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@angryteapod1765

3 жыл бұрын

wait you have an image in the comments....that is cursed.

@ThinWhiteAxe

3 жыл бұрын

I think yr nose is cool

@maiwifi7900

3 жыл бұрын

They say that the, Mayans were dislexic. 2012...... 2021. 😂

@davidbetancourt4028

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the funny video. I try to make a small contribution while also having the convenience of YT premium, that way some of the channels I watch that frequently get demonitized also get something from me. Though, like your channel and others like SerpentZA & Philip DeFranco, I'll be a patreon. Actually, would be cool if you and Winston were interviewed. I know Joe Rogan would be great, but that'd be pretty difficult. Maybe Tim Pool or Philip DeFranco, but think those have been mentioned before. Good luck.

@SecretAgentMan00

3 жыл бұрын

you gained weight after coming back to the US

I sat opposite some middle school kids on a train in Japan and they spoke to each other things like “I bet you don’t have enough courage to say something to her in English” “you are taking English classes! Say something to her!” Etc. I thought it was so cute and was silently sitting there trying not to laugh and trying to look approachable. The kids were so shy and bashful and worried about using their English on me. In the end one boy said in a small voice “Hello”. I loved his courage and I said hello back. His mates went crazy and the boy got very proud and showed off how good his English was. I never told them I understood everything but it was so cute and innocent :)

@artygunnar

3 жыл бұрын

China vs Japan 🇯🇵 😍

@webbtrekker534

3 жыл бұрын

In 1968 I was in the Navy and we had come into Japan. After about a week a group of us took a train trip up to Tokyo from Yokosuka. The train was stopping at almost every little station on the way picking up people and dropping off. At one station a Japanese family got on the car we were sitting in, Mom, Dad, and a boy about 6 or so and a girl about 10 or 12, (we were all in our Navy uniforms). In perfect English the girl says, "Look Daddy, Sailors!" Turned out they were from the United States visiting the "old country". A number of us talked with them and they were so happy to have English speakers to talk with after so long just speaking Japanese. I still remember that time fondly to this day.

@StreakyBaconMan

3 жыл бұрын

I did get the feeling in Japan many times that people who I suspected could speak English more than well enough to communicate with me in English actively avoided me as though they were scared to even attempt to use the English they knew on a native speaker and have their skills truly put to the test - though every time I had someone try, I was easily able to communicate with them because their English was pretty decent - certainly a lot better than my Japanese is anyway.

@webbtrekker534

3 жыл бұрын

@@StreakyBaconMan Again, in 1968, a group of us were visiting the gardens complex in Kamakura (sp?) and a young boy, 16-16? came up to us and speaking halting English asked to be our tour guide. He carried a Japanese/English dictionary. He took up to some remarkable places and even got us into a 500/600 year old archery school that we would have totally missed. I liked Japan.

@amalalshuwaikh8119

3 жыл бұрын

Omgggg thats the sweetestttttt!!! My heart melted ❤️❤️❤️

I was in Vietnam and a lady brought her young daughter up to me and said in Vietnamese "this is how big they get in America." I told the daughter "Yes, and we eat children too." The mother got really embarrassed and ran off with her daughter.

@salahuddinyusuf

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@blondknight99

3 жыл бұрын

Thats what I would have said to the boys about why Im so hairy. "Because we eat little boys!!"

@timpoolbeanie7527

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 this sound like a meme it should become a meme

@ivangohome

3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha:) at least embarrassment is a civilized emotion.

@cinkidaz

3 жыл бұрын

Don't reveal our secrets, please. :-)

Funny story... I was hiking in Korea in the countryside and I passed by a priest and we started talking in French. In that completely remote area, finding an elderly man speaking French was really a surprise.

@abbyalphonse499

3 жыл бұрын

Did you find out why he spoke French?

@abeurakadabeura

3 жыл бұрын

@@abbyalphonse499 He told me he lived in France for a few years and studied Church life there. But it was so amazing because he lived there for only 3 years.. and maybe 30 years ago, but still he could speak fluently to me. Never had I thought when I woke up that morning that I would speak French with a Korean priest on the top of a mountain.

@derpco.69420

2 жыл бұрын

Hon hon hon

@snakeslife-uroborodjinn790

2 жыл бұрын

Just imagine the priest's surprise that he found a literal French person in a remote area in Korea.

@peterides9568

2 жыл бұрын

My wife had studied French in high school (Australia). When we were in Hanoi, a tiny little old lady (80+, I would guess) RAN up to her and started chattering away like we were standing under the Arc'd Triumph. It was very surreal. Incidentally, we were mistaken for Russians too, on the same day.

Chinese Couple in Elevator: "Look at this ugly foreigner..." Ugly foreigner: "In my defense, I have a good personality!"

@comsunjava

3 жыл бұрын

Classmate in college, from Wisconsin, was in an elevator in China once, and the occupants were talking about him, and he was listening but not saying anything. Then they said "be careful, sometimes they know Chinese" and as he left, he turned and gave sort of a wink / nod.

@michaelrobert8476

3 жыл бұрын

Ugly Foreigner: That's funny. I was thinking the same thing about you too.

@fayandgake

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelrobert8476 bro..bro but thats racism

@rubyy.7374

2 жыл бұрын

@@fayandgake Not if you’re the minority!

@Kumorini

2 жыл бұрын

@@rubyy.7374 Finally somebody with a brain 🙌🏻

We're so fat because we have bigger noses that helps us find food sources much better.

@boracay12

3 жыл бұрын

im a american ex pat in the Philippines . and i often proclaim to my wife " fat foreigner!" haha . because the majority are obese, this is where fat retired guys go to hook up with younger women who settle for a stable income for herself and the kids the philippine father abandoned . its really a comical site to see a guy who is grossly over weight riding down the road on a 100 cc scooter . a wide load for sure .

@albodakine1

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHA, well said.

@padraigomadain6681

3 жыл бұрын

😄😄

@Aurinkohirvi

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful reply. Especially kids' brains should go wild about this theory.

@WinterPhoenixForestKirin

3 жыл бұрын

@@boracay12 Can't the rich men who go there get women who are without children? Or do they not know about them before getting involved?

Am Black, my Cousin went to China & one time he caused a huge scene (police were called) people actually thought he was Kanye West😂lol

@LunaHiddenStars

3 жыл бұрын

WAIT FOR REAL?! LMAO 😂

@AngelusTheAngel

3 жыл бұрын

Last year my older ( where black ) went to china they thought he was Kobe no cap . He was telling me they kept repeating and following him saying "Kobe" " Kobe"

@LunaHiddenStars

3 жыл бұрын

@@AngelusTheAngel THAT'S HILARIOUS 😂

@AngelusTheAngel

3 жыл бұрын

@@LunaHiddenStars yea I was dyin when he told me that .

@amiralamb

3 жыл бұрын

Bwahahahahahaha

I lived and worked in China 4 years, I loved it, but it is another planet, you speak the truth. Keep it up.

