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Lining Up for Metro? I know that China is in transition, but currently the bad things (poor, no rules, low moral) are true, as well as the good one. But transition to what ? Even more selfish and money oriented ? Or better? My personal experience of last week in the metro. At 6:30pm (so people are not late to go to work). The signal ring to alert that the doors where closing, a stupid woman try to enter and get her bag blocked, a person working for the metro run to help her open the door and unblock her, and as soon as the door was open, 4-5 people run, push hardly with their shoulders the guy working for the metro, make him fall (nearly on the ground, but thanks to the crowd he did not touch the ground) because of the shock he loses his flag, and had to find it back in the middle of the crowd inside the car. Then he get out, and the metro left. Nobody complain about these 4-5 peoples, everybody accept their fates, and these 4-5 peoples totally do not care to make someone fall of the ground if it enable them to save 2-3 min waiting. This kind of behaviors is CURRENTLY more common in China than your story. I believe that the problem is that most of Chinese people do not see the people they do not know as people, but just as things that can block you, or that you can use. It is not really efficient to ask Chinese to respect rules (like queuing, etc..) if they do not understand that they own respect not only to their family and friends but also to strangers, including people with low rank job (waitresses, etc...) Personally the things that drive me crazy sometime is this fucking klaxon, so many people just press by reflex every 5-10 sec... Ha yes, I also dislike the people owning car who see themselves has emperor because they have money. They have an accident with a bike and he is injured, they will scream on him because he may have make a scratch on my car. PS: Let all do like me, every time I am going out of the metro, and I see the people ready to push, I say loudly "Xian Xia Hou Shang" (先下后上) (first get out, then get in) it is written everywhere in the metro. And when people still push me I say: "Bu Wenming" (不文明) (not civilized). |