8-year-old relieves himself at Hong Kong MTR station 

No apology. He gives an excuse. No shame. No embarrassment. No sense of guilt. Chinese who show "understanding" to the man are the typical Chinese who can't handle criticism.

I've been living in mainland China all my life and to be honest, I do see a lot of children relieving themselves in public with their grannies watching behind them.

The woman asked the kids "do you think its appropriate?" The little kid in the middle nodded and that triggered her even more lol 🤣

The kid is just marking his territory to show that HK belongs to China.

I love this woman for speaking up against passive disregard for social norms and health

Im a chinese myself, and I totally agree that some people from china dont even have simple manners. Im not trying to discriminate my own race but I do have to admit this! I legit have not seen any other people do these.

This is why Mainlanders get such bad rep as tourists. I feel sorry for more cultured Chinese living outside China like in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore.

Do that in Singapore get arrested with a fine

If it was an emergency, you can't really blame the kid for relieving himself. But the man should've taken responsibility or at least apologize.

"Relieves" himself is an understatement, since I clearly heard "defecate" from the lady several times

Damn the woman recording has very good mandarin tho lol

The guy acted like it wasn't his problem till the end. 🙄

As a mainland Chinese person, I condemn such acts of letting kids relieving themselves in public spaces. It is a sense of disrespect and it creates a bad image for all the sensible and more civilised mainland tourists who are trying to enjoy themselves wether it’s abroad or in the mainland itself. Recently I’ve seen a father letting his four year old child relieve himself and I felt angry and in front of everyone I shouted at him for being a bad father.

She must be from Hong Kong but speaking Mandarin so that guy can understand. She smart that she can speak mandarin that well also.

I am Taiwanese and had some mainland Chinese friends come over to our house one time. His kid just straight pulled his pants down and peed outside our front door with his dad next to him. We have two bathrooms and neither were being used at the time. I was so angry.

this is so true, there was a chinese women helping her son do his business right in the middle of the street in broad daylight while ppl are looking and walking by

My wife and I have been to HK many times. I love the civility of HK people. There is a huge cultural different between HK people and mainland Chinese.

Do something. Don't just stand there. Its ok to make mistakes. But you have to apologize and learn from it.

Hk should just learn from SG, just impose a fine or jail term whenever they break the law

I feel so bad for the MTR cleaner. I hope the guy understands that toilets were invented.

8 years old?? seriously, that's an embarrassment, my 4 year old would never do that.

2:12 "The Availability of public toilet facilities in Hong Kong MTR is a real issue" Almost every MTR exit has a shopping mall, When get u get out of the exit there is a shopping mall and in the shopping malls there are toilets

I'm glad Hong Kong residents are confrontational. People need to stop treating public spaces as toilets.

i understand how frustrating it can be not being able to have easy access to a bathroom, and how difficult it is to hold your bladder when you really need to relieve (especially for kids) but the least you can do is apologise and clean up thd mess. The fact those kids didn't even offer to help the staff member is disappointing

They should let the MTRstaff to have the authority to fine people who do this.

As a teacher that guy is just should set a example. Children are easily influenced. Under no circumstances should this be allowed. It basically says that public excretions are okay. The kids probably learnt from this experience. Public shaming FTW

As the kid, he should have voiced out his tummy ache to the adult asap. As the adult, he has the responsibility as the children guide to know where important places like the toilet is and also to constantly let the children know to approach him whenever there is a problem and not keep it in. And for myself... I understand that unfortunately, there are times when we can't hold it in at all. It strips dignity away, yes. Gosh... It's impossible to judge on such things as it could have easily happened to anyone and we are not the kid, who knows how much pain he was in before doing what was done.

It happened in Hong Kong too. Also, we can see a mainland Chinese say on RU-vid, "The people of Hong Kong are easy to bully (qifu)". Many mainland Chinese have a SMUG attitude towards the rest of the world, especially to more developed outposts of Chinese such as Hong Kong and Singapore. But condescendence comes from INSECURITY. Having been the victims of bullying for 1OOs of years many Chinese feel the need to assert themselves. The Chinese should self reflect. They will be the richest nation on earth soon. But they have no allies. No friends. No fellow nation that they do business with in South America or Africa, respects them. The Chinese lack leadership skills and that's largely to this arrogant attitude that they are beyond reproach. They should question their own behavior instead becoming angry at criticism.