I've never really had situations like these, but I've had the reverse happen a lot. Like when I was in China, one time in a Beijing airport, I was talking to my brother in English while in line at a McDonalds. We're both American born and raised, bilingual with English being our first language, but we look very Chinese. So when we started talking these two younger boys in the line next to us looked up and openly gaped at us and I could practically read their minds. It was pretty hilarious. Another time I was just sitting in a cafe one night talking to my mom over a soda. My mom was talking to me in Chinese and I was responding in English, the way we've been talking since I was very young, and this lady overheard us and came over. And no joke, she asked me to tutor her kid. She genuinely thought I was some sort of English prodigy but we told her no I was just American XD And it blows me away when I meet Chinese people with really good English too. One summer I spent a day at a Beijing school as kind of a guest student and this girl showed me around. She had impeccable English. And I mean almost no accent distinguishable, which is really impressive for someone born and raised in China. Side note though: gotta say, I'm NOT a fan of Chinese toilets

@mikefeddersen2476

Жыл бұрын

Toilets are probably the biggest reason I don't think I would ever visit.

In Japan, every european is "american", but in China I was also asked if I was Russian. Interesting difference.

@thecoolcarhd4402

3 жыл бұрын

It's about history,Guess whos a neighboring country beside china?(That's not an island), It's Russia,And There is an american military base in japan,there's also lots of business between america and japan,So it makes a lot of sense.

@deeznoots6241

3 жыл бұрын

Russian Chinese is one of the official ethnic groups of China

@grantreid3031

3 жыл бұрын

@@markearnest3570 Yes it does happen and it is an insult to an Australian.

@rizkiramadhan9266

3 жыл бұрын

I'm an Indonesian. People in China think I'm Indian lmao

@m5184jhd

3 жыл бұрын

Because both Philippine and Japan have US military base there. That's just my opinion.

The French have a saying for that, "L'esprit de l'escalier", or 'staircase wit". When you think of the perfect response, only after you've left the conversation.

@GBO76

3 жыл бұрын

Never heard that one before (while I'm French, and not a young one). Thanks. :)

@sadintranslation7096

3 жыл бұрын

I'm french and I also never heard that.

@TheNinj47

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe you confuse that with german because we call it treppenwitz and it translates to... staircase wit

@I-SHADOW-I

3 жыл бұрын

French here, dont know that expression

@misc4u721

3 жыл бұрын

They have a saying in the US, "j'me la pète car je parle 2 mots de mandarin niveau maternelle" but this might be from a french poem.

Thanks for bringing back some funny memories! My child hood was in Germany and so i speak German but never use it so no one knows. My boss had a German partner and her girlfriend came over and we went for drinks. His partner then started talking to her girlfriend in German and graphically explaining how bad he was in bed. I bit my tongue for as long as i could then said in German, "don't assume the English can't speak German". They went purple. I never saw him the same way and changed jobs not long after.

9:52 that man is kidnapping that girl in the pink.. 10:50 wait no, she's trying to abduct HIM.

@lilcomment1946

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment

@dwdelve

3 жыл бұрын

No.... I think your right the first time

@xensored03

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@davidbilla8063

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂👌

@festive5476

3 жыл бұрын

haha nice one

College days while in an elevator: Two girls from Spain speaking Spanish to one another and begin to talk about me. I play dumb to see what happens. Many insults and ragging on Americans. No surprise. But as I listen I notice the dialect of their speech. One is clearly from Southern Spain (totally different dialect) however the other is from Barcelona area (Cataluña area) I know exactly what I’m going to say. (People from Catalunya don’t just have a dialect, they actually have their own language) so as I get ready to get off the elevator I look directly at the girl from Barcelona and say in Catalan “you really shouldn’t make assumption that others don’t hear you. You might want to share that tidbit to your little friend” The Sevillana girl looks confused while the Catalan girl just stares in shock with her mouth wide open. Priceless.

@officialgimpygardener4343

3 жыл бұрын

Simon Mcfarland I was wearing my sorority letters and got on the elevator after parting ways w my sorority sister. They’re assumption WAS that I was some sorority chick -American w no experience outside my bubble so to speak. This was a few decades ago & yep, totally happened & was interesting to experience.

@_Common_Logic_

3 жыл бұрын

@Simon Mcfarland - Wow... I hope that wasn't serious. Asians, as a whole, can be VERY judgemental about other Asians. Taiwanese "vs" Filipinos would be an example, and I've met a number of Japanese that look down on Asians of other cultures as being unrefined. "Rice" is not "Rice". As for Americans, we can draw hate from anywhere... We're "special" in that way... Just ask a growing number of our Canadian neighbors. It has nothing to do with being "European".

@Email-mu1mv

3 жыл бұрын

@@_Common_Logic_ Americans started getting hated after 1945 when you bombed Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Pakistan (NWFP FATA), Haiti, Cuba, Libya, Syria and in 1971 you even planned to invade India, but USSR intervened!

@_Common_Logic_

3 жыл бұрын

@@Email-mu1mv - You really need to distinguish the topic at hand and what the O.P was experiencing... If Two Russian students or two North Korean refugees happened to step into an elevator with me, do you actually think I would hate those individuals?... Anyone who hates "Americans" would (in this example) most-likely have a distaste for us culturally... Stereotypically, boisterous, arrogant, nationalists with a self-centered mindset that stops at our own borders. To hate a nation's citizens for wars and crimes committed before they were born is just stupid... There is a big difference between a country's GOVERNMENT and its people. If Any East Indian students or immigrants happen to talk shit about me in an elevator, I'm guessing it wouldn't be because of my Government. We've certainly "earned" our own level of disrespect. I do some work in Ukraine and over the years, have met many young Russian citizens. A few, of which I still speak to Tying them to Putin or worse yet, the Cold-War wouldn't make any sense. Take the language barrier away and we are mostly, the same. I'll admit that I don't remember a lot of 1971, but I'm PRETTY darn SURE I wasn't making any plans to invade India. I'm not going to start a scrollable list of examples, but you might want to remember that Americans and even the American Military seem to be just FINE for the folks in India who wanted our military support after China attacked Indian troops three months ago.

