Dr Kumar Vishwas
How do everyday civic habits build good character?
Character as a national habit
On a train in Japan, everyone stood in a line, and the first person stepped in only after the last person had stepped out. It was not a rule; the people had developed that character, and it is national. Where such a habit is new, it gets called pretence, but even if it is drama, culture gets made.
Only when the last person had put his first foot out did the first person put his first foot in. This is the character they developed. It is national.