore they will resort and inflict the same on others in other circumstances. I think he's referring to of course interpersonal politics and corruption and bureaucracy in the political realm of China.
This in a way ties back to the rule of law, which of course guarantees the reassurance of if you stand for the right, you will prevail. Anyway it's good to see Xi spearheading the movement so successfully: over 77,000 arrests have been made. I hope this keeps up and ultimately truly change the tide of this form of culture that we can say can't be ignored.
Other notes: In my definition of culture, it isn't to generalize or label Chinese culture as a whole. Rather, culture is the word to define a specific focus of thought, traditions, ideology, behaviours. It's a humanity arts term to define specific behaviours stemming from a certain value, so for example "culture" can be "culture of activism", "culture of rationalism", "culture of deductive thinking", etc.
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