@_Common_Logic_

3 жыл бұрын

​@@scythianking7315 - We are talking about NATIONALISM and not PATRIOTISM... Patriots love their country. They show pride and willingness to defend it. However, patriots do not feel the need to dominate other countries or display the superiority present in nationalists... The need to be "Number One" and dominate others that often leads to military aggression. East Germany, for example... It's true that the Soviet-occupied sovereignty hasn't existed since Germany was reunified in 1990, but the lack of narcissistic superiority remains the same... They display nearly NO nationalism as a country... West Germany.? Well, that's a different story Latvia, Slovakia, and nations like Norway, which were formed long ago don't have a recent "creation myth" that inspires the obsessive, boisterous pride you see in other countries like the U.S. Do I even need to bring CANADA into this conversation? America is always in (or involved in) a perpetual war somewhere... War critically influences a country's patriotism, and inevitably, nationalism. Citizens feel it is their duty to support their nation while it is embroiled in international conflict. Some countries haven't experienced this in modern history, or at least a generation... Therefore, they don't have that particular musket up their asses... Don't believe me?... George W. Bush was essentially, an incompetent president with dismal approval ratings... Explain the overnight spike in his approval ratings after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Wars and tough talk breed pride within a nation (albeit temporary)... We (in America) keep that conflict fresh with new and constant conflict worldwide... Convenient where "morale" is concerned. Again, you're obviously confusing nationalism with patriotism... Nationalism isn’t just pride in one’s country. It goes beyond that. Nationalists think that their country is superior to other countries. Because of their perceived superiority, nationalists won't collaborate with global efforts or unions. In extreme cases, it can lead to the segregation of ethnicities and even go as far as ethnic cleansing. There are also forms of "economic" nationalism where you favor your goods and services over other countries. One example is the whole "Made In the USA" campaign. Everything else is inferior... VERY few countries can top our mindset there... VERY few. I spend a lot of time in S.E. Asia, and I'll tell you that the FILIPINOS are FAR more patriotic than we are. Their PRIDE is incredible, but they are not even CLOSE to being nationalists. Learn the word, it's definition and it's implication before making such an incorrect, blanket statement... Saying "Everyone on the planet" suggests that you've been NOWHERE as the ridiculous humility of some cultures is literally mind-blowing. Do some traveling... Communicate... Or just Google some dusty statistics if it's the best you can do... You're going to find that U.S. (and for some reason, Australian) nationalism tops the list and has for decades.

When I first started dating my Chinese wife she was also obsessed with my nose bridge. She honestly didn't understand how westerners kissed because she thought our nose would get in the way.

@karakas9905

3 жыл бұрын

Good thing you educated her on the issue then.

@theFROZEX

3 жыл бұрын

That was her way of getting a "Here let me show you" out of you.

@VeraLucia-qs1jp

2 жыл бұрын

Que linda!

@jeygee3736

2 жыл бұрын

That's like saying how do Chinese see since their eyes are so slanted

@AR15andGOD

Жыл бұрын

ya just tilt your head

Chinese language is so different from English. I am always impressed when someone learns it. I am Vietnamese and Filipino and I have arm hair weird

"Why he doesn't look like them??" "Well, why don't you look like a kpop/jpop singer??"

I lived in rural Japan for 16 years, and as one of the few gaijin, it was tough to go out alone after work and drink/eat alone w/out being bothered by some random, drunk guy next to me at the counter. As you know, you're always asked the same questions (in my case--Japanese): 1) country, 2) English teacher, 3) which (big) English school, 4) how long in Japan, 5) married, 6) girlfriend, 7) how many kids (etc., etc. and etc). Finally, I decided to play a new game: Question For Question, and the more intrusive their questions became, the more mine became. Usually, they'd shut up at the point when I asked where they worked or about their family. Most people would pick-up on what I was doing, but one dude went the distance. Turned into a lively cross-interrogation. Fun!

@Direwoof

3 жыл бұрын

heheheh.

@bobbywoods684

3 жыл бұрын

My wife's family has started including me on group text with 10 of them. I put up with it, but damn, they never stop once one is started and just give random thumbs up signs, yays, etc, etc. It'll die down and then someone will add some stupid comment and off they all go again. So to get revenge and drive a point home, I started answering at 2 and 3 a.m. I got knocked out pretty quick.

@c.edwards1814

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobbywoods684 Love it!

@alfunn9100

3 жыл бұрын

So accurate haha lived in Japan 3 years also

@davidvondoom2853

3 жыл бұрын

I guess it's better that they are curious, rather than content to be ignorant about other races and cultures.

I had a Chinese friend in high school who mentioned how beautiful my big nose bridge was. I was always self-conscious of my nose until then... so I want to thank her for making me feel good about my nose for the first time in my life.

@edricdayne3571

3 жыл бұрын

I was in Thailand and a pretty Thai girl with the cutest nose said "I wish I had a nose like yours" And I said why do you think you need to be punished?

@rupert5390

3 жыл бұрын

Wow you poor thing I’m glad you’re not as self conscious - cheers

@bobbywoods684

3 жыл бұрын

This is true- a prominent nose bridge on a woman is a sign of sensuality.

@wannabehistorian371

3 жыл бұрын

Daww, so wholesome.

@techo61

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobbywoods684 I'm on board with that. I see a woman's nose with 'character' (a small lump in he middle) and my first thought is I hope she doesn't get plastic surgery, then before my second thought comes to mind I'm interrupted by a physical change in appearance (and I hadn't touched Viagra 💊).

Reminds me of the time when I was in an elevator and a German couple was speaking very rapidly in a dialect I couldn't follow at all, so I decided to have some fun. As they exited the elevator, I called out the very coloquial word, "Tschus!!" meaning bye-bye. They turned around as the doors were closing, jaws dropped to the floor, certain as they were I had clearly understood them. I grinned with an evil and sly wave of my fingers at them and SLAM went the doors. It was PRICELESS!!

@odw1n307

3 жыл бұрын

Sehr gut.

Had a similar thing happen with two Japanese tourists talk about my beard on a bus stop. First time I ever got a compliment, it was two Japanese dudes. They were cool, recommended a good local eatery

@user-gt4gs5xu6s

5 ай бұрын

That was not THE first time you've ever gotten a compliment that has to be untrue

I've overheard people saying some incredibly rude things about me and my wife (who is Chinese but for some reason sometimes people don't notice this when she's with me). What I've often found when I call people out on it is that they respond with a way OTT "Oh, you speak Chinese! Your Chinese is so good. Wow, that's amazing. How long have you been in China?" and I'm like, how about we don't change the topic and instead address the shit you were just saying about us. It's amazing how people simply refuse to apologize for being rude.

@0ggy007

2 жыл бұрын

Nice segue hahaha

@yukadoo

Жыл бұрын

For many, it's easier to be ignorant.

@AR15andGOD

Жыл бұрын

racism is in their culture, han supremacy and all that

@alicerafferty9595

10 ай бұрын

Chinese people don't care about being rude. They think they are speaking the truth, it doesn't matter.

The story freaking out the kids on the bus is the most wholesome thing ever.

@spiritmatter1553

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr? So cute!

@erikwestrheim804

2 жыл бұрын

LOL second that.

I've been working really hard on learning Cantonese. I know it's virtually useless with the exception of some regions in the mainland, but I want to see Hong Kong. Videos like this really motivate me to keep working hard. From what I understand it's a bit more complicated with mandarin, having extra tones and special expressions strictly only for Cantonese speakers, but this still makes me excited to complete my learning until I hit fluency levels.

@williamrichards8092

3 жыл бұрын

Stay with Mandarin.

@johnbensin2203

3 жыл бұрын

There's actually a lot of Cantonese speakers in Australia. But they can usually speak English well.

@TjRains

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnbensin2203 That's amazing to know. It's like you knew I am planning to migrate there. I'll be applying for a school very soon ^.^ Working Holiday seems out of the question though. But it is comforting that I'll get practice!

