Me first culture in India
It is very evident when people are about to enter a lift, or any door where people are also about to get out. We just don’t let the people who want to get out go first. We are already standing right in the middle of the door. Why is that?
I think it is the broken window syndrome. If you know that the window is already broken, someone else will break the car anyway, so why not me? I can do it, because there is no repercussion to it. Similarly, if you know that the culture is a place where people stand in the door, there is no repercussion for you to break the culture norms, break respect for others, and stand in the middle of the door.
It compounds to the point where you shift to just standing right in the middle of the opening door and everyone who has to get out has to find their way. It just is weird if you look at it after a while. I have also been a part of this culture and never really noticed it before. This is bad. It just slows everyone down without really thinking about the whole system. It is just about thinking for yourself.
And thinking for yourself, with no cost to it, is how mild scamming becomes normal in the first place.