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Thread: Squatting pan or toilet bowl? Perhaps, it's a cultural difference!
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[quote=LONELYJOURNEY,510665]Most of the public toilets in China are equipped with squatting pans. For the handicapped people, the squatting pan is replaced with toilet bowl. As you know, the squatting pan is inconvenient for the handicapped. However, Chinese people prefer to equip toilet bowls in their own home. I don’t know why the public toilets just have squatting pans. Perhaps, the squatting pans can reduce the time people stay at the toilet. I guess there is another reason. It can prevent people suffering from piles too. You can sit on the toilet bowl as long as you wish but I guess that you can’t squat more than 20 minutes. If you really squat more than 30 minutes, your feet will be weary and stiff and you might feel dizzy too. However, squatting pans actually benefit people. At least, you needn’t worry about getting infected bacteria. Some foreigners who travel in China can’t get used to the squatting pans in the toilets. A German once joked that all Chinese people must have practiced Yoga. If not, how can they keep balance when squatting in the toilets? Just imagine how embarrassing it is for a man who never uses squatting pans before to take off his pants and squat steadily over the pan. He has to pull his trousers with one hand and another hand to catch the handle on the door. Therefore, he can keep balance very well and make sure that he won’t fall out of the tiny partition. When he squat steadily, he is still nervous because he doesn’t know if there are mosquitoes or flies that bite his ass. I don’t know since when China started to improve the public toilets. I read that foreign travelers always brought a piece of cloth when traveling in China a long time ago. What was it used for? The public toilets had partitions but no door was equipped to each partition. They used their cloth to create a private space. Still today, I can’t figure out if it was true. Although public toilets have been improved, foreigners still can’t get used to the public toilets. Each partition has a door. The floor is much cleaner. Wait, the odor is still there. Why? Chinese people don’t remember to flush the toilet. The most important thing is that you never forget to bring your own toilet paper if you don’t want to get yourself embarrassed. The public toilets used to provide the toilet paper but selfish people just take the toilet paper away. Therefore, no more free toilet paper is provided. [/quote]
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