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Every single time there’s a WC this is somehow news.
Maybe if it gets reported enough, more cultures will pick up on it.
I don’t mean it like a smart ass but any american’s that go to japan the kids do the same thing and the american’s are so shocked and everything. It has become world known that we stop reporting on it.
In school, they don’t have janitors. Because all the kids do the cleaning it takes the students about 15 minutes a day in school to clean it.
I think it’s the same in Taiwan.
I wonder if Westerners had to clean at school if it affects us on a societal level to clean like that. Or if the larger social pressure isn’t there for people to help like that.
My first time in Japan I was so confused as to why it was so clean yet there were hardly any garbage cans anywhere. You had to return your garbage to the vendor you bought your food from, and not stray far from them, or bring it home. There was the rare garbage can.
In Russia in my school most class coordinators/teachers organized an evening a month to clean up the classroom they are responsible for and spent most time in. There were contracted cleaners, but they mopped only the floor, while the condition of tables, shelves, blackboards etc were on students and their coordinator/teacher. Also in my school, we had regular roles you can fill to help staff by being a helper to a librarian, a dishwasher to a cook or being a coridor cop ensuring no one runs around - I moved lotsa books and washed tonsa dishes to bond with friends, smoke and skip classes.
I don’t actually know if it’s normal here in Denmark, but in my school the students had to clean most (but not all) of it. Everyone, including people from that school, still litter everywhere.
I wonder if this has something to do with size and construction, here schools are built like office buildings and frankly I wouldn’t want a child operating a linoleum floor waxer. Or do they still have somebody there who does the more rigorous cleaning?
The kids do all the daily cleaning, they still don’t have janitors. The school still has maintenance workers. I’m certain the large machinery would be handled by them and would be considered part of maintenance and not cleaning.
I think you are right in that the schools are smaller, every square inch of urban area feels like 15 minute city material. So everything people need in daily life is within reach, small but numerous. I’m no expert though, just a tourist who visits his Japanese friends and asks lots of questions 😅
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…
Ok. Cool.
Maybe an actual country’s “value” that is real and worth imitating
PS: I say “real” because we have seen this in display consistently. Most countries love to say they hold principle X or Y (always nice and honorable traits) that you NEVER see in display by their people, in their country or outside of it
Am from US and we’re stupid. Checkmate libtard
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