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Katie Zakaria (41), the new White House press secretary who has been in the job less than a week, said in an interview aired on the 15th that “China doesn’t even have decent toilets.” Drawing on her own experience living in China, she also recalled how back in 2016 there was a widespread view that China would soon overtake the United States. On 5ch, the thread quickly veered away from the substance of her remark and into firsthand accounts of China’s toilet situation, plus plenty of “boomerang” tangents about America’s own problems — homeless people’s sanitation issues and obesity rates — along with a string of jabs at the press secretary’s own background, scattering the discussion in all directions.
New White House Press Secretary: “China doesn’t even have decent toilets”
[AFP=Jiji] Katie Zakaria (41), the White House press secretary who has been in the post for less than a week, said in an interview aired on the 15th that “China doesn’t even have decent toilets.”
Zakaria, who has lived in China, made the remark during an interview with right-wing influencer Jack Posobiec, recalling how back in 2016 there was a widespread belief that China was about to overtake the United States.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
She's a Pepperdine University grad, so that's about par for the course.
True that.
I'm gonna have nightmares about using that toilet.
Make it stooop.
Apparently you can even chat with your neighbor while you're on the toilet.
So ☆wonderful☆ and ☆invincible☆ lol
Seriously, and that's actually on the better end for China.
You'll understand once you've been there yourself.
If you don't believe it, go see for yourself.
Even in Shanghai, the fancy buildings have toilets you can't flush paper down, weak-pressure showers, cheap window frames, and doors with sketchy locks.
It's such a strange country — they can send people into space and build cutting-edge robots, AI, and EVs, but they just can't make decent low-tech consumer goods.
They even sell counterfeit sanitary napkins over there.
And hurry up with gun control already — why are over 50,000 people dying from guns every year?
And the off-the-charts obesity too.
No joke, America is the filthiest of all.
Towable camper trailers are popular there, after all.
The sight of them lined up row after row in dedicated lots is just bizarre.
Wait, is Press Secretary Leavitt still around?
Every single toilet I walked into had a mound left behind.
And every lock was broken so the doors wouldn't even close.
What is that about?
Sounds like a place that reeks something fierce.
I still haven't forgotten it.
The time I was desperate and ended up using the restroom at Hinagu Station in Kumamoto — the one that became famous because of the earthquake.
There was a towering, multicolored mountain of poop piled up in there.
First time I'd ever seen anything like it in my life.
I admit I contributed a small part to it myself.
Hinagu is famous for its delicious chikuwa (fish cake), and for a second I wondered if stuff like that was part of the 'secret ingredient.'
Isn't that for crime prevention? It's dangerous if you can't see what's going on inside.
They're almost all fake, huh… Only Normans would have genuinely natural blonde hair.
Re: #190
This one's the real deal, lol
Is that a campsite cooking area?
There's no way this isn't filthy.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
In White House press secretary appointments, remarks made right after taking office sometimes draw outsized attention. The person who made this comment is a different individual from Caroline Leavitt, the long-serving press secretary — which led to confused reactions on the thread like “Wait, is Press Secretary Leavitt still around?” While the remark itself is a personal impression based on Zakaria’s own experience living in China, one could argue it shows a lack of diplomatic tact for someone in an official position to generalize about a foreign country’s sanitation standards. The thread split between posters backing up the claim about China’s toilets with their own firsthand accounts, and others firing back sarcastically by pointing to America’s own social problems — homelessness-related sanitation issues, obesity rates, and the like — asking “is the US really one to talk?” It’s worth noting that the images and personal anecdotes circulating in the thread are hard to verify and don’t constitute primary sources.
※This article is composed of excerpts and summaries from the 5ch (News Flash+) thread “New White House Press Secretary: “China doesn’t even have decent toilets” — based on experience living in China.”
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