Comment on I wonder why people litter in the USA?
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Meanwhile in Japan public trash cans are extremely rare and people are expected to bring their trash home and throw it away there. And they do. We are just a spoiled society.
In the US we teach kids that trash men are suckers and idiots that didn’t work hard enough in school! Also, that trash is an externality: Someone else’s problem.
“We pay taxes for people to clean that up! Why should I spend my valuable time doing someone else’s job‽”
It’s an awful culture.
"We pay taxes for people to clean that up! Why should I spend my valuable time doing someone else’s job‽”
Same people that complain that taxes are the government stealing from them.
I don’t know anyone, personally, who thinks or says anything like that. Certainly none that teach it.
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
I forgot what event it was here in Germany (where there are plenty of trash cans, at least in the inner cities) but every group of Japanese tourists leaves places they visit cleaner than they found them. They were nice