What are the rates for your countries? Do you always wash your hands after toilet usage? Btw Portugal once again Balkan

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Satyriasis457@reddit

Is this self reported? The UK seems way too high. I see plenty of people coming in and out without washing their hands, during my 30 min pooping at work

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muse_enjoyer025@reddit

It's at least 9 years old this chart.

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Only 30 minutes? LOL, gotta up those numbers, and go more than once. In fact, get a few friends to join you at the same time, leave one cubicle free for a random, and start making noises between yourselves to mess with the random, this is is how you get to the next level.

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koklobok@reddit

They installed cameras in public toilets and calculated what percentage of people actually wash their hands.

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babancheto@reddit

Muslims in the UK are affecting the numbers, otherwise it would be around 60%.

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Fuzzy_Continental@reddit

During your pooping? I'd start by closing the door.

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Abject-Substance-108@reddit

They may have heard people come in and leave without using the faucet…

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Slight-Level7674@reddit

How wouldn't it be self report? Tf

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frogunderarock@reddit

if this is self reported the Netherlands scare me even more.

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Kuwaie@reddit

Only 30 min? Rookie numbers

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lkt213@reddit

Data is shit based on UK numbers

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Left-Fennel5600@reddit

THIS

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iboreddd@reddit

Netherlands is something else btw.

Once I saw a bunch of people partying on a boat (eating and drinking too). They slowly parked aside and men went to public urinal (only a wall and a hole you can pee) across the street one by one and went back to boat and continued partying. That was gross

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alexnjonjo@reddit

I live in the Netherlands and kept complaining to my partner that no one here washes their hands. He always laughed it off, saying it's the same everywhere and other people just lie in the surveys (Dutch people see themselves as "very honest" about such things often).

He changed his mind real quick when we did a train-bus trip from NL all the way down to Macedonia. He said he's never seen literally every man wash their hands, especially the older men. It happened practically everywhere once we were in the Balkan area. All the gas station stops, restaurants, wherever. Now he tells everyone here that it's not normal how little people wash their hands.

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bespoketranche1@reddit

It’s not normal wtf, why don’t they wash their hands

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Mechanicjemas3141@reddit

Then they wonder why their grandparents fucked by Black Plague at medieval days and die from again thousand infections in WW1

While somehow Turks, Muslims and Africans stayed safe from sickness, hmmmmm l guess they work with witches I guess.

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Greedy_Constant1992@reddit

How is it that your country is so filthy and Netherlands is so clean tho? Another question: how come Turk and Arabic neighborhoods in the Netherlands are so dirty, yet you’re so meticulous about washing your hands?
I am genuinely curious.

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alexnjonjo@reddit

There's a difference between personal hygiene norms and the cleanliness of public spaces. The first one has to do mostly with culture is my best bet, the second has to do with how much the state or municipality invests in keeping the public space clean. Richer countries will keep things cleaner generally because they have the resources for it.

In these richer countries, if there's racism, classism, etc. some neighborhoods will look clean and others less so based on whatever difference they discriminate on usually. So some places may get more frequent cleaning, better trash can placement, etc.

Another thing that can feed into this is how a minority perceives their acceptance and respect in that society. If they experience racism, they might also have a lack of respect for the majority and "their" society, and hence might just start caring less for public spaces as a consequence. Not saying it's right but I could see how it happens.

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Greedy_Constant1992@reddit

Ok, but if I travel to turkey it’s a very filthy country. Not only the capital as in a lot of other countries, but the entire country is very dirty and unkept. I won’t even go into detail about arab countries

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alexnjonjo@reddit

I don't see how this goes against what I explained. It has to do with wealth, resources, and how they're allocated. The Netherlands has had the wealth, resources, and opportunities politically to make this possible. I don't see what else could explain this, unless you think they like to have a messy public space for some strange reason.

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Greedy_Constant1992@reddit

You were talking about racism and wealth and I’m saying if I go to turkey I doubt people are racist between each other, and wealth has little to do with keeping your environment clean. You don’t need money to know that throwing garbage on the street is not nice.

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alexnjonjo@reddit

Racism and classism were the addition for why you can also see this within countries or regions, the main explanation was wealth and resources.

It's not as simple as not throwing garbage on the street. The state controls how often it's cleaned, how often garbage is picked up from containers, where the trash cans are, how they are placed, etc. The garbage has to go somewhere. If there's no one hired to clean it, it's going to get messy quickly.

The less wealth, resources, political stability a place has, the less resources it can allocate to things like public space cleanliness. Unless you have these things, it's just hard for it to become a priority.

In the cases of inequalities within a country (the classism and racism): the state also controls which locations get these resources and with what priority. The greater the inequalities, the greater the differences within a country.

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Greedy_Constant1992@reddit

A lot of non sense words to defend a filthy country

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karagozlou@reddit

You ask to be engaged in dialogue and then when you can’t defend your racist views logically, you fall back on faulty premises and reinforce your bigoted perceptions.

