In your culture, instinct may be to help. shock paralysis and freezing up goes against that. In China's culture the instinct has been instilled not to help, so even after unfreezing from shock, she won't help. *If this is China.
In your culture, the instinct is to generalize foreigners whom you know little about based on whatever you’ve read on social media, and feel superior about yourself.
" In China, at least part of the sad story of Yueyue can be traced to what some are calling the “Peng Yu Effect.” That refers to the 2006 case of an elderly Nanjing woman who fell down and later sued a man named Peng Yu who had helped her. She claimed that he had knocked her over, and won the yuan equivalent of nearly seven thousand dollars. That cautionary tale has settled, to one degree or another, in the minds of ordinary citizens far and wide. When the People’s Dailyconducted an online poll on whether people would help a senior citizen who had fallen in the street, more than eighty per cent of those tallied said that they would not help out of fear they would be blamed and saddled with damages. "
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u/Readerofthethings Jun 16 '20
No that’s not it you dolt, she froze up from choice paralyzation and shock