China's financial center wants to shake off its reputation for rude behavior picked up from its "famously profane 19th-century dockside origins."
Laws against - spitting, littering, jaywalking, smoking and other disruptive behaviors are also being proposed.
China has had 5,000 years to decide the many ways to tell people off, not to mention the English influence of the past couple hundred years.
It won't be easy to enforce the ban even if it were a law.
Of course, free speech and civil liberties advocates in the US and West will say "Let them cuss in publc if they want to. We do!"
Besides you can take a person out of a rude situation but you can't take the rudeness out of the person.
Ask any Shanghaiese, they will tell you.
What do you think?
