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Q: What is the reason that a lot of Chinese girls have physical defects on their arms and legs?
When I see Chinese girls out in the streets, the cuts, bruises, scars and grazes are often very evident. How are these injuries inflicted?
10 years 35 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
Too busy playing on their mobile phone to watch where they are going, while at the same time being naturally clumsy and accident prone. Just what I've observed anyways.
I get the feeling that this is a loaded question. 
But who here has NOT got some scars on our legs from cuts got through childhood accidents? But seeing as a lot of them wear impossibly high-heeled shoes, tripping is inevitable.
Kaiwen:
Not loaded at all. I am curious as to why Chinese girls, who have a general unhealthy obsession with beauty and skin appearance, think nothing about very obvious physical defects. It just seems like yet another one of anomalies or contradictions that litter Chinese mentality.
Scandinavian:
I only have one noticable scar on my one knee after falling off a bike as a kid, other than that I am without visible injuries, and yes, I have had concussions, broken arms/fingers/toes growing up, so it is not because I've been wrapped in cotton
bill8899:
Yes, I know not how they walk in those heels, but I'm glad they do!
I have more than a few scars. Maybe it's due to manual labor, reckless recreation, and life in general. But there may be other reasons here.
The way you describe it makes me think of The Walking Dead. It's not like I've seen this series but can you see those obvious cut,bruises and scars that often?It occurs to me that you're probably in a strange place.
ebike accidents seem to be a very common source of injuries. In every adult class I ever taught in China, almost every student claimed to have been injured in an ebike accident. For the girls, it was usually falling off the back of their boyfriends' ebikes.
i work at a kindergarden and i have seen so many kids with mainly burns on there arms and hands a higher number that what you would expect if in a western kindergarden. I can only assume things like hot pot and barbecue that are more common here could be a cause or lack of knowledge of how to treat a burn by the parents-by running cold water under burn for 10 mins can significantly reduce scaring. But this is all a theory but its strange that there are higher amount of scaring on people.
Scandinavian:
there is two things from the "common knowledge drawer" there is wrong in China
1. In the kitchen (home generally) people do not turn the handle of hot cookware away from the reach of small hands
2. basic treatment of burns of other wounds consists of a series of bad old wives tales, e.g. burn wound must be treated by dipping it in soy sauce, way to pollute the area and prevent the body from healing quick.
From trying to avoid wire hangers whilst in the womb. (Stop, drop, and rooooooooooooooooooolllllll).
I would guess the western world would look the same had it not been for a very highly developed hospital system. E.g. if I smack my head to the ground and get taken to a hospital at home, they will treat the damage to my head, but there will afterwards be a doctor (maybe plastic surgeon or something) that will treat the physical appearance of the injury, if a tooth has been knocked out it will be replaced etc.
In China, the vast majority of people cannot afford medical insurance that will cover such things, and when they have to pay out of their own wallet, maybe then the iPhone gets priority.
Not limited to the girls. I've worked with some guys that have terrible brown teeth, for example, because they grew up in areas without access to clean water. I don't know what chemical does that but I'm guessing it doesn't do you any good, and it certainly doesn't look good. A lot of people have these kinds of issues because a lot of people don't have access to good medical care. Or didn't when they were growing up.
And as Scandinavian said above, children here often aren't that well looked after. You can't say that to anyone of course, they make such a big deal about being protective. It's just such a shame they're not any good at the important stuff (like protecting children from burns). Which then makes the protectiveness look like theatre. Generally speaking.
I have just been out to a restaurant. There were two middle aged women sat at a table near to me. Their arms and legs were quite severely bruised in places. I wonder if that kind of injury is caused by excessive pressure during massage or self inflicted injury using the wooden mallet type massage tools used widely here. Another possible source of injury could be the excessive force used by many Chinese to get to the front of crowds. I guess the Chinese would class that type of bruising as nothing more than a drawback of their daily existence.
OK, just to follow up on a comment from Scandinavian. How many have scars from unavoidable childhood accidents (such as falling off a bike) and from living in 'unsafe' environments such as the kitchen?
Judging by the selfish driving habits and the general carelessness of people at home and at work, I'm not surprised by the amount of accidents I see every day. There is much less attention paid to safety and ergonomics in China, so there are bound to be consequences. Everyday life for Chinese people is very different from ours. Even while we live in the same country and walk the same streets.
Scandinavian:
"ergonomics" honestly this is the first time I have seen this word used in relation to China.
