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Infact, As much I know how bad chinese children are, slapping the child was the wise thing for the the woman to have done, I wonder if the child was hers and was slapped? Do unto others what you will like others do to u. 6 years is too young a child to recieve a slap. I am a foreigner and if it were my child would have given a sound beating for her to taste how it is. I am someone who knows chinese are backward in thinking but not in this case. 500 rmb is just too small a fine to pay. Too bad.
Feb 10, 2014 15:20 Report Abuse
I could suggest that the parents sent their kid out to create a situation, but let's assume that it isn't the case. How about this hypothetical scenario: Kid sees foreigners, wants their attention. Foreigners ignore him, so he is determined to grab their attention negatively. Cowardly kid targets the weakest, most feminine member of the group, a jetlagged elderly lady. Maybe he throws objects or liquid at her, maybe he spits, maybe he grabs her wallet - who knows what he did? After some small harassment, the woman gives a stern look at the Chinese parents. Eyes screaming "DO SOMETHING!!!" Chinese parents are offended at the very suggestion of their perfect little emperor being disciplined at the behest of a lowly foreigner, so they do nothing. Their prejudices about "crazy foreigners" confirmed, the parents give no signal to the child that his behaviour is objectionable. The child, reaffirmed in his activities, finds himself a baggage trolley, and RAMS FULL SPEED INTO HER! The woman, almost knocked off her feet and in distress because of the animalistic behaviour displayed towards her, SLAPS the boy in the heat of the moment. Oops. Police is called. Parents claim a tooth is knocked out and demand compensation. Police establish there is no serious damage, so there's no compensation. Although the lady tries to defuse the situation with the 2nd largest banknote she finds in her wallet, it is seen as a further offense. Newsmedia arrives. Unable to speak any English, the journalists collect information from eyewitnesses and the child's parents. Since nobody sees a problem with children bothering foreigners, nobody witnessed any harassment by the child besides a 'harmless scrape' with a trolley. Parents, angered by the lack of compensation, cry outrage to the police. Police, possibly unaware of the provocations, decide to enforce the minimum punishment for ASSAULTING a minor (very rigid and wide definition of what constitutes an assault, by the way). Elderly woman gets 10 days in a Chinese jail. Back at the office, the editor strikes out any notes taken by the journalists that might cause the child to lose sympathy. A narrated story is born. Could this happen in China, or does anything in my hypothetical scenario NOT make sense? Because these news reports sure don't make sense. If you think about them, that is.
Feb 10, 2014 17:08 Report Abuse
Hello, I appreciate your views but even that does not warrant a slap (if) what is reported is true, no mother will do that.I am a parent and know how children are and besides who have never been a child before? Chinese parents bring up their children wrongly thats something everyone knows but my point is under no circumstance should a lady like that in the picture slap a child, if it were in some countries the punishment would have been hash. Lets learn to teach these chinese we have something they dont have and that is good manners not to behave this way. I hope and wish she might not be a teacher.
Feb 11, 2014 08:04 Report Abuse
As reported in Global Times. A foreigner who slapped a 6-year-old boy at a Shanghai airport luggage carousel has been detained for 10 days and fined 500 yuan ($82.45), police said Friday. The woman slapped the boy after he accidentally hit her with a luggage cart, the Pudong International Airport branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau announced through its Sina Weibo account on Friday. A female witness posted an account on Weibo saying the woman, who spoke French, at first denied slapping the boy to a crowd of about 30 people who had gathered to criticize her. After admitting her behavior, she tried to solve the problem with 50 yuan but the boy's family refused the money. They called the police. The witness said the boy, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, the woman and herself had all just flown from Sri Lanka to Shanghai, arriving about noon on Thursday at Pudong International Airport. She posted one photograph of a middle-aged foreign woman and another showing the boy's face red after slapping. A person who assaults a person younger than 14 must be detained no fewer than 10 days and no longer than 15 days, according to the Law on Penalties for Administration of Public Security implemented in 2006. The assailant must also pay a fine between 500-1,000 yuan The woman, who lives in China, is unemployed, a Pudong airport police officer told the Global Times on Friday. He asked not to be named and refused to release any further details. If this is what happened, can you say this woman did well or we have to defend her because she is a foreigner as the chinese do? Wrong will always be wrong and right will always be right.
Feb 11, 2014 08:09 Report Abuse
Even if I accepted coineineagh's scenario, you walk over and slap the parents. You never slap a 6 year old child. As for the losing a tooth, we are dealing with a kid at the right age to be losing their milk teeth. A slap could dislodge one that was about ready to drop on its own.
Feb 11, 2014 09:58 Report Abuse
i haven't defended her act of slapping for an instant. of course it is wrong. i've been criticising the reaction of media, police and the chinese in general, which resulted in an elderly lady getting 10 days jail sentence.
Feb 11, 2014 09:59 Report Abuse
problem is that my child would never do anything like this, I have slapped her back side since she was 2, so she knows the difference between wrong and right. if she did hit someone by mistake, she would start crying and try and apologize through the tears. chinese children tend to laugh when they cause pain to others. "haha mummy look, I just put a chopstick into the eye of that white devil" "well done son, eat your food before it goes cold",
Feb 27, 2014 09:16 Report Abuse
moral is, if you loose your rag and slap a kid, you may as well tear off their arms as its only an extra 5 days inside.
Feb 27, 2014 09:18 Report Abuse
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