"Not only do Chinese subway stations have toilets, but the toilets are very clean, and the water in the toilets is so clean that you can drink it directly." After being shocked by the clean, free and air-conditioned toilets in China's subway stations, a foreign tourist posted a video on his social media platform, triggering a collective "defense" among American netizens.
China's subway toilets have allowed Americans to break their defenses
Recently, a vlogger with a "TikTok" ID named "italyukchina" traveled to China and was deeply shocked by the development of modernization in this mysterious oriental continent. The blogger is a traveler from Italy who travels around the world and shares what he sees and hears with netizens around the world through "TikTok".
And this he posted that "Chinese subway stations not only have toilets, but the toilets are also very clean, and the water in the toilets is clean enough to drink directly." The video blog post surprised many netizens in the United States. They can't imagine that there are free and clean public restrooms in Chinese subway stations, which is too hard for them to imagine, because many subway stations in the United States do not have restrooms.
Therefore, when these American netizens watched the blogger's video, they all collectively broke the defense...
Isn't there a toilet in the subway in developed countries?
In New York, for example, many public places are not equipped with toilets, such as gas stations, subway stations, and even shopping malls. It's hard to imagine that it's the financial center of the world. But that's exactly what happened.
A video blogger who studied in the United States and had a video platform account named "I am a cow and knows cattle best" has shot a related short video. In the video, the blogger plans to take the subway from the Eighth Avenue subway station in New York to Manhattan to shoot. As soon as the video began, the blogger began to complain: "There are no toilets at gas stations and subway stations here, especially in subway stations, not only do they have no toilets, but they still look very simple." This gave him the idea of opening a "chain restroom" in these places. And said that he would definitely make money.
Looking at the London Underground, in zones 1-3, less than a quarter of the stations have toilets. Three stations, including the most modern Elizabeth Line, Bond Street and Canary Wharf, do not have restrooms. Paris, France, is even more exaggerated, almost all subway stations do not have toilets, and internal emergencies can often only be solved on the spot. As a result, the air in the metro stations in Paris is almost always filled with the smell of urine mixed with the smell of perfume.
Conclusion
With the above understanding, it is not difficult to understand that so many foreign netizens will collectively break the defense when they see our beautiful, clean, and free public toilets. Not only public toilets, public toilets are a microcosm of infrastructure, but many other infrastructures, such as highways, high-speed railways, power facilities, network facilities, etc., China has taken the lead.
Although we are now a developing country, in many respects we are catching up at a steady pace, at the speed of China. If nothing else, let's talk about the current public security, living environment, and living standards, which are many times higher than those of 10 or 20 years ago, and the people's sense of happiness is also steadily improving.