Either you have not read this comment section, or you are deliberately misconstruing it to feel more comfortable with yourself.
Either you have not read this comment section, or you are deliberately misconstruing it to feel more comfortable with yourself.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
If you’re a guest in a country, don’t be a shithead.
If you and your countrymen are consistently shitheads to another specific country and their citizens when a guest in said specific country, they’re liable to start changing things to discourage you from coming in the first place, or even make rules to discourage you from visiting in the first place. You are a guest. Fucking act like it.
The sakura festival went of without a hitch for decades. This is a recent development that came with Chinese tourists beginning to go to the festival a lot more. When you are a tourist, the onus is on you to do some prep work and understand any preparations you should be making. Shitting in someone’s yard is indefensible; a reasonable preparation for the festival is “take a shit at your hotel before going to the festival”. I do not understand why you find this hard to parse.
It’s not prejudice. It’s common sense and actuarials.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
For the record I am neither Chinese nor Asian, but I assume this is just active voice.
This isn’t some novel phenomenon special to Japan. Seasonal local festivals that attract many times the local population happen everywhere. At first there’s trash everywhere and general chaos. Local government and event organizers adapt and improve infrastructure. Or they throw up their hands and say the tourists are impossible to manage. In the modern day, they monitor social media and predict crowd sizes based on impressions and engagement. They respond with increased infrastructure that includes trash and bathrooms. That’s actuarials.