It’s not “non sense words” you just either don’t have the capacity or the willingness to understand what they mean.

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Greedy_Constant1992@reddit

It sounds like you can’t face the reality and blame it on racism when people say it how it is. I find it very funny that you criticize the Dutch (which can also be viewed as a form of racism) and when confronted with it you yell that I am racist.

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Fuzzy_Alg@reddit

This is not such a difficult dilemma. In Bolu, they fined throwing garbage on the street and enforced it well, now the streets are clean. When rules are set and fines are imposed, people comply. People follow the communal rules if there are social or financial sanctions.

In addition, Turkey has urbanized rapidly. The person who threw fruit peels in the field in the village, now throwing packaging of his chocolate on the ground and his children grew up like this. Harmless village habit causing different results in the city.

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Greedy_Constant1992@reddit

In the Netherlands if you go to a village it’s much cleaner than in the city. You can also throw garbage here in the street with little legal repercussions, the police have better things to do. But there’s a very big chance someone walking on the street might tell you it’s not nice to do that.

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otisticRetard52@reddit

I would argue that turkish cities are wayyy cleaner than western european ones.

Exluding public service, there is a big gap. For example look at subways, there is grafiti everywhere and people really dont care about it and break stuff etc.

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Gullible_Meaning6597@reddit

then they show us like dirty low clsss people

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Mechanicjemas3141@reddit

Yeah they want everyone to believe all Europe is rich(as orders from Western Governments pleased, please ignore average teenager from Portugal, other are also struggling but they send a specification about Portugal teetnagers for some reason)

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Greedy_Constant1992@reddit

How it how is it that your country is so filthy and Netherlands is so clean tho? Another question: how come Turk and Arabic neighborhoods in the Netherlands are so dirty, yet you’re to meticulous about washing your hands?

I am genuinely curious.

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mrdodo33@reddit

Dirty? There' are no piss puddles in Türkiye. But in the Netherlands there is and it's common.

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Gunnar_Kvist@reddit

I`ve been to Ankara. Cleanest in the world. /s

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arsizsaruman@reddit

I live in the NL. This is very true. People just leave urinals at work without even touching the water. Gross.

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Hyperionics1@reddit

It might also be one of the countries that replies with honesty to a questionnaire about washing hands after peeing. Ergo.. these numbers mean nothing. (Yes i’m dutch and i wash my hands 87% of the time).

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hamsifalacata@reddit

I wish I was in the Netherlands

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macellan@reddit

After a winter here I regret I washed my hands too much. They are basically sandpapers now.

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ExcellentElection882@reddit

I don’t shake hands in the Netherlands.

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Mechanicjemas3141@reddit

Yeah l remember once a German family came

They wanted the light for start their own fire, l give the lighter offer some ayran, he refused but he wanted to shake hands as thanks, we shake hands and sadly...

You know sometimes you shit hard that you feel the poop on your hands even tho you never touched it? Yeah I felt that thing from that man and sad think is l see him feed his child like that too

l go over all the cleaning stuff and make sure food ain't get much dusty while that man? As a Father l kinda pity the kids, look he's not look like a jackass, his attitude was good he have that father gentleness but he just lacks hygiene, it's been few years but I hope getting into quarantine after that Summer was enough to teach him about hygiene

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SpaceBug176@reddit

Turkey is NOT %94 bro. Literally half my colleagues not wash their hands after using the toilet. Food sector as well btw. 🤢

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BadBasik@reddit

Oh... My... God...

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DontTryItLol@reddit

i've been in turkey many times... that number seems off :/ especially in eastern turkey

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AlxR25@reddit

Wait, there’s people that don’t wash their hands after going to the toilet?

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Prestigious-Fail-457@reddit

Ислам реально имеет нормальные правила гигиены!

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myillusion13@reddit

Please wash your hands ewww 🤢

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nenjiavero@reddit

I'm in Spain right now and it's absolutely DISGUSTING to me that I haven't seen one local washing hands 🤢

I wash them at least ten times a day lol (I know my way is also not good, but ffs wash your hands people!)

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Hopeful-Cry7569@reddit

Think positive! A greater exposure to bacteria may help reinforce your immune system!

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LengthBeneficial104@reddit

Yes, because an immune system that is constantly fighting (healthy) tissue is exactly what you want!

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SoulEkko@reddit

I'm really, really curious how they measured this.

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SIR2480@reddit

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BlokZNCR@reddit (OP)

https://www.statista.com/chart/4111/do-europeans-wash-their-hands-after-using-the-toilet/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-european-countries-that-wash-their-hands-least-after-going-to-the-toilet-a6757711.html

https://www.worldvisualized.com/article/europes-hygiene-habits-revealed-half-of-dutch-dont-wash-hands-with-soap-after-using-the-toilet

https://jakubmarian.com/a-study-reveals-how-many-europeans-wash-their-hands-with-soap/

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poop-machines@reddit

These are all the same study. Yours is also a survey, countries which have more muslims will of course rate higher because of teachings in Islam, especially from the traditions of the prophet mohammed (even if they are lying). Self reported data is inherently flawed.

