That's a question I ponder every single morning when I take the subway. I don't really understand it either. I can only blame it on the sheep mentality, that when one person breaks the rules they all follow suit and rush on. I just use it as a legitimate excuse to push and shoulder out of my way when I try to squeeze off.

But in all honesty, I actually think the people responsible for the management of the subway in China are to blame. They still hire people to push others into overcrowded carriages which is a total joke, not to mention satefy hazard, and not once have I heard them shut down stations due to overcrowding. London's King's Cross would regularly close the station during morning rish hour when there were too many people and while it was annoying, at least they did something effective to control the crowds.

What they really need are more platform workers who regulate the number of people who can be let on the trains and who stop people from rushing on before others have had the chance to get off.

Well, what to say, even I don't understand, maybe too many people too short for the door to close~
I once been pushed out by people inside the subway, and it was not my destination.
So now I live 5minutes by walk to my office, don't want to take subway ever!!!

They are only concerned about themselves and want a seat.

Same thing happens in elevators. As soon as a Chinese person gets on they start pressing the close door button twenty times. They're already on, need to go up or down, and everyone else be damned because they are the only one that matters.

It's selfishness, pure and simple.

1.Individually : Selfish and less-cultured

2. The entire society has an inappropriate tolarance torwards poor manners. If the cost of being impolite is very high in the society, and if it causes enormous group hostility, this kinda scenario will possibly disappear. in China.