"We need a male to continue the family line." Except that male needs a female to continue your family line...

@nikinikolov6570

3 жыл бұрын

The logic behind it is that in a traditionalist country such as China the woman becomes a member of the man's family. It is complete bollocks of course.

@irisy4541

3 жыл бұрын

China’s ugly history of abandoning or killing new born baby girls goes back at least a thousand years. Even without the one child policy they would still prefer to use the money and time to raise and educate a son, rather than a daughter. For them, daughters do not count as offsprings. It’s like a religion.

@sunfeatherX3

3 жыл бұрын

A female that also WANTS children. Not all of us are just incubators

@dimasakbar7668

3 жыл бұрын

@@nikinikolov6570 the man continue family line, the man pay dowry for the bride, the woman are absorbed into the man's family line and expected to cater not only the man, but also the offsprings, and the in-laws. If the man get rowdy, it is unseemly for the woman to return / complain to her parents. Its a mere step away from actual human trafficking. Not only China, most conservative patriarchal society are like that.

@AccidentalNinja

3 жыл бұрын

@No Longer Human In order for the family line to continue, there need to be sons, but those sons can only have more sons if there are women to bear those sons. If there are no women because no one wants a girl as they can't pass on the family name, the family name dies anyway. Clear?

"21k Chen" should start rapping. He has already got one hell of a name for it.

@Momofukudoodoowindu

4 жыл бұрын

Lmfaooo

@nishantsharma7436

4 жыл бұрын

That would be lit 🔥🔥🔥

@SomeRandomJackAss

4 жыл бұрын

You beat me to it.

@grimbelfix2648

4 жыл бұрын

I read it as ""21k Chen" should start raping"

@thiago713

4 жыл бұрын

His LP will be dropping next Tuesday entitled "Lil Bro - the struggle vol I" on Cash money records!

"Single men sit around with nothing to do." The fact they imply that these guys have nothing to do bc they are single is amazing.

@ajwright5512

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't had nothing to for over a decade.

@phoenixleader1999

3 жыл бұрын

you think we do anything

@mr.x2567

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like incels

@ajwright5512

3 жыл бұрын

​@@mr.x2567 Not really, if you like free time, stay single. If you like commitments and responsibilities, don't. Gay people and any one else in a relationship have the same issues.

@jgunn03

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that also. If they have nothing to do, it's because they have the privilege of not having anything to do.

My childhood best friend was abandoned when her brother was born. Now she's captain of her highschool's cheer squad, has had straight A's her whole life, gets an adrenaline rush from organizing her backpack, and is planning on running for office one day. China lost a DAMN brilliant girl to that policy.

@valerielutter7921

4 жыл бұрын

And this is not that uncommon! My adopted Chinese daughter also got straight A's, graduated summa cum laud/Phi Beta kappa and accepted to four medical schools. She is beautiful and her father and I are so proud and love her so much. So many of these adopted daughters are superstars, too good for a country that does not value them.

@ASCENDANTGAMERSAGE

3 жыл бұрын

Adrenaline rush from organizing a backpack... I envy them.

@nuance6631

3 жыл бұрын

@fjf sjdnx bruh seriously?

@Ludwig_Perpenhente

3 жыл бұрын

@fjf sjdnx Curb your Enthusiasm

@AdityaSingh-lp5rp

3 жыл бұрын

That's good and all, but backpack? Then learning the dewy decimal system would blow her mind

That woman crying about her 9 month forced abortion was honestly heartbreaking.

@robbhays8077

4 жыл бұрын

It's horrifying. If we started a war in China right now, we'd be justified based solely on such atrocities. CCP is one of the most evil regimes in human existence. Right up there with Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia and the child-soldier warlords of Africa.

@Rjasper499

4 жыл бұрын

@@douglasyoung7998 Doug, who are you talking about? Are you saying the US was brought into prosperity by China?

@jazminehardison3643

4 жыл бұрын

Right!!! Smh 😢

@mostmelon

4 жыл бұрын

It's basically just murdering a baby.

@3Rayfire

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely horrific.

“My money is on Diva Cup because it sounds like what Mariah Carey demands all her beverages come in” Thank you John’s female writers for giving us that comedy gold.

@chirpynsleepy958

4 жыл бұрын

@@A-small-amount-of-peas meh, comedy is subjective

@Krackerjax

4 жыл бұрын

Im glad this disagreement ended so peacefully.

@Drowsy_Communard

4 жыл бұрын

Señor Griffin bruh you have an unironic family guy profile pic

@DeeJayFM

4 жыл бұрын

@@Drowsy_Communard why can't we just all be friends

@Drowsy_Communard

4 жыл бұрын

Abdul Peace was never an option!

Bless that man for making sex dolls honestly. Who knows how many girls has been saved from human trafficking thanks to him.

@AeroAngel111

4 жыл бұрын

Or maybe desperate men shouldn't be forcing women to have sex with them against their will.

@futuza

4 жыл бұрын

@@AeroAngel111 Is that not a given obvious? But it may surprise you to learn that we, as a general public, cannot magically make scumbags NOT do something they're inclined to do. Due to their nature as scumbags. Especially when we have no way of knowing which ones are and are not scumbags. This guy is at least doing something to help alleviate the issue, rather than standing by and hoping that scum will just fix themselves.

@7lawaneeena

4 жыл бұрын

@@futuza you don't know how much I agree with you

@yourdedcat-qr7ln

3 жыл бұрын

@Julie W. Agreed legalized prostitution would help

@dimasakbar7668

3 жыл бұрын

@Unknown if people in rural area can "buy" trafficked human from poorer neighboring country, you can be sure the urban people (who are more of sex doll market) can afford one too.

Thanks for mentioning the human trafficking business. That was one of my biggest fears growing up as a girl in Vietnam.

@thinhvo3893

4 жыл бұрын

As vietnamese I can confirm

My dad had a colleague whose LITERAL LEGAL NAME was “fined 50,000” so. Yeah.

@YTEdy

3 жыл бұрын

@@timomonochrom115 I'm only guessing, but it seems likely that many are not able to afford the fine. Kind of like bail in the USA.

@commandoclo

3 жыл бұрын

@@YTEdy It is. Anyone is allowed to pay the fine and if they do, the child gets to live a pretty normal life. If not they're pretty much considered dead by the government.

@orchdork775

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's so shitty that parents did that to their kids. Like damn, it's not the kid's fault.

@bucca2

3 жыл бұрын

@@timomonochrom115 he explained that in the video. The government pawned off enforcement onto local officials so it was different based on where you live

@bucca2

3 жыл бұрын

@@orchdork775 welcome to Asian parenting

I think we can all agree that buying a sex doll when you are pretty sure there is no chance you will find a wife is a far better option then paying for a kidnaped bride.

@Widdekuu91

4 жыл бұрын

However, with a sex-doll in your house, the chances of ever finding a woman are gone completely.

@jeroldo111

4 жыл бұрын

Shit.. hmm...(no time for jokes), agreed.

@jeroldo111

4 жыл бұрын

@@Widdekuu91 lies I say, women care way more about financial stability then perverse freakiness

@tengkuadam1399

4 жыл бұрын

@@Widdekuu91 Just don't tell anybody you have one! You can still meet women as long as you don't act like a creep

@kappadarwin9476

4 жыл бұрын

It is a million times better, if a girl really likes you she wouldn't really care for the thing.

This adds a lot of context to a documentary I saw about the immense pressure and shame poured on women who chose not to marry.

@Nrapolastic

4 жыл бұрын

Please share the name of the documentary?

I remember a news story that had a lot of people in Australia very upset in the late 90s- a Chinese woman came here as a refugee because she was pregnant with her second child. She pleaded with the Australian government to just wait to send her back until after she’d had the kid (which shouldn’t have been a probable, we don’t have birthright citizenship here), but they didn’t. They sent her back at 8 months pregnant. And what she feared would happen is exactly what happened. Australians were furious! One more month was all she asked for. She knew it would mean her child would likely be taken from her and put in an orphanage- but that was better than a forced abortion at 8 months. Also, for those who can’t seem to wrap their heads around pro-CHOICE. The hint is in the last word. It’s about respecting the bodily autonomy and choices of the person who has to carry the pregnancy. It’s really not hard to understand. No, it doesn’t mean pro-abortion. It means exactly what the label says. Pro-choice.