This meta analysis (essentially an average of many studies, the gold standard) finds that higher income countries wash after using the toilet more than low income countries. There's a clear trend.

While this 2015 survey found that balkans wash more, a more recent survey found that the top ranked countries for hand washing in Europe are Norway, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Romania ranks bottom. Essentially a reverse of this data.

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Master0D@reddit

Why'd you change Switzerland and Austrias values? I did not see the 23% anywhere in the sources?

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BlokZNCR@reddit (OP)

I've upscaled original low quality image by an editing tool, that maybe caused it.

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Prestigious-Job-9825@reddit

Their method was probably something like this:

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oerwtas@reddit

In Turkey we say "my source is my ass"

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Other-House4509@reddit

In Romania we say "e scoasă din cur" / "it came out the ass"

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EducationalAd1789@reddit

in turkish we also say "götümden uydurdum / i came up with it using my ass" (probly not very correct translate sorry)

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Adept-One-4632@reddit

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Simple_Enjoyer1@reddit

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Adept-One-4632@reddit

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Simple_Enjoyer1@reddit

Fair enough

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SoulEkko@reddit

Guy looks like that beefed up Senator from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance.

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Taqqer00@reddit

Survey with toilette cleaners

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DorimeInaCan@reddit

Bathroom cameras

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alkorisno@reddit

Bosnia 96%, Switzerland 23%. Bosnians are most civilized european country, but unfortunately they are a EU colony

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XenophonSoulis@reddit

Every time this is posted in an European sub, you get people from the low-percentage countries writing text walls of explanations on why it doesn't matter and you should actually wash your hands before using the toilet (as if doing both is impossible).

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Prestigious-Sell1957@reddit

it is washing hands. it's the simplest and basic task. why is there a debate on this issue

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XenophonSoulis@reddit

I don't know, ask the Dutch.

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Meowdaruff@reddit

it's sad that we're only at 96% even that's disgusting like 🤢

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mikitheserb7@reddit

Still waiting for someone to ask me if I wash my hands 😞

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Svez1@reddit

Why would i wash my hands i have a clean dick

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Fuzzy_Alg@reddit

A friend of mine once said that he went to the toilet without touching his member, so he did not need to wash his hands.

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Prestigious-Sell1957@reddit

WTF

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Status_Muscle9705@reddit

Yucky Serb

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Spekuloos_Lover@reddit

Maybe you wanna touch your dick but other people don't.

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we_wuzz_kangz@reddit

pp is dirty no matter what after you pee

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tofif33@reddit

Wait until you learn about public spaces

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Stverghame@reddit

Je l' sapunjaš... ruke?

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we_wuzz_kangz@reddit

do you wash your hands?

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_Caligulean_@reddit

Šiljiš li ga?

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Big_Gun_Pete@reddit

"Civilized" West

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StrangeUglyBird@reddit

The infidels have dirty hands.

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DrDochard@reddit

BTW washing should be using soap. I witnessed a lot of people at airport restrooms just wetting their hands without using soap.

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Tenchi_Muyo1@reddit

In Switzerland the toilets are so clean that they don't need to wash their hands /s

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glitzergewitter@reddit

There is a bigger version of this map...you don't wanna see the rate for Japan 😶

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Zorrt3169@reddit

Wtf is that diabolical rate

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Tramagust@reddit

It seems accurate from my experience. You really see it in the office buildings IMHO.

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Voldypants_420@reddit

Oh man I work in an international environment and before I met my people from Nordics and the Netherlands I never knew how bad some people can stink. It's not like "it's a hot day and I skipped on deodorant" stink, it's full on "I didn't take a bath for two weeks and laundry is optional" kind of stink.

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varyemez@reddit

Wait for Indians..

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PhastasFlames@reddit

I’ve encountered a massive amount of people from both the Netherlands, Norway, and Indians. Dutch people were worse than Indians.

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varyemez@reddit

My experience is the opposite.

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PhastasFlames@reddit

Have you lived in the Netherlands?

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varyemez@reddit

No, never visited the Netherlands either. I have mostly dealt with highly educated Dutch people so that might be one reason. But I have come across very well doing (education and money wise) Indians who smells horrible. I am assuming it is mostly incense and spices.

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Eu_sebian@reddit

it is much more important to wash your hands before than after

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ChrisRedfield696969@reddit

I wash hands before and after

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ZookeepergameFit967@reddit

Why the hell not?

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hosiki@reddit

This only tells me how much people lie in this region. Boyfriend told me just how often men wash their hands after using public bathrooms.

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D0nkeyHS@reddit

Paying attention to what others are doing in the men's bathroom? That's blasphemous.

