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In Singapore it also manifests itself in queue jumping or barging ( for example going into lifts, on and off MRT trains, joining escalators or passing through doors ).

Certainly no thanks is given for holding open a door or waiting for another to pass.

Generally this is achieved by the person barging not looking at the other person or people, and as such when the eye is caught by the person being barged results in either " sorry, lah " with a guilty look or alternatively a torrent of abuse, in particular if the person being barged is outwardly western in appearance ; an " ang moh " ( roughly translated as " red hair " or " red skin ").