@TjRains

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamrichards8092 noooooo, that comes second. Canto first

@johnbensin2203

3 жыл бұрын

@@TjRains actually I'm in Melbourne and I've been learning slowly for a while now. From my travels around the city, a lot of Malaysian and Singaporean people also speak Cantonese, as well as HK people and Mainland Chinese from Guangdong province. To top it off, there are a lot of second generation people of Chinese decent that speak Cantonese and English, but a lot of them probably speak better English than Cantonese. In conclusion there's heaps of people you can talk to.

The nose thing is SO TRUE. When I would hear someone say I'm handsome in China, I would say "You're handsome also, wo ai ni." Obviously, it freaked men out, hahaha. I had a couple walk past and the man said I was ugly in Cantonese (I was in Hong Kong at the time), and I know a little Cantonese also, so I said "you're ugly also, but your wife is very pretty." Then to her, "Would you like to go on a date with me?" Hahaha. Love the videos you and Serpentza make. I learned so much before moving to China. Really helped me a lot.

I once was in a food court at a mall in the States. They had a sign that said something like "real Japanese food made by real Japanese people." I ordered my food and noticed they were speaking Mandarin. In Mandarin, I said, "Where are your Japanese people?" They had the deer and the headlight looks and just said "Mei you" or we don't have any.

@k8eekatt

3 жыл бұрын

I went to a Japanese restaurant and ordered in Japanese and the people's faces just froze and they said English is fine. And they were Koreans running the restaurant.😂

@BlowmeRoger

3 жыл бұрын

Same in japan in their language school, they think western students are not worth the best of their society, you can get some chinese japanese speakers.

@shastasilverchairsg

3 жыл бұрын

Well China is located next door to Japan... 差不多啦。

@ScamallDorcha

3 жыл бұрын

They probably just advertise that way because they know that Americans will have a better opinion of Japanese people than of Chinese people.

@scintillam_dei

3 жыл бұрын

In Miami I went to a Japanese restaurant but found out they were Chinese. A bit disappointed but I love all.

I was in Shenyang, Liaoning. And one day, i (i'm french) was getting back to my appartment with my girlfriend (she is russian) after a dinner with friends, we got back quite late, and in the elevator, there was a chinese couple that was staring at us and the guy start saying : "hey look, i'm sure this American guy just picked up this girl at the club and he is taking her to his appartment now". my girlfriend gave him a killer look, and the chinese girl said :"She seems to understand what we are saying, are you sure she doesn't speak chinese ?" and the guy confidently said: "No, foreigners never learn chinese" Then my girlfriend replied: "you are wrong, i understood everything" You should have seen the guy's face, it was hilarious

@nikkei325i

3 жыл бұрын

He understood English?!

@MrAzarice

3 жыл бұрын

@@nikkei325i no, he didn't, my girlfriend answered in chinese

@mjklein

3 жыл бұрын

I usually just stop and ask "what time is it?" on my way out.

@amberinthebox4462

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha slut shaming asians. (Im kidding btw. Lol ur poor girlfriend. Lol awe haha thats a good one)

@itsanewday5219

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

I fondly remember being on a bus in Manchester (England) in the early 80's with some flatmates and hearing a group of Chinese students chatting and giggling behind us - but the look on their faces when one of our group spoke to them as we go off was a delight - he was 3rd generation Hong Kong raised, and had been listening to their insults about us. As for the hairy arms - My wife (in Thailand) has become used to other ladies running their fingers through my (admittedly thick) arm hair without even realising they are doing it :)

I live in China and have worked in an engineering company here for a couple of years. I'm still amazed that my work colleagues (including my boss) will refer to me as Laowai (foreigner) instead of my name when talking about me.

You always do come up with amazing comebacks about 6 hours after the fact... it seems to be a law of physics or something. 😅

@laowhy86

3 жыл бұрын

I still never hit that car with the trebuchet. I'll get around to it.

@velkylev4217

3 жыл бұрын

Its called thinking , sometimes it takes a while to think of something good

@autodidact537

3 жыл бұрын

@@laowhy86 How about doing a video about why countries like South Korea, Japan, Taiwan & others as they have become more prosperous they have become more moderate & democratic, but as China becomes richer it turns more authoritarian, belligerent, etc? Why does prosperity bring out the best in countries like South Korea, Japan, Taiwan & others, but it seems to bring out the worst (politically speaking) in the Chinese?

@adriancole3165

3 жыл бұрын

I'll come back in 6 to 8 hours with a great response.

@devastator8639

3 жыл бұрын

Lao of physics 😂

This reminds me of something my roommate told me one day in 1981 when I was living in San Francisco. He had just come back from having lunch with a lady friend in China Town. While they were ordering their drinks one waiter said to another waiter in Mandarin what a nice set she had. So, she asked a question about the food in Mandarin. Their eyes got really big from the shock but their waiter answered the question. A little while later the waiter came back to get their order. While on the way over he and the other waiter were still talking about her breasts but in a different dialect. She ordered in that dialect. At this point one would think they would have learned their lesson but they didn't. As the food arrived the two of them were still commenting in yet a third very obscure dialect about what they would like to do with her in a bed. She looked up, smiled laughed and said something to them in the third dialect. Whatever she said caused them to quickly exit the dining room in terror. What they didn't know was that my roommate's friend monitored and translated Chinese electronic transmissions for the CIA.

@aryanbhuta3382

3 жыл бұрын

Now that's something.

@xDomglmao

3 жыл бұрын

fkng legend

@johnwright4556

3 жыл бұрын

ROFLMAO, thanks for that Robert!!!

@yeahx32p69

3 жыл бұрын

Yo. This shit is nuts dude. Make yt videos on these kind of experiences.

@ledanoir1239

3 жыл бұрын

Im sure xd

I love these language stories. Years ago I did a month long immersion French course in Provence. Only French was to be spoken by all students. One of the other guys was from China. We could only communicate in our basic French. By the end of the month we were both much better. As we were about to get the shuttle to the airport, I said to him in English how much I had enjoyed learning with him. He smiled and said “mais je ne parle pas anglais” (but i don’t speak English). For some reason I just assumed a Chinese guy in France would speak English. Anyway we still keep in touch, as always in French.

"What if I was an ape, that escaped, from the zoo?" hahahahahaha!!! I totally lost my shit! xD

How did you get so Orange?, asking for a friend

@laowhy86

3 жыл бұрын

Is your friend the president?

@MiaogisTeas

3 жыл бұрын

The dangers of living in California 😂

@rockyroad2143

3 жыл бұрын

Well duh, he's addicted to carrots.

@mikedubovs1574

3 жыл бұрын

Bad milk powder..😄

@aspenenglish4976

3 жыл бұрын

Duh! He lives in southern CA. You tan there. Your color must be off on your monitor because he doesn't look orange at all.

When I was in China for ten days I was astonished by how unaware the locals were about current affairs/events happening around them in China. Pretty sad I thought.

