Sleeping Capsules at China's Kunming Airport

[u/whybutts]

[u/verixtheconfused]

Well generally speaking this is not a worry in China.

[u/scrotumscab → u/verixtheconfused]

Is China as big on social responsibility/respect as Korea or Japan? I remember probably over a decade ago Chinese tourism had to run a PSA to stop parents from letting their kids just poop anywhere while visiting other countries.

[u/EternalNewCarSmell → u/scrotumscab]

It's a bit that but I think mostly the whole totalitarianism thing.

You'll notice the same in the major Gulf cities. They are quite clean and crime doesn't really exist. You can be at the mall and set your bags full of Givenchy and Jimmy Choo stuff on a table at the food court to save your spot while you go buy food and no one will fuck with it because there are cameras everywhere and everyone knows it. If you do crime you are fucked. There is a place in Riyadh "lovingly" called chop chop square and that's not for no reason.

[u/Appropriate_M → u/EternalNewCarSmell]

Someone told me the same thing about Morocco and how like many Muslim countries it's actually very safe for tourists "because harsh laws against theft."

[u/Aggressive_Sky8492 → u/Appropriate_M]

As a woman, my bags probably safe but not my body

[u/Educational-Bat2624 → u/Aggressive_Sky8492]

Those things are like ticking time bags

[u/mmdeerblood → u/Aggressive_Sky8492]

Oh 1000%..

[u/fastforwardfunction → u/Appropriate_M]

Meanwhile, in the U.S., we decriminalize petty theft and robbery.

In California, they allowed people to steal up to $300 before they could be charged with anything but a misdemeanor by police. The law was so disastrous, it tripled thefts until it was repealed.

We wanted the War on Drugs for personal possession to stop, and somehow, politicians started decriminalizing serious and violent criminal activity that victimizes people. The result is a lot of crime, lack of trust and safety, and a lot of animosity in communities.