Peasant grandmothers, holding their grandkid’s butts in the air and shooting a stream of pee into the street is a common sight in China.
Not in Shanghai or Beijing, but in smaller cities and town - for sure.
I worked in China in 1976-77. Defecating on the streets of Bejing was common. Rail tracks were common dumping grounds both from passersby as well as via the open hole in the floor of the passenger car commode. You saw the ties whizzing by as you whizzed or dumped. Same with boats on the rivers — hole in the fantail was the toilet. People in multistory apartment buildings tossed all their garbage out the window at the end of the hall. There was a 20 foot pile of rotting garbage and the pigs were rooting through it.
Grossest place I’ve ever been to. You’d think a 4,000 year old culture would have developed SOME basic sanitary and hygiene habits.
I lived in a complex with Chinese. Grandparents watched the kids during the day and had the kids pee outside wherever they happened to be.
I don’t know why the author is surprised. Chinese adults behave like this - just about all of them. The kids aren’t going to magically improve over their parents.
We’ve seen dead babies in open Chinese sewers. If that’s not a wake-up call to the culture then it’s lost. Gone. They behave like animals now.
All of them.