That isn't the case here. We've seen people drive up in trucks with several bags of trash in the bed and they just dump it in the dumpster. My only building only has 4 apartments. There's no reason the dumpster should be overflowing 2 days after trash pickup.
It is so strange the way people are judged on their appearance. I know I'm guilty of doing it too. I think one just jumps to a subconscious conclusion based on how the people we meet look. Then we end up treating them accordingly. I find myself making a conscious effort to look at how a person behaves rather than the way they appear, but it is difficult to do that.
Its mostly beer cans, bottles and cigarette butts here. Fast food comes next.
I'm a smoker, and this annoys me too! I will always put mine in a bin or ash tray wherever there is one available. On my way to work, I get off the bus, light up and routinely finish my cigarette before I get to the bin, I'm not just going to drop it on the floor, there's a bin about 60 yards away. If there is literally no bin, I will usually have to chuck it. It annoys me that this is the case. I've been looking for a portable ash tray for ages.
My house was in danger to burn one spring because someone tossed a cigarette, which caused dry grass to burn and fire was moving towards dry forest area where my house would of burned with it, but luckily someone did call fire department on time as I was not at home by then.
As a ex-smoker it annoys me too. Cars now don't come equipped with ash trays. When I smoked I would get a empty coke bottle put water in it and use that for a ash tray.
I pick up all that too. Loads of coffee & drink cups, lids, straws. (Dunkin Donuts at the corner of my block.) I also pick up used condoms (wearing gloves, of course). Worst thing I ever picked up was a used vibrator. Ewwwww!
I'm sorry, but I am finding that very hard to believe. You are saying all these things happened to you simply because you're white?
I believe it. I lived in Japan myself and while it's an amazing country with some lovely people, there's a deep vein of racism in their society that they don't really trouble to conceal. I once taught a student who was half Japanese and half English. His school had a "no-dyed-hair" policy, but since his hair was naturally lighter than his classmates', the school made him dye it black! They didn't actually mean "no dyed hair", they meant "no hair colour other than black." That's just one example.
I actually revel in wierd phone conversations.
This is why I'm glad I just do surveys. I have never tried to sell people anything over the phone. People will ask how they know I'm really calling on behalf of the company and I just tell them when and where they rented and what kind of car they rented. So it's pretty easy. I just hate the people who are rude jerks. They agreed to the survey when they checked a box on their rental agreement. And it literally takes less than a minute. It's really fun when people spend 5 minutes explaining why they don't have time. Because the survey could have been done 5 times by the time they hang up.
I have heard similar stories from people who have lived in countries in Southeast Asia. We in the U.S. have a tendency to think that we are the only country that has issues with racism but we aren't. I don't even think we are the worst country about these issues. Our issues get a lot more publicity and are more out in the open because we have so many different groups of people living in this country.
It's not so much about being white, it's more about not being Japanese. I've heard from Korean people living in Japan that they're treated the same way.
Knowing all that, listening and watching Lady Baby's Nippon Manju opens few more laughters, there is so much parody and perhaps even some sarcasm in that music video about how people do things in Japan, that it might give few laughs for you as you know much better how life is there.
