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I realize the dangers of generalizations, but my experience does lead me to consider that maybe Filipinos are missing the queue forming gene. Whether at the market, or especially on the road, there seems to be an overwhelming need to "bypass the queue and get to the front of the line at all costs" with disregard for civility and etiquette. For awhile this bothered me, but now that I accept that it is a thing, I find that letting it be entertaining to sit back and observe the manifestation is a more adaptive response. Of course, I'm only being partially serious and mostly hyperbolic.

 

In my opinion the average Filipino is way too disciplined and obeying to rules when they have to fear consequences for not doing so. On the other hand, when they can be sure there will be no sanctions, all discipline goes overboard.

 

I asked the wife last night to give me an honest reply. I asked her if she thought that for the most part the Filipino was a disciplined person. She said no.

What this ECQ is trying to do, and why it has so many problems, is that they are trying to discipline a people that have grown up their entire lives without it and many thinking that the rules are for others, not me.

 

There's a lot of generalisation going on here.