From Raymond Zhou blog:
Offering your bus seat (让座 rang zuo) to someone in need seems to be the right thing to do regardless of geography, culture or economic status. A recent backlash proves that not everyone takes it as such. Earlier this year, Zhengzhou in central China installed an incentive scheme for rang zuo. That set off an online debate.
“Why should I give my seat to an elderly person? It’s the young who need it more because they take off in the early morning while not fully awake and drag themselves home after a day of exhausting work,” wrote one blogger. The author further noted that senior citizens already enjoy benefits such as free rides. This treatment should be suspended during the rush hours to relieve bus congestion, he suggested. [Full Text]
