A strange and offensive habit here, spitting is. Everywhere, people of all ages, gender, economic status, are spitting... Everywhere! Generally I'm a pretty "when in Rome" kinda guy but the spitting is really rather disgusting. There's nothing like going to a restaurant, sitting down only to find yourself standing in a pool someone else's saliva and mucous... shudder... Strickly speaking I believe it is mostly my foriegn sensibilities that find such things offensive. HOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRCKCKCKCK HAARK HAAARK HAAARK GGRRRGIGGGGLLEE HAAAAARK AAAAAARK FFFFFFWAP! You could be walking down the street and see the most beautiful girl and a second later she sounds like she's waxing the hair off of the back of a pig! Personally I don't get it. The floors and ground are generally filthy here to the point that if you go somewhere people won't put their bags on the ground, and if you do they'll offer you a stool to rest it.
I should mention that although the lower altitude areas of daily life might be filthy that this should not in any way reflect on the general cleanliness of the average person. They do things like simply rest their bags on stools and generally don't stand on chairs or places that people will sit, or won't sit were people stand. Also there's a strange ritual cleaning of the tea cups, bowls, and chopsticks with tea or hot water before eating. I don't know if this is a local tradition I've noticed that the few people I know from Guangdong province seem to do it religiously where as the locals are more individual about it.
All this aside and local ways be damned, I will not have people spitting in my class room! It just drives me crazy, and makes me cringe to hear the gutteral prelude to their potentially ballistic purge... ugh.
posted by Brett @ 5:41 AM
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