@katherinemorelle7115

4 жыл бұрын

Gacha AndStuff no one chooses to abort their own baby for no reason in the third trimester. No one. It’s a ridiculous premise. It doesn’t happen. Th ONLY reason that pregnant people choose to abort in the third trimester is if the foetus is incompatible with life, or already dead. If it’s due to the health of the mother, and if the baby can be saved, that’s what they do- give birth early. Doctors don’t just abort for no reason that late. If the baby can be saved, that’s why they try to do. You can not compare a forced abortion by an authoritarian state to people who choose to have abortions. It is not the same thing. And pulling “but third trimester abortions are bad mmkay!” is just utter rot. Because unless it’s an authoritarian state doing it like in the story I mentioned above, it doesn’t happen unless the foetus is already dead (because removing a dead foetus is classed as an abortion) or soon will be. Using the immense pain of parents who have had to go through that impossible choice is just a shitty thing to do, and especially to further bullshit pro-forced birth narratives. So don’t do it.

@stinepetersen861

4 жыл бұрын

@@katherinemorelle7115 unfortunately some pro-lifers do use fear mongering where they claim that women get abortions until 9 month 🤨 like, really? Funnily enough they are never able to produce any evidence.

@caseyr1154

3 жыл бұрын

@Gacha AndStuff 3rd trimester abortions make up less than 1% of abortions. An abortion in the 3rd trimester is literally delivering early, knowing the fetus is incompatible with life. It means if you're told at 28 weeks that your baby has no kidneys and wont survive, you can make the choice to carry to term, or say goodbye earlier. It has absolutely nothing to do with military officers storming into your home, kidnapping you, and killing your unborn child because you couldnt turn off your fertility like a ligt switch.

@ThestuffthatSaralikes

Жыл бұрын

I’ll never forget being called “pro abortion” for the first time. I was dumbfounded tbh. Like, even a doctor that performs abortions isn’t PRO abortion… I was literally speechless for like 15 seconds. Which is a *lifetime* in my world…

@thumper84

Жыл бұрын

​@@katherinemorelle7115 abortion in any context is a crime against humanity. Eventually all those who support this evil will be dealt with accordingly.

Imagine having to take care of 4 grandparents and 2 parents, but then the government also wants you to raise 2 children at the same time.

@TehBurek

4 жыл бұрын

They've upgraded to 4-2-1-2 now.

@Ohfishyfishyfish

4 жыл бұрын

@@TehBurek One more kid and we'll have 3 up top, a strong, loving, supporting midfield, and granny wingbacks pumping dumplings in the box.

@LancesArmorStriking

4 жыл бұрын

@@TehBurek At least it's not 6-7-8-9-9-9-8-2-1-2 I hope you get the reference lol

@tamratbefekadu6549

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ohfishyfishyfish Maybe one of the midfielders has got a red card.

@anisatajy9445

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't they hear about division of labour or duties? Sure, when doing math having many children is detrimental for the future but their future now tells that in fact it is a blessing by God that they deprived themselves off of.

PLEASE interview Wang Zheng, one of China’s foremost feminist thinkers. In her own words, “Female infanticide was not a concern of the government. But men cannot find wife, that is a concern for the government.”

@oijoioihiehie

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomaszyarlett8681 Really???? Can you point me to some sources of that info. I'd like to read more about that

@raventrunite6459

4 жыл бұрын

Tomasz Yarlett notice how the male expectations are things you’re free to do with capital that gain you social standing and respect, and the female demands are basic rights, like equal pay, that would help them gain capital, social standing and respect? the argument that feminism is hypocrisy bc women arent willing to shoulder what men do is tired and baseless.

@XHitsugaX

4 жыл бұрын

well yeah, men with no hope and no romantic/sexual prospects are veeery bad for society veery bad. They will burn it down if they get angry enough.

@natchayazhou6873

4 жыл бұрын

oijoioihiehie there’s a split in feminism in china. The feminism he is referring to is not feminism but an exploitation of this gender inequality situation in China. Where people advocate for “feminism” while refuse to take responsibility. This caused many people in China, who previously did not encounter the concept of feminism, to have a false concept of “feminism”, believing that that this twisted, selfish version of feminism is Feminism in China. That is why feminism(usually written with emoji or similar sounding word to differentiate from feminism that advocate for equal right) is a word with negative implication word in China, especially online.

@francoiscoupal7057

4 жыл бұрын

@@natchayazhou6873 Or, you know, maybe it could be explained only with plain old misoginy at work, however "culturally justified" some pretend it to be. Occam's razor is still usefull.

The Rat is taking the pizza to his teenage ninja turtle friends

@victor.rivera9817

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@excelll3332

3 жыл бұрын

That was Master Splinter and you can’t change my mind

@Ndstars1

2 ай бұрын

*sons

for anyone wanting an update: in may 2021 the 7th national census was released in china, showing that the birthrate was still declining. the chinese government implemented a 3 child policy in june 2021. in august 2021 they stripped out all of the penalties for more children, so functionally there is no hard cap on the number of children.

@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709

4 ай бұрын

Next is probably forced pregnancy

@juandanielcastanierrivas9545

2 ай бұрын

In 2023 the fertility rate of China was about 1.0 according to their authorities, foreign estimates have put it at 0.8, which means it could be the least fertile country in the world along with South Korea. Internal analysts think they will bounce back the next few years, others believe it’ll continue to collapse. At this rate, the Chinese would disappear in a little more than a century.

@user-cr6qv1bn2u

Ай бұрын

The main issue is atheists. Chins, SK, and Japan hand high population of atheists. Pretty countries will soon follow

@camillasoares9289

Ай бұрын

​@@user-cr6qv1bn2u the main problem is aetheists? Are you out of your mind? The main problem is people cant afford to live decently anywhere, let alone have children.

@chonkcat7362

26 күн бұрын

@@user-cr6qv1bn2u birth rates are falling in very religious countries as well though...If the issue was the boogeyman of atheism, surely that would be easily solved by forcing people into religion, no?

21:42 "Family planning officers conduct pregnancy tests every 3 months" How dystopian is that?

@merebb

4 жыл бұрын

@Darris Hawks They showed that woman going through the factory and describing her job as having to ask the female workers detailed questions about their cycles and whether or not they're pregnant. That plus the forced abortions, you really think they would stop at that?

@Q_QQ_Q

4 жыл бұрын

Under his Eye .

@merebb

4 жыл бұрын

@@Q_QQ_Q blessed be the fruit

@Q_QQ_Q

4 жыл бұрын

@merebb May the lord Open .

@funkeymanx

4 жыл бұрын

The dystopia goes much further than that.

I was adopted because of the one child policy. Living a great life in Canada.

@ilmu011

4 жыл бұрын

Dodged a bullet there buddy

@ilovegod0106

4 жыл бұрын

ninjamaster1337 no. I’m 21. I used my dad’s account when I was younger and it’s too late to transfer all my stuff to my email address. And then he got friends asking why his emails had my name so I changed it to his. Can’t win I Guess.

@Ammar34567

4 жыл бұрын

@@ilovegod0106 Well you were an adorable and lucky baby! Good for you :)

@ilovegod0106

4 жыл бұрын

Ammar Faraz thanks

@y_fam_goeglyd

4 жыл бұрын

Friends of mine adopted a young girl from the SW of China. If your parents had to jump through as many hoops as they did, you can absolutely always know that there's nothing they wouldn't do for you. I actually stood as a witness for them in a meeting with the social services who were going to decide whether they were "good enough" (frankly they'd be better served being at the GP surgery as soon as some people find out they're expecting. And I'm not thinking "don't let poor people have kids", there are numerous middle class people I know who should never have been allowed to breed!). Fortunately as I have enough of my own, I was able to enjoy letting them practise on my youngest lol. They were wonderful btw, I wouldn't have done that otherwise! I just remember the stress they went through - it was awful. So I'm so glad you are happy, because I'm sure your parents didn't have an easy job bringing you home where you belong (where you're born isn't always where you're meant to be ;)).

