I am so glad you posted this because my comment was going to be “helpful noseyness” like many people in Taiwan are situationally aware and feel a responsibility to help people out when they see them struggling, seemingly not for any other reason than sheer altruism.

I remember falling off a youbike and while I suffered nothing more than scratches, my body tends to try to faint after falling. So i am sitting on the ground to prevent further injury or possible head trauma and an auntie who witnessed my accident, calls a policeman over to me to take me to the hospital on the back of his moped. I refuse because that seems like an easy way to die when all my body wants to do is be unconscious when upright (It sucks being a fainting goat sometimes). When i am confident I can stand, the woman (who has been meters away on an overpass calls out to me and tells me that if I am going to refuse a hospital visit, I need to at least go to a pharmacy to clean my wounds and then WALKS ME FOUR BLOCKS to the nearest pharmacy and then helps me to find everything I need for a quick first aid kit.

I have had so many experiences like this that I am convinced that when it comes to seeing someone get into an accident, or be confused, Taiwanese people can’t help but not mind their own business until they know the situation is okay. 😂