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Crucco@reddit

Now show me Italy without Naples. My guess is that Italy is above 80% (100% where I live, im the North), but in Naples it's 0% and 25 % of the italian population has Neapolitan culture. I mean, they spit on the hround, shit in the streets; Naples is the only city in the First World with a cholera epidemic. Washing their hands is like asking a medieval person to connect to Google

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KulshanStudios@reddit

Georgians do, from my observations

They're somehow even more fastidious than even us Swedes

And I don't mean we're somehow less clean than them

But I mean

Kitchen sink is exclusively for washing fruits/veg, and washing dishes, and bathroom sink is exclusively for hand washing and tooth brushing/spitting after rinsing mouth

Growing up back home, the kitchen sink was always all-purpose and when you were going to prep food, you washed your hands at the kitchen sink, to minimize surface contact after hand washing before food prep

But the first time I washed my hands in the kitchen sink before prepping dinner, my GF's head about exploded

I guess Georgians think hand washing in the kitchen sink is gross and unclean

But I always saw it as being more efficient for time and preventing contamination of food by stuff like doorknobs or handrails or whatever

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kobraguleryuz@reddit

You know what, we have bidets in our toilets but tons of Turkish people doesn't want to touch their anus and clean it. When it's like this i have my on suspicions.

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Slice-CSGO@reddit

Those highest % seem more like "Washing hands after washing my ass/shit with my hands" type of things.

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Urayami@reddit

Im sure everyone wash their hands with soap after toilet dont believe that kind of maps.. Its 2026 cmon

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bbitb@reddit

My brother in law doesn't wash his hands (leaves the toilet seat up and doesn't flush either🤢) and somehow taught my sister to do the same and they have 2 kids.....

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CopenHagenCityBruh@reddit

Brother you would be surprised the amount of people I've seen go to the toilet and just walk out. The average person is disgusting

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Ok_Confusion4762@reddit

You underestimate how people can be that dirty and ignorant

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troKutan@reddit

Believe me, sometimes I go into a restaurant toilet and people would come out of the stall after flushing and just walk out without washing their hands

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buraksezer@reddit

And remember, which countries has Built -in Bidet , yes Türkiye 🇹🇷🐺

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Significant-Ad-7182@reddit

Italy is shocking to me. Washing my hands after a poop is almost like an instinct to me and yet almost half of Italy doesn't do it?

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CapCreeperGR@reddit

Pretty sure this is for washing your hands after peeing because there is no way people don't wash their hands after taking a shit

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Mechanicjemas3141@reddit

Ain't you suppose to wash your hands like no matter what you done in toilet? Pee,poop, shaving or cleaning the toilet

l think it's something that all of us suppose to do.

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Obvious-Desk4573@reddit

Everything except shaving, I just rinse with water to get rid of the shaving foam off my hands (then again I usually shave just before a shower so it's kind of redundant to wash hands in that scenario)

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unwarrantedarrugange@reddit

Some people don’t for example my father

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SamiTheAnxiousBean@reddit

I can't tell what the presentage for Serbia is in this diagram

but anything under 100% is too low

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alkorisno@reddit

Western media always presents Bosnia as uncivilized, stupid and lazy, because they dont want to admit their issues are because they are a NATO colony, not themselves. Goes the same for other countries in the region.

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NetraamR@reddit

The Swiss are at 23%? Gross!

I knew my fellow Dutchmen were at 50%. Gross. I won't say it's the reason I moved away, but it helps.

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-5W_30-@reddit

Was shocked when i saw 23% for Switzerland. Seems to be wrong though (should be 73%).

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DragonTheOnes-spirit@reddit

Yo. African here.

I'm not gonna continue the sentence. Please be somewhat racist and assume we're a backwards society. Because literally NOBODY washes their hands EVER. Like not even after the shitter

Probably because literally every sane person uses bidets and washing them is functionally useless but ehhhhh

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vasjpan002@reddit

Pre 1922 Turks in Greece washed but with winesac

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dzik-notecki@reddit

Actually the e.coli spread around 2013 has proven that in German it is not so obvious.

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lukarak@reddit

I wash before. Not touching my clean parts with dirty outside hands.

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Abject-Substance-108@reddit

ALWAYS! Sometimes before going to the toilet and then afterwards too. I also do not touch the door handle if I can help it and if not, I sacrifice my pinky and use it to open the door

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Teluric_@reddit

Now divide those rates in half and you'll get the real numbers.

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BabeWearsRed@reddit

Norwegian metalheads don't wash their hands? I assumed so.

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SignificantText6123@reddit

Ofc

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Aggressive_Bath55@reddit

Yikes Switzerland

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Broad-Anywhere-9224@reddit

I can confirm this, I lived in the Netherlands, and the Dutch were confused/shocked that I wash myself after using the restroom.

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United-Cranberry-386@reddit

What part of the country do you live? In the east and north, nearly everyone washes their hands.

