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It's almost exclusively a cultural norm. In SE Asia they often have a spray hose next to the toilet. In Korea and Japan they have bidet functionality integrated into the toilet. In the middle east they dump into a hole in the ground.
That's just false. In every country in the middle east, in any house, you'll find an integrated bidet and probably a hose next to it. Even the most down trodden facilities in my country had bidet.
I can't say the same for North Americans who apparently just think wiping is enough.
Can confirm. There are hole-in-the-ground toilets in the Middle East as well, like sometimes for public restrooms. But not in homes, for gosh sakes.
It's weird how much racism I found in the last few days here...
Syrian, Turkish and Jordanian toilets were no picnic but I've never seen worse facilities than the ones in Egypt. I remember having food poisoning after dining in Sinai and the next day a boat took us to Jordan. However much I needed to use the toilet on that ship it wasn't enough, I couldn't face it. Maybe it was the rough sea conditions that caused there to be shit up the walls and on every surface.
Before bidets, Arabs used a gardening pale. I don't know about other middle eastern cultures.