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I think there's a few confounding factors. One is that there's no infrastructure in a lot of these places. When you're in South Ease Asia, there's nowhere to p
by toomanybeersies 8y ago
I think there's a few confounding factors.
One is that there's no infrastructure in a lot of these places. When you're in South Ease Asia, there's nowhere to put your rubbish, there's no rubbish bins, and there's no proper waste collection for street stalls, so your chuck your rubbish on the ground.
At least in the larger towns and cities in Vietnam, they have workers that tow around a big rubbish bin on wheels and collect the rubbish off the street, but in smaller villages, they just occasionally pile it up and burn it.
Lack of infrastructure is definitely a problem there.
But on the other hand, a lot of people just don't give a fuck. Maybe it's because the place is so dirty anyway. My friend was draining the petrol tank, and asked if there was anywhere he could dispose of the water contaminated petrol at the hostel or nearby. They just told him to tip it on the street. They were surprised that he wanted to find a better place to tip it where it wasn't just going to run all over the concrete, then into drains and the sea, not to mention the fire risk of dumping a couple of litres of petrol on the concrete.
I guess you get used to your surroundings. It's certainly not an ingrained culture thing that's peculiar to Asia; Singapore and Japan are both very clean, and I remember Kuala Lumpur being reasonably tidy too.
- RobertRoberts 8y ago>"But on the other hand, a lot of people just don't give a fuck." I had a religious minister talk about Ghana, there were these plastic baggies everywhere, they were sold with water in them on the streets. So they got all the kids together to pick up the garbage. One lady was in charge of the final collection, she took all the piles of garbage they collected (spent hours) and through it out the back of their shop on the ground. Japan has lots of trash cans, and is incredibly spotless. Downtown Tokyo, hardly any trash anywhere. (if any) I saw 1 single homeless guy there. One.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoI saw 1 single homeless guy there. One. Homeless people don’t count as trash.
- RobertRoberts 8y ago>Homeless people don’t count as trash. Oh come on, you know I didn't say that at all. A comment on the internet forum doesn't need to be a full story every time and so context matters, but that is a ridiculous implication.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoIt was humorous, I won’t bother again.
- RobertRoberts 8y agoWelp, here we are again. Written words have no body language to facilitate most of the meaning. Your words didn't come across as funny, and mine seemed to come across as negative in some manner to you. If we had been talking, you would have seen a smirk, and I'd have slapped your shoulder with a "knock it off buddy". (next time add /joke, I'll add /ah-shucks) /fix internet miscommunication
- jwilk 8y agoEven ";-)" would do the trick. On the other hand, joke markers decrease humorous value for people who would get the joke without their help.
- pbhjpbhj 8y ago>there's nowhere to put your rubbish, there's no rubbish bins, and there's no proper waste collection for street stalls, so your chuck your rubbish on the ground. // They don't have bags to take the rubbish home? Fine, if there's no refuse collection domestically or commercially or you can't afford to have waste taken. But if you carried the waste to where you were then you can carry it to a recycling or disposal point.