@Kwesi0 There are cultural differences between people. Learning about these leads to more understanding and acceptance than pretending they don't exist. It has been reported widely on these forums that Chinese guests almost always flood the bathroom. It's much better that hosts be enlightened as to why this happens instead of just thinking the guests are being bad or disrespectful. Once it becomes understood that most bathrooms in China are "wet rooms" with concrete and tile construction and drains in the floor, rather than being upset with the guests who do this, giving them a bad review, or ending up with a rotting wood subfloor that may take thousands of dollars to repair, once a host is made aware of why most Chinese guests do this, they can then be aware that they will need to explain to the guests that their house construction is different than what they are used to, and that they need to make sure the shower curtain is inside, rather than outside the tub or shower so the floor doesn't become like a lake, which will cause actual damages to the wood beneath.
It's a matter of "when in Rome...", but if we don't know what is normal or acceptable in other cultures, than we can make some big faux pas that will cause us to be looked upon badly. If female travellers go to a country where women dress quite modestly, even almost totally covered up, and decide to cluelessly prance about in tank tops and short shorts, that's disrespectful to the culture and they won't be welcome there.
There is a post that is searchable on this forum entitled "Read this before hosting Chinese Guests" which was started by a Chinese host. It was super informative- she explained many things about the culture that was helpful to other hosts who might have just assumed that their Chinese guests were being non-caring. If you're from a place where everyone knows how to use a shower curtain, you might assume everyone in the world does. But that's not true if someone is from a place where they aren't used- it has to be explained to them, it's not some knowledge one is born with.
There have been posts from hosts who thought their guests had disgusting, filthy habits because they were throwing their used toilet paper in the bathroom wastebasket. What the hosts were unaware of is that there are many countries in the world where you can't flush toilet paper because the sewer systems will get clogged up, so it's standard practice in those countries to throw all paper in the basket. So to say something like "Mexican guests will probably throw their poopy paper in the wastebasket and here is why" isn't being discriminatory, it's stating a fact that hosts should know about, so they don't think their guests are being disgusting and can advise them when they show up for a booking that it's not necessary to do that in the host's country, that all paper should be flushed.
Good and bad guests can come from anywhere, but if we are informed, that can help us to know that a guest isn't being bad, they just have different customs where they came from.
