I'll go a step further about line-cutting in China: People seemed to actually want a queue. I lived in Chengdu 2011-2016 (and am happy I did) with my wife and

I'll go a step further about line-cutting in China: People seemed to actually want a queue. I lived in Chengdu 2011-2016 (and am happy I did) with my wife and three children. Very very often there would be a mob instead of a queue, notably at a weighing station during shopping for fruits & veggies. I noticed that almost always, the force of example crystallized a queue. All I had to do was visibly step behind someone near the front, and people would follow my example. A queue would form, and members of the queue would start enforcing it on new arrivals. In short, people secretly wanted a queue, but they hadn't yet formed one.