The following story today is good enough without the need for any commentary.
A young lady asks a male passenger to give up his seat, marked as priority seating, to a pregnant women standing nearby. This passenger refuses without thinking and start to use languages that angered the whole bus. When everybody shot back with a piece of their mind, the guy yelled a Chinese proverb that means Quit!
The proverb did stop everybody’s comment but it didn’t stop this male passenger from sneaking a punch to the young woman’s face as he was about to get off the bus. Luckily, he was caught. Things suddenly took a 360 degrees turn when others threaten to call the police. This passenger started to apologize for his acts and promised to take the woman he just hit to a hospital. Well, maybe the guy isn’t so bad.
Not! Just when the hands that were holding his shirt relaxed, the guy made a run for it. And we arrive at the best part of the story, two male passengers also on the bus dashed 200 meter with all their strength and they caught this guy again.
In the police station, we found out this young man is actually a currently graduate student studying finance at a local school. Wow, I can’t say this guy is stupid, but something is missing from his head.
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You know what? Every damn day I get a seat on the crowded metro, and every damn day I'm the only person to offer my seat to pregnant ladies, the elderly or couples carrying a young child. Congratulations on 60 years of progress, China.
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I see young people offering their seats to older/pregnant people all the time in Beijing. It's not a question, it's the norm.
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Pop on down to Shanghai, Lee, where you can see a person get mugged and be bleeding in the street, a passerby will quite happily see the bleeding victim and go through their pockets again to see if anything was missed first time. ...alright, it's not as bad as all that but sometimes you feel it's really just a step away when the elderly are left to cling arthritically to swinging handgrips on the bus, while next to them a 19 year old student flicks through their Marie Claire in the priority seat.
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I spend plenty of time in SH. I don;t take buses here since the metro is so good. I think you might be right though, I don't notice so much giving up the seat down here.
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This is a great story in that it shows that people in Shanghai are getting less blase about bad manners and are less inclined to be indifferent to things that really offend us all. Well done to everyone on the bus that did the right thing! I have say on the subway vs. bus debate that manners on the buses are still pretty attrocious, and not just because of the kids - plenty of able bodied 40 and 50 somethings that happily push others out of the way to get a seat and won't stand up for anyone. For some strange reason the subway seems a lot better and I constantly see people getting up for others. Not sure why. Anyway, things are a lot better than 14 years ago when I used to witness people assaulting each other over bus seats. (And the bus would often break down anyway!)
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that's sad but normal to hear.we do need to think about what school teach us?