Japan fans left the stands spotless after their World Cup opener against the Netherlands in Texas on Sunday, saying it was "Japanese culture" to tidy up after themselves.Japan are appearing at their eighth straight World Cup and their fans' cleanliness has become their international calling card.
I wish we could impart that culture here.
Trashcans all over the place give us the impression our waste is someone else’s problem.
It’s 95% b/c ALL the schools make the kids gain an appreciation for manual labor.
If you grow up doing a job, you will respect those who do it. Same as how anyone who ever has worked as a waiter tips well and treats service staff better than someone who never has.
As a result you have decades of it being ingrained into their entire populace a personal sense of respect for cleaning and maintaining a space.
…And for the other 5%, because it is always covered in news stories every time it happens now so positively, now it’s also probably a point of national pride.
I’m pretty sure that Americans themselves are the waste that creates the problems for as many people as possible.
What kind of culture have we created that we have trashy entertainment on the White House property while protecting pedophiles and funding a genocide? America is a pretty disgusting culture.
As a Native American, I feel obliged to point out that it wasn’t Native Americans who created this culture…
America never means Native Americans, for better or for worse.
Ok. Cool.