I've been in that situation before in my country. My lil brother and I has been waiting in line to go to the toilet. He couldn't bear it anymore (there were still 15+ people in the line in front of us) and I said you can pee in the corner. He peed in the corner and I asked the staff for cleaning supplies. I cleaned all the mess and we both apologize for it. They were quite understanding about it. The staff even said sorry for the lack of the toilets and offers to clean the mess

I hate it when the person at fault stays quiet and doesn't apologize and just acts like " please shut the fk up so we can leave "

As a mainland Chinese person I feel ashamed

All MRT startions have bathrooms! Wtf

Something quite similar happened to me in Melbourne. I was in Melbourne for my holidays and my cousin's convocation in 2018. While at his university, we needed to go to the toilet, so we went. A Chinese woman suddenly rushed into the toilet and without closing the toilet stall door, she pulled down her underpants and started urinating. My grandmother rushed both me and my aunt out before things got too awkward for all of us. I'm a Chinese girl from Malaysia and this kind of behaviour is unacceptable and inappropriate for anybody in the world. It's just disgusting.

This is very bad and sad and shows that this kid’s parents did not teach him anything. It also reflects how bad the culture of mainland is and how bad the parents are at teaching their kids.

The Chinese government needs to implement health & hygiene lessons in their public education curricula, from kindergarten on until the end of high school. The recurring topics ( the human excretory system & elimination process) should include increasing depth of scientific content. Children must learn that proper personal hygiene habits are not just required social etiquette, but are enacted to protect public & personal health. Unacceptable "relieving anywhere as one needs to" endanger public health as well as their own ( e.g. defecating, urinating, spitting & vomiting in public ). Many rural adults in China did not have the opportunities to finish high school. May be they didn't learn enough science to know better. So it is the government's responsibility to re-educate them. Educational videos about the serious health threats to the public ( please see detailed description posted below) should be broadcast on prime time TV shows, popular social media, ali pay & village/township adult health re-education programs. Finally, if China truly wants to be a world class, civilized, cultured, respectful, caring & knowledgeable society, it must instill such core values in each individual citizen so that he will act according to his inner aspirations.

but i don't think shaming someone in public while holding a camera on their face will make you sound more appropriate and decent person.

The problem is the adult. It is not the child at fault. The adult should take care and make sure kids use the toilet before the MTR.

this is not about the toilet providing of hk mtr stations problem,it is about the educate and culture problem.u won't never seen this situation from worldwide tourist except mainland china . that's why the reason hongkongers and other country ppl hates chinese tourist .

It's either the adult's lying for convenience or the boy really couldn't keep his feces inside any longer. The lack of public toilets is quite an issue, imagine another 2 or even 10 others having diarrhea at any of these stations.

I like the Hong Kong lady.. strong person

Even if there are no public toilets nearby, it doesn't justify shitting on the floor

People with no manners act like savages. It's very embarrassing.

Kids is ok but the adult is shameful for not cleaning up the mess

When I was an eight year old my parents never let me relieve myself in public. They usually force me to hold it till they can find the nearest toilet. When your are eight, you should learn how to be a bit more mature and not cause a shock to the public.

I don't know why people are criticizing the poor boy and the person. What should the boy do if he couldn't control it? Haven't we gone through such stomach issues when we were a child? Lack of public toilet is an issue of the authority and they should be ashamed of it.

Man, if I did that my mom would’ve made me wipe the floor with my face.😂

Letting someone else clean it up made it even worse if that kid is your responsibility and you let him do that then you need to be the one to clean it up

Growing up in Hong Kong I understand why this was issue, because Hong Kong was always known for being very clean and littering there was a type of offense. I really appreciate them for how clean they are!

The guy even said the boy had a stomach ache. As someone who has had diarrhea in the past, it's literally something you can't hold. If it's coming out, it's coming out. Besides, as some people already mentioned, some stations don't have toilets.