China: We introduced a policy that made it impossible for 34 million men to have a traditional family, even if they wanted to. Also China: We have strict censorship rules in place to prevent the display of homosexuality on TV, because to show it will endanger traditional family structures. We simply cannot take that risk. We love traditional family structures!

@RyuKyu.77

3 ай бұрын

China: we are definitely communist

@user-cr6qv1bn2u

Ай бұрын

Also chuna in 2023. Blaming women for not pumping enough children.

@Resi1ience

Ай бұрын

I'll never understand how there hasn't been a major uprising in China yet, other than the Hong Kong protests.

@RyuKyu.77

Ай бұрын

It sucks that those 34 million men can't even date other men, wouldn't that also kinda give space for the single straight men who are left out? LET THE GAYS GO TO THE RESCUE!

@DopeyDetector

17 күн бұрын

Look into ametikkka's policies before you cast stoned, yankkke

I like how John can make "Happy 70th" sound like "F You".

@DopeyDetector

17 күн бұрын

Dopey

As a child adopted from china because of this policy I'm thrilled to see that John brought this issue up.

@Anona_Meows

4 жыл бұрын

Have you watched the documentary on Amazon Prime called "One Child Nation?" It is heart breaking.

@KTK-mp7iw

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Random question: have u ever had a white guy try to tell u that the one child policy wasnt that big of a deal cuz apparently his male friend from china told him they'd just hace to pay a fine?

@raining_macondo

4 жыл бұрын

@@KTK-mp7iw ur logic is a mess, she was adopted not because she was not first child, but a female, otherwise her mother would have already had a abortion a lot earlier. If you want to keep a second child, nobody would just have the child killed but you would have to pay a resultant fine. Problem being, not you but also ur local offical(a mayor probably) will get a bad record which will affect his career later on, therefore he may use some illegal method to enforce the policy, in some provincial region, even forced abortion.

@LightYagami-wt1jw

4 жыл бұрын

Sad stuff

@kayla6190

4 жыл бұрын

Me too! I got brought over to America because I’m a girl.

"Donald Duck pulls out the key to...family planning? from his bag" Man, this early draft of Kingdom Hearts was weird.

@mother-aiya

4 жыл бұрын

Not the DLC we were expecting

@bluecanine3374

4 жыл бұрын

It was a keyblade not to unlock hearts, but uteruses

@uncivil_engineer8013

4 жыл бұрын

And yet somehow this isn't the most morally compromising video that Donald Duck has appeared in.

@inciaradible7144

4 жыл бұрын

Luckily, Kingdom Hearts turned out totally clear and straightforward.

@peacechan4500

4 жыл бұрын

@@inciaradible7144 right...

Maggie O'Neil was an adoptee in Canada during the One Child Policy and she just won gold in 100m butterfly in Tokyo beating a Chinese, power to her and congrats and keep on winning She also won a bronze and silver in freestyle relay.

@nirvana47

25 күн бұрын

This comment is not factual.. did you get the name right?

As a 35 year old adult with three adorable nephews... my ideal dinner guest IS someone who insists their food be dinosaur shaped! THAT SOUNDS AWESOME! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, JOHN?! YOU'RE A MONSTER!

Chinese military officials creating a society with an excess of males with nothing to live for isn’t an error in foresight, it’s a recruiting tactic.

@sethclippard1527

4 жыл бұрын

atomichippy exactly. How easy is it to go to war with 30 million disposable gun-carriers? It’s like Galaga.

@ramirodelbosque7280

4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant I’d say.

@rinbin4234

4 жыл бұрын

Ramiro Del Bosque press *x* to show concern

@Spookyboo96

4 жыл бұрын

Shit man

@ashb7

4 жыл бұрын

Fucking hell, that's devious. Would also suggest why they're still not open to letting people have as many kids as they want even with the rampant human trafficking, business is just too booming for the military.

"My female writers told me that one of those things I just said isn't real. And they refuse to tell me which one." 😂

@jammieclark1200

4 жыл бұрын

It's the toilet paper. Diva cups are definitely real. This made me lol, especially since my hubby want sure either and we have 3 girls.

@ninninin656

4 жыл бұрын

@@jammieclark1200 I don't find that funny but rather deeply sad. This whole "men find periods scary and gross" trope needs to die in a fire - ESPECIALLY if you are a father, for fuck's sake!

@atanaciogarza7176

4 жыл бұрын

@@ninninin656 yeah you're right; but, periods are scary and gross.

@priscillajimenez27

4 жыл бұрын

Ask your wife lol

@brunosales2311

4 жыл бұрын

germankiwigal stfu no one cares

My grandma actually paid for me to NOT be aborted, which is really sad when you think about it as I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for a few thousand dollars.

@lauranetta6015

3 жыл бұрын

hope they didn't name you bribe or corruption in chinese language))) Never thought people would actually be better with corruption...

@joejia1410

3 жыл бұрын

@@lauranetta6015 Nah didnt name me those things, I got a pretty good upbringing

@phuct4980

3 жыл бұрын

@@joejia1410 I’m happy for you, in Vietnam used to have a two child policy because holy hell the population growth went sky high here after the wars which is bad because my country back then was under an embargo from the US and poor as hell so the government have to do something before they have to deal with mass starvation so they implement the policy. They already remove that policy years ago and Vietnam fertility rate is not dropping hard about 2-2,15. My family tree is quite huge, 5-6 uncles and 4-5 aunts in total in my family which me and my sister have to support when we have a jobs.

@joejia1410

3 жыл бұрын

@@phuct4980 Damn, I dont know how to respond to this...

@phuct4980

3 жыл бұрын

@@joejia1410 well you don’t have to this kind of extended family is the NORM here so most of the local don’t really care that much.

"Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."

@hannahgoldkamp8888

3 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, the first person to ring the alarm bells about overpopulation was Thomas Malthus, an economist.

@opiumbrella3351

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody thinks that. And are you justifying the Chinese governments actions?

@allthenewsordeath5772

3 жыл бұрын

@@hannahgoldkamp8888 And he was wrong, though to be fair unless we figure out fusion power, the population will have to stabilize.

@elovejapan7818

2 жыл бұрын

Or someone living in the 1920s

@Hirnlego999

11 ай бұрын

@@opiumbrella3351 Lots of people believe that, economic growth above anything else. Greed is the one true religion on this planet.

I guess I'm the guy who's lucky enough to have a sister when this policy was still being carried on. I don't have such a tragic story, my father was an officer, and he managed to keep my sister using his influence. Now my sister is 13-years-old and we had a wonderful childhood together, when I was in high school, she used to hang around outside my classroom and rush to hug me when I came out. I can't imagine what if I was brought up alone, it was my sister who taught me the value of brotherhood and the responsibility of being an elder brother, and I guess the most of our generation will never have a chance to experience all that, what a shame.

@joshuacox534

4 жыл бұрын

famines and pollution from overpopulation is also a shame. it's great that it worked out for you on a personal level but humans are still destroying the planet

@bennie1223

4 жыл бұрын

@@joshuacox534 When countries prosper, the citizens have less children. The way to decrease population levels is to educate people and have laws in place that allows for success.

