1. Neighbors from South American moved in next door to me. Mind, these are purportedly successful professional people; houses in our community are selling for about $500K on quarter-acre lots, so they must have a fairly decent income. Naturally the houses all have garbage disposals and sewer connections as well as weekly recycling pickup and twice-a-week trash pickup.
First they try to start an auto-body business out of their garage. I'm sorry, this is not going to fly. Nobody pays this kind of money for a house only to live next door to a yardful rusted-out truck corpses. This bit of clueless entrepreneurship gets shut down.
Next I notice this god-awful stench coming from the strip of woods behind our houses. It's so bad I can't even use my patio. There are also horrible snarls and screams from animals fighting back there every night. I assume a deer has died in there and go back to investigate. Instead of a deer, I find a pile of black goo that hums like an overflight of C5As. It seems our successful professional South American neighbors are eating chicken three or four nights a week, and each time they discard the skin and guts, put it neatly in the little Perdue styrofoam tray it came in, and throw the mess and the bloody tray back in the woods instead of putting the guts down the disposal and the tray in the trash. There is an enormous mound of this stuff decomposing back there, and it's completely black with flies; you can hear it from thirty feet away (which is about the distance to my back yard). The lovely neighbors don't understand why this is a problem.
2. Another set of neighbors are hanging the skinned carcasses of goats on their decks. Again, the flies and the smell are unbearable, and again, these new residents of America just don't see what the problem is. They tell us that we are disrespecting their cultural traditions and their sophisticated national cuisine.
I lived among many Latin American professionals (many of whom were whiter than me ;-)) in Miami and never had any problems. The Chinese, on the other hand, tend to come here with little knowledge of American sanitation practices. Every Chinese area in New York, no matter how prosperous, is littered with trash.
Like I should talk. My ancestors when they came to this country also littered like crazy and urinated in the street. Too many Americans don't realize that our obsession with Hygeine and cleanliness is the exception, not the rule in the rest of the world.
Heheh... or call the county health officer.