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PhastasFlames@reddit

I’ve also lived in a few different parts of NL (mainly Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Enschede. I’ve never seen a Dutch person wash their hands. I’ve also only seen a handful of establishments (restaurants) that have soap in their bathrooms

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Broad-Anywhere-9224@reddit

Rotterdam

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Talithea@reddit

Lived in Italy and was the same. For a population that is proud of their cuisine, I am surprised they do the mightiest sin: not respecting it by washing their hands.

Lavateve le mani li mortacci vostra.

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Usual-Trouble-2357@reddit

Is that a genuine normal phrase in Italia or did you just translate the Romanian idiom?

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Talithea@reddit

Is a phrase in Roman dialect

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Usual-Trouble-2357@reddit

Amazing, so cursing about one's dead relatives must be an ancient custom dating all the way back to classical times. Such refined people, the Romans...we even kept their curses

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Talithea@reddit

Is more like an intercalar. They so resistant to curses they use them as basic decoration for their speech.

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Usual-Trouble-2357@reddit

I mean 'morții tăi' is kinda not far off from that

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PhastasFlames@reddit

Guarantee you that 90% of those “50%” in the Netherlands are non-Dutch people

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LibertyChecked28@reddit

Some ppl just want their junk food to have extra flavour 🤷‍♂️

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Hopeful-Cry7569@reddit

yes, extra salty!

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Savings_Dragonfly806@reddit

Why are half of Europe's countries not in the survey? I mean HOW do you not get data from Greece?

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aXeOptic@reddit

What fucking barbarian doesnt wash his hands?

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Bobinho4@reddit

If this is even true (humongous if) Are half the dutch people saving money?

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Aleixus1985@reddit

Portugal the great honorary Balkan

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DuePositive8957@reddit

As a Turk I want to know the source

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Positive_Storage515@reddit

Before and after its better.

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ClowningBad@reddit

I've seen this before, dunno how accurate it is but it's crazy to me that people just don't care about washing their hands when it's such a low effort thing that takes a minute. Not only do I wash my hands every time I use the bathroom(whether outside or at home), I wash my hands every time I come back from outside, even if I just took a walk, I wash my hands before a meal if I eat out or was just out, it's a reflex.

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FunYogurtcloset4153@reddit

looks AI, why is that 85% so weird? (near hungary and austria)

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LeviJr00@reddit

Also the 96% below

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Korpikuusenalla@reddit

And then the Balkans just dump the shit in the river/sea

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btweenthatormohammad@reddit

No shoes in the house but streets are full of garbage. People are clean in their personal life, as for keeping the public space clean, not so much. At least I can say this for Turkey.

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s-patrick-jane@reddit

Y’all are not paying enough attention to switzerland 💔

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Hadouken_Ken@reddit

UK 75 % ? What are you smoking ? In my company there were 5 people from the UK. Nobody washed their hands after going to the toilet.

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dadaaa111@reddit

Neka smo i mi dobri u necemu

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Level_Reference_6965@reddit

All the Turks living scattered around Europe seem to be raising the percentage overall 😅💯

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mahnatazis@reddit

Well I'm from Serbia and it doesn't have a number on this map but I'm assuming the percentage unfortunately wouldn't be particularly high. I do always wash my hands after using the toilet but I definitely see that many people here do not.

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LaVeriteEstDansLeVin@reddit

If I'm outside I wash before and after. Imagine being in public transportation and then touch your pp 💀

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Taqqer00@reddit

Means the Portuguese stopped washing their hands after toilette visits only in the last 10 years? Because they don’t now.

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argjent_kr@reddit

Effect of Islam

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OddWatercress8564@reddit

r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT

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dameyen_maymeyen@reddit

Why are the colors messed up? Switzerland is darker than Austria yet only has a quarter of hand washers?

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Sweet_Bridge_3001@reddit

On top of this, i was horrified with the lack of bidets in Europe when i visited. I walked around feeling disgusting, get a bidet guys, its amazing.

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Unhappy-String-9251@reddit

I got one last year for Cristmas. Would never do without it

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DriveByAtanCivciv@reddit

r/portugalcykablyat

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Old-Tooth-4882@reddit

Now I understand why Nigel Powers hates the Dutch.

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gavats@reddit

i can easily tell that most of my colleagues do not wash their hands (denmark)

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ProcedureHot9414@reddit

How the fuck do you even measure this and why would anybody say " yeah i don't wash my hand after I take a piss or a shit "?

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CountryMayhem@reddit

Yeah... I absolutely don't believe Turkey and Bosnia, at all.

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AlmostAnchovy@reddit

Türkiye's rate might be high, but it's definitely not 94%. I've definitely seen many people who either don't wash their hands or just rinse to "fool" people in high school, shopping centers, university and sadly in my office.

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Brilliant_Low_8235@reddit

I hope that bacteria experts will develop a strain of bacteria that makes people sick if they don’t wash their hands after using the restroom, so that people will be forced to wash their hands.

