Cincinnati Zoo Gorilla Euthanized to Save Child.

cobrat
Fri, 03 Jun 2016 21:19:28 +0000

The Lego incident is also “salvageable” - although it would take 3 days, he could reassemble it.

Doesn’t matter in that context. The whole point and the reason for much outrage from many including older generations of Chinese parents like my aunt is that the kid shouldn’t have damaged it in the first place and put the artist in an inconveniencing position of having to spend 3 days to re-assemble it.

And if the parents themselves made that remark, that’d be regarded as a sign the parents are trying to minimize the damage/inconvenience to the artist/museum and their own responsibility for it. In short, acting like a child/teen who tries to excuse negative consequences/damage for his/her behavior by whining “What’s the big deal?!!”

The opposite tone from what would be considered appropriate especially among the older generations of parents…humble apologies, complete acceptance of responsibility, and offers to pay restitution which the parents reportedly did. And the artist was unusually generous in not only defending the boy on the basis of his age, but also refused the offered compensation from the parents*.

Unusual as most older generation Chinese parents would not have found that to be an acceptable excuse even for the kid....and certainly not if its meant to give the parents an out from being considered accountable/responsible for the kid's conduct.

** That strict aunt I mentioned before would have politely insisted the artist take the compensation to teach her boy(s) a lesson in responsibility for the consequences of one’s actions/behavior if they were in the place of that boy in that incident.

Extrapolated from an incident where one older cousin caused a dent on a neighbor’s new car during his HS years after he encountered an unseen oil slick on the cul-de-sac while biking and careened into the parked car. Even though the owner tried refusing the offered compensation for the dent on account of my cousin’s accident, she politely insisted he accept the compensation and took it out of my older cousin’s savings from allowance/part-time work earnings.