As someone from Shanghai, we see that too. And we would tell them to get out of Shanghai. But that of course doesn't help, that's the reality we have to live with.

Here in the Philippines we are taught by our parents to relieve ourselves before going out of the house if we are going on a long trip.

Adult does not seem to care 🤦🏻‍♂️

Sometimes you just can't hold it. If it really was an emergency, I think I would understand. However, I would apologize profusely and clean it up myself. If the boy just didn't want to wait and the adult told him it was fine, then that is a definite "No"!!! I have a nephew who has issues going--the need to go happens urgently with little warning. He has accommodations at school that allow him to run out of class without permission, and was placed in a classroom right next to a restroom. We're still working with doctors to find a solution. Finding a diagnosis and effective treatment is a process. This is why I say that I *think* that I would understand *if* this, or something similar were the case.

As a Chinese person, even though I've never done such a thing myself, it is certainly very embarrassing. I hope the world can understand that China got rich very quickly... And many people despite suddenly having more wealth, haven't received equivalent amount of education. This will change in the future, the next generation will be better.

Props to this woman

Boys do you think this is appropriate? One boy *nods*

In all honestly, it's difficult to find a washroom in the MTR stations in HKG. I experienced this personally.

Tsim sha Tsui mtr station does have a toilet near A1 exit. This is ridiculous

Woaw this makes me feel like that I have the superpower of holding any type of “relieve” no matter how uncomfortable my stomach feels

I have a friend in HK, he really gets angry when we call him a chinese mainlander. He says its disrespectful, hes not like them.

One chinese tourist also did that in the Philippines. Relieving himself in a historical place. 😑

Do this in India People just walk by like nothing ever happened

Finally that’s someone who speak up. This is really a barbaric action

To those saying that mainland China is deplorable, remember that this is the act of an individual, and that one act does not define an entire race. I can assure you that this is not a common thing that just “happens” in mainland China. Also, this really shouldn’t be used to propel the whole China vs. Hong Kong debate. It was the act of an individual and it just happens to involve two people from two opposing sides of the debate. Similarly outrageous things have happened all over the globe, but usually these acts are not taken to reflect an entire race or culture.

The child must have controlled for a long period and as they are tourists might have found difficulty finding washroom.....and when u can no longer hold ur back there's nothing much anyone can do....I feel sorry for the kid having to relieve himself there....the trauma he has to endure for rest of his life is far more worse....

I’m more shocked that the boy didn’t have social anxiety or was too scared to do it in public in front of everyone 😳

Man i was 8 too but I’ve always known not to do this in public, let alone a busy station. Shows you that even children in mainland are all wrongfully brought up.

"The people who hate the Chinese the most are other Chinese." - Ari Shaffir

The least he could do is sincerely apologized to the woman and help to clean up the mess..

I can understand the sudden urgency in one's digestive system. However, they SHOULD CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES in these circumstances. It's only justified.

I do not condone the behavior but I really think it was an accident and he let himself go. Social media should be careful of how this could affect the childs metal state. This video should not be trending just that a more appropriate measure should have taken place to understand the situation and reprimand the kid.

In this incident, I agree that person telling the kid to relieve themselves are really in the wrong and especially when he is with a group of other kids no matter the reason. As for the Hong Kong lady, no need to scold the guy that loudly and long. All she had to say was, “I understand when kids have to go but please next time do not have your kids relieve themselves as it’s a health issue.” No need to go all out there and ask if he is from mainland China, that they made a mess and a Hong Kong person will have to clean up their mess. I saw other’s comment regarding Hong Kong people I have to say that I do find Hong Kong people extremely rude. I was born in China, migrated to the US at a very young age and grew up here in the state. My first visit to Hong Kong was at 11 with my family and was rudely yelled for standing on a sidewalk curve in a parking lot and minding my own business by some Hong Kong blue collar worker. In a civilized culture, a bunch of grown adults yelling at a 11 year old girl that is just totally uncalled for. If you need access to the sidewalk or needed me to not stay in that area all you needed was to ask. As the years went by, every time I had to stay in Hong Kong I did not have a pleasant experience; if I don’t need to I always avoid going to Hong Kong even though my family owns many properties in Hong Kong. Don’t get me wrong, the food and shopping is great but I could live without everything else.

