Check out this warning sign from a public toilet in Phnom Penh, Cambodia someone took with their iPhone. Obviously people in Cambodia are not familiar with Western toilets. Laugh all you want, but these signs are actually pretty important. If Cambodians use their “traditional method” on this style of toilet, they can slip and hurt themselves.
Wonder if they need to add a 2nd step to this diagram.
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I just ran across this post, so am late commenting. I have no problem with different cultures, but feel you are obliged to conform to the culture in which you are in. I am a facilities manager, and am tired of my housekeeping staff being exposed to bodily waste on a continual bases from squatters leaving feces all over the toilets and in the floor, even sometimes covering it up with toilet tissue. My guess is that if they are aware they need to cover it, they also are aware that NO ONE else is doing this and perhaps it is NOT acceptable behavior in this (American) culture. When in Rome…
I just ran across this post, so am late commenting. I have no problem with different cultures, but feel you are obliged to conform to the culture in which you are in. I am a facilities manager, and am tired of my housekeeping staff being exposed to bodily waste on a continual bases from squatters leaving feces all over the toilets and in the floor, even sometimes covering it up with toilet tissue. My guess is that if they are aware they need to cover it, they also are aware that NO ONE else is doing this and perhaps it is NOT acceptable behavior in this (American) culture. When in Rome…