@Elenrai

4 жыл бұрын

@Mike Jamieson Probably due to the legal system, you need to be a registered resident if I recall correctly, you can move freely to another region, but that might also mean you are no longer having the same rights as if you were a registered resident of your "home region" so say the sister is registered as a resident of Shanghai, while her brother and the rest of the family reside in Beijing, if she wants to go to school she can only do it in Shanghai, as the local Beijing governement is not required to do so, and the local governments often struggle in various ways due to the structure of the central government in relation to those local governments. Imagine China operating kinda like the EU, to put it in a more simplistic context. His sister is a citizen of Spain and he might be a citizen of France. Now this is NOT REMOTELY CORRECT in truth but its somewhat accurate, I recommend looking up the youtube channels called ADVChina and Chinauncensored , for a lot more info on china, the uncensored channel is VERY BIASED and I do NOT recommend it as your primary source, for that id go for ADVChina! (tho they have to self censor on occasion so Chinauncensored is great in that way, even if the host is a bit of a cock)

@miumiumiup4625

4 жыл бұрын

It’s exactly the same here with me

@ameshee670

4 жыл бұрын

@Mike Jamieson lol re-read his comment. "now my sister is 13 years old"... "when I was in high school, she used to hang around outside my classroom". Years ago she wasn't old enough to be in class...

Say what you like, I think a name like 20,000 Chen is just begging for a record label to pick him up.

@dylanchouinard6141

4 жыл бұрын

His new single ‘Fine Life’ is absolutely fire!

@geriibra1645

4 жыл бұрын

Got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one, cause all my bitches are fking plastic dolls 😕

@mephirez2274

4 жыл бұрын

Chinese 50 cent

@maggiekwan6700

4 жыл бұрын

@@mephirez2274 More like 3.57 Yuan

@AsianSensatiion

4 жыл бұрын

@@dylanchouinard6141 Gold. Platinum. Legend.

Back in the 80s during a marijuana enhanced discussion, I commented that due to China's one child policy and their preference for male children, some day there were going to be a lot of lonely Chinese men. My friends laughed at me and passed me the bong. 🤪

@SlapstickGenius23

3 жыл бұрын

Is that so Accurate?

@mustang8206

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine thinking your cool for smoking weed

@blanchekonieczka9935

2 жыл бұрын

@@mustang8206 there's nothing wrong with weed. It isn't physically addictive nor is it psychotropic. I still occasionally smoke the one without THC to relieve muscle spasms. BTW, it's "you're" not "your". "Your" means belongings to you while "you're" is a contraction of you and are.

@AleTitan

2 жыл бұрын

@@mustang8206 He was just mentioning it. He's not bragging or anything

@whitericeboi

Жыл бұрын

@@mustang8206 imagine being such a complete toolbox that someone just mentioning weed bothers you.

I taught English in China. It was so difficult teaching them the concept of brothers and sisters. Every student was an only child. Also, 90% of my students were obese. The little Emperor thing is true too. I had parents interrupt my lesson because they wanted to give their kid a drink of warm water.

Pro choice has it in its name Choice A forced abortion is simply... Clearly not a choice...?

@imluvinyourmum

4 жыл бұрын

But according to you it’s simply eliminating nothing, there is no death and it’s completely moral as it’s biological waste not a human life, so what is the problem now?

@CamelDance

4 жыл бұрын

@@imluvinyourmum forced abortion forces people to undergo invasive medical procedures they don't want. Is that so hard to understand. On top of that, forced abortions are denying people the right to reproduce. Or would you be ok with forced sterilizations. What even is your argument. Are you aware that for there to be an abortion someone has to be pregnant. Are you aware that women are people.

@kpencil859

4 жыл бұрын

@@CamelDance This reminds me of those Combine soldiers from Half-Life.

@obo2999

4 жыл бұрын

@@CamelDance the point is the hypocrisy

@bobjones2959

4 жыл бұрын

@@obo2999 There is no hypocrisy. If they said that forced abortion isn't okay because abortion is murder, while simultaneously denying the idea that abortion in general constitutes murder, *that* would be hypocritical. However, pro-choice proponents simply do not see abortion as murder in *any* sense, their problem with forced abortion has to do with the "forced" part, not the "abortion" part. Try actually understanding the other side of the argument before you try to call it out.

John Oliver is really angry underneath that smile, and so am I.

@TheFireHawk7

4 жыл бұрын

It's part of the British comic tradition - look up Terry Pratchett sometime. Cheerful, exceptionally witty, loveable... and driven by a furious anger at the world.

@salenebrom6476

4 жыл бұрын

Rhodri it’s amazing

@nathanseper8738

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheFireHawk7 Polite anger seems intrinsic to British people.

@krzysztofpiasek5682

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheFireHawk7 Yup, his satirical works based on other authors stupid ideas are one of the best pieces of comedy ever created.

@mnemeikyu9299

2 жыл бұрын

Frankly, aren't we all.

I adopted my daughter in China in 2003. She had been abandoned by the side of a highway in Southern China in June. I honestly believe she was left to die. Well, she’s quite the survivor. 18 years old now, she has multiple special needs, so she is in a residential program and doing very well. When I reached out to her adoption coordinator in China to ask some health related questions, I was cut off. I’ve never been able to get any information.

@LarisaC.

Ай бұрын

I once told a Chinese student about an article on a girl in China being left on train by her parents because they didn’t want her. He said this must have been a lie. Indoctrination works pretty well.

My heart goes to all the lucky Chinese girls that were adopted (many SMUGGLED out of China, think of it: child SMUGGLERS are the good guys here!!!) by other parents and found caring families outside of China.

@sigmaballsnetwork

3 жыл бұрын

When human trafficking somehow ends up the good thing!

@DopeyDetector

17 күн бұрын

Dopey

I had a friend in China who was a second child and she felt so much pressure to be perfect because she also cost 30k. It’s some crazy shit.

@saketsagar2156

4 жыл бұрын

very disheartening truth ! I wish her a very peaceful rational life.

@-._.-KRiS-._.-

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting. It costs that much to have a child in America, too.

@donjones2500

4 жыл бұрын

Rural Chinese people can have more than 1 baby. Checked a few YTer bloggers, their chinese wife have sisters and brothers, it's not uncommon anymore. China has always embraced capitalism.

@ll2240

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. I paid the same amount for my post order bride. Prices are just too high.

@xstoofpeer

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine how children in the US with a chronic condition must feel, they cost a couple million dollars to keep alive.

I'm a one child policy kid, I was born in 1993, and I wasn't my mom's first pregnancy. She was pregnant in 1987 with a girl, under the pressure from family, friends and the local law enforcements, she had an abortion because of a particularly horrible discrimination against women/female gender in Chinese traditional culture (I was raised in a fairly conservative region in China). She endured a few years of abusive behavior from my father after her abortion, and was pregnant with me in 1992. To this day I have no idea how she managed to endure all those, all by herself, for so many years, while still being the loving mother she is. She is the strongest person I have ever known, she is my hero. My mom's life could have been happier and I could have had a sister, if this policy wasn't there. There are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of similar stories during the 80s and 90s in China. The government implemented this policy at the cost of the happiness of an entire generation. The policy itself was a short sighted mistake from the very beginning. It had a short term benefit, fertility rate dropped drastically in the 80s and population growth was controlled. But the long term harm it introduced to gender equality, fertility rate, wellfare, education, medical care and all other aspects of people's lives are immeasurable, not to mention the discrimination against women was amplified by this policy (look up suicide rate of Chinese women and the amount of abandoned baby girls in rural China, you'll see). In a few years the population will start to drop, and in a few decades the majority of Chinese population will be elderly people. Disproportionate population structure (both in gender and in age) will be a major difficulty, maybe even the downfall of contemporary China. Not to mention it's incredibly inhumane. Human lives are not numbers in some official statistics, as you can see, this policy has already caused and will continue to cause suffering amongst Chinese people. Heavy topic, thank you for reading this and have a good day :)

@mjseg3616

4 жыл бұрын

X Y thank you for sharing. I’ll keep it short; first, you’re mom is a great person, second is that i agree! Humans aren’t statistics. If only there’s a way to hold the the Chinese government accountable. Welp, I’ll research more about this then, I want to know more.

@DizzyBusy

4 жыл бұрын

This made me cry. Your mother is a great person, and I'm glad she got you, and you made sure she wasn't alone anymore in the family. I wish you a good day and a great life

@katiecramerson7778

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing. My heart goes out to your mother and the many women who have gone through similar experiences.

