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In reply to the discussion: I Have A Really Stupid Question About The Taliban's Clothes/Garb/Outfits...... [View all]smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)were told to limit our showers because they didn't like to waste water and didn't bathe as often as we did (we lived with host families). I asked my Austrian "sisters" one day about how often does the average person shower or bathe in Vienna and they told me about once per week, maybe twice a week at the most.
And this is in a modern, first-world country, with kick-ass bathrooms and all kinds of cool spigots coming out of every side of the shower stall. I loved their showers! But you could tell when you were in the Subway or the Strassenbahn that people didn't bathe often because it really smelled.
They might bathe more often these days, but probably still not as much as we do. It is similar in many European countries, so it's not much of a stretch to assume that a third-world country in Central Asia does not practice the same hygiene rituals that we do here in the US either.