One of the more subtle pleasures of traveling comes from reading public signs in multiple languages. This one I found in the washroom of an ICE train in Germany:
German, French, and Italian speakers are admonished to follow the Golden Rule and to leave the room in the same state that they would have liked to find it (which is more likely to lead to better results than the rule of leaving it as you found it). English speakers are told to leave it clear (sic) and tidy — and are asked to do so out of courtesy.
Is there a suggestion that English speakers have a different ethical make-up that would make a non-golden-rule approach more efficacious?
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