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Differences in China... Children & Trains     Children in different parts of the world... I saw in China once a little boy outside, a toddler, drop his pants at the street side at a market and just start pissing on the sidewalk. And as I saw this, I saw that all the people there weren’t even bothered by this... Someone explained to me that while they’re little, toddler boys in China can go to the bathroom like that outside - but if he goes number 2, the mother has to pick up his feces (you know, like they were taking care of a dog).     But on the trains in China, they had a television screen in every car, with clips from what seemed like “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Well, I couldn’t understand a thing anyone was saying in China on this show on the train, but you couldn’t help but watch, and you couldn’t help but laugh. It was a great means of bringing levity when you’re on a public train, like when you’re on your way to work every morning on the el. Copyright © 2007 Janet Kuypers. U.S. Government Copyright © 2004 Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers on all art and all writings on this site completed before 6/6/04. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.