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tofif33@reddit

People are not dying or getting sick from someone’s unwashed hand, but your solution is to make those people sick.

Welcome to internet social network warrior

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K2YU@reddit

Seeing how some people behaved during COVID, they will probably still not wash their hands and insist on their freedom to Not do so.

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Brilliant_Low_8235@reddit

However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, people were at risk of getting sick. That said, those who don’t wash their hands will make it a habit if they end up in bed sick for two days.

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K2YU@reddit

Never underestimate the stupidity If some people. They would probably still ignore it and blame it on something else.

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K2YU@reddit

Never underestimate the stupidity If some people. They would probably still ignore it and blame it on something else

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shadowdance55@reddit

Haha there is a very good reason for these results. 🤣

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Stverghame@reddit

I cannot imagine going out of toilet without washing my hands

Posting this map here regularly is a good reminder not to handshake with westerners, just in case.

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tofif33@reddit

Whole life you are in contact with people not washing their hands after using the toilette and you live. I think you will survive

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Stverghame@reddit

I ain't worrying about being sick, I am worrying about interacting with people that don't have conciousness about basic hygiene despite financially/environmentally/physically being able to maintain it. Some people should simply not he interacted with.

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tofif33@reddit

And yet you do interact with them daily

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Stverghame@reddit

My circles ain't like that, trust me. I don't meet new people every day to potentially interact with such people daily.

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tofif33@reddit

Do you wash your hands every time when you arrive home? Do you wash your door handle that you first touch with unwashed hand? I hope you do

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Stverghame@reddit

Do you wash your hands every time when you arrive home?

Yes

Do you wash your door handle that you first touch with unwashed hand?

No, but I wash my hands after using it.

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tofif33@reddit

You open bathroom door with unwashed hand, than you wash it and touch the same door handle again? Congrats on washing your hands

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Stverghame@reddit

I am not a germ-freak to ask for a sterile environment, you must have misunderstood me. Also, house cleaning is a thing, but not a daily thing to do.

I am simply advocating basic hygiene, which includes washing hand pre and post urinating/defecating as well as upon entering home after spending time outside. Also prior to a meal.

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tofif33@reddit

I just don’t understand how people that don’t wash their hands affect your life.

You wash your hands anyway all the time because everything you touch is dirty anyway, but dirty hands is where people lose their mind

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Stverghame@reddit

They don't affect my life. They affect my perception of them as people, I thought that was clear.

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tofif33@reddit

So you judge people based on things that have no effect on your life

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Stverghame@reddit

I judge people by their behaviour, regardless of is it affecting me or not.

I am not the center of the world to care only about things affecting me. A single person is a complete concept even outside of their relationship with me. You respect someone or lose respect for someone based on their actions. It is really not that hard to comprehand, idk why you're struggling that much.

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tofif33@reddit

I struggle to understand why so many people are outraged people don’t wash their hand when it has zero effect on their daily life. Acting like you are in some danger or something.

If someone doesn’t tell you they did not wash their hand you will have no idea. Just like you do thinking you know everyone in your “circle”

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Stverghame@reddit

Jesus Christ, I explained it a few times, so I'll refrain from doing it again as it seems futile.

You do you.

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tofif33@reddit

Yes you explained you don’t have any reason except “it’s unhygienic” without single example how

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shigabi@reddit

I wash before toilet. Why the heck I would want to touch my clean penis with dirty hands?

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Striking-Doughnut-36@reddit

But do you wash after the toilet too? No one wants to touch things you touched after using your "clean" penis

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shigabi@reddit

This should be joke from Torrente movie, ofc I wash after. Also before if I work or touch dirty stuff.

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Dense_Raspberry6607@reddit

Source trust me bro

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Fancy-Sherbet8787@reddit

Meme on point. Nice

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etre1337@reddit

In general, the personal hygiene of the westerners leaves me appaled.

Including toddlers that are left to mop the floor of the airports and then eat and lick their fingers without washing. Ffs.

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darksugarfairy@reddit

When I was in the Netherlands, I stopped using gender neutral bathrooms, and just went to women's only. Not because of safety reasons but just because the sheer number of men who would simply leave a stall, look themselves in a mirror and walk about without washing hands was making me not want to sit or breathe next to anyone lol

I wish I could say women wash their hands, but the truth is, women wash their hands in the Netherlands only more than men, which is still not good enough

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veovis523@reddit

It depends on the circumstance. If I'm in public? Always. If I'm taking a piss at home in the middle of the night and have to get back to sleep? No.

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Thush_99@reddit

The only places with higher than 90% are muslim majority, not to discriminate at all, not saying other religious beliefs cause uncleanliness, but a primary concept in islamic belief is the total cleaning of your: genitalia, bum and hands with water after urination or defacation (can and almost always includes detergents i.e. soap). The more you know!

