Does this come from a lack of cultural literacy?

[RattyMouse]

There is a middle ground between holy and indecent, perhaps. While I sympathize with your position lack of respect generally beguiles people into participating in far worse actions than art smashing, so a scene like that seems like a portent for the bigger problems in the world. Smashing someones personal or cultural objects is the warm-up to many heinous acts, so its difficult to separate these small acts from the larger ones.

Absolutely correct!

 

[clogz]

Well, whatever you do not understand...you destroy. My defenition of barbarism.

 

[Sirius Glass]

If you squared the intelligence of both parents and summed them the total would probably have an absolute value of less then ten and the sign might well be negative.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

If you squared the intelligence of both parents and summed them the total would probably have an absolute value of less then ten and the sign might well be negative.

If the sign became negative, that would mean the parents had imaginary intelligence.

 

[pbromaghin]

It looks like the idiot moms sent their kids inside the ropes for a posed picture. I would have gotten a size 9 steel toed boot up my ass for touching the rope.

 

[TheRook]

I don't think one should make broad generalizations on the state of cultural literacy in society based on a few isolated cases such as this one. When I visit museums and art galleries, my experience is that the vast majority of visitors are quite respectful of the displays; no less so than they were 20 or 30 years ago. I doubt it is all that different in China.

 

[zanxion72]

This has nothing to do with lack of cultural literacy. One should always expect foolish kid behavior and the museum should had taken measures to prevent accidents like this. I would send the security company at home and spank their parents with a fine high enough to restore the damaged and that would make them spank their kids for a couple of months all day long.

 

[Wayne]

Wow, don't yall have anything better to do? So small children acted out, and its time to stick an American made steel toed boot up their asses huh? Somehow you seem to have missed that the parents (do we even know they are the parents? Babysitters? Aunts? hmm?) are frantically waving for the kids to get away after their little stunt. But lets be sure not to miss an opportnuity to make sweeping characterizations of this as the result of inferior, ignorant or disrespectful culture.

 

[pbromaghin]

So small children acted out, and its time to stick an American made steel toed boot up their asses huh?

Apparently you have a reading comprehension problem, with an inability to distinguish between advocacy and statement of fact.

 

[MartinCrabtree]

So small children acted out, and its time to stick an American made steel toed boot up their asses huh?

Uhmmmm..........last time I went boot shopping there were plenty of Chinese made boots. No reason for outsourcing.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

With the video, the Chinese themselves are doing a good job of publicly shaming the parents.

 

[Wayne]

Apparently you have a reading comprehension problem, with an inability to distinguish between advocacy and statement of fact.

No, I was really just making a bemused observation that a lot of people were getting all uppity about child behavior and reminiscing fondly about the strict disciple they enjoyed as children.

 

[TheRook]

This has nothing to do with lack of cultural literacy. One should always expect foolish kid behavior and the museum should had taken measures to prevent accidents like this. I would send the security company at home and spank their parents with a fine high enough to restore the damaged and that would make them spank their kids for a couple of months all day long.

That sure is a lot of spanking!
I don't know what museums could do to effectively prevent such incidents. Roping off artworks doesn't really keep curious children at bay, and having security guards stationed in every gallery room can be prohibitively expensive. Perhaps someday we will have "invisible force field" technology to keep displays safe from unruly visitors.

 

[pbromaghin]

No, I was really just making a bemused observation that a lot of people were getting all uppity about child behavior and reminiscing fondly about the strict disciple they enjoyed as children.

Well, that isn't exactly a fond memory. It was swift, sure, and thankfully very rare.

 

[Wayne]

Well, that isn't exactly a fond memory. It was swift, sure, and thankfully very rare.

Must have been accurate then too.