@gbaboy7775

4 жыл бұрын

That is a heavy story, but thanks for sharing man.

@tierone3895

4 жыл бұрын

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.

I was born in 1995. I have an older brother who was born in 1994. My mother had a miscarriage before I was born. When she found out that she was pregnant again, I was 3 months old. Fortunately, I was retained. When I was 8 years old, I applied for Chinese household registration in order to go to school. My nickname is chaochao, which means I’m superborn.

I felt that arrow through my heart. 9 mouth abortion is horrific and I truly hope you find peace. The sadness is overwhelming just hearing what you went through.

My heart broke for the woman who had to go through forced abortion at her 9th month.

@drentparty

4 жыл бұрын

The trauma of that will haunt her for the rest of her life. That type of mentality and policy put into action has more consequences on humanity than probably anything else mentioned in this video...which is sad. To think the implementing of it would even allow for such a thing to be done with no regard for her life, her body, or the child at all is completely devastating.

@rogerx1258

4 жыл бұрын

One would think if any these circumstances would have warranted an exception. Poor woman...

@casperchristensen8354

4 жыл бұрын

At that point its infant murder. I mean, a baby can survive with a bit of help after 8 months.

@DmonHiro

4 жыл бұрын

At 9 months is that even an abortion?

@blitherbox7467

4 жыл бұрын

Chinese karma. Better them than anyone else. Mao killed China.

Oh damn, that poor woman at 11:00 breaks my heart.... my mom was in the exact same situation as she was in - my father already had a child from his first marriage. My mom was already 37 years old, and 6 months pregnant, and she was told by government officers that she couldn't have me. They threatened to fire my father from work. My mom shot back that she'll just divorce him before they do anything of that sort. She was pissed, and she was determined to have me. She went all tiger mum on them, accusing them of inhumanity and hurling insults, countering every threat they made. (At one point she insinuated that she'll just ask for asylum from the U.S ) It wasn't very diplomatic, and normally it wouldn't have ended well, but miraculously, they backed down, (I mean I guess my mom can be really scary, and perhaps they did have an inkling of a conscience) and I was born with a proper citizenship and stuff, without fines. I always just saw this as a really touching story about my mother's love for me. And I knew I was fortunate. But I also thought that 'well, I was technically her first child, plus, it was 2001, perhaps policy was less violently enforced, so... maybe that's why they backed down. ' Now I realise how lucky I really was, because I could have easily been that child, and my amazing mother would have to suffer just as that poor lady did. I don't know how necessary the one child policy really was... Maybe it was for the greater good, maybe it was just another evil policy of the very-bad-at-adjusting-to-reality and rather amoral communist government. Either way, let's just take a moment to acknowledge the human tragedies that it caused. Because people are not statistics, and the trauma never really goes away. (And seriously, go hug your mom/dad and tell them you love them) (And since this is a rather depressing topic - I love y'all too, strangers of the internet, hope you have a good day ahead)

@sapphicmorena5791

4 жыл бұрын

Your mom is amazing! I'm glad you're here :)

@chandniajmera

4 жыл бұрын

Wow.. Your mom is really strong, and I'm happy for you. Thank you for sharing your story with us here :)

@NJ-wb1cz

4 жыл бұрын

❤❤❤ (I'm adding a comment just to not forget to read the full post later)

@Kaiwala

4 жыл бұрын

To your health my good man! And to your mother's as well!

@darylsummers3338

4 жыл бұрын

You're too wholesome for the internet. We need more of that.

I live in Finland and I have a friend who's adopted from China and who was born during the one child policy. She's probably lucky to even be alive.

Imagine having a baby with a knob on his head tell you you violated the law lmao

I was a byproduct of the One-Child Policy. I was the 2nd child and I was abandoned and put in an orphanage. I was adopted and brought to America. I was very lucky to be given a chance to live a better life here in America, where I am a part of a loving family and where I have the opportunity to pursue my higher education. I am currently attending university in hopes to receive my PhD in biomedical engineering. So although I lost my biological family, I was given a second chance at life by my adoptive family.

@heribertosarmiento1265

4 жыл бұрын

Wow that’s one sad family history :(

@alexiskiri9693

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky you. At least you weren't left by the side of the road to die.

@abhi3095

4 жыл бұрын

@Lord Colin murica😂😂😂

@lessthanamillionsubscommun5845

4 жыл бұрын

Alyssa Powell, well, at least it had a happy ending. I hope you’ve learned to live with it and are doing better now.

@abhi3095

4 жыл бұрын

@Lord Colin Why do the British prefer to say Murica, and not America?

"The even loneliester number". God, that's the best non-word I've heard in a while.

@mickymickle2764

4 жыл бұрын

When he said that, I thought did he really just say loneliester??? I also did a "rewind/backup" to ensure my ears didn't deceive me!

@chrisfrazier1168

4 жыл бұрын

Trump: Covfefe You: Ehh... Trump: ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED????!!

@mickymickle2764

4 жыл бұрын

Yes that was a non-word too, but coming from where it did, there are LOTS of non-words... Also Nicholas did say 'in a while'

The Chinese Communist government is going to face the curse of that poor mother, who was forced to abort at 9 months. This was so heartening. How cruel could those authorities be!

@revolutionarybishop2352

4 жыл бұрын

on the opposite, indian gov is gonna watch billions of overpopulated people die due to shortages of resourses. the one child policy is a great move to keep the world not populated

@niteeshbihade1789

4 жыл бұрын

@@revolutionarybishop2352 This is a very childish and immature perspective. Indian population grew due to sudden decline in death rate and increased longevity. India today is very different and much opulent. It has no shortages of resources. Our governments then, despite being poor, never forced anything upon us. The new birth rate has been significantly lower since past three decades. The population is now controlled and is going to start shrinking in the near future. Hurting people, damaging nature and all through unscientific ways is what the Chinese government has been doing. Just take example of the recent Chinese COVID virus. So many Western nations have been suffering due to it. Each country has to be responsible for caring for our mother earth. Just blindly rushing for economic development at cost of nature is not good.

@revolutionarybishop2352

4 жыл бұрын

@@niteeshbihade1789 Its true your gov didn't force you to do anything and that's because they are too corrupted and you guys are still using FEUDAL SYSTEMS to distinguish peasants, loyalties and other classes.

@jerryqian5184

4 жыл бұрын

@@niteeshbihade1789 Pretty well said!

@opai1821

3 жыл бұрын

@GreaterGood510 well i believe your iq is too low understand the science of populations in 70s many scientist predicted that india will run out of resources because of its growing population , but they were terribly wrong , they forgot one thing that we are humans and we will seek for other reliable resources or develop the present resources , soon india had a green revolution which helped india to come out from hunger , well i believe the population is good if u know how to use it as great resources , so i think you should look for your country betterment instead of giving us advice

"History is memes now." I get most of my world news from reddit so I'm not against this idea.

@vb2806

3 ай бұрын

It has always been, don't you remember caricatures in newspapers?

John Oliver coincidentally being a character in a chinese propaganda video has made my day

@Odinsday

4 жыл бұрын

BrainChoice Oh shit, you have brain damage as well

@yomaze2009

4 жыл бұрын

@BrainChoice Also sounds a lot like a certain political party that wants unlimited free abortions at will for persons who consented but failed to be responsible.

@stan5250

4 жыл бұрын

You don't need much, good husky.

@fangal12

4 жыл бұрын

@@yomaze2009 LMAO! Do you actually believe that or are you just trolling?

He is smiling but you can feel his rage in the closing argument.

@naveenarora6467

4 жыл бұрын

That has gotta be an Indian name! Is it?

@0leander410

4 жыл бұрын

@@naveenarora6467 Since there are so few of you, it's cute to see you excited when you find each other.

@GenshinLover283

4 жыл бұрын

You gotta love that good old passive aggressiveness 😁

@neoir8514

4 жыл бұрын

Billy Siravo bit a douche, isn’t he?

@Xetelian

4 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of episodes are full of rage while he smiles for the jokes and seethes inside.

