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Q: Why did the MH370 relatives act so strangely?
The lost Malaysian airlines flight MH370 has been in the news again lately. A flapperon from the aircraft has been found. News channels are also playing footage from last year of the Chinese relatives. They were hysterical, angry, had ludicrous banners painted with stupid unhelpful messages. The banners read "return our relatives now" or "hand us the murderer now". Overall from a western perspective, these relatives did not come over well. No time was given to the airline to investigate the crash before blame was assigned. The theories, even at this early stage, pointed towards pilot suicide. No airline can defend against it. It's difficult to monitor for. Once the pilot takes the helm, nothing will stop him.
You'd think the initial reaction would be stunned grief and looking for information. Not violently scuffling with staff and calling them murderers.
i love China and I like Chinese so I'm not interested in the usual China bashing, smug superiority that goes on, on this site. Instead I was wondering if people had any insights into the psychology of these relatives. Is the grief process different?
I dont know why so many downvotes, that's a fair question.
There might be some kinda victim mentality at work here. If something happens that affects PRC citizens it must be some kind of conspiracy.
I remember when I first moved here somebody seriously believed that America controlled the weather and caused earthquakes. Doubt that much has changed.
Like I said, fair question I don't understand the hate.
Grief is trumped by greed.
Then of course there is the fact that "opportunistic greed" is likely to be less fruitful than "well thought through greed". Usual reaction from Chinese is to pick the easy but not best solution.
I can understand the relatives being irrational, although I think they took it way too far. What I didn't understand at the time was the way the rest of China seemed to be reacting.
People I worked with were talking as if Malaysia had deliberately done it to spite China somehow, and the media were being their usual ridiculous selves.
I think it was the 'media' playing on the victim mentality again and stirring up shit for their own agenda. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the families were manipulated to make them act the way they did.
I dont know why so many downvotes, that's a fair question.
There might be some kinda victim mentality at work here. If something happens that affects PRC citizens it must be some kind of conspiracy.
I remember when I first moved here somebody seriously believed that America controlled the weather and caused earthquakes. Doubt that much has changed.
Like I said, fair question I don't understand the hate.
Simple, they are greedy nongs. Just because their relatives can travel by plane doesn't mean that they are properly educated as you would expect from the middle class, in China the wealthiest are often not the most educated folks.
You've got to be 200% careful out here because them farmers will catch any opportunity to play the victim card and demand a million RMB compensation from you.
No joke I have already seen with my own eyes people throwing themselves in front of cars for compensations. The more educated Chinese that I know were also fully ashamed of such behaviour from their countrymen when I told them.
Did bat just expose himself as a troll? Or does he have a hard on for Dokken? How can dokken be 'short' for 'donkey'? Someone who's knocking someone's English should know this.
The other answers are right on, victim mentality posturing for future compensation claims.
Emotional self-control during childhood is not rewarded the same way here, as it would be elsewhere. It's acceptable to let your grief explode, it's acceptable to be completely irrational if you are a victim. You would be perceived as a very callous person if you pointed out the irrationality of someone struck with tragedy. The loss of a relative is a white card. Add to that a deeply ingrained and cultivated victim attitude, when dealing with all things foreign.