@502964924

3 жыл бұрын

you have to understand there are many people who never went to school or have limited education .

@projectmakhtesh3835

3 жыл бұрын

Most of what happens in China is censored. The locals only know what they are allowed to. Lucky for us we have "China in Focus", "China Uncensored" and "Crossroads with joshua philipp" here on KZread.

@mikegipp7955

3 жыл бұрын

When I lived in Zhengzhou, there was such little interest in world affairs, it was like living in the Shire

@kscipkkkk

3 жыл бұрын

@@502964924 It takes little to no education to know a new loop is being built around Bejing (the city) and the entire driving public would/could appreciate the better traffic flow.

@freggo6604

3 жыл бұрын

Funny, as a German living in the USA I am wondering the same, why the average American knows so little about what the world is like outside the self proclaimed greatest country on earth.

I used a language exchange app for mandarin and some kid kept messaging me asking if I was a friend of Mark Wahlberg. Everyday, he’d ask if I saw him and if he gave an autograph to me so I could send it.

I love people like you. Bridge the gaps, bro. We all have more in common than we do different.

You hate the appearance of your nose? I've never seen your nose as a noteworthy feature and I think you look great overall. Don't worry about that.

@nmsspacedude1793

3 жыл бұрын

I was born with (minimal) cerebral palsy. It affects my walking. It was fascinating walking around my neighbourhood in Tokyo in the 1990s. Some people were obtuse enough to circle round me, gawking. I have had a few stupid comments from younger kids in the UK over the years but people in Japan seemed particularly unused to people with disabilities. I was able to chat to a wheelchair user and she explained - her mum translating - that her mum would wheel her around their block a couple of times in the Summer. She then said '...and if we meet any neighbours, we apologise for being such an embarrassment to them.' (Her mum confirmed this). I was so shocked I had to double-check their comments to see if I'd somehow misunderstood...

@Lightning_Lance

3 жыл бұрын

your comment doesn't fit your name

@ubhumma

3 жыл бұрын

@@nmsspacedude1793 I really hope Japan adopts just little bit of progressivism. That shits fucked

@poiseblemiramoon6992

3 жыл бұрын

@@ubhumma yeah and progressivism is just an ideology though, just like being conservative is just a social condition, we can’t really point our fingers. Because it doesn’t mean right or wrong. This really depends on Japan themselves. Which i agree with you.

I've never lived in China but I've been to China a few times and studied a lot of Chinese. I was once in a Chinese buffet restaurant and there was a waitress who was topping up the food, and another waitress nearby. The first waitress shouted to the other one in Chinese, "hey, do you reckon this one here is a man or a woman?" -- at the time, I had really long hair and a baby face, so it may have been hard to tell that I was a guy, but I turned round and said to her in Chinese, before the other waitress had time to reply, "well, last time I checked, I don't have boobs and a vagina". The woman nearly dropped dead and the other waitress spoke to me in English and said, god, she's such an idiot, I don't know why she asked that anyway, I'm so sorry. I still go to that place sometimes and bump into her and she still gives me a sort of nervous smile then scurries away. I was so proud of myself 🤣

@Jedda73

3 жыл бұрын

That was friggen awesome LOL!

@4nd3rzzon

3 жыл бұрын

Get a haircut and grow a beard

@Jedda73

3 жыл бұрын

@@4nd3rzzon Get a haircut and get a real job, clean your act up and dont be a slob, get it together like your big brother bob

@Knakkerman-

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jedda73 in the netherlands being a bob means you don't drink while going to a party. Then after the party is over the Bob can drive everyone safely home.

@saulknights6635

3 жыл бұрын

@@4nd3rzzon yeah, I now have done 😂

Your honesty and speaking style is so refreshing.

@leosullivan9228

2 жыл бұрын

This is true

Thank you for taking it easy being called Russian. I once had a group of high school students I tutored in physics and math at a cram school where they were studying to take an entrance exam to Finnish college, as you might know education is free in Finnish colleges and it is even conducted in English and was at that time free for foreigners. So, going back to my students, I don't know whether they were trolling me or they really had so little experience, but once they asked me during the break whether I speak Russian! Not exactly was I called an Englishman, but that certainly was one of the happiest moments in my life!

The kids on the bus story is awesome. The lady at Yellowstone now thinks the Americans government had people spying on them the whole time they were in the US lol

@laowhy86

3 жыл бұрын

lol I never thought of that

@eustace2c2

3 жыл бұрын

I was going to say the same that she either thought you were a spy for the US government.

@ElizabethMBoyd

3 жыл бұрын

Totally true, i bet that is what she thought

@jimcaneda3660

3 жыл бұрын

Probably made her think that you’re an American minder lol

@Longtack55

3 жыл бұрын

@Phil Watts That is extremely boring.....zzzzz. Snowden told me so.

I was with another white American classmate in China a few years ago when a woman came up to us to practice English. She asked if we were Russian, to which my friend responded that we were American. The woman then said in all seriousness “but you’re not fat.”

@benjackson7872

Жыл бұрын

Wow! That’s pretty funny.

My kids have friends who went to a Chinese/English bilingual school here in San Francisco so they're fully fluent (in both languages!) They're not Chinese so no one suspects that they can understand. They have lots of great stories about telling off old ladies who are talking about them. Oh, did I mention that they're Black?

@sanynava9160

3 жыл бұрын

Cool story bro....

@bokajtob96

3 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome

@kwazooplayingguardsman5615

3 жыл бұрын

Want a medal?

@detritus3676

3 жыл бұрын

SHEESH

@demef758

3 жыл бұрын

The little old Chinese women were black? That's a first!

Thank you for sharing your life experience with us through your travels and all the hard work you do doing these videos and editing highly appreciated. I like how you kept this video very upbeat and I was feeling very down today and it brighten up my day thank you very much God bless you guys.

I have a Swedish friend who visited a remote place in Thailand. He said his acquaintance introduced him to his 5 year old nephew. As soon as he said hello, the kid screamed and ran away from them. Later their mom explained its his first time to see a foreigner and thought he was a ghost because of his skin tone. But as soon as he spoke to the kid in Thai and explained where he's from, the kid relaxed lol.

As a Japanese who grew up overseas, I got so used to commenting out loud in public that it's hard to contain that once we're back in Japan😂

The ape story was hilarious! I walked into a Korean restaurant and all the ladies started gushing over me.I got asked if I played basketball or modeled. It when on the whole dinner, Korean style. My best friend did her best to talk me out of my embarrassment and she said they weren't used to seeing tall women.

I was always amused in Beijing. I was travelling with four other westerners. Except I was tall and blonde, so funny. I was the only one who attempted pleasantries in Mandarin. Even only nodding and replying to hello made a world of difference, I was the only one in the group who wasn't pestered when in a shopping area. At our hotel, I always said good morning to this one man in particular and even venturing into saying good morning, I hope you have a good day or similar, maybe I was getting it wrong. On checking out, he came over to me, presented his card and informed me that anytime I came back, he would be pleased to assist me personally, in English. Well, that went down like a lead balloon when I was asked what he had wanted. They found it hard to believe that the gentleman was in fact the manager. My group had regularly ignored him, silently standing in the foyer, keeping his eye on everything and everyone. So it goes to prove if you are polite to those around you, it usually is repaid in spades, or so I find.

