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Should we privileged people of the US cut some slack to those immigrants from 3rd world nations on possible body odor?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) June 1st, 2015

Over the years I have heard people mention outright, or overtly about how some foreign people smell. Usually it is from a person new to this nation, or who was raised in that we call the 3rd world. I have not noticed much what these particular people have experienced, but I would guess they (the foreigners) smelled a little ”too human”. Here in the US we are privilege to have hot and cold running water on demand as well as big box, drug stores, etc. selling all manner of soaps, bath salts, etc. to make one smell nice and less like natural humans. Places where one has not the privilege to bath once a day, much less twice, the natural human smell is perhaps not as offensive or noticeable to them. Rather than making comments that allude to them being unkempt, and/or nasty, shouldn’t we in the US cut them some slack as it was not their cultural upbringing, and/or access to bathing every day and putting on sweet-smelling this and that? Maybe we in the US should ask ourselves, if we did not have running water or water we had to heat by hand, how often would we really bathe or shower?

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