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You’re half my age and gaining wisdom, so you’re ahead of the curve, which comes across more on this video than most others you’ve done. China has probably made you worldly. We are both married to Chinese wives, and while you’ve lived in China for eight years, I’ve visited nine times for a total of nine months, mainly in Shanghai. I love China, but of course America is home (specifically Colorado). Both countries have their problems, and opportunities. But they are the same in terms of being a collection of people going about their daily lives, trying to survive and do better. The Chinese culture is older and richer, but America is more diverse. In the end, go where your passions take you, and make it happen. If you do that, you and your family will be fine, no matter where you live!
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Laowhy, since you mentioned the USSR, I would like to add that many of the things you said about China and Nazi Germany also apply to the Soviet Union (such as being a one-party state, having no freedom of speech, using sports as a political propaganda tool, among other things).
A key difference, however, between the USSR and China is that the USSR had a very closed and protecionist economy, and did very little trade when compared to modern China. In fact, China became so rich due to the vast amount of trade it does that it can now afford to export its censorship standards to the rest of the world.
Since China is a very relevant market for many American companies, this means that these companies will often censor themselves so they can sell their products and services inside China. The USSR, on the other hand, wasn't a relevant market for U.S. companies, and this also meant that these companies couldn't care less about what the Soviet goverment thought of them.
The Chinese goverment is VERY aware of this, and is using its economical influence to try to shape what people all around the world think of its rule. This is very evident in the movie industry, for example. During the 80's, we had movies like Rambo and Red Dawn, where the protagonists mowed down dozens of soviet soldiers, but nowadays there isn't a single Chinese villain in a major Hollywood production. Let's not forget that the 2011 Red Dawn remake changed its villains from Chinese to North Koreans in order to appease the Chinese government. The CCP is often portrayed in a very positive light in Hollywood (just take a look at the Transformers movies, for instance).
The west is selling out the core values of its civilization (such as rule of law and freedom of speech) in exchange for cheap phones made in mainland China.
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I read the book "Forbidden Nation" before I went to Taiwan to meet some of my Taiwanese family members for the first time, and the thing I was most shocked about was how little claim China actually has to it. By little, I mean zero. Parsing through China's half-assed justifications, and hundreds of years of history, there is not one shred of reason why it could belong to Communist China, and Taiwan repeatedly throughout time has deflected many long-term attempts at control from other nations as well, so I keep a little shred of hope that it can remain that way. Thank you for making these videos to educate people who haven't heard much about this issue. I've lived in China, and been to Taiwan many times, and I don't have to tell you guys this because you know, but many of your viewers might not have had both experiences, so I'd like to say that the difference is stark. Mainland China...you could not pay me to go back at this point in time.
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Dude. This video, particularly the first half, had me choked up, as my circumstances around leaving China were not so different from yours. While I may not have had a motorcycle, I did play in several bands as a hobby outside of my regular work, even going on tours around China, and to other countries. On paper, I was in China to work, but in reality, I was living my life there, and playing in bands was a massive part of what I lived for. Slowly but surely, as you know, crackdowns on venues happened, and bands with foreigners became harder and harder to book shows, even at the smallest of venues. The inability to pursue my passion, not to mention being the recipient of a 有黑除恶 call, two attempted drug arrests (attempted, meaning my hair test didn't test positive), and a less and less 开放 mindset forced me to "self-deport" myself, as I call it. All I wanted was some semblance of normalcy in my life where I can pursue what I care about. I had planned to return to Canada in March of 2020 (great timing, right?), and it has now been well over a year since I have been to or played a show, thanks to COVID. What I have felt, and what I imagine you feel as well, is not necessarily "missing" China, but an intense feeling of nostalgia, because the pieces of China that we loved can't be brought back or revisited. If things had been different, I easily could have seen myself staying and living in China for another 5, 10, 15 years, who knows, and like you, I am absolutely gutted, with my mind completely preoccupied by past events and my inability to do anything about them, and the reality that I may never be able to go back to China. I loved my time there, until I was forced not to, and I sincerely hope that things will change so that folks like you or I can go return to China comfortably and see the people we call friends and family. Well done, man.
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You are absolutely right. Chinese is only hard with the writing part, but grammatically speaking, it is much simpler than romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese) and germanic languages (Dutch, English and German). I've studied Latin for 3 years and Latin gave rise to the romance languages, and I've taken French for 3 years. Grammatically speaking, Latin is the craziest in terms of complexity. For nouns, there are 5 declensions (5 different classes), and each declension has 10 different endings (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and ablative for both singular and plural forms, thus 5X2 = 10). Latin nouns, like German nouns, have masculine, feminine and neuter nouns. Latin nouns that end in -a (first declension nouns) are feminine nouns, and Latin nouns that end in -us (second declension and fourth declension) are masculine nouns. Latin nouns that end in um (also second declension) are neuter nouns. Latin nouns that are feminine with the "a" ending are what give rise to Spanish and Italian feminine nouns that also end in "a", while Latin nouns that are masculine with the "us" ending are what give rise to Spanish and Italian masculine nouns that end in "o". Compare Maria and Mario which basically have the same root, except the former is feminine and the latter is masculine. Latin verbs have 4 conjugations and again, so many different endings for I, you (singular), he/she/it, we, you (plural) and they. I won't go much more into detail but Latin is absolutely much more complicated if people think French or Spanish is already complicated enough. French has already devolved a bit. At least French nouns do not have different endings to denote whether they mean the subject (nominative), possessive form (genitive), indirect object (to/for someone or dative), direct object (accusative), or prepositional nouns (used along with prepositions or ablative). French has masculine and feminine nouns, and their adjectives that usually follow after the nouns instead of in front of the nouns as in English, have to be in agreement in gender and number with the nouns they describe. There are 3 types of French verbs, the -er, the -ir, and the -re verbs along with a lot of irregular verbs like "etre", "boire", "venir", "avoir", etc. But generally speaking, French is way less complicated than Latin from which it devolved. Latin, like Japanese, is a language without syntax, meaning that no matter where we place the nouns and verbs, the sentence will still mean the same thing. Japanese is a bit like that (I've taken a year of japanese as well), with their -wa (subject), -o (direct object), -no (possessive), endings so that no matter how we place those words around a sentence, the meaning of the sentence doesn't change. Chinese, on the other hand, is a syntax language. 玛利亚吃鱼 (Mary eats fish) or 鱼吃玛利亚 (Fish eats Mary) means totally different things if we change the sequence of the words. But in Latin and Japanese, they will mean the same thing if we denote with proper endings to make out whether Mary or the fish is the subject or the direct object. Chinese grammar is much simpler, but Chinese writing system is more complicated. However, there's a way to master the Chinese language if we properly learn individual component parts of characters, especially the radicals 部首. For example, 海 (ocean or sea), 河 (river), 洞 (cave) all have the same radical on the left hand side that denotes water. The rest of the characters usually has to do with sounds, or in short, the symantic-phonetic make up of Chinese characters. Mandarin has 4 tones while Cantonese has 6 tones, so I would say Cantonese is even harder to master for foreigners who already have difficulty with tones, hehe.....
I am only fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin, but to me, Cantonese to a lot of people as well sounds harsher while Mandarin sounds more mellow. I would compare Cantonese to German often times while Mandarin to Italian or Spanish which is more mellow-sounding. However, Cantonese is a more ancient form of Chinese dialect and I believe when Li Bai 李白 the famous Tang Dynasty poet wrote his poems, he wrote it in a language that sounded very much like Cantonese. The reason I say this is that if we read a lot of his poems, they rhyme much better if we read them in Cantonese rather than Mandarin.
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I agree with you. The west, for the most part, has become so comfortable that people have started to complain about the pettiest shit. Of course we are not devoid of problems; poverty and homelessness are endemic in some cities, my own included. But society in the west has reached a point where because a majority of people live with enough to eat, with warmth and shelter, and even luxuries like phones, laptops and internet being akin to basic human rights, many people forget the real problems in society and instead invent new ones that they feel they can relate to. So if society isn't giving you as much attention as you like, come out as dragon-kin, trans-racial, a third-wave feminist or some other completely made up bullshit with a majorly skewed world view and march through the streets crying persecution. It's ridiculous!
Living in China and not giving a shit about it all is probably the best thing for you, for your own sanity. If you ever do move back home I think you'll go through serious culture shock just trying to get your head around how whiny and victim centred, western culture has become.
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Explanation on me "going back into China". There are some wumao talking points about this, so I figured I'd clear the air. This video was released much earlier than the story of me leaving ( here https://youtu.be/z7CPqROtanA ). At the time of this video, I wasn't yet ready to talk about what happened when I left China. In 2019, I went back to Hong Kong (as you can see in this video) to have my family members run some paperwork across the border that my wife had signed to sell our property. I wouldn't have dared to cross the border, as you wouldn't be reading this if I had. I specifically left out the details about me leaving China in this video, and left it intentionally ambiguous, because I was still figuring out what happened, and why, and I wasn't yet ready to tell my audience that it was all over. I also did this to protect my family members in China, because I didn't want them to suffer any consequences of the contents of my videos (which they ultimately did...) I don't make reactionary videos, and I don't jump on something until I am completely ready, and I have all of the facts straight, so that is why it took me awhile to make my leaving China story video.
I apologize for any confusion, but the be all and end all is that I did NOT go back into mainland China. Also, at the time of filming this video in Hong Kong, it had not fallen to the national security law. If I went to Hong Kong now, it would be a different story.
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I feel what you mean. Having lived in England for 5 years I've come across a lot of white people who are obsessed with asians and eager to express their obsessions with asian or Chinese culture without considering whether those are to my personal interest or not. And to be very honest, those are usually the ones who don't find their 'niche' in their own native cultures. This is not only the situation for a laowai in china but also for a chinese person in a western country, and presumably, the situation for any person who's living in a foreign country of a completely different culture and language.
When you're saying it is hard to make friends in China you're probably comparing the situation to making friends in your own country or making friends in some non-english speaking european countries. To be very fair, if you think the other way around, it is actually harder for Chinese people to make native english speaking white friends in the UK or the US than for you to make Chinese friends in China. Because an average chinese person might want more from a western person than what an average western person would want from a chinese person. While Chinese people have been giving you low quality friendship built on utilitarianism, most white people in their native world have basically been giving non-english speak and non-white people zero of a f..k.
Well don't take any offence, I'm just talking from a position that's opposite from yours. Actually I am glad that there are people like you who got out of their comfort zone to see the other side of the world and talk about it. And don't get me wrong, there are absolutely many caucasians or english speaking people whom i have built very dear friendship with, people are individually different and I am not entitled in any way to generalise and say all white people are like what. Anyways, good video, I like your colour grading, and hope you enjoy China. I am finally going back to beijing in three weeks time and i can't wait!
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We were just in China for 18 days, and there are some habits there we are so happy NOT to see/hear again! LOL! Children peeing in public, people clearing their noses onto the street, hocking a phlegm ball or three, the lack of toilet paper, dirty public toilets, people who don’t line up but push their way (including pushing us), smoking right in our faces, smoking even in non-smoking hotel rooms/floors, avoiding stepping on all the icky spit on the ground, to name a few. But having said that, we found the Chinese quite hospitable, very curious about us, some were delighted we spoke a few words of Chinese, some dismissed us as foreigners, others were a bit rude. But we loved the experience of all the ancient places, they were fabulous, like stepping into time. We came home sick from the pollution and cigarette smoke we breathed in, still hacking a lung every time we cough. We have enjoyed your videos, LaoWhy86, and SerpentZA, and ADVChina, which we watched in preparation for going there. Thank you for the scam episode, we were able to avoid getting counterfeit money with a Ultraviolet light device that showed the hidden image in a $100 bill.
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Excellent video, mate. Yes, I read about this telco drop; really strange, as everyone (literally) needs an active number of banking, payments, accommodation - everything! No number really can mean you dont exist (even homeless people have phones and WeChat QR codes). So, if through multiple carriers (4 main ones, yes) with a 7 million drop - suddenly - is incredibly weird. This is the kind of outlier information that should correspond with other data (pollution, traffic, admissions, death certificates, etc). However, yep, China. None of that will be forthcoming. Great video. Did you see the one posted today of NCOV patients being forefully discharged/evicted from a Hubei hospital with the family screaming and fighting the staff?... Yeah. China. Great work, keep it up!
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you just experienced "german influence" . Once the germans set up shop anywhere, the locals never forget that things can be done well.
There's a small village around where i'm from (the poorest part of the EU, eastern Romania, bordering Ukraine and Moldova) where a german battalion (or regiment) was stationed for about half a year in 1942-1943, recovering from the battles in the East. The commander said "these people are providing us shelter and food, we should give something back". So they rebuild all the roads, the school, the mayor's office and a couple of other buildings. Those things NEVER changed and the people are extremely proud to this day of their "little german village". It's the only village i've seen in my part of the world that was perfectly clean every time i went there. They still hold "war time curfews" on drinking, as in nobody is out drinking after it gets dark, and this is smack in the middle of moonshine and homemade wine country. These are not imposed by any law, but the people there just take pride in "doing things properly". And it shows. Oh God, it shows. The living standard is miles above the next village, just 5 km over, with people literally doing the same jobs for the same pay.
