chinese squatting toilets...... very random

The squatting toilets in China should all be changed to the clean and flushable sitting toilets that we have in America. The ones in China today can be exceptionally hazardous, and the horrible stench coming from many of the public ones is enough to make people gag and throw up. Another reason is that people who collect money for others to go in their bathrooms would get better business if the bathrooms were cleaner and smelled much better.

Chinese squatting toilets can be dangerous in a couple ways. The tiled floor of some bathrooms usually gets very slippery with liquid and might cause an unsuspecting person to slip and fall. Possibly, the fall might lead to breaking a body part if the person hit the ground to hard. Also, squatting again and again can eventually cause pain in joints such as the knees. This is especially true for elderly people. Only some bathrooms have a separate stall with a sitting toilet in it, but so many people just climb on top of the seat, that it makes the toilet seat too dirty to sit on anyways.

The squatting toilets in China also emit terrible odors, especially ones that don’t flush. Many public toilets in the countryside are just ditches dug in a dark room with three feet tall wooden walls to separate the stalls. Those bathrooms attract many flies and other bugs that could be carriers of sicknesses such as cholera and tuberculosis. The sitting toilets in America on the other hand, are all flushable and do not smell as bad. Therefore, they do not attract as many flies, which lowers the risk of sickness considerably.

Another reason why Chinese squatting toilets should be replaced with the American sitting ones is because people who collect money in front of public bathrooms would get better business. At tourist stops, some people refuse to pay money for the bathrooms and just go elsewhere, especially if they were not accustomed to squatting toilets and the stench surrounding them. Even people who use squatting toilets everyday in China would not pay to go in public bathrooms if the stink was too unbearable. Though if people heard that the bathrooms were equipped with sitting toilets instead of squatting toilets, they would probably pay the fee—which sometimes can be outrageously high---to the bathroom money collectors with less reluctance. That way, both the money collectors and the people paying would be happier; the money collector would be happy because he would earn more money than before, and the paying person would be happy because the bathrooms would be much less smelly and cleaner than before, and the toilets would be flushable sitting ones.

So if sitting toilets were to replace the squatting ones in China, the bathrooms would be much better off. There would be no risk of slipping and falling or hurting knee joints, nor would there be a great danger of getting cholera or tuberculosis from flies attracted by the reeking odor. The change would also make many people such as bathroom money collectors and tourists happier because the bathrooms would be cleaner and there would be no lingering stench that could be smelled a mile away. Therefore, even though it might cost thousands of money to rebuild, the squatting toilets in China should be changed to sitting ones, because they would be safer, the smell would be improved, and the bathroom money collectors would get better business in the long run.