Chapter 217 - Fort Yano (3) (1/2)

<Author's note: The things (racism, s.e.xism, political views, etc.) depicted or mentioned in this story do not reflect the real world and are purely coincidences. If they do, please keep in mind that they are simply for world-building and are only work of fiction. Thank you for your understanding.>

Nathan was currently walking along the eastern road within the compounds of Fort Yano.

On the left side of the road, there was the familiar tents that he has seen at the western road.

However, unlike there, there were also buildings here being used to house people.

Nathan stared at the faces of the people.

He also saw some beautiful women.

'From their demeanoer, looks like middle class…'

'Heh~ So there's already a class divide between the residents here in Fort Yano..?'

'As expected of Asians…'

Two beautiful women heading to the central passed him by and the scent of their shampoo brushed against his nose.

'The smell of a real brown-skinned Asian woman…'

He turned his sights to the right side of the road.

There were closed shops and stalls.

Sniff.

Sniff.

He sniffed and squinted his eyes as he looked at them.

Aside from some plastics, there were also rotten vegetables and fruits lying on the ground.

'This smell and look…'

In Nathan's 24 years of life, even before the zombie apocalypse, he had encountered many mysteries here in Muwin, both supernatural and non-supernatural.

But for this non-supernatural mystery, this isn't exclusive to Muwinians only, it applies to all brown-skinned Asians.

Among the non-supernatural mysteries that Nathan could never wrap his head around is this very strange relationship that brown-skinned Asians have with personal hygiene and public hygiene.

As far as he was concerned, no race can out-clean a brown-skinned Asian when it comes to personal hygiene.

Yes, it's such a bold claim, but Nathan doesn't care.

Just how they use the toilet is already a testament of their obsession with personal hygiene.

Given the climate in brown-skinned Asian countries and the fact that their countries are abundant with water, the people here have evolved into a culture that takes a bath at least 2 times a day. Some would even take a bath 3 or 4 times a day and no one would bat an eye. They would instead praise you for it.

It's only when someone takes a bath 5 times a day that the people would start to think that it's a little weird.

This obsession that brown-skinned Asians have regarding personal hygiene is so strong that if you smell bad or weird, they would tell you right away straight at your face without any reservations whatsoever. Some would even blatantly cover their nose right in front of you and not consider it as a rude gesture.

In fact, the idea of taking a bath at least twice a day is so ingrained in brown-skinned Asian culture that they even have an inside cultural joke among themselves on how to justify when someone is more beautiful or handsome than them.

They would say…

He/She/You've only beaten me with a few baths.

Or…

Just a few baths more and I will be as beautiful or as handsome as you/him/her/insert-name-of-person.

Furthermore, because people here usually takes a bath at least twice a day, the beauty trend here is not to wear any makeup at all, just a pinch of baby powder.

But if you're the type who likes or has to wear makeup because of work-purposes, it should be light as possible or make it look like you're not wearing makeup at all, or else you will be branded as a p.r.o.s.t.i.t.u.t.e.

So if you walk down the streets of brown-skinned Asian countries, you will definitely see the real faces of the people here.

So what about public hygiene?

Now this is where things just don't make any sense.

Given that brown-skinned Asians are so obsessed with personal hygiene, one couldn't help but assume that they would definitely also be obsessed with public hygiene, right?

Unfortunately, that's not the case.

Air pollution? Noise pollution? Such terms are so foreign and alien to mainland brown-skinned Asians that their minds couldn't comprehend it. Or even if they are able to comprehend it, they would just immediately forget about it later or just not care at all.

Others would even get angry if you scold them or call the police on them for violating air and noise pollution laws.

Yes, brown-skinned Asian nations have air and noise pollution laws…

As for how is this even possible, this lack of concern of mainland brown-skinned Asians regarding public hygiene? Unfortunately, even Nathan himself who was born and raised in a brown-skinned Asian country doesn't know either.

It was like if real life was an MMORPG and brown-skinned Asian was one of the available characters to choose from and peronal and public hygiene were skills, they already spend all of their stat points on personal Hygiene and left nothing for public hygiene.

And in Muwin's case, despite the fact that it's among the Top 5 ric.h.e.s.t brown-skinned Asian countries, they still have such poor public hygiene.

This just one of the biggest mysteries here in Muwin or in any brown-skinned Asian country that Nathan will probably never find the answer to in his lifetime, especially now that they're in a zombie apocalypse.

Nathan continued walking and there were two people, a man and a woman, closing down a stall.

The woman was carrying plastic bags of meat and putting them on the passenger's seat of a bicycle rickshaw.

Whatever that meat was, Nathan couldn't tell because the plastic bags weren't the see-through type.

'So this is the public market after all…'

Up ahead, on the right side of the road, there were a few buildings.

On one of the buildings, there was a group of people of about 70 gathered in front of it.

'A rally at this time of the night…?'

Nathan continued walking until he got close but didn't stop walking.

There was a man in his late 20s dressed in civilian clothing and holding a megaphone, while standing behind the entrance of the building and in front of the group of activists.

”Just because we're in a zombie apocalypse, that doesn't mean we should live like animals!”

”While the elites at Block A are living in luxury, us, the normal citizens living in the other blocks don't even have enough bathrooms and toilets that some of us have even have to go to the forest to relieve ourselves!”

”We demand for more proper food, shelter and clothing from the government!”

”Yeah!” the crowd of activists said and raised their fists and the signs that they were holding.

Nathan looked at the building that the activists gathered in front of.

Outside the entrance of the building, there were two armed soldiers standing on guard.

There were also few soldiers inside but it was hard to really tell how many.

'Heh~ The government office building still open at this hour…?'

'It's a miracle…'

'I've always thought that brown-skinned Asian government officials and employees were nothing but corrupt, useless and lazy parasites...'

In brown-skinned Asian countries, when it comes to work ethics, they adopted the ”work to live” mindset.

First of all, when Asians mention the ”West”, that usually refers to all Caucasian nations. But for this case, the ”West” will be referring to Iustia and the countries around it, while ”Europe” will be referring to Regis and the countries around it.

Most brown-skinned Asian nations were colonized by the Europeans, mainly by Regis, so they adopted the ”work to live” mindset.

On the other hand, most white-skinned Asian nations were colonized by the Westerners, mainly Iustia, and thus they adopted the ”live to work” mindset.

In European nations, the average working hours per day is 8-12 hours and that covers 1-2 jobs. And although brown-skinned Asian nations also work 8-12 hours per day, that only covers 1 job.

Meanwhile, in Western nations, they work 12-15 hours per day on average and that covers 2-3 jobs. White-skinned Asian nations also work 12-15 hours per day, but that covers 1-2 jobs.

And in Nathan's case, although he had taken Xudonian language lessons to boost his portfolio due to the fact Xudonia has one of the largest economies in the world, there was no way he was going to work for a company owned by a Xudonian and based in Xudonia, or any company owned by white-skinned Asian and based in a white-skinned Asian.

There are two reasons why: The work culture and racism.

When it comes to work culture, white-skinned Asian work culture is so stressful that they're even infamous for having their own citizens dying due to overwork among developed countries. They also have the highest suicide rates among the developed nations.

On the other hand, when it comes to racism, the thing is, Asia is a very divided continent between brown and white-skinned Asians.

In white-skinned Asian nations, this is the hierarchy among foreigners there:

• White-skinned Asian

• Caucasian

• Brown-Caucasian

• Westernized African

• Westernized brown-skinned Asian

• Mainland African

• Mainland brown-skinned Asian

Meanwhile, in brown-skinned Asian nations, the hierarchy among foreigners is: