No Samaritan in China (pardon the pun)

[Crow]

Do you guys think that it's not because of the bystander effect, but because of the nature of Chinese society? I get the impression that many Chinese people really only care about themselves, thus they don't have that much of an altruistic nature, and that people will do anything to get ahead. This is just a guess though. I am actually part Chinese, but I was born in America and I've never been outside the continental U.S. But growing up, my parents seemed to only care about the family and didn't really pay too much heed to strangers.

You could say this could be the case due to cultural tradition in China with religions such as Taoism as that's exactly what it preaches but I don't think so. As many others have said this isn't a unique Chinese trait but found all over the world and therefore part of our nature.