The Chinese generally are very proud of so-called "traditional Chinese values" (中华民族 传统 美德) and we are appealing to many times during their life. A very important part of these values \u200b\u200bis related to the attitude towards the elderly and children (尊老爱幼), because they need more consideration than they need an adult.
Who has ever taken the subway or a bus in Shanghai and / or in other parts of China and knows the Chinese will certainly have heard the litany of reports every five minutes (or less) says that roughly so: hello passengers of this bus ... please make way for pregnant women, elderly, disabled, adults with children etc etc. .. But not all Chinese are content to follow these rules of morality.
The main page of the newspaper Yangtse Evening Post October 8, 2008, contains an article by a woman in Nanjing, Jiangsu, who refused to give up their seats on autorbus to an elderly woman, reiterating that she had the diritto.Sotto the translation of the article:
Yesterday morning at 11 o'clock your newspaper is on line 4 of a bus packed with passengers in the middle of piedi.Circa standing passengers were elderly people who were at recand Fuzimiao [a tourist spot in Nanjing]. Despite the speaker of the bus continued to
remind passengers to "Please give in the place for the older people, pregnant women and couples with babies," few people actually followed the advice. Most passengers walked away semplicemnete their sgurado, looking out the window, all but a couple of students dressed in the uniform of the class.
An elderly woman, apparently on the 70in was left standing on acanthus 30ina a woman for more than ten minutes. In any braking of the bus, the elderly had difficulty maintaining balance.
When he asked a passenger younger woman if he could give up her seat to the elderly, women inaspetattamente replies with something really preposterous: "Do not ever give it up my seat to anyone on a bus!" To your correspondent tried to speak with the woman replied, "Please give me a reason why I should give up my place. I am a member of the group 'never give up your seat.', go to check on the internet and see if you like." He did not say nothing remained rooted to his seat.
The group " Never ever give your place! " turned out to be a discussion group recorded on Douban online at SNS website. The group, which shared the idea that it is unfair for young people surrender their seats to the elderly, had launched a campaign to attract more people to join.
Motivations and complaints that can be found on the pages of the group include:
- Some of these elderly people, despite their advanced age, are actually stronger and healthier young people;
- Some of these seniors consider that this is their right to have and show no gratitude to those who gave way;
- Young people bring on their shoulders the burden of society and therefore deserve at least few minutes of rest during their shifts (because of work).
The group also for their cause a manifest itself:
Please given me good reasons why I should give up my seat.
How do you feel when you see these grannies granny and energetic first to queue lining up outside the bank to withdraw the bank notes issued during the Special Olympics (many of those who waited all night were grannies and granny ) and then, once got on the bus, improvvisament become old and fragile, giving anything for granted, however, consider it is their right simply because of their age?
As a natural consequence, in this immense country, every time there is to wait in line for something, whether it be eggs supermcato discounted at such and such or discounts at some mall and, who knows why, these files granparte costutuite are always elderly people.
Taking into account these facts we believe therefore, that stand for a few minutes on a bus is not a big problem for them.
all know that younger people as suffering from guilt succeed finally to surrender their seats to these nonnnine and grannies, but really do not want to do it then.
We must fight this theory is unfounded and unscientific that older people should always get their seats.Whenever contexts this theory, help your way to the final destruction of this absurd belief.
Our slogan is to "Never give up your seat."
taken from danwei and the Yangtse Evening Post
