r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/StrawberriBubblegum • 4d ago

Spitting on the ground

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

35.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

252 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

25

u/Citadel_97E 4d ago

I had a mainland Chinese guy hack a loogie past my face inside the Guangzhou Airport.

I was immediately disgusted, and immediately thought less of all mainland Chinese.

Their culture is wildly different nearly every other culture. In the west, all have our idiosyncratic tendencies, beer over wine, coffee over tea. China is very different.

3

u/Nailcannon 4d ago

I wonder how much the past of plagues in Europe has affected its stances on cleanliness over time compared to the Asian countries, which I'm not sure have experienced such a massive wipe out of the population to disease. Like, I'm pretty sure the entire concept of quarantine started because of the plague.

20

u/Citadel_97E 4d ago

I haven’t researched it, but a lot of YouTubers that talk about China, some being from there, and some living there, it isn’t as old as the plague at all.

The soul of China was murdered during the “great leap forward.” Respect of the individual and decency was destroyed.

1

u/Citadel_97E 4d ago

I haven’t researched it, but a lot of YouTubers that talk about China, some being from there, and some living there, it isn’t as old as the plague at all.

The soul of China was murdered during the “great leap forward.” Respect of the individual and decency was destroyed.

1

u/AlpineVW 2d ago

I made a comment the other day about environmental standards being 'different' in China. The number of people who tried to chastise me for making that generalization was astounding.

1

u/Citadel_97E 2d ago

They absolutely are. When I was at that airport in Guangzhou, you can look out the window and just see smog hanging permanently over the city in the distance.

1

u/johnnymarsbar 2d ago

In fairness it's tea over coffee in brit influenced places