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Leo
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Yes, any society is a mix of good and bad, but it is the prevalent behaviour that defines the culture of the time. The general lack of morality and self-justification of crimes in the Mainland is beyond epidemic level. They are more common than colds and flus. The horrifying incident of Xiao Yue Yue a couple of months ago in Foshan Guangdong, if you have heard about it, is a truthful reflection of what I said: 18 individuals walked passed a two year old knocked down by a van could be ignoring the dying little girl. Some just stepped over, one even rolled over with his van, twice. There maybe a thousand reasons that one can tell to justify this cold-blooded collective behaviour, and this is not the only incident happening in the past few months that people just ignore the others, but the condition is clear: there is no morality, no feelings for others in this single most massive population on Earth. 

It is the prevalent social behaviour that marks the fault of a culture. The greatness of the dissidents or the scavenger old lady who attempted to save Xiao Yue Yue, or the other low profile good people in the Mainland that are the minority are not going to bring about the change you wish for, until a momentum of social behaviourial change is set. Until that day, I am not optimistic about the rotting culture that is contemporary Mainland.