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I'm Chinese American, and honestly, this video reflects SO MUCH on my initial views of china when I first went as a tourist back in 2010 (all of my family moved to America, so my mom and i had little connections left in China). To be honest, I actually found China to be quite liberating from all the political mess in America. Most citizens don't care about international "politics" per say, but rather care about events. Like you said, they care less about the well-being of individuality, and more as a collective local community (for example, the richer gated communities in Beijing will support one another), much like the poorer communities there. People are also more open to understanding other views within reasonable bounds (except for bigots of course), as they want to hear/learn more about foreign ideas + experiences. Anyways, i really thank you for posting this video. I appreciate it :)
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As a young person I tend to not go back to China, because as I start thinking about the getting married, having a child, Child Education, buying a house issues, it's just going to give me a headache. Wedding you need to invite tons of relatives you don't even know, Child Birth, you need to deal with the over-loaded hospital system, child education, you need to have your children work very intensively to go to better school. Last, buying a house, WOW, it's just NOT affordable for a young man like me, I DON'T want to work for like 30 years to pay for the loan!
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You're spot on! I've had a horrific experience of clothed cut up and an apartment smashed up. The girl even tried to physically assault me in the street.
Luckily I found a better relationship after that. Chinese girls have very different cultural backgrounds and ways of thinking. I'm married now with a child on the way. We are happily living in my home country. I accepted her parents coming to live with us to help raise our child and look after the home.
My wife earns more than I do but we don't have the whole mainland attitude that the man must provide everything. I think her parents find that a bit hard to accept but they also understand that we are working together to build up our future. She works in real estate and handles a lot of stress in managing a property portfolio. I work a stable job and I'm going through part time uni.
But we have an understanding of each others' culture. I speak some Chinese and she speaks very good English. Living in China and meeting her extended family definitely helped! Her family all accepted me.
But I will point out that we received a lot of hate and surprise from locals. Her hometown is very traditional and I think it caught a lot of people by surprise to see a young Western guy with a young Chinese girl (you can't deny that there is a stereotype of an old guy with a young woman scenario). We would get mixed reactions. Most people were polite to our faces. But when we had the pre marriage 婚纱摄影 photos taken in the traditional part of her hometown, we chose non conventional and fun poses. Some young guys were apparently calling my wife a dog and a prostitute. That was so disappointing!!
I have studied Chinese and the culture, watched the TV programs and immersed myself in many aspects. I believe that has helped me so much.
You mentioned the jealousy aspect and I think that never really goes away fully. Obviously it can happen to any couple in the beginning. But I've found that most Chinese women will be suspicious of who you talk to. They worry about your communication with your own parents, which friends you speak with etc. Because they view communication as a tool for building professional relationships and money making (and no one wants to be seen in a bad light by their in laws). They will ask what work you are doing to provide for the family.
In short, it takes a long time to understand the differences and I think being careful and taking your time is the only way to really find the right Chinese girl. The cultural and behavioural expectations and differences are at time just too much to overcome.
In the modern cities there are fewer cultural restrictions on behaviour and game playing is absolutely rampant. Plus it's ingrained in their psyche to seek out the best provider. Whilst marriage is important to anyone, I dare say that it has a completely different and more materialistic side on the mainland. How many girls have decided that they are no longer a good fit with the guy they are with? Why? Often it's about money and material possessions. There are those expectations.
Why the expectations? For starters, there is no social welfare system. If you don't provide a solid financial backbone to support the family, then you will lose face and literally starve. You don't want to become the embarrassment among the communal thinking. Secondly, the population is so huge that there is a lot of competition for property etc. So you need plenty of money to buy a home, acquire a car, educate the children etc. So a Chinese woman needs that level of security. Otherwise the family life may look like the left behind children with the parents working far away in the cities trying to scrape together enough money.
Then there is the issue of local ID cards. Children born in other areas of China won't be able to receive education in the top tier cities. So the girl will be considering that.
A lot of Chinese parents aren't very accepting of outsiders and it gets awkward if you try to meet them too early on in the relationship because it can signal intention to marry. Speaking of which, Chinese girls take relationships very seriously with a view towards marriage. So things can escalate quickly in terms of conflict if you lead a girl on and aren't upfront straight away with your view on the relationship. Also, a girl will have to deal with the criticisms from within the Chinese community with many people despising Westerners trying to date in their culture. We are seen as outsiders and never fully integrate in the minds of Chinese. That's just how it is.
I think I've covered most of the points...one more thing, guys be wary of the girls that see you as a ticket out of China to a better life. Also be careful about false promises. If you are bringing a woman out of her own culture and away from everything she grew up with, you have to expect it will be very hard in the beginning. She will need a lot of support and understanding. My wife missed home so much in the beginning. It was very tough on both of us to come back and start a new life together. But we pulled through and the hard times were worth sticking it out for each other.
So it's really a lot to consider before dating a mainland girl. With the right attitudes it can be a rewarding experience. I never ever thought I would end up finding my partner in China but it's one of those things where if you have an open mind and not an "objective", then you will find the right person in the end (regardless of a person's nationality). I never set out with an intention to meet Chinese girls. It was by chance that the right person came into my life at the right time. I think that's the best attitude to take through life.
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I've also noticed that a great deal of my students' identities revolve around their grades. Kids who get bad grades in school are also the ones who don't work hard in English class with me, often playing on their phones instead, seeming bored and disinterested, not wanting to talk about their interests, but kids who get good grades tend to be very talkative, exude confidence, and even can be cocky when a lesson doesn't challenge them enough. Regardless of their grades, I take a lot of time to talk to all of them about their interests, what they enjoy in life, what they like to do with their friends, but it can be really hard to get a kid with terribly low self-esteem to discuss their interests, and I imagine that this is why.
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I used to live in Guangdong as well, but further south in Shenzhen. I love China and love Chinese people but the government treats them like children and I truly believe its an act that cant go on for very long. Xi and the rest of the politburo have a main goal of not being the gravediggers of the CCP, and I know they think that having totalitarian control over information and people will help preserve the CCP but liberalization would do far better in my opinion. Many people believe the myth that the CCP has guided China to its current prosperity, however when you look at the history all they really did was remove the boot of communism from their necks and allow the Special Economic Zones to thrive, creating an incredible amount of tax revenue and foreign investment. The idea that Chinese people need some strongarm paternal government to guide them completely ignores the examples of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Chinese diasporas around the world. In fact, most of China's social and cultural problems are a direct result of decades of brutal communist totalitarianism, many of which the CCP has no way of solving other than letting Chinese people be free and determine their own minds and futures. The CCP could act as benevolent stewards in this process, and make it as slow as they want, instead theyre just surviving on borrowed time. They're one economic crisis away from irrelevance and they know this. Like many problems though, it will probably need to get worse before it gets better, unfortunately. 加油中国人!
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I am from an underpopulated country (Brunei). You can stand for one minute in the busiest place in my country, only 10 to 15 people would walk past you (on average). Then, this year, I went to Singapore and Hong Kong for vacation. Oh boy... it's crazy. People were everywhere! I was instinctively looking for a spot where I could at least be on my own for a minute -- it was an impossible task! Every sidewalk, every alley, every little corner -- people! I even tried to walk as far as I could thinking I could find a quiet place. Nope! Then again, after settling down well a few days later, I thought I was going to miss the continuous hustle and bustle when I got back home. You know what, I kinda do. But, when I think about it again, I'd prefer this quietude and serenity. I still remember talking to this taxi driver at 11pm in Singapore about how weird I felt looking at the roads and there were still many cars around (moving and not stuck in a jam).. equivalent to a "rush hour traffic jam" in my country. lol
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LOL, you should get hired professionally to write propaganda narratives for dictators and oligarchs, oh I mean, uh, JOURNALISM, right for fair politicians... right..... that's what I meant.
It does sound like a bit written for Russia or North Korea, and I'm sure some people even believe everything you said.
BTW,
I've been binge watching you two. I love your videos. Your expertise on China combined with your honest, fair assessments are refreshing. You also have a great sense of wit and make hilarious videos.
Okay Okay that's enough worshiping at the greatness of the laowhy86,
Cheers, I look forward to your next videos.
(once your family gets bigger/and or older, you should land a big fat paying consulting job or professorship on Chinese relations)
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Thank you for talking about one of my favorite themes. I believe one travels as much by tongue as by foot, by food as much as by mile. Fruit, more than anything, seems to be the food in which a place most asserts its uniqueness. I lived in Colombia for two years, and there were many exotic fruits there as well. I also lived two years in Korea, but for the most part, probably because of its latitude, fruit was more or less the same as in the US, except it was of high quality, individually and carefully packaged, and expensive (I hear it's similar in Japan). I hope to teach English in China for a couple of years as a way to experience the country, and I'm very much looking forward to trying the fruits you showed us today. I live in Austin, Texas, which has several large Asian communities, so we have many large Asian markets, so I should be able to try durian here soon -- I've just been lazy about getting around to it. Take care & thanks again! --西 美 山
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These are all over California. It is a tavern, a bar with food...but mostly a sports bar with food on the side. And the food is high priced for what you get. You are paying for the boobs.
Other chains in the Breast-raunt genre are Twin Peaks, Show-Me's, Man Cave, Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery, Bone Daddy's House of Smoke, Shorty's Bar & Grill, Mugs 'n Jugs Sports Bar & Grill, Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill, Cowgirl Expresso, etc.
Ugly truth of working at a breast-raunt: 1) Gain weight-get fired! 2) Stay "athletic-looking" or get fired! 3) Pervs are welcomed because they are 70% of the customers! 4) They are basically strip-bars without strippers.
Have Fun.
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I am glad you made many valuable lessons! I wish more american people ( and europeans) would have your ability to expect less and to accept more from other cultures.
Initially I grew up in Columbus/Ohio (I was tricked by my mom who sent me to my German grandparents as I was 11 years old, just to get rid of me) but as I arrived here, it was like middle age to me. In the late seventies, many streets were even not built of asphalt. Toilets looked strange, my grandparents even had a toilet outside the house, it was one of those wooden lockers were you take a dump into a deep hole and smells like death in summer :P I lived in a village where people in the neighborhood emptied their loo hole once a year and fertilized their back yard with the smelly content :P . Many lived like on a mini-farm, held chicken, geese and ducks for eggs and meat, had fruit and nut trees and a large garden full of vegetables like beans, karrots, potatos, red beet, rhubarb and radish. Some even had pigeons others kept weasels and martens because of selling fur. Some neighbors were well known for being dog eaters , some were known as cat-eaters ( they named cat meat "Roof-rabbit")
Most people only took once a month a shower as nobody had warm water supply. All neighbors had next to the bathing tube a huge water boiler which had to be fired with wood. It took an hour until the water was warm. So that is why they just bathe once a month. They all had their own private well, which pumped cold water from the depth of 6- 14 meters - and they drank and used it unfiltered. In those days farmers did not used any chemicals and no artificial fertilizer made of crude oil. That is why the ground water was natural and clean. I drank it all the time and never got sick.
There were so many things I was used to as a kid from the city, which people in a small country side village only knew from TV: Swimming pool, Jeans, Skateboard, Roller Skates, Basketball, McDonalds, Sprite, Kellogs Cornflakes, Rootbeer is even today totally unknown here. As I arrived here, I was shocked. People were living like in middle age and do not know anything of the comfort of the city life. In my street lived about 50 neighbors, but only 7 had a car. Most went with the bike or a their moped to work, or took the bus or the train to the next city. (public transportion was working well in those days)
However I got used to it and it made me more humble.
So ... when at work the radiator is out of order, when the toilet flush does not work due to some maintenance of the public water supply, when the phone is out of order, then I am still cool with it, because I experienced things which are more worse, and I see to how much comfort we got used to in these days, which is actually NOT naturally.
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Hi Laowhy, I've been following your content on and off almost 3 years. I can totally understand everything that you mentioned in the video because I feel just the same way. I moved to the U.S. with my family in 2015 and before I left the country it was all moving positive, the openness, the infrastructure, the development and the economy, and brighter future.
When I was back to visit my hometown again this summer I can just sense the tense in the air. Everything I do requires ID and monitors at every corner of the street,even the small alleys, and the people just getting more and more sensitive about political topics, no one could openly express their political opinion is no surprise to me but it just got worse. Economic wise the inflation is insane, business shutting down or met its maximum capacity because just too many people are in the same field, and I don't think this is a good sign for any country. I've been following all the crazy shit that is going on in the recent two months and I just couldn't imagine where this country is heading toward anymore.
