I read your comments and feel you have been unfair to the Indian as such, I have some reservations. Given a chance every human including the Singaporean, an American or a European would also like to behave in the same manner, as described, if the policing was poor. It is the lack of serious consequences and the easy manner in which one gets away with the minor social misbehaviour that such acts become rampant and embedded into a populace. It is human nature to do things against authority, to eat a stolen fruit or look at a woman whose not one's wife. People anywhere in the world would love to speed, or jump the lights. It is natural instinct which is trained into obedience through good policing and harsh consequences. Hopefully someday enforcement will improve and everyone would become well-behaved in India too. Further to be taken into consideration is that India is a true democracy, young and not yet fully mature. It is becoming all the more difficult to enforce things when everyone's views are to be taken into consideration and a consensus be reached. Over the years the system has somewhat found itself in a comfortable equilibrium of tolerance and acceptability and hence the chance of change seems bleak in the near future. The Indian on the other hand is extremely helpful, caring and good. The riches are bountiful and need to be acknowledged. Aj