In China earlier this year a spate of violent attacks by intruders who targeted schoolchildren shocked the country.
China's response was to step up security around schools.
But one academic in Shanghai believes the attacks may have been a symptom of a more serious issue.
The upheaval of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 70s, he says, could have created a generation who see violence as the only answer to their problems.
If he is right it could be that as that generation hits middle age, and many of them start to feel left behind in China's rapidly changing society, they are hitting out.
Can this explain why everyone is so rude in China?
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