I used to dreamed how China would rise and become better, more open, more free and all positive, but now I don't know anymore. There's really not that much of gap between nationalism and totalitarianism or even fascism. I hate to see that China would become like that but just feel powerless to do anything or to say anything because I know it wouldn't matter. You can't wake up people that are pretending to sleep and that is the reality in China. People who understand things would remain silence or being forced to be silence, and there are people who just don't understand and being manipulated by the media. It's really hard to dodge that trap of propaganda when you are exposed to all the them every day. I know that for fact how efficient they can be because it almost get myself influenced, all the slogans and patriotic videos you can find on Bilibili and other social media platforms, it's just everywhere.
I, too, found the country is shifting, and the direction of this time? I don't know or maybe I don't even dare to imagine. I love the country but just so little that I could do for her.
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This is such an insightful video, Matthew. I really appreciated hearing your point of view, and even though I am from Australia, not the USA, I'm from a different generation to you, and I've lived in China "only" 4.5 years, I can identify with most of what you said. I get quite angry at some of the comments by Australians that I read in various sites, where I just feel like saying, "You don't know shit!" I still love my home country, with all its problems, but I've also grown to love China, especially the vast majority of the people I've met here. And I recently married an amazing Chinese lady who I love dearly, and is the best thing that has happened to me in years.
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I was just reading about Melbourne:
"Melbourne, which is beautifully situated in and on the sides of a valley, contains a population of about 7000. It has several shops, which would do no discredit to the most fashionable streets of the English metropolis. The town is on and watered by the Yarra Yarra, where that river flows into an inlet of Hobson’s Bay. The houses are chiefly built of brick ; the streets are wide, straight, and cut one another at right angles. To me it was truly delightful to witness the appearance of the town on a Sunday; the places of worship all well attended, the people dressed in their best attire, the shops shut, the. streets quiet as in an English town, and no visible symptoms of riot or drunkenness. This moral superiority of Melbourne over Sydney I can attribute to nothing else than the comparative absence of convict influence ; for, including ticket-of-leave men, there are only about 600 convicts now within the district of Port Phillip...."
An extract from 'The Emigrants Guide' published 1845
The last time I checked, there were a few more than 7000 people there, not all of them dress up on Sunday, or go to church, or stay sober.
All 600 convicts now have advertising businesses and clothing stores in Hong Kong.
And yes, there is a hotel.
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hehehehe, this is funny. But let me give one advice to this countries that pay people to do shitty comments. Stop waisting money!!!!! Theres is so much stupid people who do this for free! It's not only in the comments on youtube, it's all way around. Any conversation that involves other people started to be weird, years ago. I , myself , eu mesmo, had to leave 2 of my favorite chatrooms because of some americans and canadians guys (they were known in the chat) that just wanted to bash others. I still think that the internet and youtube are far more useful and spectacular tool than those petty comments. I'm sorry that still hurt your feelings, but it comes with the job. :-) The more successful you the got, more people will try to take you down. Anyway, keep the good work, it's always interesting and informative.
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sup CMilk, love your videos. As an audio guy, I just wanna quickly point out that your audio quality can definitely be improved greatly without upgrading your hardware (because they are definitely good enough), might I suggest you invest in some noise reduction plugins like izotop rx? Even though you can by all means just find some random pirated stuff on internet, the good ones are generally pretty cheap and easy to use. Also, don't know how familiar you are with audio softwares (cubase, Adobe Audition since you love premeir, or Logic pro since you use Macbook), but using some simple software with a free compressor plugins can really make you sound extra professional. It's generally kind of a myth that you need some fancy gear to make great sound, you and Winston still have quite a lot of background reverb and noises, the audio processing is basically a 10 mins job but makes all the difference.
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laowhy86 Would you believe me if I told you it was a field trip my senior year in high school? Our English/history teacher took a group of eight of us. This was the end of the Cold War so it was a little scary. Moscow and Leningrad were beautiful! We went to the Bolshoi Ballet, Lenin's Tomb, St. Basil's Cathedral and saw the Faberge eggs. That was just some what we saw. Then we flew on scary Aeroflot airplanes that sounded like they were held together by string. We went to the towns of Samarkand, Dushanbe, Tashkent, Almaty, and probably some others I can't remember. We were underage so of course we got drunk on vodka. The teacher kept to her room at night. We didn't dare leave the hotel though. The people in the eastern part were so different, a mix of Russian, Persian, and Chinese, and there were Christian and Muslim. I wish I could go back and pay a little more attention to the history and mix of cultures. Wish I had the technology we have now to record it all.
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I really like Vietnam are have been there for a total of 5 months, over 6 trips. I speak a tiny bit of Vietnamese, and that's a really good icebreaker.
I'll look forward to hear your opinion of the country.
Go to the mountains in the north, they are so beautiful and halong bay. Haiphong are found less appealing then Ho chi minh city or Hanoi by many, but I really like it as it's not touristy at all. Also go to Dalat where the temperature are always pleasant. Hue are a given, for any trip to Vietnam.
If you wanna experience the real, night at the museum. You can stay in the the last Kaiser of Vietnams old house, at Do Son Beach close to Haiphong. It were a weird luxury and crap, charm and idioti. There were a beautiful view, garden and house. But they don't use the beautiful old french lamps, and in stead they have spotlights lighting up the house at nite. The rooms are really authentic but bathrooms are "modanised", in really asian way. But it's like 4-5 years ago I were there so some of it could have changed.
Maybe make a collaboration with Best Ever Food Review Show if he are back from Japan when you pass by, and if you dare! He seems to be happy to make colapurations and he got 2 million subs and an average of 1 million views a video, I have followed him since he were a small channel, and have communicated with him over FB messenger a few times. I wanted him to try horseshoe crab close by Haiphong.
I have contacts in Haiphong and Hoi an if you need it. The guy in Hoi an have practically done what you did in China just without making videos.
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I think keeping "an open mind" is so, so, important. Vivi, your Chinese culture is so different, but so, interesting, and exciting. I would be bored in America too, but it has good stuff, and bad, and it's C milk's home.. be happy, you two. The world needs more like you.
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Great video. I started watching you 4 years ago. A year after I started I met the beautiful woman from Hunan who would become my wife. You’re not being a poppy, but speaking truth. This is good information, not only for a person dating someone from another culture, but even from the same “culture”.
There is too much to talk about in regards to what people have to watch out for and be aware of. Communication is slower, as you both try to learn each other’s language. Seriously if you are an impatient person don’t get into this type of relationship. Take the cultural difference seriously! Talk about it and decide where you both agree to stand in regards to health, family, raising children, and the one even people of the same culture avoid, money. Make sure you both have the same core beliefs in honesty, cleanliness, how you treat old and young people. Even once you both agree and seem to be on the same page be flexible and ask your SO to be flexible too.
2 things that helped me is having a great sister-in-law and an English speaking step-daughter. Having family on your side is key and sharing your thoughts and ideas on who you are and your beliefs goes a long way. You both need allies. My mom backs my wife up 90% of the time, so my wife has someone she can talk to if need be.
My wife and I are happy, because we have the same core beliefs and because I drink hot water like she says I should. LOL And honestly, if anything happened between us I’d most likely prefer to meet another beautiful woman from Hunan and not a western woman. But we have promised to be together, forever.
Thanks for the great video C-Milk!
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I’ve been in China teaching since 08! I absolutely love the Chinese people and like you and Winston, I’m on my motorcycle every weekend heading off into the countryside to interact with the everyday Chinese person. The old folks always get excited when they see the Canadian flag on my shirt and shout out BETUAN, BETUAN....poor pronunciation of Dr. Bethune but I understand their feelings as their eyes light up! They are loving, caring, inquisitive people that I love to death. I volunteer in Migrant Workers schools (underfunded schools migrants send their kids to because they don’t have their Hukao so their children can not attend a government school as a penalty for leaving their village!). EVERY video you have made echoes my sentiments and feelings exactly! I get great satisfaction watching the videos as they are a reaffirmation of my feelings as well. I know I’m not alone with how I feel about China and the Chinese people. The students at Tiananmen we’re not expecting to overthrow the government! They just assumed that with the changing of the guard, some decency and freedoms would be bestowed upon them. It was an almost festive atmosphere as students expected some social,reforms that would enhance their lives. Those expectations were squashed, just like the students were with tanks and their remains were unceremoniously hosed into the sewers at Tiananmen. And now we have the repression going on in Hong Kong, and the arrogance of the CCP by militarizing islands in the South China Sea that even the CCP spokespersons refer to as “contested”. There are the persecutions of the Uyghur, Falun Gong, Christians, Tibetans, and political activists, and forced organ harvesting. I’ve never seen a country who’s leadership is involved in so much evil. But I digress! Thank you for this video! It inspires me to keep up the good fight for the rights of the everyday Chinese citizen who I know have no idea what their government is doing or what others are saying about them because of the censorship imposed upon them by this corrupt, totalitarian government.
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Well, good video.
I first met your channel via the "detour" of ADVChina.
I'm German, about the same age as SerpentZA (I'm almost 38), I used to have a relatively good job life with the German Military, and I even stayed abroad (which is a long story, I was for instance working in Prague for a few years). Anyhow, now I'm post my - for the lack of a better term - "Bundeswehr military contract" and have currently been unemployed (and frustrated) for quite some time now. When I was a teen in the 90s, I was living with my parents in the US for 4 years.
I think you did a fantastic job in many of your videos (you and Winston together are Gold in that respect); you grew on your own long experiences in China, just like I did in my own "realm", learning from past mistakes and simply growing up. ....And I did many mistakes in my life as well.
Anyhow, I wish you and your family the best and I'm looking forward to "y'all's" new adventures in China or in other places! Keep up the good work and greetings from Germany
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Dang! We got a hard core member over here. Seriously though, I'm sorry that happened to you and Vivi. This is why I follow your channel - I feel like you've transcended 'This is what China is for Westerners...' to the content having a more human feel. That's why I follow your channel, Prozzie, and Serpent-ZA (or Winston - not sure how to address someone I only know through Youtube) too. You bring a 'real person' element to the experiences you share, and I thank you for that. As an aspiring future teacher abroad, that's inspiring. It's also useful information, and I appreciate that too. It annoys me that you had to pay anything to that jackass taxi driver, but I think I understand partly, because of watching videos, and I'm sure I don't understand completely. Anyway, thanks for another great video, and I look forward to what's to come.
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23 and me always says "ooh your North-West European" with a lage portion of Germanic blood, that is mostly interpreted in the US as being from Germany for some reason.
Germanic doesn't mean Germany, it means every country that's Germanic, not only the Deutsch, but the Dutch, Belgian's, Austrians, Luxemburgish, Liechtensteiners, Swiss, etc, etc are Germanic, so are the French (especially in Normandy, Brittany, Bask), the Northern Italian's most Spanish (Catalan, Bask, etc) even a lage portion of the Northern Portuguese are Germanic and they moved around quite a bit. (not to mention all Nordic people are Germanic, even a large portion of Northern Russian's are)
You need way more data to pin down what you really are,....seeing that people from the USA are severly mixed even if they identify as one perticular ethnicity, it doesn't mean you are, making the perticular set of countries your ancestors hailed from a big ask.
Seen an American-Vietnamese girl freak out that she found out she was 33% French, she had no idea where that came from, both her grandparents were born Vietnamese in Vietnam before moving to the USA.
She had 0 idea that Vietnam was a French colony for hundreds of years before the Americans came to wage war there, was annoying to watch her lack of knowledge on her ancestors country's history.
Good breakdown C-Milk 👍.
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I'll admit, there's a part of me that wants to be "triggered" by viewing a selection of the videos demonizing you, a part of my mind that wants to be angry and lash out at your enemies.
But it's passed, and 10 seconds later, I'm going to do the right thing, instead.
I'm terribly sorry for you and the rest of the Crew, from my perspective you've been as un-biased and truthful as a man in your position possibly could be. Obviously, you've risked quite a lot bringing us your views, figuratively and literally, both of which I appreciate. I've always believed your content, and that of your partners, has had a positive effect on my views of current Chinese culture, beyond what big media outlets try to force into my brain on a daily basis. There's very little "real China" information out there on the platforms I spend time watching or reading, and a notification of a new road trip video from you guarantees I'll learn something new. Thank you.
I hope this wave of negative attention passes soon. If not, I'd love to watch you guys ride through Korea, Japan, or another more welcoming nation if not.
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Did you negotiate with the macaque for the lens cap?? :) This is a pretty touch subject but... If one believes that CTM works, then an animal has been sacrificed to benefit the health of the predator. In a similar way, people will consume animal protein in the belief that plant protein is insufficient for proper health. In both cases, heavy scientific research has been conducted but there is still no consensus agreement in the public on what is true and what is false, though scientifically I think the evidence speaks for itself. So, is not the plight of individual species really no different whether it relates to CTM or whether animals had to die to be food for humans? What makes the death of a cute sea turtle any better or worse than that of a macaque,, a baby cow, or a piglet? Whether east or west, for health or sustenance, these animals are slaughtered in sometimes humane but often very inhumane ways. ( One could take a different approach and say that we need to preserve biodiversity for the survival of a healthy ecosystem and therefore need to avoid decimating declining populations of animals in the wild so that life on earth can continue to exist more or less in its current form. ) But that is different than arguing for the rights of animals, which is a very polarizing and complicated topic. I think is a critical issue of our times of which there needs to be a lot more debate on.