Its mainly about their culture they grew up on, not if they are chinese or not. Hongkong and Singapore's populations are mostly made up of chinese too, and we don't do these kind of stuff, education about etiquette is key.

Tbh I think it was better if she just tell him rules instead of recording and shaming man.

They stations should have toilets The kid should've had a bit of shame & held it or dealt with it before they left. The teacher is a disgrace.

If China truly wants to be a world class, civilized, cultured, respectful, caring & knowledgeable society, it must instill such core values in each individual citizen so that he will act according to his inner aspirations. Parental behaviour is the observed model of children behaviour. Parental values powerfully affect their children's social & emotional growth. The parent should have taken his child to a washroom in a restaurant near the subway if there isn't one available inside the subway.

As a Taiwan Chinese person I can approve that we encounter these situations every day.

It's not the fault of this child. Because all the mtr stations in Hong Kong don't have public toilets.

but he should have asked all kids to go to washroom before leaving ... wherever they went before...

Don’t dirty Hong Kong more than it already is with the mainland.. this is one of the reason why Hong Kong wanted separation...

The guide explained that the child had abdominal issues. So either he do it in the corner or he would have to do it in his pants. The cleaning lady didn’t even say anything and was gracious enough to help him. The HK woman went too far to shame the guide and say those horrible things to him in front of those kids. They didn’t have to hear her insult and degrade him like that. HK people have such a power trip and make mainlanders feel less than human all the time. Have a heart and don’t shame the kid like that. He has a mother too.

”This is not mainland China” that sentence kinda triggered my button even tho he did wrong.

Even if you walk dogs you know it's the right thing to do to clean it up ... Also, even dogs know how to hold it in until they go outside or a place for them to do business.... come on what are these animals doing?

I've never heard anyone refer to pooping as "relieving" lol

Nobody should be defending this behaviour. The people defending it are probably public shitters themselves.

You gotta watch your kids, man. I never did things like this when I was 8.

Now its clear to me why Hongkong are hongkongers and not a part of Chinese Mainland China lol

Everybody has their own reasons girl..instead of humiliating everybody on the video she should have just ask if they had problems and help them...JUST SAYIN

If it really was that big of an emergency, at least run outside and find a bush, like inside an MRT station is NOT acceptable

That's so disgusting. The officials should demand the tour guide and the 8 year old to clean up his own mess. 8 years old should have known better to go to relief himself in a public bathroom. There are so many very nice and clean public bathrooms in the subway station. Tummy ache is no excuse. Selfishness is the true reason. Shame on them.

I knew it was a mainlander before even clicking the video.

I am feeling bad for that kid . He would be humiliated by his classmates

A lot of MTR stations doesn't have a public toilet. BUT if you really feel it's an emergency to use one, you can go to the customer service and let the staff know and they will bring you to use their staff toilet. They will guide you there and wait until you are done. HK mtr staff are very nice to let you do that and even though these people are only tourists but they still could have asked for help. Rather than wait for the situation to turn out this way...

That’s very common in China mainland. We were there as tourists and we saw that happen practically everywhere.🤮🤮🤮

as a hong konger i just can't belive how someone could do this in public

But I think the kid should know he shouldn’t have done that,I’m his age and very aware of me not doing that.

ITS BAD ENOUGH THAT HE LET HIM DO THIS... BUT TO LET THE EMPLOYEE CLEAN IT WAS EVEN MORE IGNORANT...FATHER SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE TO CLEAN IT AND CLEAN IT WELL!!!

Y'all should be ashamed of yourselves that poor kid probably couldn't hold it.

Did you all read this: “Out of 93 MTR stations only 53 are equipped with toilets.” How do HK-ers deal with this? Still there’s no excuse for this behavior. No apologies. Behavior like this should be fined.

ALL CREDIT goes to HER for SPEAKING UP and not ignoring such behavior. If NO ONE speaks up, then everybody will think this is OK.