Chapter 1325: Side Story: Having the Whole World in View (2)
Not all Westerners were like this though. The Westerners who came to Great Qi in the early years, such as businessmen like Andre, had long changed their living habits. Although they weren’t as particular about hygiene as the Qi people, they weren’t like their fellow countrymen who only took a few showers in their entire lives.
In the beginning, Caucasian Square was not so chaotic. Although it was not a big deal for the aristocrats to relieve themselves wherever they wanted in their home country, smart businessmen here knew how to do as the Romans do. Therefore, very few of them would violate the bottom line of the Qi people.
However, as the cost of going out to sea decreased, more and more people were willing to take the risk to sail overseas. Furthermore, all kinds of workers were needed on a ship, resulting in all kinds of Westerners coming to Great Qi, making them even harder to manage.
Only then did such a phenomenon appear in Caucasian Square.
In order to find the "good solution" that their father had mentioned, Little Leopard and Baozhu studied the formation of Caucasian Square and its residents.
The more they learned, the more helpless they became.
Not only the county magistrate of Guangzhou County, but even the magistrate of Guangzhou had also thought of many solutions. For example, he strictly prohibited the practice and then sent someone to guide and supervise those people. He even sent someone to teach the foreigners of Caucasian Square the most basic etiquette, propriety and sense of shame.
However, the results were minimal.
Little Leopard felt that the reason why those people wouldn’t correct this habit was because back in their home country, everyone including the nobles did such a thing. There were only two ways to change them. One was to assimilate them like Andre over the course of ten to 20 years, or even longer. Little Leopard, who had always been impatient, felt that this wasn’t feasible. Besides, it was still uncertain who would assimilate who at that time.
After all, his mother had said that bad habits were easy to pick up, but good habits were hard to form.
The second way was to change the behavior of the entire country, be it the commoners or the nobles.
However, if he could not even correct those people in Caucasian Square, how could he correct the behavior of an entire country? Furthermore, there were several countries.