I’d obviously rather someone buy a sex doll than force a kidnapped woman to marry them, but the fact that men would consider either of those a replacement for a wife is very concerning and says a LOT about how they see women. If the reason they wanted to get married was because they wanted a mutually loving relationship with someone they actually like and care about as an individual, they wouldn’t look towards sex dolls or human trafficking as a substitute.

Aww... I was about to look up the "extra absorbent toilet paper" until it was mentioned that one of those things isn't real.

The one time HBO puts their foot down is when John wanted to make a giant 70 out of headless silicone corpses.

@Trixareforkidsvegeta

4 жыл бұрын

nah, the problem was he wanted to make 2 giants out of sex dolls making a 70, ymca style

@alexsilva28

4 жыл бұрын

I was expecting the curtains to lift up and show that

@sachiththehero

4 жыл бұрын

It would have been better if it was "69 + 1"

@melonlord1414

4 жыл бұрын

This clearly is an aftereffect of not having that dragon money anymore

@zejdland

4 жыл бұрын

Communism/Socialism is the reason this happens in china

John's female writers ribbing him and letting him go on air with plausibly half-serious, incomplete information for the sake of a joke is the kind of hilarity I am here for.

@DeeJayFM

4 жыл бұрын

@@ichijofestival2576 I'm pretty sure everyone knows how to use Google. It ain't that hard

@knightwing5169

4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure they wrote the joke at 10:06 too.

@COO415

4 жыл бұрын

@genius. What a self serving & ignorant comment. Actually, what John had here is very tamed compared to the documentary "One Child Nation" by Amazon Studios. Humanity is more often callousl or simply evil. And the Central govt of China fits that bill.

@Thenoobestgirl

4 жыл бұрын

@@ichijofestival2576 you must be fun at parties...

@LightYagami-wt1jw

4 жыл бұрын

It's a joke inside a joke dumbass.

I take offense to this. If I could have all my food dinosaur-shaped, I 100% would.

@ForrestFox626

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

So happy I yeeted out of there due to being adopted.

The Pizza-rat is called Splinter, John.

@doko3000

4 жыл бұрын

cowabunga

@peregrination3643

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking, "He has a name!" at that part.

@ToruKun1

4 жыл бұрын

He's just tryna feed his turtle sons

@raydelmartinez2905

4 жыл бұрын

LoL good one

@harshraythattha3886

4 жыл бұрын

#RightsForRodents

If they want more children to be born, would it not be easier to let people have 3 children than to try to force people to have at least two?

@ZielAmerak

3 жыл бұрын

with 1 child per couple you low the population, with 2 per couple you keep the population and 3 per couple you grow the population, they don't want to grow the amount of people, they want to distribute better the population. with 2 child per couple every adult have to provide per 1 child and 1 elder, in most parts you keep a constant work force.

@azmodanpc

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZielAmerak Yes but it's not like EVERY family can be asked to have exactly 2 children. The policy (one or two child policy) is idiotic just the same. Now the richer couples are not having babies since they are career focused and more educated (and wealthy), so they have 1 or zero. The poorer and lesser educated couples will barely have two since they have been scared into having at most two and prefer male heirs (patriarchal society and whatnot), making the problem just worse.

It genuinely feels weird to watch this with an audience right now

Thank you for shedding light on this subject. I was born during this policy's strictest implementation. My birth mother anonymously dropped me off at a police station when I was around one month old, risking her life so that I could live. I was then taken to an orphanage and was extremely fortunate to be adopted by a loving American single mom. My mom said that all of the babies in my province placed in orphanages that were born the previous year died, most likely due to a lack of resources. Many of my Chinese international classmates are male w/o siblings. I read "A Mother's Ordeal" by Steven Mosher and consider it an eye-opening and sobering account of the policy's consequences.

@ArthurKnight1899

4 жыл бұрын

You are one of the most luckiest one's girl! God bless!

@Fire-Manz

4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of that one "hey Arnold" episode. It's just sad ...

@reapthemars8741

4 жыл бұрын

Happy for you!

@lovely-mk4rt

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your text

@kimhansen8615

4 жыл бұрын

It's so heartbreaking and dehumanizing. Thanks for sharing and so happy you were lucky.

As a girl adopted from China due to the one child policy my heart breaks and I imagine my birth mother so much in the woman crying at 11:00. Thanks for bringing attention to this, especially because: - I think it's an issue that used to be a hot topic but people have sort of forgotten about EVEN THOUGH IT'S STILL A THING - Since the one child policy is old news, it reminds us that we should not stop being outraged and accept this as normal, especially in one of the largest and most powerful countries on earth

@nieznajomy4398

4 жыл бұрын

"I think it's an issue that used to be a hot topic" Honestly I can remember at least one sitcoms from 90's in which they adopted child from China (I think it was a girl) and as a kid I was wondering why from China? Now I know why....

@lorraine9242

4 жыл бұрын

She is probably still crying for you.

@Ludwig_Perpenhente

3 жыл бұрын

They latter on nae nae'd the One Child Policy to The Two Child Policy

John Oliver- you are simply the best. I love your show.

John Oliver is a better more reliable news source than half the 'serious' news sources around * and hes super funny

15:04 "Choosing the right chat up line on the first date..." *shows a line that translates to "Why?"*

@car0linanne

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, that's a brilliant chat up line! It makes you appear so poetic XD

"Ultra Absorbent Period Toliet Paper" Dude shut up and take my money I would love that stuff.

@craigcorson3036

4 жыл бұрын

So, buy that stuff: www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=ultra+absorbent+sanitary+pads

@mayadelaneys

4 жыл бұрын

@@craigcorson3036 That's...that's not toilet paper tho. You can't flush it and wiping with a pad would be a waste of a pad.

@heathermarie5139

4 жыл бұрын

@@craigcorson3036 and this is why we have a term called "mansplaining" lol. Woman: I would like this thing to help with my period. Man: Silly woman, that thing already exists! I will deign to show you!

@craigcorson3036

4 жыл бұрын

@@mayadelaneys I guess my point was that ANYTHING that exists can be found on the internet. One merely needs to look.

@horrormakeupgirl

4 жыл бұрын

Craig Corson okay great but HER point was IT DOESNT EXIST

John, I feel you might also want to talk about China imposing heavy fans on women who have children before getting married, which is totally absurb

@Floatian

4 жыл бұрын

what？

@lauranetta6015

3 жыл бұрын

r u for real??? do you mean these days or old days ???

As an Indian, I can say that Infanticide, sex-selective abortions and Child Marriage were common issues here. Thankfully these horrible practices have almost ended thanks to the tireless efforts of several activists and the Government.

@user-cr6qv1bn2u

Ай бұрын

Yeahhh. It's only a problem if you report it. I don't believe that with the amount of corruption in that country

Take a shot for every time John says "The point is." I'm already dead.

@em5522

4 жыл бұрын

I used water, so I'm well-hydrated now

@touchofgrey5762

4 жыл бұрын

Drink like an adult.. also... the point is, shut up and listen to this man!

@elenapopa8648

4 жыл бұрын

😀😀🥂

@RealRomplayer

4 жыл бұрын

"It's true!"

Dr. "You're going to have triplets" Chinese government "I think you mean twins"

@asdkotable

4 жыл бұрын

I know you're just joking around, but twins and triplets were officially considered exceptions, and people usually weren't penalized for them.

@nabin6976

4 жыл бұрын

Wow such a relief! Absolutely delghted to hear that

@tokeivo

4 жыл бұрын

Often, a doctor will recommend a "reduction" (that's the word here, dunno if it's the same in English) from triplets to twins, due to health risks. (In any country)

@gabor6259

4 жыл бұрын

@@tokeivo Reduction? Meaning you have to decide which one to kill?

@mason3461

4 жыл бұрын

Gábor Králik Yeah

I love John Oliver. Cracks me up every time!

@infinitejest441

2 жыл бұрын

He’s a savage 😂

“I could be wrong.”-you are, John. You are.

