to find spitting in the street unacceptable?

[hipposaurus]

I've noticed a few (mainly teenage boys) people spitting in the street/park recently. I've always thought it is not acceptable, perhaps this is why they do it?!

I glare at the spitter if I dare, but if they look intimidating then I ignore it and keep pushing the buggy. Am I BU to find spitting disgusting and has anyone else noticed this problem?

I live in the middle East in a rela melting pot of ethnicities and cultures. Here are my observations for consideration by the jury:

(some) Teenaged boys/yoof in the UK go through a phase of thinking that endless spitting somehow makes them look cool/hard. It really doesn't. It makes them look like plebby tossers.

Asian men like to spit. A lot. Indian/Pakistani/Afghan men like to do the holding one nostril and clearing the other onto the pavement. They also spit endlessly and indiscriminately. they will open their car doors at traffic lights and gob onto the road. I see it every day.

East Asian men (Philipino/Japanese/Malay/Indonesian etc) like to snort all their phlem out of their sinuses and to the back of their throat as noisily as possible. Even if they are indoors and cannot ahem evacuate, they still make a real song and dance about the hawking up/snorting/gargling of the phlem.

On the whole I have not noticed much spitting or hawking up of phelgm from any Arabs or Africans, but then there aren't that many non-Arab Africans here. But lots of Arab-Africans and they don't seem to do it so much.

It is disgusting and I give anyone who does it near me a very stern old-fashioned look.

When I was a child it was quite common, but TB was fairly rife and there was a sustained attempt to educate people and spitting became rare. Then it started again, which dh thinks is due to footballers doing it during play (I have no idea). We need to make sure people know that it spreads disease. There were a few girls at dd's primary who did it - thought it made them look grown up - but they stopped when they were told the possible effects.

Yanbu. It is also unacceptable on tennis courts and football pitches and actually pretty much anywhere.

"Why should other people have to put up with your gob on the pavement or grass verges?"

If you can spot spit on a grass verge, then I bow to your superior genetics.