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Boracay Beach partially shut down for clean up because Chinese tourist buries soiled baby diaper in white sand
- Thread starter Arthands
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Oh shit! I totally forgot about that. Good call. But he was eating mostly ketchup and potatoes so it's cool.
Not likely, the traveler blacklist by the CCP was not useful im chamging behavior for traveler
I imagine this is their last time being able to leave the country.
I dont know how you bump your crediit back up from this event. Its embarrassing to China.
Thats like having collection reports on yoir credit score.
I meant 100 metres squared. Shit is confusing but:
The beach I regularly go to had no public bathrooms. Every summer I would see people, usually teenagers from out of town, ignore the "no trespassing, fragile ecosystem" signs and walk up into the dunes to shit. After YEARS of trying to stop people they finally just put in some port o potties and started building a public restroom near the public section of beach.
People are gross no matter where they come from.
People are gross no matter where they come from.
I've only experienced Chinese folks behaving badly once. Not sure if they were tourists.
We were at a farmer's field picking strawberries and this whole family was picking along side us. The way it works is you pick, take the cartons to the stand, they weigh them, then you pay.
Well this family kids, parents and grandparents thought it would be fine to just eat their fill while they picked. They definitely ate double what they picked. Pissed me off to no end. Just cheating the hard working farmers out of their profits. So selfish.
I'm sure lots of families do that to an extent. But these folks really went overboard.
Yes, this is correct. I think it was last year they cleaned it all up.
Sounds like the beach solved the problem that they created by not having bathrooms.
When i was in iceland a bus full of mainland chinese tourists pulled off to look at the moss covered lava rocks and a bunch if them went beyond the ropes to stand on the rocks (you aren't supposed to the moss is fragile) and stood on top of them to take pictures. I was so mad
Reading that first-time mainland Chinese tourists whose travel restrictions were only lifted in 2007 are mainly coming from rural or isolated areas where traditional Western social etiquette is not observed, where public restrooms are a rarity, squatting is the main method, and they don't understand English to observe customs and rules, their behaviour while really bad has some understanding to it. There seem to be a lot of stories where the tourists being Chinese is just assumed and feeds into the discrimination. From my anecdotes, the Chinese tourists I've seen can be quite rude or entitled but it will keep on getting better as there's more education, more Chinese-friendly tourist information, and more frequent travelers.
Parasites. Diseases. Etc. That infect humans are in human feces.
Plus, the omnivore diet of humans doesn't make great fertilizer.
I am Chinese myself and I cringe a lot when I am abroad. I've been to Boracay and other places in the Philippines, I hear the locals complain about Chinese tourist more than other Asian travelers. I facepalm every time I hear these stories.
I was in the Shanghai and in the subway, some kid needed to pee. His parents gave him a plastic bag to pee in in the subway. Once they got off the stop, they just tossed the bag of pee to the side of the subway platform.
I've seen it in a resort in Thailand. Mainland Chinese old man needed to poo and just dropped trou at the beach near a palm tree. Seen lots of Chinese moms just let their kids pee anywhere and way too many just hock a loogie and spit.
Tourist etiquette should be a course before they leave the country. What's bad is they travel in packs and so education is seemingly never given.
The mainland folks I've met on my trips who don't travel in packs are pretty good though.
The problem is that the only way for those people to travel (and get a tourist visa) in most countries is if they travel with a group. So you can go to Europe for literally 600€ per person (flight+hotels included), travel to 10 countries in 7 days (they try to earn the money by getting the tourist into souvenir shops the travel agency has contracts with) and the most people in those tours are poor people, who never learnt manners, since in rural china its "fine".
Most of the time, in my experience, individual chinese tourists or couples are mostly well educated and you dont really notice that behaviour.
It's easy to be glib about the response but human poo is vile and if someone gets sick then the lawsuits come very fast. I belong to a local pool with a kiddie area, and a couple times every summer there is a swim diaper malfunction. When poo enters the kiddie pool it is shut down for hours. That's just how it goes. No one wants to be touching human poo.
When I was a kid, I was at a beach digging in the sand and I found a diaper. Just thinking about it makes me want to take a shower for days.
The man who defected from North Korea a few years back had huge parasitic worms because over there they fertilize their fields with human waste.
Sanitation is a serious public health issue.
The man who defected from North Korea a few years back had huge parasitic worms because over there they fertilize their fields with human waste.
Sanitation is a serious public health issue.