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You're a good man, Matthew. You make so many and great videos on important and sensitive topics about China and your videos are always interesting, informative and respectful. You're doing a very important job and I have learned so much about China by watching your videos. Although you often criticize the Chinese government, you are very good at making a clear distinction between the Chinese government and the Chinese people. You have made me want to travel to China and experience Chinese culture. Unfortunately at the moment it is not possible for me to travel due to financial reasons and for the same reason I apologize that I for the time being I cannot support you financially. However, I do as much as I can by watching, liking and commenting on your videos, as well as sharing and recommending your channels to my friends and family via social media or word of mouth on a regular basis. I actually think some of my friends are a little tired of me talking about you guys as I very often use you as I often refer to you as my source when there's a discussion about China. You guys are my #1 choice of source when it comes to news about China. There are so many times I've watched your videos on an ongoing situation in China, and some days or even weeks it's picked up by the other large news outlets, and I've been thinking "That's old news for me now". I don't believe there are many news correspondents in the world that has so much experience as you do. Especially when you combine forces with Winston on ADVChina or China Fact Chasers are you guys are by my honest opinion unbeatable when it comes to research, analyse and communicate what's going on in China. You are a very good team. The videos from your, Winston's or the channels you have together are among the few channels I click on every time I get notified that there's a new video out.
Thanks!
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You're right, vaping is actually hot. Don't run your vape coils too hot though, because nobody wants a gross burnt tasting hit. Cigarettes are stupidly expensive here in the USA, so its kinda cool that vaping can save a person a lot of money. Plus, vaping is much less harmful than smoking tobacco, I'm so glad i switched to vape after smoking cigs for 10 years. But doing anything just because other people think its cool is silly. It took me a while to understand, but over the years I've learned its better to not worry much about what other people think. Just do what you think is fun, and do what is good/best for you, because that's the real secret to being cool.
Be cool, be blessed, and may the force be with you always
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Here are things I wish I knew before I went to china.
1. You will never truly belong.
No matter how open minded, culturally sensitive you are, how good your mandarin is, how much you empty your cup, or even how respectful you are. You will always be an outsider. All the social and racial discrimination will always be there.
2. Social segregation.
You will always be kept at arm's length. The individual people who will accept you as a true friend for friendship sakes are few andmyou need tombe in a bigger city to find them. Don't expect to have alot of chinese friends and establish a real social network. Not gonna happen. Your chinese colleagues in your workplace will only associate with you outside themworkplace only on special occasion like your birthday or christmas or something like that. But with each other, they spend lots of regular time with each other outside the workplace with no social limitations or restrictions on each other. Also, in your neighborhood. You are not just any average joe on the block. Everyone watches you. If they suspect you have more than one girlfriend, everybody knows. But if it's a chinese person with many girlfriends, nobody cares. They watch you, waiting for you to do something wrong somthey can gossip. Foreigners are always viewed upon with suspicion.
Racial discrimination will always be there. It doesn't matter if you follow all the advice you've ever been goven as to how to behave and all that.
3. Us verses them mentality.
Social domestic conflict is usually something nobody gets involved in. As long as it's just two chinese going at it. If two chinese people are in a shouting arguement or in a fist fight, nobody else cares. They just avoid it since it doesn't concern them. And of course they don't know who's fault it is. They always assume it's only a private affair. But when it is a chinese person and a foreigner in a shouting arguement or fist fight, other chinese will get involved. They never ask who's fault anything is or what the fight is over. They always assume, it's the foreigner's fault and we must unite our chinese muscles to fight for our country. Even though the fact the one guy is chinese may have nothing to do with why the foreigner is even angry at him. So even if a chinese person out of the blue were to come and pick a fight with you for no reason, know this. You are dead.
4. Media bias.
When a foreigner does something wrong, even if it's something chinese do all the time, it will make news everywhere. At least over social media. Laowai kicked an empty beer can? Littered his garbage on the streets? Gave the middle finger to someone who cut him off in traffic? The entire country knows.
Actually if a chinese person sees you in public, any chinese can accuse you of something you didn't even do and shout to everyone "this foreigner just said all chinese are diseased animals" or something like that and kost chinese nearby will just take his word for it. It's unlikely to happen, but they can do that. And nobody will question whether or not you actually said that.
These are the things every foreigner in china should know before they even go to china.
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My first comment is over on the new prozzie vid, here is my second one:
all of the c-milk, winston, and prozz vids are fantastic because I think that you guys have never lied ever. All a person can do is tell it like they see it.
Some folks might ask 'why live in China at all'....well, 1) they like it. 2), as winston said, he just wants to see the country move forward and improve where it can improve.
I live in Taipei and I thought it was quite nice when winston said..'for what China COULD be, just look at Taiwan.'
Plus, I learned something from watching the new prozz vid, ..that there is actually more pure, old Chinese culture in Taiwan than in China. Wow. Thanks to all you guys and your lovely wives/girlfriends, too, for teaching us all really cool stuff. Live long and prosper.
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Hahaha these comments are cracking me up, however I do feel sorry for paid Wu Mao. It must be awful to have to write insults all day about videos you did not watch or don't understand. Before watching you and Winston I had a very negative opinion of China after watching your videos, even though you do point out some negatives about China, I actually started to have a much more positive view of China than I had in the past. I've even seen it as a place I might want to visit someday. Your videos have shown much of China that is beautiful, good and positive. Also when you have talked about negatives you've often provided information about why things may be the way they are, you made the things that could be viewed as bad understandable, relatable. I also feel like you and Winston both think that China overall is at a point that much of the populace is ready for positive change. Despite its problems it's obvious there are things you love and appreciate about China. I have liked every Chinese immigrant I have ever met in the US, they have been kind, friendly and generous and fun. I think you and Winston have done much to highlight many positive aspects of China. I think your portryal of China has been honest and insightful. The comments that Wu Mao make in an effort to support China make China seem like its people are mean and stupid. I doubt that is the result the government is aiming for. The money spent on Wu Mao comments would be much better spent on websites covering beautiful regions of China, truthful information about Chinese artisians, life in China type programs, interviews with Chinese Youth, etc..The Chinese government could use the money to show the many lovely and positive aspects of China in a realistic non political fashion. A program in English about the regional foods in China would be wonderful to watch. Sorry I was so long winded. I don't think you are understood in China and that's a shame. I can't be the only American that has come to love China and its people because of the exposure to it via videos posted by you, Winston and ViVi.
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If you are going to Shenyang again, there are huge Korean population over there Xita 西塔 is the second large Korean town in the world, and there are also several North Korea government ruled restaurants, and 七宝山 is the biggest one in China, I just not sure whether they're still open under the sanctions, and in northeastern China, dog meat is sth you can find in Korean restaurants. Dandong is the biggest border city between North Korea and China, which economy has been affected by the sanctions. Also, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province, is a place very interesting to visit, a great number of people can only speak Korean. If you are looking for a diverse northeastern culture experience, Korean Chinese culture is quite important in both Liaoning and Jilin Province, in Heilongjiang is Russia influence.
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So fwiw, relationship success story here. But not completely aligning with the "mainland China girl" paradigm of your video if I'm being honest.
So I met my Taiwanese wife in College, (Canada), a year after she arrived through my gf at the time, (long story, don't ask).
Many of the challenges that you illustrate in your video, (language, culture, etc.. etc..) were true for us but for the most part we had enough patience & maturity towards each other to push through it. I agree that finding such a girl willing to stick with it is rare indeed.
As far as the family angle is concerned, her family, (still in Tw), has been nothing but beautiful, gracious & loving towards me. Like I was the son they never had, language issues aside. So bonus fries there.
Despite the fact that things worked out for us, do I agree it is/was a challenge? You bet.
Do I agree that although things worked out for us I can see that for many/most it probably wouldn't esp Re: a mainland China girl? Yep, I'd agree with that 100%
Do I also agree that you increase your relationship success rate by 1000% if you just shut-up, put your head down and learn the damn language? (中文) Yes, completely.
To round things out, we've been together now for 17yrs, married for 7yrs, and like you have daughters. Two of them in fact, 4yrs & 19mos.
Great video btw! One of your best to date!
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Yes, city life was in the seventies almost the same as in America, as most buildings were re-buildt from 1960 -1980. However some elementary schools, libraries, certain cafes or the music school where I had piano lessons were from the 19th century: Noisy wooden stairs which are shiney polished from all those thousend footsteps, cold rooms with no heating radiators, cold water in the rest rooms and wooden furniture where students from 1912 carved on top a swear on their teacher.
Big Cities like Munich were almost destroyed during WWII so they "had the advantage" of building them up new, including some "innovative" inventions like an elevator or a central heating system.
IF you ever come to Munich, you have to see the olympic stadion parc which was build in 1969-1971. What most people - even the citizens of Munich - do not know: All the hills around that park are artificial (I guess the highest one is 50 meters high), made of the debris of all buildings which falled due to the bombings in WWII. So initially the park was once a dumpster place :P
I've started with catching up college and studying business administration in 2001 at the age of with 33 and looked for a student flat, of course it should be a cheap one. Munich is maybe the most expensive city in Germany, a 1-room flat costs about 600,- - 700 Euro plus energy costs. Even when you share a flat you still have 350 - 500 Euro for a room, big enough for your bed, a desk and your closet. So I was quite happy as I found an advert of several student flats for 300,- per month. I arranged to meet the landlord to inspect the flat. Turned out it was one of the last old buildings from 1898 which have not been destroyed during WWII. The flats were in the fifth floor, no elevator, extremly noisy stairs, noisy wooden floors, only one bathroom which has an big electric heated water boiler in the corridor, to be shared with 19 other students. :P That house still exists today :P
The big cities were also under the "protection" / administration of the allies, mostly Americans, Brits and Canadians, who introduced their culture to Germany: Pop, Rock&Roll, Fashion, lifestyle, attitude, liberal morals. But those changes, int introduction of modern times only happend in the big cities like munich which had more over 60000 US GI's, while times almost stood still on the country side till the end of the seventies.... There was really a cut of that in the early eighties, as many of the younger generations took over key roles with local companies and public service.
Germanies infrastructure of today is quite the best you can find in Europe. The interesting part why other european nations still seem to be stuck in 1940 is because of their culture. People in France, Italy, Spain or Portugal simply do not care that much if a street is bumpy or modern, if a house looks like it gets each year an architecture reward or looks like a ruin which will fall apart any second. They value other things much more: Food, Fashion... wine... did I mention food? ... and Family and friends.... and more food ... while Germans invest almost all their time, workpower and money into their car and house, in order to impress people they actuallly do not like :P
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I started watching your videos because you had a good discussion of Chinese languages/dialects. I stayed because you provide a lot interesting - for me, at least - information about China.
I have lived for more than 25 years on Russia. I am now studying Korean, and I may even move there. At this time, though, my wife and I visit from time to time. All that to say, I will be very much looking forward to what you show of the border with North Korea and Russia. In particular, anything that might be of interest in connection with the Korean War, both from the Soviet and from the Chinese side. (And yes, I have pledged. Do not tell my son.)
If you hadn't guessed, I like the videos that you and Winston put out. I find your comments on being married to a Chinese woman interesting. I am married to a Russia (nearly 26 years) and I find the subject of inter-cultural marriages fascinating. Your daughter is cute; nearly as much as my own was, at that time (now she is 25).
I wish you both the best on this venture.
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Just one thing I have to disagree, that is, when you suggest people who come to China go north to make friends, you are generalizing them as if they have the similar mindset as you do. I would suggest if you want to make friends to hang out, have fun and drink, yes north is the way to go; however, if you are more business minded, career driven, you should go south to find more opportunities. IMO, friendship can be made out of money and interests. The other thing I want to mention is that when Sino-Japan war broke out, the Japanese faced little to none resistance up in the north whereas they got their ass kicked heaps of times down in the south, national pride put aside, I think north is more accepting than south, which is quite similar to the US.
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Yeah, that's real funny, and quite understandably people would suppose foreign looking people don't speak your language. Unless if your language is a lingua franca. I speak a small language in Europe, Finnish, and we tend to think it is a secret language anywhere outside Finland - except in Estonia and Sweden. Then it is quite a surprise when it is not. Like in Paris, when I and my friend were looking at map, this French looking guy came to us and in Finnish said: "Hi, how are you, can I help?" He had studied in a Finnish university. Well he wasn't fluent but could make some sentences. Like the odds are really small, but it happens.
And then, if you come from a big language region, for example English or French or German.. you might suspect the other foreigners with European/North American look might understand you. But if you come from a small language population, you really don't expect this to be the case, either.
