World Cup: Japan fans impress by cleaning up stadium
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44492611
How dare they pickup after themselves! The Janitor Unions will not be pleased!
Good on them, i usally do the same at the cinemas. Like i don't bring black bags and go throught every row, but i pick upleftover popcorn boxes and empty bottles in arms reach on my way out.
The absolute madmen.
I like how this respectable act is spreading so quickly over the internet, I hope it inspires many to do the same.
It'd be nice if more people took a moment to save someone else the time and effort.
Can't tell you how many weird looks I get when I grab a derelict shopping cart from the parking lot outside of a corral before I head in... I figure I'm heading there anyway so I may as well and save someone else the effort.
Sometimes I grab two or three.
isn't this like a headline everytime they have some sort of world wide sporting event, like the olympics?
regardless, people who just get up and leave their garbage behind are terrible and should be shamed
Japan is exactly the kind of culture that would make sure this kind of thing would happen, they take stuff like this very seriously.
It probably also fuels their annoyance for foreigners.
When me and my family visited Japan a month ago, we were just so enamored with how Japanese people are. From their politeness, warm attitudes yet strict compliance with laws and also consideration of others. Especially in contrast to how common it is in the Philippines for people to just throw trash on the streets or leave unfinished food or drinks in benches and stuff.
I already throw away wrappers, cups or boxes from meals straight to the trash bin, and if I can't find any when I'm on the go, I hold onto it until I can. So it's such a nice sight to see that in Japan this was the norm. In their McDonald's and most fast food joints, everyone actually did put away into proper and even categorized bins, and the tables are already ready and cleaned up for the next customer. Unlike here where it's the norm for employees to expect to clean everything up, and since places like McDonald's are packed, the next customers will be sitting on a table with leftover food and a messy table first.
Simple self-discipline and consideration of others like this really goes a long way and I hope other people around the world do take inspiration.
Now, all they have to do is ban the immense amount of plastic waste they are generating on this earth with their unreasonable obsession of single-use plastics. Culture helps in certain aspects -- an obsession with cleanliness just means the immediate surroundings are cleanly. What happens when that trash is dumped into the ocean is not.
Those silly Japanese. Don't they know that football fans are expected to be a menace to society?
For real. I went on a school trip and there was someone who was STAUNCHLY against a lot of their cultural norms in regards to cleaning because "It's better in the US". So I had to do a majority of the cleaning, which I didn't mind, but it pays to respect another culture's customs.
https://i.imgur.com/HTiTSMM.gifv
The Senegalese did the same.
yeah but they're not as kawaii as the japanese doing it.
I work at a grocery store and one of my jobs is collecting carriages: bless your soul you’re the kind of customer I love.
most people just shove them in the corral awfully and make a huge mess. We have a walmart right next door and their carriages dont fit into ours (and vice versa) yet people try shoving them together even when they’re clearly different.
thanks for being good
Considering the Japanese as students clean their own schools (meaning there is no custodial staff for cleaning, only maintenance) and have a cultural lifestyle of not tracking the filthy dirt throughout their homes, schools, and often places of work, this doesn't surprise me in the least.
I hate this culture of "these people are being paid for this, let em' do it". It takes only a single moment for you to get up and take plates back or throw trash in the bin.
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