@neville132bbk

3 жыл бұрын

In 4♠doubled if you're lucky

Summer of 2019 I was in Hohhot with my friend who speaks fluent English and Mandarin. For some context I am Mexican but I speak perfect English with a very standard American accent. When we were getting off of a bus my friend and I were speaking English when a group of older Chinese women said, "wow that Indian guy speaks really good English!" At which point my friend bursts out in laughter. Chinese people loved to assume that I was Indian just because I'm brown lmao.

@johnLennon255

2 жыл бұрын

Well no shit India and China share a border. How often do you actually thing someone in China meets a Mexican

@Youngratnest

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnLennon255 There are a lot of Mexicans in China lol. Also brown doesn't equal Indian hahahahaha

@mroof523

2 жыл бұрын

@@Youngratnest There are way more Indians in China than Mexicans. Its not wrong for a Chinese person to assume a brown person to be Indian

@EzraMerr

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao I'm mixed British and Turkish (Kurd) , they thought I was from fuckin xinjiang lmao once policeman asked if I had a chinese ID and was pretending I was a foreigner

@thomgri

2 жыл бұрын

in every nation they assume individuals nationality based on what they think they know and alot of individuals base it on stereotypes.

Note to self: while traveling abroad,avoid elevators,take the stairs.

@ottonormalverbraucher7835

3 жыл бұрын

Well it can be verry funny having these conservations

I am Dutch, and I studied Japanese. When I went to Okinawa for a while, the standard thing I heard was 'Amerikajin desu ka?' They would just assume I was American. Probably because of the US military base there, but I had to constantly prove them wrong. Somehow they even liked it better if I wasn't American.. foreign relationships will always be a thing. Oh, and they would always tell me my Japanese was so amazing even though I was only a first-year student back then 8'D

@JMD_25

10 ай бұрын

Lekker bezig!

I’m in Houston; Hurricane Laura comes tonight. I appreciate this positive-vibe video. 👍🏻

@laowhy86

3 жыл бұрын

stay safe man

@BruceNitroxpro

3 жыл бұрын

It is about time to LEAVE! God bless. Not a laughing matter.

@ravineseder3133

3 жыл бұрын

How hard will she come, is the question.

@Dethflash

3 жыл бұрын

Same, stay safe everyone

@matthewjay660

3 жыл бұрын

Ravine Seder Laura is a cat. 3 with predictions of becoming a cat. 4 at 145 mph when she slams the into the shore around midnight CDT.

When a kid yells out 老外 or 外国人, i just yell back and point “中国人！‘ When i kind yells "FOREIGNER", I yell back "CHINESE!" Once in Starbucks, they labelled my cup "外国“ (FOREIGNER). I can't imagine doing that in the USA...

@masterrhythm4596

3 жыл бұрын

WOW, with all the comments, you are the only one who can actually type Chinese, Impressed.

@seanhartnett79

3 жыл бұрын

If you are an African America tourist they will write something worse.

@poopbutt6241

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanhartnett79 yep. I overheard someone calling me a monkey. Kinda sad

Amazing stories, keep carrying on!! can't wait to hear more!!

Fantastic video! Made me laugh quite a bit 😁👌

@hwinangkoso

3 жыл бұрын

Oh hey fancy seeing you here! Ich liebe deine videos

Christmas 2018 I was in Dahlonega, Georgia with a date. We wanted to take pictures in front of a large Christmas tree in the town square but couldn't get a couple's photo because one of us had hold the camera. Looking around I saw a group of college-age students. When I approached them I noticed that they were speaking Chinese, so (in Chinese) I asked them if they would take our picture. They agreed (in Chinese) and took our picture. I spoke with them for about 2 minutes but it wasn't until I said xiexie that they realized I had been speaking Chinese the whole time. What a boost to my ego since my Chinese sucks and I earned many, many points with my date that day.

There's nothing more amusing to me than Chinese realizing I understand what they are saying. They always assume I can't speak Mandarin when I'm standing around them.

@TheAcadianGuy

3 жыл бұрын

I love that

i once met a guys from Hongkong... an he seemed to be obsessed with the appearences of me and a friend... because he told us that we are incredibly handsome... well at first., we were pretty confused, but after 5 minutes he introduced us to his wife and she told us the same :D:D:D

Lot's of illegals from Fujian working in Chinese/Asian restaurants all over the US.

@randmorf

3 жыл бұрын

And lots of Chinese working in Japanese restaurants. I can often hear waiters speak putonghua.

@gaochen9240

3 жыл бұрын

@@randmorf A lot of Chinese people open sushi restaurants because the margin is better than the typical chinese restaurant and it's seen as more "upscale" and less labor intensive.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. ~George Orwell

@thomasthomas3593

3 жыл бұрын

100%

@msf2126

3 жыл бұрын

@Alex F then theres that

@jasonlisonbee

3 жыл бұрын

Develop the habit of making people sick of the orthodox alternate opinion until yours comes out as more popular. Then defend the old as not necessarily outdated. It doesn't matter where an idea comes from nor its age.

@MrScateboy

3 жыл бұрын

Alex F a democratic socialist who also supported anarchists at certain points in his life apparently

@LuvBorderCollies

3 жыл бұрын

@Alex F IIRC Orwell was attracted to Marxism/Leninism, but after working with those types in the Spanish Civil War, he was no longer a fan.

I was at a bar and two sexy women said to each other: "All the GOOD men are married!" and I said (in passing them) "Yes, and all the GOOD women too!"

@projectmakhtesh3835

3 жыл бұрын

Word

@MrPoupard

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant x 10.

@bluegoka

3 жыл бұрын

You da’man!

@kdbublitz88

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@LL-vj5yp

3 жыл бұрын

Aenon E. Moss ....👏👏👏♥️

I absolutely loved every second of this video! I could have listened to 3 hours of that. Please do an episode like this again!

"This is not meant to be offensive" Easier to believe they aren't meaning to be offensive if they don't use racial slurs.

Thank you, I really liked this video. I was an English teacher in Beijing for many years and I can relate to this. I must say I miss China, not for its politics or hospitals but for the friends I made and the interesting places that one could always discover. Unfortunately I was obliged to leave, there seemed to be a crackdown on foreigners (just before the covid-19 problem happened) but considering what's happening in China these days, being told to leave seems to be a good thing. However, I still have the nostalgia, which leaves a huge emptiness inside. That's what happens when you lose your home, the job you love and your friends, so I guess it's natural. I am pleased that you managed to leave and keep your family safe. Take care.

14:47 the Chinese thinking is so embedded to the point where you’re still thinking about face 😂

@-haclong2366

3 жыл бұрын

It's not unique to China, it's literally universal, wherever humans are they care about "face". In Corporatespeak it's called "brand".

