An incident which saw two women lock a crying toddler in an aeroplane toilet has sparked an online debate in China on how to manage children in public spaces.
The incident went viral on the Chinese internet after one of the two women, Gou Tingting, posted a video of herself carrying the girl inside the cubicle.
In her post, she presented herself as trying to help others on board, but was swiftly met with backlash.
Not arguing with you, it’s just so weird to see someone say that when half my extended family probably haven’t seen the inside of a plane in their lives.
100% of my family besides my wife and dog are far enough away that flying is the only practical way to visit them.
I understand, and me too. What I’m saying is just that when I was growing up, this would have been incomprehensible. At the time I was born, people where I grew up were not automatically entitled to travel outside the country, and the country was like 600 km across the longer way.
This wasn’t so much entitlement as necessity. My aunts moved to get married. My dad and uncles moved for work. Meeting up was always infrequent because it required flying. My grandpa(dad’s side) wasn’t able to make it to my dads wedding and my mom did not get to see her dad on his deathbed.
Just how things were back then.
I think I’m misunderstood, by entitlement I don’t mean feeling entitled, I mean legal entitlement. She had no right to travel, my family is from a former Warsaw Pact state. The border guard would not let you pass.
We all face our hardships, I’m sorry that your family had to face that as well. It must have been heartwrenching.
I hear you. Many people are perfectly content in their own little bubble, and that’s fine. I found travelling far away the few times I did vert impressive. Especially as a dutchy a country like Mongolia is almost incomprehensible… So big and just nature. We travelled a whole day without seeing buildings or people… we also saw poverty in other countries we where not prepared for… It changed my perspective on things.
Lol, this is what I’m talking about.
No, they didn’t stay in their bubble because they were content, my grandma never had a passport, as she couldn’t have gotten one before she was like quite old and the wall fell, and she couldn’t afford to travel abroad even after that.
All I’m saying is that imagine growing up and instead of having the idea of just taking a flight as a life choice, think about flying as a thing that you might be able to afford one day, when you’ve “made it”.
Flying was made very cheap with tax free fuel and sweetheart deals to airline companies. So because of that the world has gotten smaller and flying is a part of that (in not talking holidays) but for distances over ~800km it is faster and usually competitive in price depending on the group size and if driving is an option.
Wages in my home country tends to be so low that a return plane ticket can be months of pay or more for some. I’m talking living your life in the same horizon poor.