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Potovalec14@reddit

Im pretty sure that its the other way around

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OldYogurt7161@reddit

I dont know others but as a Turk. I always carry 2 packets wetwipes in case of I have to use the restroom outside. I put them around the head of toilet and then sit on the wet wipes without touching the plastic side. Also, instinctly I can not get into toilet with a bottle of water or some packed foods even I know they will not be contaminated, I was shocked when I see Germans that fill up their bottles at the tap in the toilet.

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lilalindenau@reddit

Better caption would be:

"Where people lie frequently about washing their hands after using the bathroom"

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tofif33@reddit

People here acting like they are catching diseases 24/7 from people not washing their hands

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Samurai_GorohGX@reddit

This is one occasion I’m happy that Portugal is western balkan.

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atakanberkbrant@reddit

as a Turk, I wash my hands not only after using the toilet but after any contact that could expose them to germs so I wash my hands like dozens of time every day. It's a cultural thing, that's how i I saw it from my mother and father, and I grew up doing it. It’s a cultural thing, I grew up seeing my parents do this and I adopted the same habit.

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SaTeTroznesc@reddit

I wash my hands before and after using the toilet because I respect my penis.

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Neat-Survey2796@reddit

Bro I physically cannot leave the bathroom without washing my hands even if I just went there for a cup of water, what the fk is going on in some of these countries

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Novakine@reddit

84% Romania when about half of all residences DO NOT have working plumbing tells me someone is making shit up. And of the people WITH plumbing, half I'd say don't give a f or are not educated at all.

I think that it makes more sense and is more hygienic for yourself to wash your hands before using the toilet, rather than afterwards. If you are clean yourself, with no known transmissible diseases, your hands will undoubtedly be cleaner than anything you have touched before washing your hands.

Or you can do both, but that is 100% a waste of water and soap. And to bring some extra awareness: your phone, your wallet, your car interior and your money are much much much much MUCH dirtier than a hand that touched a pee-pee when using the toilet. (Assuming basic hygiene and cleanliness is adhered to by showering on a regular basis).

Oh and your toothbrush and pretty much anything in your bathroom contain poop particles. Have fun.

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kkania@reddit

I’d like to see the source of this international, transcontinental study on hand washing

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GladisTheWhale@reddit

Only 23% in Switzerland HOW?

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vukopr0@reddit

niko iz bosne pere ruke

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Downtown-Dream424@reddit

Can't trust the people that don't wash their hands 🤮

A friendly reminder to wash your hands after using the toilet

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WeirdAssumption2482@reddit

72

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zonf@reddit

For context: Most of Turkish people wash themselves with water and bare hands after taking a shit. That's why they have to wash their hands after.

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Logical-Platypus-397@reddit

You dont know how a bidet works do you

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Superb-Register-102@reddit

Covid mainly spreads through droplets from talking, sneezing etc. (to the people who worry about that).
I'm dutch and don't often leave the country, and have dealt with some awful parasite for a long while. These kind of statistics explain enough.

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Organic_Contract_172@reddit

It’s because in islam, you are considered an infidel if you do not adhere to basic hygiene

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RebelKitten69@reddit

I would phrase it more as, in islam being unclean invalidates prayers, have a drop of pee on you and god won't even listen (or shouldn't, he can if he choses to)

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TheMidwinterFires@reddit

Me when I spread misinformation

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we_wuzz_kangz@reddit

bro look at your pfp 🤣🤣 whos talking ✌💔

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TheMidwinterFires@reddit

What do you mean

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we_wuzz_kangz@reddit

u know what i mean

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TheMidwinterFires@reddit

I only know that you are racist

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we_wuzz_kangz@reddit

if only you knew..

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weoponized_donkey@reddit

Almost half of Bosnia is Christian the other half is Muslim, so your point makes no sense.

And who told you in Islam if you don't adhere to hygiene your a infidel? This is absolute BS.

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we_wuzz_kangz@reddit

hygiene is important, but it doesnt make you an infidel necessarily

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weoponized_donkey@reddit

Yes, ofcoarse, cleanliness is half of our faith. It should be common sense for any person to keep clean.

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we_wuzz_kangz@reddit

what? Cleanliness is extremely important in Islam, yes, but you don't become infidels for that!? what's up with Czechs and their extreme hatred of Islam? can you tone down your hate just a little bit?

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Organic_Contract_172@reddit

What makes you think I hate Islam? In fact, I respect it for taking a hardline stance on personal hygiene.

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we_wuzz_kangz@reddit

Ok maybe i misunderstood your statement

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Affectionate-Band-15@reddit

Hehe, maybe take it as a compliment veiled by ignorance.

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SeljD_SLO@reddit

The company i work for hired a bunch people fresh from Bosnia, a week later this was on all bathroom doors

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Key_Information3273@reddit

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Punkmo16@reddit

r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT

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Appropriate_Low_1715@reddit

before and after! 🧴👏🏾

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kicklhimintheballs@reddit

The reason for that is that Muslims have to use their hands with water to clean after toilet usage. So their hands are literally touching shit. Toilet paper use is allowed but only as an extra step and some schools disapprove it.

