Singapore has the highest per capita of millionaires in the world, not much reason to leave there. They're probably the most clean. South Korea & Japan are really clean, China not so much but they're improving.
Then there's India. This is a country where almost two thirds of their population has no access to closed toilets. That's not just modern flush toilets, but traditional outhouses and latrines as well. So they practise open deification, which means going out in to the middle of your field and laying a fudge pie right on the ground. Imagine every person in the United States having to do this, then quadruple it. This results in disease, poisoning of the water supply, and even contributes to the rape epidemic. Women who go out in the fields to do their business are often attacked. More people have access to mobile phones than they do the john. There's also issues like disposing bodies in the Ganges, where people bathe. As overpopulation trends ramp up, these problems will become amplified.
everything said here is pretty much true. imagine going to a beautiful tropical island with beautiful beaches, idyllic palm trees and dirt roads with a phenomenal sunset. and then as soon as you step off the resort property there's plastic bags, bottles floating in the ocean, styrofoam boxes, milk cartons washed ashore so much that you can't even walk down the nice stretch of beach.So we have armchair judges sitting thousands of miles away and generalizing about entire nations and peoples.
I'm always been quite impressed by how clean Japan is. It's definitely culturally ingrained. Imagine being the first to encounter Europeans back in the early modern period. Back when we white folk bathed once every few months if that. Even at the time, the Japanese stressed bathing as a daily ritual.
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everything said here is pretty much true. imagine going to a beautiful tropical island with beautiful beaches, idyllic palm trees and dirt roads with a phenomenal sunset. and then as soon as you step off the resort property there's plastic bags, bottles floating in the ocean, styrofoam boxes, milk cartons washed ashore so much that you can't even walk down the nice stretch of beach.
welcome to phu quoc, vietnam!
It's a function of how wealthy a country is. the last thing a vietnamese person selling fruits on the street for 10 cents is going to think about is keeping their country clean.
If Chinatown NYC is anything like what China is like then I will never go there. I was most repulsed by the disgusting Chinese custom of spitting and hocking in public. Everyone seemed to do it, even women would hock logs onto the sides of buildings and on the streets/sidewalks.
An interesting tidbit is that classical and medieval Europeans also bathed often. Most towns and cities had a communal bath house. Keeping clean was a major part of social life at the time. It only went out of style in the early modern era, when officials began to suspect that bathing spread disease. Plato probably smelled better than Machiavelli.
the danish word for saturday is lørdag, it comes from the old norse word laugardagr which literally means bathing day.
oh and for all the people saying Singapore, the streets maybe clean but the air quality is shit. 3 hour PSI was 321 today, everything over 200 is unhealthy, everything over 300 is downright dangerous. people are actually leaving the country because they can't breathe...
lol @ "digesting"It's definitely not South Korea. I have been living here for almost two years now and I've seen people throw their trash on the street. They treat the world as if it is an ashtray. Old men have a habit of spitting loogers on the sidewalk. It's digesting.
My girlfriend is from Thailand and she takes 2 showers a day. I think Thailand is decent but it's definitely not the cleanest place you could visit.
lol @ "digesting"
Yeah, in Korea they pass out flyers by throwing them on the ground and hoping people stop to pick it up. Just let the wind distribute them.
If Chinatown NYC is anything like what China is like then I will never go there. I was most repulsed by the disgusting Chinese custom of spitting and hocking in public. Everyone seemed to do it, even women would hock loogs onto the sides of buildings and on the streets/sidewalks.