We really have to come to the conclusion if we are to be honest that so far in our times working and living in China, nobody has ever, ever found ANY real evidence that there has been in existence 5,000 years of culture and civilization in China. No honest scholar can claim that what happened 5 milleniums ago has been passed down to the present day. Will we find some evidence someday? Maybe. People who go against this will point to tea and the written Chinese language as proof of an old civilization and culture. However when people die from this world they take their values, ideas, and attitudes with them. Culture is only as poignant as the people who carry them. If most people in a society only wants money for a living, then we can safely say that the so called traditions no longer exist.

As for that poor guy who was beaten up by thieves. We can look at this case in very simplified terms on the state of modern China: We cannot possibly trust a population that is treated like slaves to produce upstanding, moral individuals who comprise a majority of the population. That is why ridiculous incidences like thieves running around in a modern shopping mall doing whatever they want happens in the first place. What's more important to know is that the general population sees itself as slaves to the rulers, so they cannot possibly have developed the capacity of knowing and using their own self-conscious and act out in the name of doing good. As far as I can tell, 2 things might happen. One is there will be enough young people who grow up and actively take action in making their country a more civilized place, another possibility (and one that isn't as far fetched as people might think) is that in time the country's societal problems become too vast and widespread, creating a problem for control by the current authority. When that happens some seriously bad sh&$ will come.