'Me First' mentality has to go

It's 8 on a cold Sunday morning, and I'm standing at the bus stop near my apartment. Not far from me is a crowd of ordinary Chinese, each one already jockeying for position to be the first to board.

When the bus does heave to the kerb, they surge forward as a mob, in a mad rush. Elbows and shopping bags are used with pinpoint precision to prevent anyone else from getting on before them.

And so I stand back, and wait for another bus, in the hope that the same situation won't arise next time.