@TechnoMinarchist

3 жыл бұрын

@@-haclong2366 different cultures have it at different degrees of intensity. The cultures in East Asian countries *revolve* around face. Most other cultures *revolve* around honour, and they separate the two of these concepts from each other.

@jamallabarge2665

3 жыл бұрын

I once had a Chinese colleague. I held my hand over my face, palm in, and said, "Have we lost face?" He started laughing, said, "We do that too!!!"

@mfree80286

3 жыл бұрын

@@TechnoMinarchist The concept is however not foreign; consider that the brand of humor that brings one's self down is actually called "self-effacing".

My best elevator experience was myself and a young couple in Suzhou. I was heading up to my apartment and the young man was talking about how he was going to "eat" his girlfriends (insert imagination) , she then told him to shut up, but the young man said don't worry, he doesn't understand. I looked at them and smiled and said, "Wo ming bai, peng you." This started a beat down on the young fellow and carried on as they left the elevator. I was glad I could help. : )

@CaphiBinna

Жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha you really did well….

@Harthorn

Жыл бұрын

😂

"I was living in outer Mongolia at the time" - I have to use this in conversation...

@DrakesdenChannel

3 жыл бұрын

When you get a parking ticket.

I had the perfect English thing happen to me in Korea. I went to buy a book and asked the guy behind the counter if there were any other books in the series that I was purchasing and he told me all about the series instantly in near native English. It was a crazy shock for me.

Just want to let you know that I a Chinese like this video.

@laowhy86

3 жыл бұрын

appreciate that

@bellaggio1770

3 жыл бұрын

xie xie ni, ni zhongguo ren shi wo de pengyou

@pawpawzheng8572

3 жыл бұрын

@@bellaggio1770 Wow, You've mastered your Mandarin on the "PinYing", even better than many native speaker.

@pawpawzheng8572

3 жыл бұрын

See, I just made a mistake, It's "pinyin" not "pinying".

@johncharles3907

3 жыл бұрын

I like that you like this video as a Chinese as a foreigner.

I have lived in the United States for over 20 years, got a Ph.D. from Princeton, and published 2 academic books in English. Many Americans still assume that I don't speak English.

@MaSa-bp5qe

3 жыл бұрын

Thank God the comment section has automatic google translate, or else I wouldn’t have understood your comment.

@Harthorn

Жыл бұрын

😂

Thank you so much! I was having problems sleeping, but this video fixed that.

I lived in the Philippines for a number of years and they would ALWAYS say "Americano" so I'd always reply "Australian" but eventually gave up. I thought about getting a T-shirt printed that says "I am not American" My wife taught me a sentence that means "I understand everything you said" which brought some pretty shocked looks when I thought people were talking about me :l

When I see Chinese people in my German hometown, I sometimes just shout " Laowhy"

@lillyv9430

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, what happens then?

@slidenapps

3 жыл бұрын

Gut gemacht.

@vixoaduo7288

3 жыл бұрын

AHAHAHAH I do same in taly ..or I do shout "Wagana" ( same of laoway in Wenzhounese , maybe a little more unpolite word) here most of chinese comes from Wenzhou area

@lets7986

3 жыл бұрын

@@vixoaduo7288 It's not impolite at all in Wenzhou, it's pretty neutral.

@dominicm255

3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha I might start doing that in new Zealand where I live. Great idea

I spent four and a half years in China teaching Design at Nanjing University. I hired a private language tutor. I can understand your Chinese but I don’t understand everything I hear in private conversations. I returned to the US because of COVID-19 but continue to study everyday. I Enjoyed listening to your stories.

The world needs a “demonetized by so n so channel” where demonetized videos go to be monetized by free speech supporters 🤗

My Korean wife says the same thing "Foreigner" to me and those around me. I look at her and reminder her that she's the foreigner one in the US 😂

@irvinmartin9259

3 жыл бұрын

‘Reminds me of an account that I read, several years ago, of an interview of a (at the time) famous American actress. She’d had to work in a strange and exotic country (Canada), and complained bitterly that the coin-op vending machines only took “foreign Canadian coins”.

@kalnitez

3 жыл бұрын

tell her to stay in the kitchen

@carvercapitalequitypartner122

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing she had to be reminded. What country does she think she is in.

@joshuarichardson6529

3 жыл бұрын

Legally, if she's your wife, she's not a "foreigner" anymore, as she's a citizen due to your marriage.

@eodyn7

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuarichardson6529 You don't immediately get citizenship just because you marry an American.

Laowhy thinks it's common for foreigners to be called handsome without realizing it's actually just him who gets called that

@anopirsten7565

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't it just the thing where people from outside of your ethnic area are different and stand out more which in turn can be preceived to some as handsome?

@ishdx9374

3 жыл бұрын

@@anopirsten7565 this

I was waiting for an elevator In a Saigon hotel. The Viet cleaning staff was talking about me and this tiny woman remarked about how tall I was. I thanked her and remarked that she was very small and very cute. You could've heard a pin drop as all of them were thinking about what they said in the past minute.

I witnessed this here in US with my Jordanian friend looking bit Spanish when she could here everything from some Arabic speaking people while they didn't think anyone understands... There were some pretty interesting translations

I had a TON of similar experiences as a white guy who can speak Vietnamese in Vietnam.

I had a female classmate in Czechoslovakia that hated me because i wasn’t handsome. How dare i not be handsome like George Michael.

@codename495

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder what she thought when she found out he would’ve liked you significantly more than her.

I am American and have lived in Thailand for 7 years now. I am not as fluent as I wish, but still get such a wonderful feeling when I travel through the countryside. Thais are such friendly decent people, especially rural folks. When you speak Thai with them, they instantly smile, and just start chattering away. Mostly it's super-positive and complimentary. They love that you have taken the time to learn their language. I love it so much here, and am so happy it's not China with the CCP and all that crap. I genuinely love the ordinary Chinese, but the Chinese tourists I see and the CCP suck so bad. The tourist groups that come to Thailand are so disrespectful, loud, rude, spitting everywhere, breaking in line......just nasty people. So, yes, I live with this dichotomy/love/hate for the Chinese. Thankfully, I don't really need to concern myself with Chinese as I am in Thailand. Peace out.

I love your videos, it feels like I'm actually having a conversation with you listening to your stories lol

I am Australian Chinese that looked a little Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese. Even Chinese people are surprised when I speak Chinese to them. About 12 years ago I was in A sushi restaurant where the staff there were speaking with my mother's XingHua dialect and I spoke to them with that dialect. They were surprised as it was an uncommon dialect.

@ridzkyasdi2510

3 жыл бұрын

Chinese that looked a little Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese? how is that even work?

@mr.c6324

3 жыл бұрын

@@ridzkyasdi2510 Wonderin same, All asians look the same

@mr.c6324

3 жыл бұрын

@Jacky Phantom please elaborate, enlighten us

@mr.c6324

3 жыл бұрын

@Jacky Phantom They all look same to me and I bet you couldn't say what nationality one is based on looks.