Aunt Lydia “the workers are grateful for my concern”.... handsmaid tale 💯

the mother crying over the loss of her unborn child is heartbreaking...

@davidhollenshead4892

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, at 9 months that was evil....

@KinreeveNaku

4 жыл бұрын

David Hollenshead that’s the most disturbing part. It could have easily survived being removed from the womb. What they did is by any and all definitions, absolute murder

@maggie198333

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t watch. I had to look away.

@TechReflex

4 жыл бұрын

I just skipped that part.

@amatsolehin2526

4 жыл бұрын

9 months?, why dont they just let the baby born and stab the baby in the heart, much more easier. Poor mother.

Ok this has been my guilty pleasure let's hope my internet doesn't get cancelled the next month.

I agree with John. The whole point of being pro-choice is being able to chose to have an abortion

@angelabennett8245

Жыл бұрын

Ten women get abortion's, by choice, and twenty women have babies. Those twenty women have 4 children each, which is 80 kids all together. So why is abortion such a bad thing. The economy is stable. Another example: 80 women have 2 kids each. That's 160 kids. I don't care if religious Republicans think it's a sin. The economy is still stable. Rich people stay rich.

I realllyyyyy wish they would have covered adoption because I’m also a direct effect from the Chinese policy. I was adopted in 1995 and my orphanage was only girls. And I know their are a lot of chinese adoption groups over here in the states. Wish he would have covered that too

@FOLIPE

4 жыл бұрын

I think they wanted to focus on the consequences to China itself. They didn't cover the comparison to other countries' family planning policies or lack thereof, for example, which would've been interesting and put the whole issue in a new wider perspective

@JingARing

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree! I’m also a adopted and I find that there’s is a massive gap in literature on Asian Americans as a result of One-Child

@justicedunham4088

4 жыл бұрын

ukulelepopstar1019 Even the Cleveland Show, spin off of Family Guy, commented on this. Basically stating it was incredibly hard to adopt any race/nationality of child except for Chinese girls. I obviously don’t know the truth of the underlying argument because I haven’t looked into it, but there is a significant number of Americans adopting Chinese girls. I don’t know her birth nationality, but one of my brother’s friends is an Asian girl adopted by a white American family. She’s pretty cool.

@JingARing

4 жыл бұрын

F. OPE Asian American adopted girls is a direct product of one child because they placed so many abandoned babies (hundreds of thousands) that were adopted out, mostly into the US.

@TheRoybert

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing and I'm a white male with daughters. The adoption factor is reasonably substantial. I do however know a couple with an adopted chinese boy. I never asked any personal questions, but always have wondered how they got a boy.

"what you fill a cabinet with when you run out of human needs"😄 Brilliant. Just, brilliant.

@keepdancingmaria

4 жыл бұрын

I completely agree. Good writing, well delivered.

I always thought Pizza Rat was adorable

09:10 amazing bit, I especially love that the Diva Cup is really the only one I am certain actually exists due to a friend of mine being very exited about it

"we need more children" "but we're going to punish people who have a third"

@figandsalt3348

4 жыл бұрын

The former one is a reluctant acknowledge to the fact and the latter one is for appeasing the huge "family planning" bureaucratic machine which had claimed that Chinese population would immediately boom and cause serious social disorder if the One Child Policy were cancelled. These "civil servants" have been announcing that quibbling for decades since Chinese population growth started to drop significantly even til today. It's just for their own benefit of course, for all their power relies on those family planning crap.

@xponen

4 жыл бұрын

@Ultra Mega they want to keep the rich stay rich, they want them to have kids while prevent poor people from having much. Kids help poor people because they can work at farm or find money, poor people without kids will die poor & alone.

@LadySnowfaerie

4 жыл бұрын

Why can't the people not interested in kids sell their "child permits" to the families who want more than two?

@nitin577

4 жыл бұрын

@Ultra Mega So you basically want the rich to reproduce and the poor not to, cuz they couldn't. The whole history of humanity has been more or less poor. The more wealthy one becomes the higher standard of living and less children means less money spent. So the rich will not have more kids!!!!!!! That's why developed nations have a decline in population growth. My main problem is that women are checked periodically if they are pregnant or not. Think about it.. How embarrassing and inconvenient it is...

@xponen

4 жыл бұрын

@Ultra Mega the poor have no chance to become rich if only 2 kids. It's about survival and large family have better chance.

Who's gonna tell John the Diva Cup is real? 😂😂

@Lectrikfro

4 жыл бұрын

Of course it is real, they had a picture of Mariah Carey holding one. Do you thing they just make up these pictures?

@NoahNobody

4 жыл бұрын

To those wondering, it's real. It's called a moon cup where I live.

@SavannahBurris

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that, too! I've heard they're nice to wear, actually, but I can't personally imagine doing so.

@Lectrikfro

4 жыл бұрын

@@swahrosier4179 Yes, that's actually why I mentioned the bit about them not just making up pictures for the show

@wairimumukuria959

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

I recall a movie where the guy dated his phone. That is somehow less pathetic than the dolls simply because the phone had an AI that could at least have simple conversations. Now my childhood of not having any friends besides the ones I raised while playing my Pokemon and Digimon games feels slightly less pathetic because I grew to develop the skills to make actual friends.

“China’s population is rapidly aging” Covid19- ay China I got you

@user-vs4ik3ce4s

4 жыл бұрын

see whose population is reducing faster, who is desperately getting rid of the elderly. BTW We are almost done. Good luck to u guys

@kirion111

4 жыл бұрын

China released Covid on purpose to eliminate all the old people in China lul

@saleh.hashmi

4 жыл бұрын

surprising thing nobody in big cities got infected... but ppl overseas from Wuhan got?

@user-vs4ik3ce4s

4 жыл бұрын

@Gacha AndStuff Emm...this is probably more true for Europe than China

@Gaius__

3 жыл бұрын

Most countries' populations are aging rapidly. Notable exceptions are Africa and the Middle East .....

I read somewhere that having a large population of males with no prospect of getting a partner is a perfect growing ground for extremism.

@shavingryansprivates4332

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah lol. Most revolutions had excess amount of men.

@eviehankins8223

4 жыл бұрын

True. An you would think women would be more highly valued considering. Instead they are fixated on how men are the ones suffering while women get treated like baby machines and trafficked in to suit their needs. :( it's not a good situation to say the least, especially in our current political environment globally. There is already a lot of extremism rising up all over the word, so this seems like a powder keg.

@Froggeh92

4 жыл бұрын

Time for that gay bomb Jack from 30 rock was workin on.

@aureliomanalo

4 жыл бұрын

Generation Incel

@jyde50

4 жыл бұрын

china doesn't actually have a female population problem , in a country of 1.4 billion people with 35 million fewer females, that will be about 717million males and 682 million females. not much of a problem.

I spent a month in China, and remember speaking to a local at some length about the policy and its effects. Interestingly, he was saying that although he could now have 2 kids (already had 1) he didnt intend to for one major reason. Apparently in many Chinese cities there is a massive housing shortage - he has a home he can fit 3 people in, getting one with room for 4 would be waaay more than he could ever afford. So he and according to him many of the people he knows are just sticking with 1 child anyway

@titheproven954

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't think of that. I would also assume that most housing that does exist is also made with the idea of the OCP and that the majority of homes are made for only 3 people in the first place.

@pietersteenkamp5241

4 жыл бұрын

@@titheproven954 While millions of AMericans are homeless with millions of empty homes....

@willianrodrigues684

4 жыл бұрын

@@pietersteenkamp5241 and china have empty cities, are you american?

@pietersteenkamp5241

4 жыл бұрын

@@willianrodrigues684 China has serious issues distributing resources and building entirely new cities from scratch and then populating them isn't the easiest thing. Of course comparatively speaking China is still a far poorer country than the USA so if they have trouble getting their citizens spending power ( need to produce the goods) that may be understandable but why in the richest country on earth there needs to be both millions in prisons&'justice system' (4-5 million) and millions of children experiencing homeless in any given year is much much harder to qualify as some quirk. I am not American but i have been there and saw rural poverty first hand.

