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I'm in Vietnam right now and it is literally a whole country that was never taught to queue. Everywhere you go people just skip the line ahead of you, be it in
by latchkey 2y ago
I'm in Vietnam right now and it is literally a whole country that was never taught to queue. Everywhere you go people just skip the line ahead of you, be it in a store or on a motorbike. Door opens on an elevator and people try to enter before letting people off. It just isn't in the culture to consider the people around you in that way.
Thing is though, another part of the culture is that if you get angry about it, it reflects poorly on you to lose your cool. So, nobody seems to get upset about these things either. Somehow it all just works.
- whimsicalism 2y agoright, i didn’t say anything about losing my cool - generally I laugh off people’s misbehavior (or cultural differences in this case) but i don’t see the need to engage in fairytale thinking about the motivations of the person involved is all
- latchkey 2y agoI don't think they were suggesting you engage in fairytale thinking. The way I read it is that they were just trying to get you to realize this isn't about you, it is about the person skipping the line. The reasoning behind it could be anything, from cultural, to a dying relative.