Comments by "R K." (@DarkAngel2512) on "Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约" channel.

  1. All parts of London are ethnic. Ethnic means "nationality".
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  2.  @chilliam00  ethnicity etymologically means nationality. It's just people colloquially butcher it. It comes from the Greek word "ethnos" meaning nation. And that is why you can be Han Chinese and be ethnically British. The people in the video are ethnically Yoruba as they were born there. You can hear it in their accent. You can have dual ethnicity/nationality. My friend is Korean and grew up there but was born in UK and so is ethnically Korean and British.
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  3.  @chilliam00  not a problem. Neither did I until recently but Im a stickler for being accurate within langauge (am a language learner) so yeah, I get a bit pedantic about it. 😂😂 In the modern sense it is still defined as being your nationality but with the elaborated def of nation/social group of people with shared culture. So I am def ethnically British. You seem to be defining ethnicity by haplogroup, and not race. We only have a handful of racial classifications and not over 50. Haplogroups tend to be concentrated in countries hence your example of Han Chinese being 90%. This then gets conflated that nationality mean genetics. They overlap but that isnt the defintion. Being Han Chinese ethnically is the same as being a Han Chinese citizen. It's the same defintion. Britian is a nation/ethnic group. And Irish descent is about genealogy, not nationality.
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  4.  @JonHop1  it's not gibberish. It's a creole with it's own specific syntax and grammar. There are videos on YouTube on this and you can learn patwa online.
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  5. Prob to buy time while he remembers the phrase
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  6.  @gold6813  its "yutes" my man 😂😂
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  7. They're not in Jamaica, bruv. They're from The US.
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  8. It's not slang. It's a creole. But they do have slang like any other language. For example, "nyam" is not a slang word.
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  9. They get it from Jamaican. If you're from the urban community you autoamtically speak patwa. Look up Multicultural London English.
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  10. I agree it would have been nice if longer but was thinking maybe he had used up all the Yoruba and Igbo he had learnt so didnt want to bore us
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  11. Xiaoma seems too amicable to rock the boat. His body language at the end seemed defensive.
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  12.  @MrKaiserdust  yep. That's woke racism from Gen Z. Hideous bunch who want segregation back. I've been canerowing my hair for 30 years and doing black peoples hair for them and now Im told I cant canerow my hair or profit from doing others. I'm literally going to do it more whilst chatting patwa to annoy them. It's my damn culture too.
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  13.  @MrKaiserdust  yep. Natives love it. They always attack woke westerners for coming at foreigners copying Jamaican culture. It makes Jamaicans proud when people copy them. I think Jamaican westerners feel threatened like how White Yaardy was treated in the recent Channel 4 interview by British Jamaicans trying to deny his nationality even though he is more Jamaican than them as he grew there since he was born. It makes me feel for the younger Gen growing up in this. Hopefully videos like Xioama's build a bridge. Loads of people wanting to learn languages. They need to respect when others learn black cultures/languages too. I'm glad people are into studying asian languages as I think that would have helped quell some ignorance through covid as there is a lot of love towards asians in the polyglot community.
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  14.  @MrKaiserdust  that's literally it. I understand how it feels to be insecure about your race and think people dont like you. I grew up around predominantly black people. But they are turning their insecurity out as a coping mechanism based on the individual incidents of racism theyve exprienced or the ones they make up or exaggerate in their head. I can factually say I've only witnessed 3 people make racist remarks in my 40 years (if we negate Fbk which is still predominantly racist comments aimed at whites). Racism is really spread out in England and we have been doing great since late 80s and especially the 90s. All race jammed together. Even black people say how great the rave scene was. Very multicultural. etc. Woke racists have set us back atleast 40 years.
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  15. . Not sure whether it's my place to say but personally I wouldnt be happy if my friend put his hand right next to my crotch four times. It seemed quite deliberate. If that was me and some dude did that I'd be pretty pissed. Just saying.
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  16. Xiaoma had us fooled when he practiced with that Kpop band. I thought he couldnt sing but he can. More Chinese karaoke vids, Xiaoma. best wishes to you, your wife and baby Elan. Hope you're all doing amazing x
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  17.  @jonasvloggar5880  Xiama did knuckle down with Spanish. The others he should delve deeper into.
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  18. I literally said the same ting about going Carni to speak patois. 😂😂 "Mi name Xiaoma. Mi cum fraam foreign". 😂😂
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  19.  @justahumanwithamask4089  same My hairdresser cocked my cut up so I had to correct it and now I think I'm going to do it myself in future. It's just a case of getting the angles right when holding the hair up to trim. All about the angles.
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  20. There's a disorder where people oversweat. He might have that
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  21. "Cis dudes"? You mean men..
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  22.  Jessenia Colon  you have a habit of jumping to the wildest conclusions and making up scenarios about what people said and think that they didnt say/dont think and its causing you to argue with people over literally nothing. None of what you're accusing people of has happened. I dont know if you're purposefully fishing for arguments that arent there or you really are just seeing things that arent there. I grew up with Jamaicans and rastas and rastas who werent Jamaicans and dreads who werent rastas for 30 years so you dont need to tell me anything about Jamaicans. It's you who needs to stop making assumptions about others. As for JA I know it's in The West between North and South America. But by western I'm talking about western values ie places like The US and Europe as it's those countries who are coked up on woke culture. muting
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  23.  @thestrategistbrit  they also call it Multicultural British English due to the further spread. There is a video online about it where they interviewed kids chatting it in diff parts of UK and picked out the pronunciation shifts over the years and what they adopted from Jamaicans. Here's the video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0KdVoSS_2PM
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  24.  @thestrategistbrit  no worries. I'd love to go there one day. I dont really know anyone there though so... but I've got friends in Grenada so I might go there instead.