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I am together with my chinese wife already 6 years, and I agree that with I in the back time and dont know her, I will not marry with a chinese, culture differences really are stressful and go through it is not easy, need a lot patience of both side. The shock thing is that her family accept me really well, even I not beeing rich guy to give them car, house. But my family dont accept her well, so nowaday they dont talk. Me and her are fine, we are well resilient, doing well after so much stressful situation.
Advice dont force into a relationship, even dating website, coworker etc. I think is more about destiny to meet someone to build a family, whether foreign or not.
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I am surprised that you are surprised by this generosity and hospitality in the rural areas of China. I have said this many times about the Shenzhen YouTubers videos. It seems that you have a wall that separates you from the rest of what China is. From my personal experiences while traveling, I find this sort of hospitality and generosity the norm towards foreigners. I chide my foreigner friends who love in bog cities like Beijing and Shanghai. They spend most, if not all, of their time in the city. They seldom get out of the western styled cities to experience real China. Their biggest argument about not traveling more is because it is so difficult and time consuming to just get in and out of these first tiered cities. An hour or more by taxi, bus or metro subway to a train station or airport (one way) is daunting and too much of a hassle. So, they remain in the cities, sheltered in this faux Chinese-Western culture. In my China travel blog and the various articles that I write, I often suggest newcomers to skip living in the big cities, find an outlying smaller city. When the urge or need for city life comes along, hop on a bus or train and spend a few day in the city. For example, I am 1 hour by train from Shanghai. Although I seldom visit Shanghai as I have never been one for big city life, it is possible for me to get there easily. I am not trying to downplay your adventure, nor am I trying to be negative to you. Just as you do these videos to potentially help newcomers to China, so am I. In summary, if you want to come live and work in China, find a third tiered city that has easy access to a second or first tiered city. This way, you will get the best of both a more traditional Chinese cultural experience, while having a city where you can escape back to your more western cultural comfort zone. Love the videos. I am looking forward to your new documentary. Many blessings to you and your family Laowhy86.
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Honestly, I don’t know how you do it. I’m an ABC, I consider myself a modern & liberal female but my family is TRADITIONAL. Growing up torn between both worlds definitely led me to appointments with a therapist LOL! Polar opposite worlds. Completely different mentalities, the narrow-mindedness is blood-boiling. They refuse to learn when taught, creatures-of-habit. I absolutely love the culture and I take so much pride in being Chinese. B/R in NYC, it’s hard to be narrow-minded. Constantly being told by relatives that American are stupid or the Americans have made you dumb. I sometimes can’t help but to pull out facts and statistics on why America triumph China, I know it’s petty and it’s a stupid argument— I hate having to belittle them and make them rethink why they made such empty statement with no proof to back it up. It’s eye-rolling. My blood pressure goes up every time I think about it. I like putting myself in other individuals’ shoes but it’s REALLY hard to understand their way of thinking other than the excuse that that’s all they were raised on— that’s the way they were brought up— it’s the era in which they were raised in — most of China thinks the same way— THAT DOESN’T MAKE IT RIGHT. That’s the same plea Harvey Weinstein is taking. The world is evolving and it’s only going forward. It’s like a bullet train going straight and not turning back, you either get onboard or you get left behind. If they refuse to adapt to modern ideology, you can’t argue with that level of ignorance. “Western ideology is poison.” Ugh, I can’t. I think the opposite, I think the a lot of the “East Asian traditional” ideology is toxic and ignorant.
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You forgot to add your parents reaction! Congratulations ! I had my first two children close together 15 months apart. At that time, my husband and I both had the same reaction as you two are having: shock, joy, how we going to make this happen, etc. etc. Our second child was also difficult: he ended up being dairy soy intolerance and in 1986 no one knew about that stuff. Nonetheless, my first and second children, 15 months apart, were the best playmates.They entertained themselves. I had a lot more free time on my hands, even though I was a stay at home mom. Stay positive and remember this is a season of life, you’re a great young couple, and honestly, raising babies is a young parent game!. Today, we see our grandchildren every week on one specific evening for a couple of hours and we are exhausted when they leave… And I’m only 53!
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Would you agree that he has not met every single person in both North and South China? He also hedged his bets and said that the Southern culture has been changing and that it's getting easier to make friends in the South. he can only speak from his own experiences, anything else would be hearsay.
He wasn't saying that people in South China didn't have friends, it was more along the lines that people in South China have a different type of friendship than most Americans do. I'd fit in there, seeing as I have always had friends that use me and that I use as well. The big difference is that I let my friends know early on how I approach friendship and many walked away. In South China, if I met the people of which he speaks, we might not even need that conversation and it would reach that setup organically. If I met other types of friends, we would probably be rather distant.
Again, he can only talk from his perspective. Pretty much like you, me, and everyone else. He's just trying to help Americans that have never been in China before and would suffer a huge culture shock. Even China has its oddballs, like every other country and culture.
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Hi C-Milk,
Thanks to your channel and the channels of your friends, I decided to visit Huizhou. It was a great experience. I was visiting Shenzhen and and took the bus up to Huizhou. I stayed at the new Renaissance Hotel by the river. I was accompanied by my good friend Brian from Shenzhen. He is Chinese. I stayed in Huizhou for 5 nights. While in your city I spent 1 day at the hotel with the other Americans there watching the US election results.
I also visited the Huizhou Museum, West Lake Park, and a nearby mall to go to a movie. I walked around the central business district, and the area near the hotel. I enjoyed your city a lot. It is beautiful, clean and everyone was very pleasant. The staff at the Renaissance were outstanding. Most spoke English, great food, and very comfortable. Had I run into you I had intended to introduce myself.
From Huizhou I took a bus to the Guangzhou South train station from where I traveled to Guangxi. I decided to respect your privacy and consciously didn't contact you. However, you had a profound impact on me......I visited Huizhou. So, thanks for what you do. Also thanks go out to hour wife, Winston, Prozzie and others you have featured in your videos. I hope to return again some day.
Huizhou is a wonderful city. I like it too.
Rick
Shoreline, WA USA
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i doubt that will ever happen. cigarette smoke = 1000 nasty chemicals. vape only contains a few chemicals, its not combustion so no carbon monoxide, and none of them are carcinogens. Certainly vaping is worse for your health than not vaping at all, but its not anywhere nearly as harmful as smoking. After smoking for 10 years, I feel better and have saved tons of money since switching to vape two years ago. Really was one of the best decisions i've made. Sadly, a few dishonest scientific studies were purposefully trying to make vaping seem as harmful as cigarettes. They reported higher formaldehyde levels than cigarettes, but failed to explain that only happened when they deliberately modified vaping devices to create absurdly high coil temperatures for impossibly long durations. When tested under normal (real world) operating conditions, they actually found there was NO formaldehyde in the vapor. Personally, I think people should do whatever they find best for them, after all who am I to judge. But I freaking hate liars like the assholes who produced these misleading studies. And those in the media who repeated that sensationalized fake news without a second thought are a bunch of worthless scumbags. We are talking about people's health here, their LIVES! We need the truth about something this important. Any people lying about this kind of seriously important stuff, for whatever greedy reasons, they should go to straight to hell. Didn't mean to go off on a big rant, just passionate about the subject, and I certainly do not mean you any disrespect. You were just sharing your opinion, and I got no beef with that! Thanks for sharing it too
Be Blessed, Be Cool, and may the Force be with you all!
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Things have up and downs. I totally understand you don't really like the current system in China, and to be honest some of the Chinese people don't like it as well. The problem is, what can we do to improve it? To be very honest, nothing much in a top-down social system like China. We hope the system will get better eventually, maybe in many years. We can only educate our next generation to be kind, to be knowledgeable, to keep an open mind, to listen to different voices and learn to tell the rights and wrongs. Some of us cannot bear with it and try to immigrate to other parts of the world. So what? we can still Chinese and are still called chinks on the streets. China is my home where I will die. Now it is not the best of China, but definitely not the worst of it.
Again, things have up and downs. CCP is blaming the foreign government, and the people are educated in such a way. I don't think the current way will last long. China will eventually go back to a member of the civilized world. Hope you can get back to China again at that time and enjoy making friends with Chinese people.
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lol,thats great, i laughed almost all of the way through this video, just as i have throughout all of your other videos. its always a pleasure, you guys are awesome.
i learned to speak mandarin from rosetta stone, its amazing and it worked just as advertised.
if im ever in china again in the future,id love have lunch with you guys.
i really wish i could live and work in china myself.
without that constant immersion, i could lose the ability to speak it all together. i hope not.
im ESL certified, and as ive already said, i can also speak mandarin. but with no college degree i dont think its ever going to be possible.
so sad :( , many many sad faces lol
i dont want to take a chance and work off grid like many do as their only choice and chance perm deportation OR WORSE going to jail... such a terrible perdiciment... what a shame, i guess im SOL. LOL fk.
buuuuut anyways, i just wanted to say that i could never have learned chinese that way, that would be incredibly difficult, and mustve been for you. much respect to you bro.
awesome video as always, love you guys. <3
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Lots of great info Matthew, but it doesn't really provide a high-level view of things that people outside China can relate to. Allow me, sir.
The general global concept of "subsistence", or poverty is working full time, but not being able to provide for your essential needs. (Food, shelter, clothing.) The general global concept of "working class" is working full time and being able to provide for those needs, but having no additional disposable/save-able income. The "middle class" is able to work full time, make enough for the essentials, and have disposable/save-able income. These principles exist in practically every country on Earth. Typically, the subsistence/poverty class is primarily rural and agrarian. The working class is low-to-mid skilled industrial labor. The middle class tends to be higher-skilled, higher-educated trade or professional. But, within this range, there is also the concept of a particular area's purchasing power parity (PPP), or the relative buying power of what they earn. In the end, this is what determines "prosperity", no matter how much you make. (Ex. Your PPP in Boston, or L.A. is much lower than it would be in Little Rock, or Louisville.)
When I was living in a very nice 3rd tier city in China (with a population of 6.5 million), you were generally considered "middle class", if you earned around $22,000 (USD). With that much, a family of three could have all of the essentials, buy a nice apartment, furnish it nicely, dress well, afford to dine out, have entertainment, send the child to a nice school, and still have enough money to save and purchase durable goods (such as washing machines, TVs, cars, etc.). Even then, Chinese people tend to save far more than most Westerners. So, for the most part...the average middle-class wage goes much further in China, even if it only a fraction of what you have in the West. Remember that this is a country where a year of rental in a nice apartment is between $3000 and $4000 a year. Most people pay about $2 to $4 for a month of mobile service (talk, texts, and Web). A nice meal in a non-fancy restaurant is about $3 to $4. A bus or subway ride in a big city is about 30 to 40 cents. A cab ride is about $2 to $4. (In general, there is NO tipping in China.) So try to translate this to an American family of three making $66,000, living in Baltimore, or Tampa. Not even close in PPP terms.
So why would anyone prefer the U.S. to China. In my humble opinion, it comes down to this: The lifestyle here is slicker, cleaner, more indulgent, and more appealing to our materialistic sides. That's it...but, to many people that's a lot . Even when you can afford less, being surrounded by prosperity makes you feel better. It also makes you work harder to afford better things.
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wish i could share this to my dad even if it doesn't change his mind,
we are of han chinesse descend that "ventures" to indonesia pre WW1, but we still have some relatives on mainland,
he's (saying he is)a skeptic and all, yet super pro CCP and shit, including blind hate towards western nation, japan, taiwan and hk.
and gorging himself watching CCTV, chinesse "historical" drama, and once or twice a year taking a vacation to mainland(weabo of all things chinesse, including the business ethics).
i know i'm bias in some things, but everytime we argue regarding chinesse govt it always end up concluded with this one sentence. "I am your parent and i know things that you don't know" to the point that there's no point talking anymore.
sorry to make this a confession or something.
it's just the part when you said about that young boy hits me hard.
since i kind of understand the feeling of trapped like that.
thank you for reading.
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So what if they make some money by producing the N. China show. Besides food, lodging, gas, etc., they have to pay their production crew and spend many hours not only making the show, but also all the time spent in post production. Are you saying their time has no value? And there is no risk involved? Time is money - would you work hours for free, especially if you have a family to support?
And if they eventually hit the bigtime with HBO or Amazon etc., more power to them. That would be fantastic! Their production, education and entertainment value is as good as many shows currently running on these platforms. That could never happen without making the initial production. I know what they call "the business" (show business) here in So. California. Many, if not most, of the successful shows and franchises would never have happened without other peoples money to provide the resources to make the "pilot" production.
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Yeah, it has changed a ton in the last 20 years. While still pretty crazy, the driving is way better than it used to be. Same with the pollution, which is still pretty bad, but not nearly "as bad". Also the prostitution. When I first came here we'd check into a hotel room, and within five minutes the phone would ring. The very first time it happened my wife kept answering the phone, and the person on the other end would hang up, but then the phone would ring again in a few minutes. I was wondering what was going on, so my wife laughed and said "it's for you". So, I answered the phone and it was of course a prostitute. We were curious what they charged, so I started asking 'how much'. In Beijing it was US $100, but as we got further west, the price kept going down until it was 100 RMB in Chengdu. Oh, and these were 5 star hotels...