@tenmillionvolts

3 жыл бұрын

I saw an American guy on KZread who can speak several dialects. He would stand in large groups of Chinese, listen to conversations, then talk to each group in their dialect. Much applause and open mouths, haha

Enjoyed this one! By the way, calling locals “foreigners” is not just a Chinese thing. I’m Japanese and we call the locals “Gaijin” (laowai) too even when we’re on THEIR turf. It’s probably a “Greater East Asian” thang. LoL.

@danieldankx5001

3 жыл бұрын

Your born anywhere in Asia you are a foreigner if you are white. Foreigner is overused in Asian. But they hate it if called it in our countrys

@JEVandorsa

3 жыл бұрын

I think it’s a ‘language influencing culture/mindset’ thing going on here, as East Asian languages tend to have clear distinctions of ‘us vs. them’ aka ‘people within the family vs. those from outside of the family’. Thus with ‘laowai’, it’s simply an idea of ‘people different from us’, not meaning disrespect in any way.

@RaymondYocum-uw5hd

3 жыл бұрын

Philippines too

@EzekielDBarrett

3 жыл бұрын

It's that way in most ethnically/culturally homogenous non-immigrant countries. figured this out from Italian and Russian friends who also refer to others as foreigners But yeah, the whole on foreign turf thing might be East asian

@chuckrrose

3 жыл бұрын

No it’s weirder than that. I worked in Haiti for the UN in 1995-96, and discovered that Haitians call all foreigners “blanc” (as a noun), even, say, a senior police official from Benin or diplomat from Côte d’Ivoire...

You brought a lot of light to me in listening to all the interesting experience you have had..in surprising some being able to speak Chinese ..Mandarin......always blessings in the HU

Thanks for another awesome video. Both very funny and interesting and I love how good you are at freely sharing both the good and bad experiences you have both with others and yourself too. The fact that you are so grounded and self-aware makes your videos great on so many more levels than just the interesting facts about China from a American or Westerner perspective. The store about the kids who thought you escaped from the zoo is really cute. I had a similar experience where let some kids believe I was a ghost.

HI Matt!! I can so relate to this topic. I am a typical NY girl, but I took 5 years of Spanish in school. I can understand it perfectly & I can speak it enough to get by. .Once in a Hotel, I was with my daughter, who was just a few months old. She was 10 lbs when she was born, so she always looked like she was older than she was. I was in an elevator & my daughter started to cry in her stroller. I have severe spinal problems, so I was just going to wait to we got to our room, and the other 3 passengers, who had been speaking English, switched to Spanish & began talking about my daughter & I. I listened & smiled & when I was getting of on my floor, I turned to them & said..in English..Thank you, I think she's cute too, but you are wrong..she is only 3 months old. I'm not ignoring her, I can't pick her up due to a back injury, but she will be fine, so no worries... The elevator door closed on their shocked expressions... 😄😎💕

This is so true...I always hear them start to talk Mandarin and say rude things about non-chinese. Then I turn and say something in Mandarin. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all - this means you Chinese people.

9:08 haha that daughter and dad pair is so funny. At first they were like happy and close together. Then at 10:48 they emerge back into the shot she probaby wanted something but the dad didn't let her and she got mad and pushed him haha

@SuperReznative

3 жыл бұрын

Was wondering if any one else noticed that couple, it didn't look normal almost like she was being forced along!

@Gee5425

3 жыл бұрын

Looked like a bunch of kidnapping going on. First the dude with the little girl, then it looked like she was trying to nab him!

Absolutely died at the story where the couple in the elevator were like "I thought foreigners were supposed to be hot :/", had me ROLLING

Loved these stories! I have my own share of similar experiences, even one in Yellowstone. When I returned from China on 1990, I went on a trip with my brother hitting a lot of the national parks. Chinese tourists weren't many yet, but there were usually a few. In Yellowstone, I shocked a boy when I warned him in Mandarin to be careful of the bubbling mud. At Mesa Verde, I helped a Chinese woman find a drinking fountain when I overheard her son say he was thirsty. When I started speaking Chinese, not only was she shocked, but a group of German-speaking tourists stopped talking and turned to stare.

Why don’t you look like the actors on the movies? 🤣

@pakde8002

3 жыл бұрын

Actually he does look like one of the characters from Bill and Ted LoL

@billpetersen298

3 жыл бұрын

Quasimoto

@commentfreely5443

3 жыл бұрын

all Chinese look like jackie chan

@BeefLoverMan

3 жыл бұрын

He IS getting a bit chubby during lockdown...

@cikosonly7507

3 жыл бұрын

@@commentfreely5443 and jackie chan looks like a potato XD potato face XD. So all chinese are fries from now on their favorite colour is ketchup and their skin is like a chrispy french frie

Thank you so much for this!!

When I was in a café with my friend in Amsterdam, one waitress said to another in Dutch “oh man, Moffen again” (Mof is a bad word for Germans) and then she ignored our table, fake smiling at us doing so. When she finally came to take the order a few minutes later, I quietly told her in Dutch (with my crappy German dialect) that the competition from across the street would be happy about the tip from the “moffen.” She gasped for air, almost dropped the tray, and we left the café - smiling. Gorgeous, I’ll never forget that!

@eastfrisianguy

2 жыл бұрын

@@koosbusters2348 Thank you very much for the explanation, I knew what the word meant but could never make sense of why we were called that. We really messed up in the past. I'm all the more grateful that I'm almost always treated super nicely on all my trips through the Netherlands (Germans aren't always welcome on holiday either, and I really understand that, we totally sometimes misbehave) and I really like the Dutch and have been learning the language for 10 years. However, I work in customer service myself and also waited tables as a student, and I thought that was just cheeky. I think the lady is more careful now when she gossips. 🤭

Want to really piss them off? Say you’ve been studying Chinese for almost a year now. ^^

@projectmakhtesh3835

3 жыл бұрын

In Beijing, I had a Korean classmate boast he had beign studying Chinese for only 2 months. His Chinese was pretty good then, as Koreans study a lot of Chinese in their high school. One implication is that he meant Chinese is an EASY language to learn. That would rile a Chinese as they are so convinced their language is the most difficult in the world, which only Chinese people can speak properly lol. So yes, always tell them you've been studying for less time than you actually have.

@jant4741

3 жыл бұрын

Project Makhtesh I grew up in Japan, going to their schools. At Uni age, catch a cab and play with drivers... having no accent was hilarious to listen to them red with rage as they tried to debunk my claim -only been studying for a year. 🤣 or... when some food was exceptionally good proclaim, “could not understand unless Japanese”. Being fair, Japanese communication is a lot of subtle gesture & grunting left out of texts.

This is so similar to my years in Korea and Japan. I studied and know Korean and Japanese, so sometimes I regret knowing what they say as they look at me. LOL!!!!!

I was pretty happy when I was in Beijing and got complimented for my eyes.

Loving your videos!