A number of years ago I had the great fortune of spending three weeks in Ecuador to learn Spanish.
While I was traveling the countryside by bus, I noticed a girl of about ten years old standing by the side of the road with her mother. The bus stopped as some people boarded and others got off. The girl and her mother stayed where they were. Perhaps they were waiting for someone.
I watched as the girl picked her nose. Quite obviously. In public.
I waited for her mother to speak to her and tell her to stop picking her nose in public.
The mother turned to her daughter and said nothing. Instead, she began to pick her nose, too.
Which just goes to show that whether or not it’s appropriate to pick one’s nose in public varies from family to family and from place to place.
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