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Q: Does any other country's people spit as loudly and as often as the people in China?
I've never seen/heard it anywhere else before. I do know it was more common in Europe when people also emptied the night-potties out of the windows onto the streets.
Red_Fox:
Scando - They still do that in Europe (without the waste products). Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, usually. Mostly to shut up the late-night drunks howling and singing beneath their windows at late night when trying to get a good night's rest. But spitting is a no-no. Go figure. Strange, eh?
Scandinavian:
well. I am pretty sure most buildings in those mentioned countries have plumbing for taking away human waste
Mate, I've been to almost 200 countries round the globe and no one spits like your average Chinese Joe on the street. Odd, isn't it? I mean, why didn't border-contiguous countries of China adopt the habit? I don't get it... Do you?
andy74rc:
Because Chinese bodies are different and evil spirits can enter through the breath only Chinese bodies.
andy74rc:
@Red Fox: you probably missing reading some posts lately, to understand I was just mocking.
Red_Fox:
@andy: ur right. Been MIA lately. Thanks for the correction. 
TedDBayer:
Chinese superstition, breathe in evil spirits must spit them out. The Chinese never figured out that if you breathe them in, you can breathe them out.
Back in the early 20th century, there was a prominent campaign at home about the connection between TB and spitting or sneezing without a tissue - so people were discouraged through posters, newspapers and at the cinema. There was an added horror of catching TB because of the stigma it held as a disease only the really poor had. I have seen old Chinese public information films from either the 50's or '60's campaigning against this spitting so they did try to change habits in the mid-20th century.
Baseball players in America do. Not the general public just those group of guys. They love spitting. Collectively as a whole I'd say no.
