[Oyk]

Those that are seated in a reserved seat in the train, would feel uncomfortable when they see an elderly person or pregnant women standing by their side.  But some would pretend to sleep and hang on to the reserved seat...............

You are right.  They'd pretend to be asleep rather than offer their seat to an elderly person.

Something seems to have gone wrong in this aspect of how the young had been brought up.  Parents did not teach them, or school teachers did not teach them?