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Q: Why does every Chinese person have to be first?
First on the bus
First on the train
First on the plane
First to grab a taxi
First to ....
Me first, me first, me first
It's competition. They learn from childhood they have to be first, to the point where it becomes an obsession, like the examples you just gave.
do you heard chinese people alwasy said" chi kui " chinese words "吃亏", that mean they dont want suffer losses. maybe you will confuse what connect between "to be frist" and "suffer losses". let me tell you , if you first get on the bus, you have a seat; i am late and there no seat, i have to stand and wait. if you buy this new type iphon first, you get one, i am late, it sold out. i get nothing. so you see, if they don't want that thing happen to them, they must to be first. 
I think that there's a secret competition in where the first 2 people in any situation wins 1000 kuai. Otherwise for grown men to push little old ladies out of the way to jam onto a bus/taxi/train would be absolutely selfish. Same goes for leaving said vehicle. First 2 off win a new Black Audi 6000.
wasn't it Confucius who said "Last one on the subway is a stinky pants!" ?
Oh wait, no it was Mencius.
