by Damon Pang
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Three in every five people interviewed by City University say singer-actor Edison Chen Koon-hei should be forgiven for his part in the Internet nude photographs scandal.
The finding is important since the city's "forgiveness index" - an annual survey conducted by the university - showed a decline in the number of people willing to forgive and forget.
The university interviewed 659 people, three-quarters of whom are aged between 10 and 29, on February 23, two days after Chen apologized at a press conference to the public and the affected parties while admitting he had taken the majority of the pictures.
City University criminology program leader Dennis Wong Sing- wing said 65.2 percent of the respondents said they would forgive Chen after his official public apology.
Just 19 percent said they would not while 14.3 percent said they were undecided or it did not matter.
"There is no clear difference when you compare the amount of men or women who said they would forgive Chen, both being over 75 percent, while the more educated the respondent, the higher the rate of forgiveness," Wong said.
The survey found people from the media, at 11.6 percent, were the most hated in the community, followed by schoolmates (10.6 percent) and strangers, such as salesmen and insurance agents (9.5 percent). Wong said the dislike for the media was probably because of the way it reported the scandal.
But the poll showed Hong Kong's "hatred index" had dropped from last year's 7.03 to 6.19, which Wong attributed to the economy's uptake.
The "forgiveness index," however, was slightly lower this year at 6.86 compared with last year's 6.92, which Wong said was a sign that people still had to learn to forgive.
He said only tertiary institutes have officially included life education into their curriculums, with primary and secondary schools greatly lacking in such instruction.
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