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thankyou , lovely honest video, im a teacher , and think a lot of issues start with parenting,
and have a lot of issues with fighting in school.I sadly just video it , and then they get to do year over again at parents expense , 20000 yuan. Chinese teachers deal with it a lot more harshly
Class rooms are horrible, 80 to 100 kids , trash food in a pile in corner, when kids are bad , I put them in that corner
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This would be a good live stream topic, i think. Seems like it could expand endlessly. My nephew came to visit me a couple months ago. Just walking down the street with him reminded me of the sort of things you're talking about. He actually stopped, turned around and said, "OMG, that girl is shitting on the sidewalk. What do we do? Should we tell someone?" Stepping in front of cars to cross the street, dog meat restaurants, people staring, people yelling "Hallo", people asking for pictures or just taking pics without asking, the spitting, raw meat hanging in the street, dancing grand mothers, guys with whips and tops, a guy herding his sheep on a G road, people doing the screaming thing to clear their qi and exercise their lungs were all huge surprises for him that made his head spin. It made me think of the many things that I now take for granted. A new teacher had some complaints after a Chinese man showed up, unannounced at her apartment door at 8 am on a Saturday to try to high pressure her into a side job at another school. She was asking me "How does he know my personal information? He knows my name, where I live, and my schedule. I think I am going to call the PSB." LOL She had the expectation that, in spite of being the only white person around, that she had privacy and that people didn't know these things
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The Chinese all you can eat buffet is as American as apple pie. It evolved out of the Asian American population that had been here since the gold rush. I can't speak for the rest of the United States, but as a Southerner, I can say, we really like fried, hearty, stick to your ribs type food. I think Chinese buffet is a sort of fusion of Chinese cuisine adjusted to American tastes, Chinese, yet also all American in a quantum state of being both Chinese and American. If you think of it next to traditional Chinese food, you will be disappointed, but if you think of it like a unique style of cuisine it is awesome. The all you can eat Chinese buffet is a microcosm of the American melting pot, a source of vibrancy for the host culture, but also an integral part of that culture. The all you can eat Chinese buffet is America, freedom, baseball, all that good stuff. I would want nothing to do with an America where I can't go to the Golden Dragon down the road and get a big ass box of Lo Mien to go.
That was my soap box for the day. Love you laowhy86, laowinners, and wish you all the best.
Good day!
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C-Milk., I met Winston in New York, I was so disapointed that you was not there, even you are a New Yorker, which I tyhought you suppose to represent us with the Chinese people, hahaha. anyway, your baby is really freaking cute, and I was looking forward to meet you, if it could be possible to at least get to know you and your wife, and I would like to bring my wife to get some pizza or some hamburger in Red Robin, which they have a massive Christmas discount or we can meet in a dinner. Let me know, so we can hang out in the Christmas Times in New York we can go with my car around New York to give your wife a tour of what is New York all about.
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Chinese cities are not strictly zoned as north american counterparts, just like most other Asian cities. Most residents don't own vehicles. Majority of the cities are not established or designed for motorists. Mix-use neighborhood is the dominant urban landscape. A blend use of retail, entertainment, residence, combined with high density of population, will inevitably create noise that average american cannot tolerate. The workers have to work at night simply because overtime is the only means they can make and save some money. Most of these people are migrants from rural area, they have to send home cash to support their kids or seniors. These people are extremely poor paid. A general laborer makes approximately $15-$30 a day, so often they volunteer to extend their hours to make a few dollars more. The business owners also have some of unexpected difficulties that you cannot imagine. The highways are all toll road. Rental rises in exponential rate, tax code are obscure, government rules are eccentric yet dictating. Factories can be shut down on administrative orders regardless how much damage the suspension can cause.These all contribute to rising business cost. For some, they have to squeeze their employee or customers to make profit, that's why you ended up getting fake booze..
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The chinese are pretty angry, i have seen them on bilibili and other chinese sites, it is the disaster of mistranslation, ignorance of context, humor, i dont know how to explain that, they don't understand the inner attitude of you saying things that sound bad to them, all they can see is a white guy who think they are more superior. i think they are more angry at Winston. They look pretty dangerous so good luck. I subscribed because i was interested in China, not interested anymore but recently came back to watch your videos for no real reasons, watching ur videos give me the sensation of hanging out after stressful work and awful booze, u became my fake friend in my pathetic life so im a little worry about you, the hatred from chinese look dangerous. I suspect all of these were launched by someone u or winston pissed off, the chinese haters are just the tools they successfully created. i would've moved back to america if i were u cuz i wouldnt feel safe, great decision making ur kid american.
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Well, I cracked a very small smile at the second one.... The glove was funny, Lol, go ahead son, looks like they're cooked, LOL! I have to agree, it is pretty impressive to fix something with Ramen noodles! Yeah, no kidding, I learned how to use chopsticks at a very early (for American), age and I even keep them at home as well as I have a nice pair of chopsticks made from rosewood, my personal pair as it were. I don't know, I think the sense of humor is way different, I usually cringe at these, especially the painful ones, as they really don't seem all that funny to my sense of humor. But what do I know, I'm old.... lol. Peace, Love and Light you two!!!
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I wonder what a Chinese person, who has driven in the US, thinks of how we drive. The horn is interesting because when someone honks at you here it is because they are pissed, not to make you aware. So, C-Milk, we both know, being from snowy states, that you have certain things in your trunk for emergencies. What do you have in your trunk besides badminton equipment? Coin toss, Corn-hole, giant Jenga, Ladder Toss, an American football? I think you could make a business out of selling "Stuck in Chaotic Traffic" games. Do you also have a camping toilet in your trunk?
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Thank you guys so much (including Winston) for teaching me so much about the culture, language, customs and just China in general. I've been in Yunnan now for 3 weeks and everything I learned from your experiences over the years translated directly to my experiences. Maybe it's just that I'm a down to earth realist who sees things just the way they are or maybe I just learned too much from you guys before I came here, but for me a lot of novelty has worn off damn quick! Attention started to outright annoy me now in my 3rd week, I don't even care anymore I just want to walk the street without everyone looking at me and opening their mouth in amazement when they see me (my height of 202cm probably doesn't help). To "外国人"I just started to respond "中国人", and it's getting on my nerves explaining that Croatia is a small country in Europe, and Europe is a place where white people live, not black people, that is Africa.
Maybe China is not for me I dunno... Having a blast so far though, love the food and the beautiful Yunnan nature, stuff is cheap and chinese hospitality is unmatched. I know a lot of it is giving 面子, but I was already gifted a pack of smokes unavailable to the public smoked only inside the party and a 20-year old yellow tea that was Mao's favourite xD.
So yeah there are definitely good sides and bad sides, but so far I gotta say I enjoy China.
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Allow me my 2 cents' worth. Been in China for just shy of 2 years now. Live in a town called Nanxun, Zhejiang Province. Gay. And let me say, DISILLUSIONED af. Topic of your video rings true. There really are no gays in China (as far as smalltown China is concerned) compared to our privileged Western concept of the "lifestyle" and all the rights and perks it is afforded these days. Travel 30 minutes to Huzhou, or an hour to Hangzhou, or 2 hours to Shanghai, and I would write a different statement entirely. But in this fishbowl microcosm, being gay is something totally alien to society. That being said, turn on any of the gay hookup apps (Blued, Grindr, Growlr, Tenten), and you get dozens of hits from local guys. Meet up with them? They are either a) Married (mostly with kids), b) Engaged, or c) In the closet. Homosexuality in China may have been decriminalized in China, and de-registered as a perverted mental disorder (btw, after the millenium is too recent for the effects of this to even have started wearing off), but the pressure on Chinese men to marry and have children (preferably sons [refer to the illegality of sexing a fetus for fear of abortion should it be an unfavored girl]) would never allow for the "lifestyle choice" (which most still assume it is) of a homosexual person to fulfill his/her destiny. Even among gay guys whom I've met here, there is a taboo stigma coupled to gay sex, and even to themselves and their own inherent identities, the prospect of a possible lifelong partnership with someone from the same sex is abhorrent. They've been so conditioned to internalize societies' prescribed homophobia, that they've learned to absolutely hate themselves, and don't allow themselves healthy, productive interaction outside of the seedy chance encounter in some hotel room for a few hours. Been binge watching your vids for the past week. Thanks for the sanity and perspective. You and Serpentza pulled me through my dark depression of seemingly endless culture shock. Keep it up. You guys are awesome.
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I kinda felt this way in Vietnam. A lot of foreigners feel it's safe, in their expat bubbles, but since I was basically staying with/near my girlfriend and had about zero exposure to the expat bubbles, I got to see how serious the average Vietnamese takes security. In smaller cities the entire towns close at 10:30 or so, everyone has steel garage doors on their houses, and they're in general very paranoid of crime, especially kidnapping. Grocery stores make you wrap your purses in plastic wrap or ziptied the zippers, and check your backpacks in lockers because of shoplifting. I hated that. Plus, seeing the local news was eye opening, drug runners getting caught with hand grenades and stuff definitely made me feel not in Kansas anymore. Vietnam's different too with the "giang ho" culture of gangsterism as well, did China have an equivalent to them? There was a Vietnamese Youtuber who was really popular named Kha Banh who was essentially like Vietnamese Tekashi69 who got arrested right after I left as well. Anyway, the place just felt gangster.
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Killing it. Another awesome video. A couple things I would add.....1)At a western restaurants where it is not the traditional "family style" way of presenting the dishes you will often see chinese at Pizza hut for instance, order 3 different entres, a pizza, chicken wings, and a cake for four people, because that is how many they would order in a chinese restaurant 2) If you go to a Chinese owned five star hotel, you will see what is viewed in the west as appauling buffet behavior, for example, using their hands, cross contaminating dishes, using the same plate twice, putting food back, and as I experienced in Hangzhou, even dishing themselves up with the chopsticks brought from their table.
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Laowhy86, you are a fun lucky man, you have sweet beautiful wife, adorable cute baby. What a happy family, the way your whole family interact is beautiful, charming and full of love, hope to see more of video in this format.
Other than the big mixed pot, I tasted all the food you mentioned agree on all the points you make, the Sea cucumber definitely do not taste good no matter how it is cooked, others may taste good but definitely do not worth the price, plus all the negative environment impact. To be frank it is a regressive culinary culture need to change toward more environmental friendly direction.
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Also Canadian and also have a piss and pissed drunk story. I couldn't recollect all the events because I was 3 sheets to the wind but I've heard it so many times from my friends who love to tell it.
When I was 19, I travelled 7 hours to Montreal for the first time. I was going with 4 other friends for a three day music festival. Because we travelled in the summer, we were able to stay in a university student accommodation for a reduced price because of the high vacancy. After the first day at the festival (which ends at night), we returned to our accommodation late at 1:00am, and because we were so damn excited to be in Quebec we drank beers with my DIY novelty sized beer funnel made with poly pipe and pvc adaptors found in a plumbing department of a home depot until 4: 30am. I slept for 1 and a half hours before I woke up from my bed, and really had to go the bathroom. Apparently I stood up, walked like 6 steps from the bed and pissed on the hardwood floor near the foot of it.... in the room that 4 of my friends shared. Obviously I was yelled at by my friends, but I was completely tossed. After I finished pissing on the floor, I immediately slipped in my own puddle and fell directly in it with my back and side. And to top it off, one of my friends wasn't even laughing at me and wanted me to clean the fucking mess up, so I took the linen from my bed to soak up the piss from the floor. I used that linen sheet as a pillow when I went back to sleep.
AND THEN, i climbed mount royal in the morning before the second day at the music festival ALONE. I rode the subway with dicks drawn on my forehead with sharpie marker and I didn't know that until i went back to the accommodation before day 2.
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If you have an older house with plaster walls, they feel like concrete! Also, every house I've lived in had no dish washer. Well, the one I grew up had a dish washer but it didn't work, so we used it for storage lol. Not all Americans use a dish washer, and when we wash by hand, we're not so paranoid that we have to get a dishwasher lite to take care of the germs! About the carpet one, hardwood floors are better than carpet, no carpet isn't weird to me at-least! The wet bathrooms are neat, I wish those were common in the States. I would hate not having an oven :P Also that little oven is a toaster oven, isn't it? We have one of those too, and bake frozen food in it sometimes.
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HI guys! Actually have been watching you guys' video's for a long time, and I really like them, kinda giving me a new perspective of my home country. I am from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, In my hometown there's braised noodles,(焖面), boiled lamb(手抓肉)(I really doubt it named that way in English), Shaomai(烧卖), Youmian(莜面). Some place like Shen Quan park(神泉) you can see the yellow river, and on the Hohhot side of the river is all green, then you go to Erdos side of the river its all desert. And some real grassland is also very nice to go, especially during the sunrise or sunset. I am currently studying in the States, so probably will not have a chance to meet with you guys. But still, have a nice trip and have tons of fun!!!
