There was a piece of news I chanced upon recently in Yahoo, reported through BERNAMA where the headline read: BEIJING CITIZENS SPIT LESS, QUEUE MORE THANKS TO OLYMPICS
It was said that as reported by the China Daily, a Renmin University poll of 13200 people including 1200 foreigners living in Beijing, showed that the politeness index (there is such a thing???!) has risen 10 points to 82.68 on a scale of 0 to 100. Apparently, it was found that lesser people spat "wherever and whenever" compared to last year and the percentage of queue jumpers also dropped!! This was all due to the great efforts by the city that had distributed 2.8milliom papmhlets on etiquette and polite behavior to prepare its citizen to welcome the world for the games.
taken from: http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/bnm/20081031/tts-beijing-manners-993ba14.html
Wonder how something like this could be applied here in Malaysia....to lessen our on road queue jumpers, rude taxi drivers, litter bugs, 'loud speakers' while on the handphone in public, vandals, mat rempits, poor timekeepers and others....
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