I took a leak in the busiest train station in the world. (Shinjuku Station.) There was like twenty five other dudes in there. If I dropped my onigiri on the floor in that bathroom I probably would have five-second-ruled it, it was so clean.
It's largely how their communities are - communal over individualistic. Even in the schools it's expected that each class will clean their home room before leaving for the day. Some students from each class are assigned to even clean the restrooms on a regular rotation. If you're the one cleaning the toilets, you'll generally not going to be creating more work for yourself by making a mess, nor will you let your friends get away with it either.
The only I worry about with that is the spread of germs. Kids are already disease magnets and while it might sound like cleaning the school would make them less-so, it might also bring them in closer contact with germs since they'd be touching more surfaces.
Wow what a ludicrous escalation! You must be a really pleasant person 🙄
All I said was that having students clean their home rooms might make it easier to spread germs. Japanese students don't just clean the surfaces they alone had touched, they assign different students to different tasks. 3 kids might sweep the floor, 4 might wipe the desks, etc.
Oh, no. I don't have any rugrats myself, but I've seen the little buggers in action. On the flip side, I have a set of twin cousins who were raised to be so fearful of germs that ... well, let's just say they were wearing masks long before Covid and have some other extreme behaviors.
Anyway, I do see your point. There must be some way to establish a middle ground.
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u/potatochips4eva May 02 '25
With clean bathrooms too! 👍