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Matthew, I've been watching your videos for a year or two now. And although I never comment, I love the videos, the content and the overall packaging are quite compelling. As an editor, myself, I can appreciate the work you put in. I'm American, from Houston, Tx, and have been, slowly learning Mandarin for 4 years now. What I learn about China and Chinese culture from your videos is invaluable! It really gives me a thirst to want to experience China first hand one day - the good and not so good as well. All you guys, Winston, Prozzie, and Vivian do a great job in being natural, personable and engaging. Vivian comes across as so genuine and Little Milk is quite precious. Thanks for doing what you do and sharing it with us. Dude, this video was one of your best yet - especially regarding your social commentary!!!!
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At my school, the physical education grade was based off %gains in terms of what you could life in various weight machines, how fast you could run and how much more endurance you've gained, and testing flexibility, comparing the start of the year and end of the year. It also had participation, uniform, and tardiness to consider as well.
I only failed 3 classes in at my school though and they were Speech, U.S. History, and culinary arts. Can't stand talking for 15 minutes nonstop nor the process of writing a speech that would last 15 minutes in the first place. U.S. History was extremely boring and i only bothered doing the tests which at most was 50% of the grade which i passed easily enough. Just couldn't stand the homework and how boring and tedious it was which is why i failed it anyways. As for culinary arts, I could cook far better(in terms on preparation, efficiency, quality, quantity, and style) then the others in my class but the grade wasn't based on cooking itself, but rather the tests we'd take after watching movies before we cooked. Teacher also hated me because i didn't call her name properly ever, and I'd use "teach" rather then a name. Another class i should have failed, but i didn't (for some unknown reason) was my folklore and mythology class because the final which was worth 70% of the grade, I didn't do.
Overall school was fun.
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If you go through Tianjin ignore Ancient Culture Street and Goubuli baozi, they're a tourist waste of time. Italian Culture Town is alright, but still kinda touristy. If you go there take note of the Mussolini era Fasces decorating some of the buildings.
Jiefang Beilu is nice, lots of old European banks from when Tianjin was the financial and investment heart of European colonization. As is typical most of them aren't open to the public, but it is picturesque. The financial museum there is hardly worth going to. The museum in the basement of the Astor hotel is worth it. Dublin Pub might still be open, might not be. Tell them Zach sent you.
Wudadao is a nice historic neighborhood, but other than a few restaurants and the Pottery House there isn't much to see inside. YY Beer house is on the periphery of the neighborhood, one of their two locations is a brew pub that makes good beer.
Yingkou Dao heading east from Nanjing Lu towards the river has some nice little Japanese Izakaya style restaurants in a different old neighborhood (if they haven't redeveloped it yet)
There are some nice historic churches spread throughout the city. There is a foreigner - only congregation at the main Catholic cathedral which might be interesting to people thinking of living in China. Plus it's a good picturesque point to kick off walking around the "main street" of Nanjing Lu.
They will probably try to send you to the Water Park, it is pretty, but if you live in China again it might not be anything new. There is a museum to Zhou En Lai on one side of the park that is worth seeing. The city history museum had little when I was there, but it was relatively new, the modern art museum next door was alright.
You can drive or take the light rail south to Tanggu on the ocean, Definitely check out the Aircraft Carrier amusement park. It will probably be one of the most unique things you see. It's like Yellow Submarine + the aircraft carrier Intrepid Museum + a run down Disney knockoff that doesn't shy from depicting nuclear ICBMs as a silly children's tale. Plus you are on the ocean so good seafood.
Continuing the theme of naval warfare, the Dagu fortress museum is somewhere in Tanggu, and is worth seeing as it marked a pivotal moment in Chinese history with the Opium Wars.
Check out the Matzu statue in the Binhai new zone, and the boondoggle new development area around it that they are building in the ocean. Big useless area with tons of environmental damage as they try to fill in marshland and build a ghost city literally on the ocean.
There are some clubs in TJ, but if you live in China then you are probably familiar with the whole spectacle of rich people ordering mountains of cheap champagne to applause.
If you go north out of the city center of Tianjin, go up to Ji county / Jixian and check out the Great Wall in some much less touristy places. White Snake Valley park is beautiful and has unrestored sections of the wall. Bashenshan park is also nice and has the tallest peak in Tianjin province. Stay at one of the little country inns, they are cheap, you can sleep on the traditional Kang style bed, and copious amounts of food are usually included.
The Shi 石家 mansion in Wuqing(?) is a nicely preserved Qing and Republican mansion and one of the few museums worth going to, if you don't mind a long drive into the suburbs.
You can get the highspeed rail to Beijing cheaply, and they serve beer onboard. Others can write a good review for Beijing, but check out Fangjia hutong near the Confucius Temple.
I lived in Tianjin from January 2013 to September 2015.
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Yay! This is a good thing, don't let anyone tell you different. Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV2yvI4Id9Q
In short, if you don't have time to watch the video, most of us won't have careers... we'll have jobs. You'll work the job, make some money, make some friends... maybe... and when the job ends or you get too old to work any more, that's it. You retire and wait, maybe alone, to die... if you don't have kids, that is. If you have kids, you're working for someone in addition to yourself and your kids will be a hopefully great part of your life forever.
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Great video, super channel about the real China.
I'm French, I lived 4 years in Beijing and I love what you call "ordinary Chinese people", yes, I really love them, we have so much to learn from them, they have so much human qualities.
On the contrary, the CCP governement is like a board of director of a company who is filled with arogance and falses assumptions about these ordinary citizens and lao wai, and foreign governements. They forget that western democracies saved them from WW2 Japan, and 40 years ago opened their doors and markets to them, they were welcomed in good faith. We didn't started the total war they impose on ALL of us (see: Unrestricted Warfare, 超限战, written in 1999 by two PLA colonels: Qiao Liang (乔良) and Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗) which describe what happened)
Hope the actual situation doesn't escalate to the point were they will need to be teached a devastating lesson like it hapened so often in the past with dangerous, arrogant and blind nationalists: Napoleon, Hiltler, WW2 Japan etc...
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I cant believe you had the balls to attempt to produce and spread such propoganda about Mr. Winston. I find the entire vlog was an amatueristic attempt for you to get a few viewers to follow you by riding the coat tails off of one of the worlds most powerful and influential icon.
It was so poorly produced, one could tell it was all done on a thrift store Etch-A-Sketch that had a USB connection and a 54K dial up modem. Anyone from Mrs. Jones 5th grade, "Stop Eating Boogers and Crayons" class in Paducah, Kentucky (which just got electricity 3 months ago, congratulations), could produce a documentary that would be more believable that Steven Spielberg would be utilizing these kids talents.
I have travel coutless times to South Africa throughout my life, mainly because my plastic surgeon in Johannesburg kept screwing up my nose job in 1985. But, through my vast network their, not one person in the entire country has heard or recognize the man you are attempting to expose.
Everyone who is anyone is fully aware of who or what he is. He was specially produced, as foretold my Nostrodamus, by a powerful unknown organizatiion to cleanse the world of evil. Some believe he works for the U.S., some Russia and some even the Illuminati. But the majority of theorist thinks he works for the Powerhouse (Liechtenstein) and they had him developed by 3M. But, to this date, their is no concrete information of his origins. For all we know, Tom Cruise called one of his Scientology breatheren to send Winston down from one of L. Ron Hubbards planets.
But, what most of us know in our community, he has been positioned into China, given the Youtube platform to communicate sensitiy, secret information only to be decoded by Julian Assange for a historic bombshell that will be leaked by the world famous National Enquirer tabloid and toilet paper company.
Through his trademark good looks, debonair charm and Oscar worthy Award acting abilities, he is able to entrance his ever growing audience with these long well informed soliloquies that are fascinating, but transferring classified information simultaneously.
The British Govt, under the orders from the monarchy want him to be their 007 replacement and Earl Gray Tea spokesman. They have no idea of his mission here. Even President Trump wants him on his staff just to satisfy his wife Melania.
He was placed in China for the sole purpose to stick out like a soar thumb. What idiot in their right mind would spend countless hours a day, filming himself, in a suit in that unbearable heat. Its like one big hollywood production. No one could walk around with a selfie stick and look perfect 24/7! He has a team that would make the Kardashians give up.
So, before attempting another idiotic production like the one on Mr. Winston. Do you homework or all carbon footprint of your existance will be erased.
Mr. Winston was sent here for one purpose and that is to save this wold. He will be the key to changing history and be studied, worshiped and emulated for many more millinials to come.
Soon the world will know no hunger, war, borders and no more Kardashians. Mr. Winston is our savior
By you posting this vlog, not only will you be ridiculed and laughed at, the sad part is you will not even be a footnote the history books.
But, I being a well tenored movie critic, with over 3 full length films watched under my belt, I found this vlog well done, hysterical and entertaining. If Youtube gave out awards for all time greatest adaptation every to be released. I see great work ahead coming from you. So, thumbs up!
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I like your unbiased approach to this subject and discussed both pros and cons about both countries and how it's not always so black and white. This video kinda made me think about my experience moving abroad so I'll share this long post of my story of moving to a different country and starting a new life and show some positives and negatives. Where I am from is considered a third world country alongside India named Bangladesh and since I've moved to the US, it has been great. There's so much opportunities, better living standards and ways to accomplish your goals. Even a country like mine has a lot of blind nationalism and prides and I've always hated the idea of pretending like it's the best country even though you know that it's clearly not and west in general is so much better. Instead we should take individual aspects of each country and say why it's better here than saying everything here is the best. On the contrary US also has negative sides especially some cultural aspects. A lot of people who have never been to my country would say how bad it is without even having been there including my cousins who were born and raised in the US and only have been there once or twice for a few days. They would say how dirty it is (which is true, but they only see the negative aspect and don't see or get to experience the unique culture and other positive sides) just from looking from the outside but like you said something like this in the video, when you live there for a while learn the culture and overcome the negatives, you realize there's so many unique and amazing things about the country even though at first you had a negative impression.
Even if the lifestyle looks poor compared to a western country, you can still live a life similar to those in the west. For me, my dad had a decent job there so moving to US was still something we had a hard time trying to decide as opposed to some other family that didn't have much opportunities because we had to take a risk of losing a well respected job, leaving behind everything and starting a new life while we could be just fine living in Bangladesh. Heck we even lived in bigger apartments there and lived in good neighborhoods and gated communities consisted of people with professions like doctors, barristers (attorneys in US term), police officers etc. There are people there who would really want to have that job but my dad had to try really hard to quit his job which is ironic. He was a police officer and when you have a job that requires you to have so much responsibilities for your country, you can't just quit whenever you want. A few months before moving here he even got promoted to a higher rank. But we decided to take the risk since not so many people get the chance either. Fast forward few years later what does he do in the US? He works at a dollar store with minimum wage. And how did it affect me? For the first few years, I suffered with depression and anxiety because I had no social life or friends in school. It's also much harder to make friends here because the culture is different and people are quiet reserved. Even in a neighborhood back there whether it's poor or rich people were more social. If you moved in a new neighborhood, they would cook you food (just like some neighborhoods in the US would bake cookies for you), celebrate holidays with you had a sense of community which is much rare and lacking in the US. On the flip side, people respect your privacy more in the US, mind their own business and value time and are more productive.
So my whole point was to show an example of how you can live a decent life even living in a poor country vs in a first world country where it might not be as good as you might think. But now I'm changing my life and don't have depression anymore, planning on getting a motorcycle and a drift car (a drift car wouldn't be possible back there because of traffic, terrible roads and lack of race tracks) which I've always dreamed of and my future in the US looks much brighter. I also want to visit Asia but not stay there permanently because English as a second language is already too much for me to handle in a lifetime lol
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I'm glad you covered the past and recent incidents. I'd asked you for your take on the Hong Kong protest, I agree with your thoughts. I hope you and your family are well safe and happy and ViVi's extended family too. I wish humans could all get along, we live on a beautiful planet and could all have such a lovely existence were so many humans not driven by power and greed. I try to look past the things that genearlly divide people, skin color, religious beliefs, wealth, poverty, etc.. and value people that are good, kind, caring, hard working, intelligent. It's my hope that one day mankind will mature enough to make life beautiful for the majority of people, we're still very, very distant from that goal.
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Oh my God C milk. That is possibly one of the strongest and emotional videos I have seen on you tube. The letter from your student, echoing the next generation is so strong and emotional, almost blind panic of what lies ahead of them. I feel China is heading for a mass exodus in this up coming generation. The CCP is not only rapidly losing face with the outside world but also its dignity, and trust from its own people. It goes to show how a strong government can cause so much harm to its own people.
I love China , its culture and traditions. I learn so much and my respect for the people has grown over and over through your, Vivi s , Winston and Sahas videos.
I feel almost a fly on the wall as 2 families explore and immerse themselves in the chinese way of life.
