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I'm not sure I buy the first two explanations. Taiwan is culturally Chinese, but if someone takes a crap on the street it'd be a small news story. Usually it's

• Laforet 10y ago
  >Usually it's blamed on mainland tourists. Having been to Taipei several times myself, I'd say that it is no better or worse than any Asian city. but that's really just prejudice. I will concede, however, that Taiwan had the value of hygiene worked into them during the Japanese rule. In the first ten years of the 20th century, there was 49 newspaper reports of public urination leading to a formal warning by the police in Taihoku alone (ironically, more than half of these high-profile cases were perpetuated by Japanese), and public record shows that thousands of people of all sorts of background were fined every year for the same offense that did not make it to the news.[0] This really goes to show that the colonial government took the concept of hygiene very seriously, but even today some people will just do as they please.[1] [0]: https://books.google.com/books?id=AKi5Wm5Mu_UC https://books.google.com/books?id=AKi5Wm5Mu_UC, page 27 [1]: http://news.cts.com.tw/cts/general/201001/201001030380454.html http://news.cts.com.tw/cts/general/201001/201001030380454.ht...
  • lacampbell 10y ago
    I've never heard anyone complain about that stuff in Taipei the same way they complain about it in Mainland cities. But it's not like I've been taking surveys.
• vacri 10y ago
  Taiwan hasn't seen the immense shift of rural to urban population than mainland China has.