Meanwhile there is no contact between your hands and fecal matter using toilet paper. Both should wash it though

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heisweird@reddit

No we use bidets. And then dry our bum with toilet paper. Our hands dont touch shit. Dont talk about things you dont know about.

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kicklhimintheballs@reddit

I’m Turkşsh dumbass and a lot of people in anatolia do that.

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AskBalkans-ModTeam@reddit

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If not, try to refrain from using this type of language.

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Cheers.

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heisweird@reddit

I’m from a small village in Anatolia. Even in rural areas pretty much everyone has toilette with built in bidets in their home. I dont know which country you are living in.

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kicklhimintheballs@reddit

They use bidets and use their hands afterwards…

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rutilianus@reddit

Toilet paper use is "allowed"?? wtf

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khmelnitsk@reddit

It is actually necessary to use something solid before washing, nowadays it’s paper.

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Mother-Astronaut8784@reddit

Implying those two countries still wash their asses like its 1600's and they don't have toilet papers and bidets.

Implying you take a shit everytime you visit a toilet.

It's just a cultural norm. Yes, a long time ago your reason was one of the reasons they washed their hands as often, and it partially snapped the culture, but it's not anymore.

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Antique-Meringue-708@reddit

Balkan all 100%

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X_irtz@reddit

Where do they pull these rates from?

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Altruistic_Mail_1773@reddit

Switzerland 23?????

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4Whom_The_Bell_Tolls@reddit

Again I have to commend my fellow Dutchmen for their honesty.

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thefish12124@reddit

I spend some time in turky public toilets, the number of people who come out of toilets and not wash their hands its too damn high high.

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Putrid_Speed_5138@reddit

While I always approach self-reported data with some skepticism, my "in-situ" observations at toilets in multiple countries (yes) confirm that Turks wash their hands more than many nations including Germans, French, Italians and Russians.

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FutureFriendly8738@reddit

Your color gradient makes no sense. Higher % should be darker, no?!

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Polka_Tiger@reddit

It is.

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FutureFriendly8738@reddit

Look at Italy, Switzerland and Austria. Then look at Albania and Croatia

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hosiki@reddit

Croatia has no data on this map.

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FutureFriendly8738@reddit

Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia 88%. This is beside the point. There’s errors here

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hosiki@reddit

No.. Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary are greyed out as "no data", the "88%" which I think is actually 83, or 85, belongs to Serbia.

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stancodegliavocado@reddit

Maybe because in Italy we use the bidet after pooping? So it kinda washes hands too?

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OswGeoM@reddit

Um no?

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mariamandragora@reddit

My mysophobic ass just cannot trust places besides Turkey and Bosnia... 😷😷

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Kioz@reddit

Unexpected Romania W

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rintzscar@reddit

Stop believing bullshit maps shared on the internet anonimously with no sources, no data and no methodology. I can make the same map of Turkish people being the dumbest people on the planet in 5 seconds and you'd believe it.

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FuckTheCake@reddit

Of course I’d believe it
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rintzscar@reddit

The point is that you shouldn't.

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Lanky_Horse8749@reddit

I mean the Turks are one of the dumbest

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RougeBasic100@reddit

You should wash before and after - I mean why would you touch yourself with dirty hands downthere?

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ChurchClerk@reddit

In bulgaria 30 % are non bulgarians.

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andreisokiel@reddit

Guess who uses their bare left hands to wipe their buttholes

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Cheap-Reputation-682@reddit

dude I washing my hand at least 15-20 per day,I m from Turkey this number is general not just about after toilet

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LengthBeneficial104@reddit

We did a fun little experiment in a microbiology course that involved inocculating your hands with some bacterium, washing hands and then incubating whatever's left on hands for a few days.

The results were kinda insane. People really need to wash their hands better.

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billy_shears007@reddit

Sometimes I wash my hands before…

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chobolicious88@reddit

What is wrong with people lol

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arsenektzmn@reddit

As a herbophobe with OCD from Russia, I'm horrified. I hoped that 99% of people wash their hands, not counting children and elderly people with dementia.

!But overall, the statistics are sus. Where did they get the data? What's the sample? From which regions? And so on...!<

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Dry_Imagination2535@reddit

Filthy Christians

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Early-Show2886@reddit

As a Turkish Family Background, I was raised to wash my hands before and after using the toilet; likewise, whenever I come in from outside, the very first thing I do is wash my hands—or disinfect them with *gül suyu* (Turkish *kolonya*). After all, we do wash our asses after taking a dump, so naturally, you have to wash your hands thoroughly with soap and disinfect them afterwards.

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FilipeStraw@reddit

Portugal is way too high…

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Dangerously_69@reddit

Dick clean, cuh.

I wash hands before toilet.

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