If respect for the chinese culture is to be made it is certainly through your wonderful videos. Looking through the many videos you have posted, from the early days when your videos were more laid back and everything was wild and wonderful, to the way china is developing now. We can see the stranglehold that this beautiful country is becoming accustomed to.
A huge kick in the butt for the western eyes through our open media has been the way the government has appallingly dealt with the Hong Kong citizens. Obviously the government could not hide that . Which had the desired result.
I love and respect the chinese more now from the knowledge and experiences you and your friends and family have shown us. I cannot see where the womaos come from. Yours and Winston s love for this culture is load and clear in your videos.
I have seen a couple of videos that attack Winston. I did send him a message once about one of them I saw. Disgusting slur. I wrote to the woman in question, who was actually chinese, and obviously brain washed, to say that it was obvious that Winston loved and respect his adopted home land, and was sharing his experiences with the west. Omg 😮 she blasted me with a torrent of abuse.
I know I will never understand the crap that comes from these womaos and I hope 🤞 they move onto other things, like getting a life.
Most importantly of all,, stay safe, I am disgusted they also targeted your lovely wife Vivi.
Excellent content my friend. Stay well and stay safe 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😘👏🏻😘👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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I'm certain that when you and Winston started this journey, you never expected to be in the position that you are currently in. You have a voice, and in a country where one voice reigns supreme (the government), you have essentially given a voice to those who have none. I admire and respect that more than you can POSSIBLY imagine. I started watching your videos a few months ago, just out of curiosity. I enjoyed the laid back, foodie episodes, and the opportunity to learn something new about a culture from the comfort of my own couch (American). I had no real interest in China, and I, like many others, follow the rabbit hole of YT, and it was food that got me here.
Food is not why I stayed. It is not why I subscribed. It is very difficult to lie, to more than a "few" people in the world, no matter how hard some try. We may be slaves to the system in some way (doesn't matter where you're from, there's always a system in place to keep you in line), but there are free-thinkers in EVERY country, in EVERY corner of the world, and THAT is EXACTLY what those in positions of malicious or self-serving power refuse to recognize. And that is precisely what HAS been, and WILL be, the source of their demise.
That said, it takes brave souls to speak for the muted. It requires courage, something that is often truly difficult to find in oneself in today's world; to BE the one who says what needs to be said. It's not an easy road, and I truly hope beyond hope the very best for you and your loved ones. You have a friend in me. I can't do much, but I can speak. And what more I CAN do, I endeavor to do, in the spirit of those who can- because of their situation- do nothing.
I hope that one day, we as human beings will truly come to understand, that there is NO race. That there are better ways to "label" a human being, besides what color our skin is, or what language we speak, or what geographic area we are from, or what ultimately insignificant things we admire and support.
I admire and support you- and what you said in this video, in my opinion, is by no means insignificant. Thank you, for fighting for a cause, in the spirit of a truth that welcomes all.
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Geez, I laughed so hard, I damn near peed myself! Fortunately, I had my Chinese made diaper on, bought at Walmart.
All seriousness aside, though, I couldn't help but laugh, having spent about 27 months in China, where some friends and acquaintances made certain I understood they were only in it for the money. One even baldly stated that no one in their right mind believed that nation was communist.
But what REALLY got me laughing so hard I damn near cried, were the comments!!!
Holy smokes, who knew you folks could be so damned FUNNY?
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Passing judgement on massacres and people disappearing is not a 'Western Lens'. It is, and should be, a 'Humane Lens'. Ignoring these issues and pretending that you have become laid back through the osmosis process of a less humane society is not something to be proud of like you have acquired some new fashionable insight into the world that people might be missing out on. We are humans, we are individuals, we are not an Ant's Nest of progress who ignores the rights and feelings of the individual. I'm happy that you're happy with your life. But filming your new found life in a new society, doesn't mask the fact that you've stepped back in time, to a less caring, morally regressive, place on the Earth. (P.S: The Western World is also full of surprises and isn't boring either) Sorry, I didn't buy any of your reasons for living in China. But, at least, you validated it for yourself. But in saying that, validating through your own individual and personal reasoning why you stay in China, is still a hangover thought process from the Western World you've left behind. See the dichotomy there? You are easily the best foreigner living in China, but you no longer need to 'sell' China to us. Just document your day to day living. That's all the viewer wants. We'll either go to China or not. We'll believe you or not. You're cool. You're family is cool. You'll always have viewers.
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Glad to see it happening again! Lived up there for about 8 years, mainly Dalian, but studied some in Qingdao. Took a few epic road trips, like from Dalian to Manzhouli, Heilongjiang countryside, and the mountains, forests, and villages along the Yulu Jiang. The Anshan-Liaoyang-Shenyang area is like a second home. There's lots to do all over there and further north. Many of the roads are complete rubbish though. We were just back there in November after being gone for years; more roads have opened/are opening up, but they are still pretty bad in northern Liaoning and Jilin. Inner Mongolian and Heilongjiang roads surprised me though. Lots of cool stuff to see up there, like lava fields, volcanoes that appeared from nowhere in Heilongjiang, a Han city that looks incongruous with the Inner Mongolian countryside on the Russian border (good Russian food there), and Changbai Shan. Feel free to get in touch.
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Hey C-Milk. I'm interested when you talk about the messiah complex Westerners have about bringing Western Liberal values to China. To be honest, I know I definitely suffer from this, though I've been sufficiently disillusioned at this point, but I'm more interested in how you handle being married to a Chinese woman.
I know Vivi didn't suddenly become some warrior of Liberalism the second you met her or anything, so I'm wondering how you handle differences of opinion on issues like that. Both in terms of openly discussing them and making peace with the fact that you're not gonna suddenly change her mind about everything.
I'm a very political person and my girlfriend is constantly bringing up Chinese political concerns like their beef with South Korea lately and the like. I can't just stay silent, and I'm not trying to change her mind, I often just prompt her with questions like "well what do you think of this, you really feel that this is okay but that is not?", just stuff to try and encourage her to entertain perspective shift. But she often becomes very angry and frustrated at me, accusing me of simply not understanding, or just believing whatever Western media tells me. I often feel angry and frustrated about it later when I think back on it, more so her accusations, and I feel it putting a strain on our relationship subtly.
I was hoping you might be able to say something on this topic, perhaps in a video or just here in the comments.
I love your content.
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I feel you on the splitting the bill issue.
Here in Spain it's usually customary to either split the bill or have people pay for their own stuff when they order, etc. but in my region (the Basque Country), we're brought up to sort of see it as the normal thing to go out of your way to offer to pay for others, especially among friends. To us it's a sort of way to show trust, like say we're doing a pub crawl, so I'll pay for the drinks here, and when we go to the next one I'm sure you'll pay. And maybe you won't, but then people will look at you very badly. It's this sort of long-term trust buildup.
But the rest of people in Spain don't share that, so they think we're trying to brag, or that we're just too proud or we like to boast a lot, but to me it just feels less genuine to see everyone fish into their wallets and take a million years to pay for 4 beers as we pile up money. Even if we're out and you're out of cash, more often than not someone will hop in and say "I got you covered", knowing that you'd do the same for them. Funny thing about one of my exes, who was from a different part of Spain, is that she took me to visit her childhood friends etc, and of course when I met them my first instinct was to treat them to a round of drinks. Later in the night, as I offered to buy another round, she took me aside to whisper "What the fuck are you doing?! They're going to think you're stupid! Stop paying for other peoples' stuff!" and I could just stand there like "... but that's what you do..."
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most young generation Chinese don't know how the name of "lion's head" meat ball came from, ok! listen and tell people in the future when they are wondering why. in the old days, the pork was chopped to small pieces instead of ground, when they made the meat ball, they won't chop it into very fine pieces,, so when the meat ball is cooked, you will see the surface were bumped , it looks like the old stone lion's head, which only if you go to some very old Chinese rich people's house, those stone lions (in pair) head looks like the meat ball, some times it is made of bronze, anyway, if you see any real antique stone lions take a picture of it. Drunken chicken is a popular Shanghai cold dish, well now they develop
this drunken pork feet.
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Very interesting, so it is near Shao Guan, I would like to go there someday, since the famous monk mummy is also near by, he was from Tang dynasty, that is about 1300 years ago, he was the most important Zen Buddhist, Zen Buddhism gets popular was his contribution, I have read his book(Sutra). his name is Hui Neng 慧能, 6th generation of Zen Buddhism,Todays Dalai lama is the 14th generation Dalai lama, of Tibetan Buddhism, Gelupa sect.
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This was a very well done video you did here, and what you discussed, i agree with you that too many people here in the United States, talk shit about what you can cannot do in China, and that you have no freedom and blah blah blah, yet everybody is spoiled here in America, and complain about what you just talked about in this video, but at least they have their freedom here in the US, and are able to protest and complain about the issues they don't like, or try to get passed, and the spoiledness ov freedom here in America is why some countries, just look down on us and don't like us, well cheers to you and your family...
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i agree with her fully, although, I drink tab water when i was a child, and still drink tap water when i was really thirsty, and i don't have any bottled water or boiled water around tab water thing is really depending on cities, and the first morning in the US, the host prepared a wonderful breakfast, and a glass of water fill with ice, i was thinking, are you freaking kidding me, i thought it was a prank. The coin used to confuse me a lot, why is a dime is smaller than a penny, until I looked it up.
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Chinese difficulty curve is pretty impressive, not to mention with the tones. I put in a lot of effort, and after 3 years with various quite extreme techniques, still not confident of a single word I say being correctly pronounced.
And still, no matter where or who I try with, the English response is instant. Asides from living in Chinese/Taiwan/Malaysia teaching English where it will come in handy in day to day use, I can't see how it will be welcomed by any Chinese who managed to tunnel out. Not even the waves of Chinese tourists.
I have been learning Russian 3 weeks in a Russian speaking country. I already trust my pronunciation of basic words to be more understandable than my Chinese.
Probably nothing more than sour grapes, but I would not recommend learning Chinese to anyone seriously. Survival Chinese is you live in China, and if you happen to find the right living situation where it is handy for you day to day or regularly, then sure. But just people having a bash on Duolingo... no chance.
And for what it's worth, I find reading and writing in Chinese pretty fun, and actually find that one of the easier things to pick up. The trick seems to be learning to hand draw the characters, which teaches you radicals, which allows you to read them as an alphabet. Until I did that I was useless.
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So in other words, your saying C-Milk, that, China is humid like Chattanooga, TN, during summer it can get up to 100% humidity, here where I live. Oh in Flint, MI, they've had many issues with tap water, but Donald Trump signed a Bill, to send them a 100 million to fix the issues.
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Another enlightening and entertain video. I hear what you're saying about regional foods, but I don't think it's as pronounced as you imply. True, tastes and types of food is certainly much more available. One can go to an Applebee's in NH and it's 99.9999% the same as the one in CA (and in turn about 70% the same as one in Dubai). And it's certainly changing fast. For instance, I never heard of toasted raviolis back in the early 1990s when I moved to St Louis, where it'd been a local favorite forever, yet now many chains carry it (a la buffalo wings, fried okra/asparagus/anyothervegetable. Still, each region has it's own flavors and specialties. Clams and other seafood is king in New England and the Gulf Coast, while good BBQ can be found much more easily in Texas, Kansas City, or the South and Mexican food it much more traditional and plentiful along the Southern border. But certainly I get your point. Keep the vids coming!
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Honestly it's such a shame to see such a brilliant, beautiful country full of wonderful, kind, friendly people being punished by its own government.
I would say I'm slightly left leaning myself (think Nordic countries, maybe even verging on of the likes of Singapore, but not a rampant communist, even though some people may equate the two), but there comes a point where "stylistic differences in governing" becomes "invalidating human rights" and "suppressing the freedom of the people", and although the CCP has evidently crossed the line and since run a marathon, they are annoyingly good at bluring the line and negotiating their way into others turning a blind eye.
Having visited china once, a few years ago, I would love to go back and visit, and although I don't see myself as a political hot potato, I would feel a little uneasy in the current circumstances. Which is really a huge shame, there's so much I haven't seen which I would love to go back to experience. For all of what my 0,017€ ($0.02) are worth, I would love to see this wonderful place complemented by a more open, honest and less evil government, even if my expectations aren't particularly high, although I'd love for that to change!
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Came across your channel and your videos purely by coincidence, but this video speaks to me on a much deeper level. I know the situation you're in, even though it's slightly different.
I was born and grew up in the German Democratic Republic and yes, I miss it. I don't miss the wall, I don't miss not being able to travel, I don't miss the Stasi and I don't miss the government. But to me, who I was still fairly young, when the entire regime collapsed, this country was much more than politics. It was my home. And no, Germans aren't all alike. We might have spoken the same language, but I can still tell at first glance if a stranger comes from the GDR or from Western Germany. 30 years later. Our culture was different, our lifestyle was different, our foods were different. Our sense of communal spirit and our creativity to overcome and deal with the difficulties and shortages in the GDR were unparalleled. And that's what I miss. Not the government. Not that.
Thank you for this video.
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