bathroom

yesterday, in my school bathroom, an asian girl discreetly approached me and asked if I'm korean. don't know why but I get this a lot, maybe I have some korean gene from my grand grand dad or sth., that explains my bushy eyebrows and why I am such an avid meat eater. anyway, korean people have this strong commitment to their communities, they are so united and willing to help each other out. This gives me flashbacks to that weekend I spent in koreantown. It's literally an oasis of tranquility in the noisy, shabby, bustling downtown LA. Everything was kept so neat and clean, people are so friendly, and the smell of kimchi and BBQ in the air as you stroll down the local streets is so heavenly and tempting. And their bathroom, man, it is the cleanest public bathroom I've ever seen. and I remember seeing this old korean lady swiped the counter using her own embroidered handkerchief and cleaned up the hair in the sink. it's totally a different scene compared to what I was looking at at that moment in my school bathroom, faucets are left dripping, sinks are clogged with nasty hairs, floor is littered with toilet paper and seat pad, and the stalls are filled with dirty jokes, I will not continue to gross you out with all the details, but doesn't this make you think! doesn't the bathroom tell a lot about a society, a nation, and a culture?