Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards

• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Common sense is that tourists don’t shit in yards without extreme circumstances forced upon them.

      Lmfao do you even hear yourself? Where the fuck do you live? Common sense is you don’t shit in random people’s yards. I’m not endorsing violent response to that sort of thing, but if you were to try that in, say, San Antonio, TX, you’d get shot.

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      • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m glad everything always goes right for you and you never encounter circumstances out of your control :)

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