Welcome to Public Trash Receptacle Deprived, Littered Up Asia!

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I recently had a confrontation with the motorcycle riding creep, here in South Korea, who keeps throwing handfuls of business cards at the front door (and all over the street in front of our) school.  I guess the pot just boils over sometimes, you know.  So I quickly picked up a handful of his cards, tore them up, ran up to him on his motorcycle, and threw TRASH at HIM for a change.

See... I have Irish, Scottish, and obviously Viking blood, it seems, so I guess I just got European Medieval Warrior style NUTS all of the sudden, and went after that dude when I caught him in the act that day.  Yes, I guess I just reverted to "type."  Hey!  In my own defense, living in Asia is often pretty similar to living in the Middle Ages, so... yep, no back handed Asian style retaliation when nobody is looking for yours truly, thank you very much.  I was raised in Viking style Western society, after all.  I was definitely not raised in this passive aggressive society.

And I don't even share any of their blood, or the societal traits they've been forced to inculcate for literally thousands of years - which, for your information, are the direct result of thousands of years of Imperial Chinese, Japanese AND Korean inequality and corruption.  So, for a change, I'm sorry, but I really don't think one group of Far East Asians can blame certain social tendencies that they all share on each other.  But I'm sure they will keep trying to do just exactly that.  Why stop now?

And I hear that in Japan, litter is pretty rare.  Hmm.  Is THAT the real reason why all the other Far East Asians hate the Japanese so very, very much?  Hmm.

So anyway, I jumped out of the car we had just arrived in, and went after the guy on the motorcycle.  It was a real, good old fashioned, medieval jousting style titling match for a moment there!  Because I'm sure the guy (who was wearing a full, TINTED helmet) thought he had the anonymity that most Asians seem to love so very much, with their illegally tinted car windows (to hide their shamelessly bad driving habits, apparently).

This dude also had no license plate on the back of his motorcycle.  Imagine THAT in Asia!  And don't kid yourself: South Korean, Chinese and Taiwanese traffic laws are pretty damn similar in most cases, to American and British laws.  Look it up!  I'll wait.

So... no excuses, please.

Anyway, that motorcycle riding flunkie also thought he had the upper hand, because he was sitting up on a powerful riding machine.  Until, that is, I think he wised up and saw that I was pretty upset, from what seems like endless days that I've had to pick up his filthy litter.  And martial art skills or no, if I got close enough to him, I was gonna knock his ever loving Korean ass OFF that crotch rocket.  You know, level the playing field a little.  In the grand old tradition of REAL DEMOCRACY.

But he sped away, of course.  And playing fair and square isn't exactly the Asian way of doing things most of the time.

But wouldn't you know it, the punk just had to come back.   'Cause he figured I wouldn't be there, out in the street, waiting for him, and he would be able to really stick it to me, by throwing EVEN MORE handfuls of cards on the street - where I'd have to pick them up on a daily basis.  And let me tell you, it often seems like all I ever do is pick up after selfish, lazy, littering Orientals who seem to think they don't have to throw away their own trash.

Grow up and wipe your own butt much, "modern" Asians?  But hey!  We can't all be parented the same way, can we?  Some of us just definitely seem to need to have codependent tendencies instilled in us by needy, 'pay me back when I get old' parents.  You know, parents that selfishly dote on us, so they'll have the big face of showing others that they are so attentive to their kids.  Hopelessly codependent kids that they can blackmail to take care of them when they get older, too.  See how that works?

CULTure!  It's all the rage.  And not just in fabled Far East Asia (where more and more senior citizens are not only NOT being taken care of by their money obsessed children, but where those elders are now committing suicide in record numbers).  If I were to speak in the defense of Asians everywhere, that is.  Which, I sometimes really do do, believe it or not.  'Cause this isn't about "race."  It's about REALLY, REALLY BAD HABITS habitually committed by various groups of people (NOT just Far East Asians) that are still trying really, really hard to climb up out of the Dark Ages.

Yes, the Dark Ages.  You know, when people just threw their trash and waste water out into the street.  Oh wait!  I saw that just a few short years ago in Shanghai, China!  Which is supposed to be the most "modern" city in China....  BULLSH#$T!  Tall buildings and capitalism, I am oh, so sorry to say, does NOT modernity make, kids.

See... the thing is, what Mr. Littering Motorcycle Creep is doing, like a lot of accepted practices in Asia, is ILLEGAL.  So SCREW WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT "CULTure," and peaceful, happy, self effacing "Buddhists" in hopelessly corrupt, litter strewn, passive aggressive Northeast Asia.   'Cause... duh! I'm fully aware that not all Asians are exactly the same - despite the MASSIVE SOCIAL PRESSURE they are all under from the cradle to the grave, to just be one of the passively aggressively misbehaving crowd.   Are you aware of what makes different groups of people different AND similar?  Really?  Seriously?  How much do YOU really know about what things are REALLY like in Northeast Asia?

Here's the REAL DEAL: Littering is littering, and is bad for the environment in ANY country - you overly liberal, enabling, excuse making scum out there, who don't know what you're talking about anyway, when you're making judgments from afar.  My wife is Asian, thank you very much, and I'll have you know that she doesn't make excuses to avoid civic responsibility.  Like yours truly, she obeys the local and international law, as often as humanly possible.

So, when that littering motorcycle creep came back, I had my camera ready and set to video.  Sure enough, the COWARD saw me and turned tail.  But the passive aggressive scumbag will, I'm sure, be back.   But I'll get 'im.  'Cause harassment can definitely work both ways.  And bullies tend to only understand reverse bullying, you know.   So I'll get the littering, anally retentive creep.  One way or another.  And this Yankee cowboy isn't gonna hide like a coward behind his actions when I do.