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So, I was walking into my church on Sunday. I saw a piece of garbage, maybe a candy wrapper or something, I didn't care. I instinctively picked it up and threw it away in the nearest trash can. Surveying the property around the church, I realized that the reason why that candy wrapper stuck out was because there was literally no litter anywhere in the church lot. The grass was impeccably cut. There were fallen leaves, for sure, but nothing looking like garbage anywhere I could see.

If you don't know about the Indian street challenge, the goal is to find ANYWHERE in India that isn't covered in rubble or garbage. No one has succeeded yet.

And if you know what it's like in nigger communities, or immigrant communities for that matter, you know that there is trash everywhere. Even in people's own yards. They just walk past it like its nothing. Here in white rural USA, the wind blows someone's trash can over and it's cleaned up almost instantly, whether by the owners or the neighbors.

Someone pointed out how the Chinese create their own environment. They won't lift a finger to fix something if it isn't theirs.

Anyway -- that's one of our white superpowers. We actually care about how our environment looks to such a degree that we would actually do something about it. It's almost instinctive to us, or at least it should be.

If you haven't made a habit of cleaning up your surroundings, then it's time to start. Make your bed, as Jordan Peterson says. Clean up your room. Then clean up your bathroom. Keep it clean. The Japanese have a tradition of cleaning their own toilets. It's almost a sacred experience for them, because one of their CEOs thought it was important to stay humble and it's a tradition that's caught on. We should be doing the same.

Germans are known, or at least were, for being meticulous. German homes were spotless. Everything was placed in exactly the position it needed to be in, with no deviation whatsoever. Not a trace of dust or lint anywhere. They used to go out once a week and sweep up the sidewalk. If you aren't living that way, you need to start now.