| I now I can not change norms, but even I am living in Shanghai 3 years and enjoy many chinese culture but stills makes me crazy that cars do not take care of lights and zebra crossroads. It really makes me anoyed ! Now pedestrians could have different reactions: - Keep everthing as now, cars are the kings of the road, pedestrian are not persons just objects and subordinate to the cars. ddjjii said '' traffic rules can be broken '' no come on tell me cars can brake traffic rules (as they are stronger) but pedestrian should not cross the street when there is a red light. So cars follow the chinese norm but pedestrian have to follow the traffic rules. -Another behaviour as pedestrians could be, because the norm says ''traffic rules can be broken'' so my as a pedestrian can also brake the rules, so from now one i will not take care of the traffic lights and cross if there is no near car !. Really when i go by bike i see traffic is messy and bikes and motorbikes also follow the ''traffic rules can be broken'' norm even they are weaker than cars. So i proposed from now on this, lets pedestrians also do the same as the other cars, bikes and motorbikes, let's make a little more messy the traffic. It doesn't matter as traffic rules can be broken,so lets all brake the rules and cross anywhere because the messiness make people to behave also messy, it brings as to libertinism ( libertinaje in spanish). -The third way of behaviour would be ok i will wait my tourn and not cross in red light but i will defend until the last my right to cross when the green light.To defend ourselves we can use anything we have close to us, for instance the umbrella could be used to frighten bikes, motorbikes or even cars of being hit if they are not so kind to stop when the light is red for them. I tried it and worked anyway if they are rude to me why i can not be rude to them? Let me explain a story, one day i was going to superbrand mall in pudong, near the pearl tower and there is a long beatifull and useless drawings on the road of the century avenue(which ironically it is supossed to be a sign of future development and prosperity of china) and there was a huge number of people waiting for the chance to cross the street but one only one man thought people should cross and then that crazy man encourage to one small group to cross and then 4 people crossed risking to have been hited and then the car stops and the lowai make a sign of OK to the car driver to thank the driver and then the rest of the people including old people and children also crossed and i could see those 4 people felt happy inside no matter what the other people may think and thought it was correct what they did. So toghether we can do it people crossing will stops the car is forced to stop and then we give thanks for their amability. Some people may look you like an ET, but maybe after a while the driver or the people who watch this may think, hey this crazy laowai was right, why we should respect the traffic lights and cars don't?, hey cars should also stop in the lights and in the zebras. Otherwise ddjiii tell me traffic rules can be broken tell me cars can brake traffic rules (because they are stronger) but pedestrian should respect the rules and do not cross the street when the light is red . And remeber cars are stronger but if another car (or even worse a truck) doesn't respect either its traffic light a big accident could happen. So as a conclussion to all this please lets all respect the rules or this would be the law of the forest. I really expect this to become better in the future in China. Hope some people think about this. I know the easy is to say this battle is lost but i will keep on fighting even one day i get injured but i will not surrender. Sometimes norms have to be change to be adapted to the rules and best practies. HK probably did it probably due to the british influence, this could be a very interesting topic to do some research. I know i have been a little drastic and may think i am crazy but crazy people changed the world.For instance Newton,Colon,... |
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