@kazoode

4 жыл бұрын

I was told of this story from a person who visited some Chinese factories, because of quality issues his factory was receiving from factories in China.... He showed up in his mandated work uniform. Blue jeans (denim is flame resistant), long sleeve denim shirt, steel toe boots, eye protection, and ear protection. He saw men in sandals and shorts laughing at him. The mangier told him it was because "he was so tall". Then the point hit home for me, in his story. He saw a man fall into the smelter, and the factory continued on, because production. At the end of the work day the workers swept all the scraps of everything on the floor into the smelter...... I can imagine what you said as only being able to support one child. Then I can imagine being that one worker in shorts and sandals, seeing a coworker falling into a smelter and realizing I have keep working. For that one child.

An old friend of mine came to the US as a result of this policy, and she's had a great time here since.

20:17 I love that the baby comes out of a government order.

The girl with no status is so heart breaking

@bassmaster867

4 жыл бұрын

kind of a hopeless life

@stonewitch12

4 жыл бұрын

That’s not true. They may got delayed to have identity for a few years, but they eventually will get it. Or else they won’t be able to go to school.

@kirikayumura6015

4 жыл бұрын

@@stonewitch12 that's the problem.. she said she can't go to school, can't get medical care.. and I think can't get a legal job (? I might be reading in that last one). Honestly, I don't understand how she's managing to survive.. where's she getting money for clothes, food, and housing from? Also, if she can't seek any kind of medical care within the country, then she's really living on borrowed time.

@jsdreyer2031

4 жыл бұрын

@@stonewitch12 She was 26 and still had no identity.

@devodavis6454

4 жыл бұрын

@@jsdreyer2031 I was about to say the same thing. You're basically just lying to yourself here, Stonewitch.

My sister in law's family came from China when she was 20, her parents had 4 kids, 3 daughters and a son. I asked her if she and her sisters (all of them are very pretty) were higher valued because the impending gender gap. She told me they weren't valued at all compared to their little brother. All 3 daughters went on to get college degrees (My sister in law got a PhD) and the son became a car salesman, and he still is held in higher regard than his sisters. There is just a huge difference cultures.

@rachelciel3330

4 жыл бұрын

You bet. The son could be a leeching hermit and the sisters could be doctors, the parents would still value the son more.

@mokshavortice

4 жыл бұрын

The only intrinsic value women have is to procreate any thing else a man can do better, adding the government intervention only diminishes that value as she is only allowed two children which is still under replacement.

@PhoenixProdLLC

4 жыл бұрын

@@mokshavortice

@Ravi-xf8dw

4 жыл бұрын

@@mokshavortice what the fuck? Man can't do shit

@geek7227

4 жыл бұрын

Same in India.

A more accurate name would be “One Boy Policy”, not “One Child Policy”.

@fatimahanwaar306

7 ай бұрын

true

One child policy would have made sense if they decreased the population in order to make everyone live together in one place and turned the remaining area into forest, but this one didn't do either of those. Humans lost, pandas lost, all wild animals lost, bats lost.

Amazing how this show makes me laugh with a joke to proceed and horrify me with the harsh reality of this planet right after

@rogerx1258

4 жыл бұрын

I scrolled down a pretty while to find one pearson to mention something about the side effects of our population problem. Sadly speaks for itself.

@alexsilva28

4 жыл бұрын

Only to go back to another joke right afterwards

@zejdland

4 жыл бұрын

Communism/Socialism is the reason this happens in china

@willtripp5062

4 жыл бұрын

Why the fuck would anyone laugh at this.

@user-lh1ew6ey7u

4 жыл бұрын

Will Tripp well,sometimes comedy is just another tragedy,and that might be reversed.

That magic trick guy now will be like I’m on a John Oliver episode, and use that to woo girls.

@kl8901

4 жыл бұрын

I double any Chinese girl knows who John Oliver is. You don't even need to look it up to know that he (and his show) is banned in China.

@colly3333

4 жыл бұрын

Chinese girl: "Who's John Orriver?"

@RD-eg1df

4 жыл бұрын

I can't know for certain, but I'm pretty sure John Oliver is banned in China after his episode on Xi Jinping

@robertdullnig3625

4 жыл бұрын

He'll just say, "He's like the guy in the two-child commercial."

@dustinbennett7869

4 жыл бұрын

Haha I hope you used "woo" as a pun 😄

This is the best show! Funny and informative.

The loneliest number part cracked me up! 🧟

as the one child from the one child policy. I can say this with confidence that Oliver didn't hit it hard enough. The policy had caused so much suffering on the personal level, community and as a country

@humanbeing5918

4 жыл бұрын

it could be worse if population continued to grow astronomically

@LookingForAName...

4 жыл бұрын

@@humanbeing5918 Yeah I'd like to see the effects it had on population growth. It's easy to judge and there may have been better ways to control population, but I don't know if the unrestrained growth would have lead to a better situation.

@Herowebcomics

4 жыл бұрын

@@LookingForAName... A better plan would have been to expand and immigrate to other countries! Then children don't have to die, and adults don't have to be assaulted!

@DizzyBusy

4 жыл бұрын

@@humanbeing5918 im from a country that in the 80s tried a similar program in a less invasive way, but still quite bad. In some middle-sized villages, soldiers in uniform would stand in a room and watch as women would be fitted with an IUD. That's twisted, isn't it?

@vikiai4241

4 жыл бұрын

@@humanbeing5918 More-or-less India today. Not a complete mess, but still not pretty. (AFAIK, India has - or had - a two-child policy, but it had no teeth - the only punishment for families was exclusion from ever holding a government-provided job).

Before the "one child policy" there was actually a “Russian Mother policy” at the beginning of the 50's when China and Russia were still allies. The government wanted all Chinese parents to follow the footsteps of the Russian Mothers that have 7-8 children on average. Mostly because the governement was gearing up for another foreign invasion, which never came. That was the reason for why the population got out of control in the first place.

@danny90099

4 жыл бұрын

Breeding fast to invading another country. Jezz that right there call Zerg rush

@bouwonder9223

4 жыл бұрын

The population was big before the USSR you fuck.

@suja5171

4 жыл бұрын

dyou have a source for this? bc i really would like to know more

@stonewang7488

4 жыл бұрын

The first peak of childbirth after the founding of PRC came in 1953. Data like birth rate is easy to look up. And Chinese government had some policy to deal with the rapidly growing population. Actually it's a very complicated history...

@aquaticko

4 жыл бұрын

As everyone else said, and also, when living standards are low and public health is poor, couples have more children in anticipation that some may die. As health improves, more of those children live, and the population increases rapidly. That's the experience of the whole world through the last few centuries; it's called demographic transition.

Wow powerful stuff - amazing how much humour is managed with such difficult subjects.

23:05, just adding, great Animation there. Making all stars spider like

Lesson to learn here: one should be really careful about unintended consequences when trying to engineer society and bend the reality to some ideologically desired outcome.

@kail9777

4 жыл бұрын

On the other hand, they are the 2nd largest economy and that was totally engineered. They also pulled a couple hundred million people out of poverty too in record time since 1979. Though, I get your point. It has its ups and downs.

@kail9777

4 жыл бұрын

@MrBigEnchilada I never saw it like that before. This is fascinating - thanks for sharing.

@TheSpokenWizard

4 жыл бұрын

@@kail9777 China has 3x the population and only managed to become the second largest economy by foreign companies doing their manufacturing in China.

@kail9777

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSpokenWizard I would say that's pretty good hands off management by that standard. They also have their own production of course. It isn't entirely just American companies. Keep in mind....they started in 1979 when they officially went full capitalism. Forty years. It's still full of farmers and a struggling country too with poverty to fight. They got a ton of issues and on some fronts are making great progress.

@CaptainDoomsday

4 жыл бұрын

At least know what the hell you're doing. Like, run some trials in a small area before distributing a policy nationwide. "Oh hey this area's population is a mess maybe test two kids."