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Q: Mainland kid pees on street in Hong Kong
I couldn't see a question for this so I'm sorry if it's been asked already.
Not sure if anyone heard or not about the mainlanders holidaying in Hong Kong who allowed their kid to pee on the street. This is illegal in Hong Kong and a passerby began to photograph it. The mainlanders got into a fight with this Hong Kong guy and the police were called blah blah. I won't go into it any more because a quick search online will bring up results.
Anyway, my question is what's your opinion on allowing your kid to pee in the street?
9 years 51 weeks ago in Family & Kids - China
Are you expecting someone here to argue FOR pissing on the street?
xunliang:
Well that's why I asked. I saw a video where some Chinese tv station interviewed people in Paris and they were all like: "Oh well it was a kid so it's ok, and it was wrong of someone to photograph it."
I was surprised so many people thought it was ok so that's why I'm asking.
mike695ca:
Ok! Fair enough! Pariseans are dumb, ask other french people, theyll tell you. Ive been to Paris a few times and ive never seen kids pissing in the street. Im surprised that they would say its ok. I have been seeing stories of the French getting pissed off with Chinese doing chinese things like pissing on the grass in gardens. So im guessing its more of a selective interview thing. Interview hundreds with the hope 1 will agree with you.
expatlife26:
right, its obvious what they did there.
Pick a fancy city that everyone in China has heard of.
Ask people what they think until someone gives the answer you are looking for.
Plaster that answer everywhere and say "See? Paris is civilized and they support mainlanders 100%! China is civilized too you can't critcized us!" I've spent some time in Paris as well...wonderful city with very limited tolerance for bad behavior from tourists. Those opinions are not representative.
xunliang:
That's again why I asked. I thought they must have just asked tons of people until they finally found a few who agreed.
RiriRiri:
"Is it ok for kids to pee on the streets?"
Anyone in a civilized country will automatically assume without a doubt it means "as in a real emergency situation with no other choice." And then the person will tell you "Well, I guess it's ok."
You got to know what mainland China is like to know it actually means "peeing, crapping, littering, spitting, invading any common space with your obnoxious presence, smell, sound, as an unquestionable socially acceptable norm".
Lowest level media manipulation form possible, and you still fall for that.
Um, we don't live in the dark ages. There's a toilet within 25 meters of every street corner in HK.
I'd be totally shocked..
And horrified....
Gob-smacked....
I have a kid??? When did that happen?
Ok, yeah, I wouldn't allow it. As a worst case scenario, it'd be in a garden somewhere, something similar, where people aren't likely to walk/sit. Which is, I think, what we get so pee'd off about here... there's no consideration of where, and no thought of other people (or even themselves...and where they'll be walking in the next 5 minutes)
xunliang:
That's my thinking. If my kid was absolutely desperate, I might find a back alley or something. Not on a main street. But I'm sure Hong Kong has toilets and there must have been shopping centers nearby or something.
Chinese people do support the whole peeing in the street.
Hell, rarely a day passes where I don't see grown men pissing in the streets here.
I remember this story from a while ago http://news.163.com/13/0713/13/93LTVINP00011229.html?from=tagtop
Provence, France, absolute heaven, wonderful sights at 360°. Yet Chinese tourists still manage to start a fight over a photo. I bet even the guide didn't see that one coming.
Wouldn't matter if HK streets had toilets every five meters, or even if the walls were paved with pissers. Given heaven, some people are just bound to turn it into hell.
to pee or not to pee, that is the questions,
whether it is more noble to suffer the slings and arrows of too much cola
or by opposing end them
It was a kid give her a break
Its really true, chinese will quite litterally piss in front of a bathroom. I dont know if they dont like them, or are just too lazy to walk 10 feet.
2 months ago we had like a friends and family mini road trip. We all got in about 5 cars and drove to a hotspring. Friends, friends of friends, kids, wives and of course some brought their parents so they wouldnt need to be responsible for their own damn children.
Anyways we made a pit stop in this historical street that has been turned into a movie set for Kung Fu movies. Remember Ip Man ? Cool flick, Anyways, his house and courtyard in the movie.. there.
We are standing outside the house waiting for stragglers.... and one dudes mom takes this kid and lets it piss on the cobble stones, no word of a lie, she is leaning on the wall of the womans room. Its clear as day, touching the back of her head. And yet still she cant go inside, just pissing where all these tourists are walking.
My friends see my face and know im gonna blow,, and start trying to calm me down but I couldnt. They were mortified that I would give their mother a verbal beating like that, but the rest of the 3 days didnt see a single baby ass.
I bet that woman in HK will never ever let her baby piss again, look at the video, she is mortified. I applaud that guy who stopped them. I wish Chinese had more balls to say something too.
expatlife26:
Nice, glad you stood up for that.
It's just selfishness you know? Teach your kid early to ask, why inconvenience yourself when you can just impose on the environment?
DunceCap:
Honestly, the mother probably let her kid crap on the street the very next day. That is what gets me about the culture here...not only do they not think about anyone but themselves, but even experiences that would MORTIFY someone from literally ANY other culture on the globe do not deter them. I can't tell you the number of times I have asked people for a modicum of decency, asked for it again, asked for it again, asked for it again, flipped my lid, and see them behave like animals yet again. They are just tenacious when it comes to rude behavior.
Peeing wherever you want is surely one of those rights still not taken away from citizens.
I think they simply lack civic sense .GIve them some time,may be they will evolve.
External changes like building,roads are easy to copy and quick to made.
But it takes much longer to become "civilized" because this change of 'sense' needs to happen from inside.
RiriRiri:
They won't change. If change was to be expected, it would be already happening by now, even slowly. Nothing at all has changed in a decade.