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  25.  @SpeedyOwl  the English were in Jamaica before the African slaves were brought over. The Tainos were the natives and then white people were there and Tainos were wiped out and it was predomaintly white people in JA for a while. Many Irish there hence the pronunciation of words like "three" becoming "tree" and "third" becoming "tird" etc. Now Jamaica is a genetic mix of all races. But mostly black as the dominant gene pool. In UK we learnt wagwan from British Jamaicans here. I've been speaking patwa since the 90s from picking it up off black friends. Look up Multicultural London English or Multulicutural British English (as it's now spread further). Its basically a dialect that is mostly patwa mixed with some Arabic and slang. If you check our music its littered heavily throughout. Look up Smiley Culture's- "Cockney Translation" and Karl Hinds "Don Grammar" which literally take Jamaican and British and translate the words. Or look up other British Jamaican artists like Seanie T, Blak Twang, Roots Manuva, etc who all use it. All our urban artists do as it's the main dialect in urban communities. So we use words from Jamaican such as "bare"(a lot) which Xioama used in this video. I mean if you look up MLE you can find the words we use and you can maybe find their Jamaican derivatives. Phrases like "what you saying?" came from the Jamaican patwa phrase "weh yuh ah seh?"(how are you doing?) We just adapted it a bit.
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  26. Frankie knows sign language as his parents are deaf. Type in Frankie Chinese. I dont know what his name is. I think Frankie Light but cant remember. He has done one video in the only signing Starbucks in America and another with some deaf girls in a town centre.
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  27.  @LMvdB02  etymologically they mean the exact same thing but since countries dont have the original indigenous people anymore and now have a mix I think that's why ethnicity took on a seperate meaning to nationality but they are literally the same word and same root meaning. Nacion means "birth" relating to tribes of related people from the same homeland. Ethnicity comes directly from the Greek word "ethnos" meaning "nation".
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  28. Oh my days. Yes! He needs to learn. I want him to learn Jamaican. He needs to go Notting Hill Carnival next year and do his ting. Would be mad.
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  29. Whenever I shave I always sting when I throw my perfume on. Meaning my armpits and yes I use perfume there.
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  30. Mi nah from Jamaica but Jamaica inna mi heart. Mi love di culture nuff.
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  31. It's not slang but you might recognise it as such because its thrown in with a lot of English. They do have slang words which change over time.but there is a diff with slang and patwa as patwa is constant and doesnt change over the years.
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  32.  @colemerchant8926  of course its broken, or was That's what a creole starts off as. The rest of the language is a mix of the ancestors native langauge and loan words. "Pickney" was loaned from Portuguese.
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  33.  @DG-en7do  AAVE formed when Africans were in Southern America. It's the same as Jamaican patwa. A creole.
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  34.  @JonHop1  slang and AAVE are diff because slang changes over time whereas AAVE words are constant. Same as English slang vs general English.
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  35. He pronounces water wrong. In England its "wo-aaarr".
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  36.  @jijib7691  yep. Was surprised my hairdresser didnt have her mask on. Hopefully mine covered me enough.
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  37. Ive been learning Japanese through chat gpt which was fun.
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  38.  @TheDorkKnight5419  I think that's people in general these days. :/
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  39.  @turmat01  yeah. My ex was Portuguese. He had a lovely voice. Do you listen to any Zouk? They have Some nice Portuguese Zouk music.
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  40. @10:45 it's like a porno. It even has the porn-like music in the back 😂😂
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  41. Here is a great video breaking it down by a professional linguist. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hNM-BE4xAyo
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  42. Argon, I guess parents should "listen" to their kids more. And also teaching them some basic signing is useful if theyre tok young to verbalise.
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  43. In what way? From Xioama or from the people or the surroundings? :/
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  44.  @winstonsmith7801  Ok. I wasnt sure what you were referring to. Thanks for clarifying. In London its 50% ethnic minorities. Peckham as Xiaoma said is full of Nigerians. Diff parts of London have pockets of diff minorites. Some areas are more Pakistani for example. But yeah, in 2011 only 45% of London were white British and about 42% black. Since then its prob changed by another 5% so there is prob equal amounts of blacks and whites in London with the rest being asian and other.
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  45.  @serialdmx  theres one video of an angry Scottish builder having a rant and it's the funniest most incoherent thing ever.
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  46.  @jamdawgutube  and I've grown up around Jamaicans. He's literally using about 30 diff patois words/phrases that English speakers do not use. He is not speaking solely English. Maybe because you're from Jamaica you are unable to recognise that because you are used to speaking patois but I literally went through the video phrase by phrase.
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  47. Xiaoma, you didnt just actually buy the hustler a soda?she saw you and saw dollar signs. 😂 About "take my number". She wanted a shopping spree.
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  48.  @ccox7198  neither of them were bad. Wtf? You guys even have to taint this video...
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  49.  @eliassanchez420wakenbake  as if people would be insensitive enough to ask that crap to grieving family members and as if theyd say.
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  50. It's more complex than a pidgin so its not broken English.
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