What a disgrace to Asians… <_<"
I don’t think they can be a disgrace to a whole continent, as women can get into biatch fights anywhere. 
Can anyone translate what the fight was over?
This reminds me of another clip from somewhere in Asia, a girl brought her dog onto the train but didn’t clean up after it when it did its business on board so they took a photo/video footage of her and she ended up being shamed from all the exposure.
Well, what was happening was that the old lady had apparently called the younger one a ‘chicken.’ as in a prostitute because of her dressing (yeah, “chicken” means prostitute in Chinese - it’s a metaphor, but yeah 
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But what I think she said was that the young lady’s dressing was similar to that of a prostitute, or rather suggested she was one (her short miniskirt, for example). I think she said that due to some conflict with the young lady involving a seat in the bus they were fighting over…
The young lady, naturally, took offense to that and hit the old lady, repetitively yelling, “How could you anyhow scold people like that?!” before the ‘nice people’ aboard the bus finally put the effort to stop the conflict.
Something like that. 
It is kind of silly, and I would say it’s not a common sight in that country, contrary to what the video might suggest.
This video was taken from Stomp, which is sort of an online citizen journalism portal for the local Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times. I think I was in Sing when this vid was ‘hot news’ back then.
As Flare has explained, and in the interest of Rachel and other non-Singaporean/Malaysians, I’ll transcribe the dialogue. Basically, the old lady with plastic bags was mad at the short-skirt girl (who looks like she’s from the PRC) for not making room for her.
Old lady called the short-skirt girl a ‘chao ji’ or ‘smelly chicken’. In Singaporean Chinese slang, a ‘chicken’ means a female hooker, and is often used as a derogatory word to scantily-dressed or ‘loose’ women. Some of the more insecure Singaporean despise foreigners as they see them as a threat to their jobs and safety (a social condition that is sadly not exclusive to that country…) and mainland Chinese immigrants are looked down upon as their stereotypical occupation are either as labourers or ‘sexy’ workers. Again, this is not a view shared by all S’poreans, and I’m sure other countries unfortunately have their share of ‘xenophobia’. But it is good to understand a little of the cultural background to be able to understand this petty argument better. 
So, the short skirt girl retaliates to grandma’s pejorative by beating the old lady and telling her not to call her a ‘chicken’: “Ni bu yao ma wo chao ji okay?” or something along those lines, I couldn’t hear properly.
The bus driver (he’s the one in the blue long-sleeve, their ‘uniform’ in Singapore) asked the girl to sit down ("Xiao jie, incomprehensible Chinese).
Short skirt complains how could anyone call somebody a hooker. (“Oi, na li ren ke yi ma ren chao ji”)
Bus driver says remprimands short skirt, saying she musn’t retaliate this way (“Ni pu yao zhi yang”).
Then we hear a Malay fellow in the foreground commenting the older lady was in the wrong too: "Dia ah… jahat (evil) juga lah…
Malay bloke then explains to a friend in English that Old Lady called Short Skirt “a prostitute”.
He then says it again using the Malay word for it. “The one in white ah… is sundal.”
Friend asks why short-skirt has such a short temper: “Asal orang (people) itu naik darah (gets angry), bukan?”
Malay bloke replies by explaining again the series of events in Malay: “Dia ini marah (scolds) orang… Dia orang tua (old person) ini marah orang… pangil dia ‘sundal’. Dia marah dia sundal, itu dia naik darah lah… ahahah.”
Friend then replies by chiding the old woman in Singlish: “Actually cannot scold people like that lah… call people ‘sundal’ like that huh… you tell somebody to move like that, cannot already huh… you scold, you scold her a ‘prostitute’, of course he very angry what, right?”
Then the old Chinese guy with glasses sighs with the typical Singaporean interjection “Aiyaaah…”
IMO, the old lady should have been more considerate and not as short-tempered with Ms Short Skirt, since her plastic bags were taking up so much room. Then again, Ms Short Skirt had no right to punch old lady when she was called names.
If you live long enough in Singapore, you’d be able to pick up the various languages spoken there to be able to understand what anyone is saying, no matter who they are. 
Wow. thedriveintheater’s post made me embarrassed as a Singaporean… 
Yeah, just about everything he said.
Ha-ha, thanks for those translations, Dragon of Omnipotency and thedriveintheatre. I knew you’d come to the rescue.
That’s really interesting, the translation, especially the Singlish slang, of which I think you’ve explained to me before. It reminds me how they switch between English and Tagalog in the Philippines (Tagalish?). Well, we have our fair share of bogans and uncouths on the train in various parts of capital cities in Australia, especially late at night, too, so this type of behaviour isn’t exclusive to Singapore (unfortunately). Young people these days just don’t have respect for the elderly as they used to. D=
In my opinion, this is a display of the raw nature of humans. Sure, many of us yearn to be respectful, fair, just, etc. like what those educational books our parents read to us taught us, but in actuality, some of the things we have been taught to do (giving up our seats for those who need them, regardless of their age, or not jaywalking and endanger the lives of drivers and pedestrians alike, or even cleaning up after ourselves after our meals, etc.) would seem so minute when we face them.
In the end, those minor deeds might have the biggest consequences, as shown in the video.
We’re just like that. I couldn’t really explain it, but people just disregard the minor things of life, only focusing on huge deeds. Like donating to some famed organizations, just to name one.