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"In Japan public toilets are ubiquitous, free, and fairly clean. I wonder how they do it?" Just another rewording of: In (rich, homogenous country X) they man
by rsync 10y ago
"In Japan public toilets are ubiquitous, free, and fairly clean. I wonder how they do it?"
Just another rewording of:
In (rich, homogenous country X) they managed to organize (nice, progressive social program Y) and had good success. I wonder how they do it ?
It's easy to pay for your neighbor to have free health care when his name is also Lars Larson. It's easy to fund public initiatives when the end users are also named Asahi Ito, just like you.
- jkmcf 10y agoMy first instinct was to agree with you. Sadly, I know quite a few Americans who could care less about their homogeneous neighbors, let alone those of different colors/creeds/cultures.
- quicklime 10y agoI'm not really seeing the link between (I presume racial) homogeneity and clean toilets - there are plenty of developed countries with multicultural societies and progressive social programs. For example Australia is just as multicultural as the US, has a good public health system, and public toilets are clean and ubiquitous. Maybe not quite as clean as Japanese toilets, but far cleaner than what you'd find in San Francisco.
- itwaseverything 10y agoHah not where I live. You must live in a fancy part of Australia. I saw more cleaner toilets in the backwaters of China than here. At least when I did see them haha IMO disrespect to public spaces arises from apathy (India/China are good examples), social tensions and abstractions (government taxes/responsibility). While I don't think racial homogeneity is apart of it, cultural compatibility absolutely is. It's mostly co-incidence that differing racial groups carry differing culture baggage. As any race can adopt kinder cultural values and principals.