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Q: Why is health and sanitation so important 'indoors', but not 'outdoors'?
This is one of those odd contradictions that I just can't get my head around. I've been to people's homes here and inside it's so clean, and they take such care and attention to cleanliness, sometimes pushing it to extremes. However, as soon as those people are out their front door, their mindset seems to change completely, and they do things they wouldn't even think about doing within the comfort of their own homes.
I don't want to stereotype, and I've met quite a few Chinese who were very conscious outdoors and didn't do these types of things, but sadly the majority of people I've met treat their homes like a sanitary haven and treat anything outside of it like a trashcan.
It's social loafing.... inside the home is their problem, something that they can't blame on other people or expect other people to take care of for them. Outside it's more of the idea "someone else will take care of it." I have even heard someone explain it as "It's someone's job to pick up the trash on the streets, so we don't want to talk away their job."
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I've heard that last excuse back in Australia... :( usually from the smokers who throw their butts on the ground
