There is a complete and utter lack of respect for the individual or person in China. "People do not have innate value as people simply because they exist."

A guy who writes a blog called Balding's World has spent the last nine years living in China. He is now leaving China and is writing about the Chinese culture.

There is a complete and utter lack of respect for the individual or person in China. People do not have innate value as people simply because they exist.

This leads most directly to a lack of respect for the law/rules/norms.

...I rationalize the silent contempt for the existing rules and laws within China as people not respecting the method for creating and establishing the rules and laws. Rather than confronting the system, a superior, or try good faith attempts to change something, they choose a type of quiet subversion by just ignoring the rule or law. This quickly spreads to virtually every facet of behavior as everything can be rationalized in a myriad of ways. Before coming to China, I had this idea that China was rigid which in some ways it is, but in reality it is brutally chaotic because there are no rules it is the pure rule of the jungle with unconstrained might imposing their will and all others ignoring laws to behave as they see fit with no sense of morality or respect for right.

...I could talk at length about that what I have observed, but I am not a human rights expert and what type of cultural changes or evolution it engenders. However, while the well-known cases draw attention, these attitudes and responses set the tone for a culture where individuals, respect, and truth mean nothing.

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