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- Five things Chinese girls love.
- Go away, you're blocking the lights!
- Things that Chinese girls love.
Number one, Selfie.
- Yay!
- Why do you guys like selfie so much?
Selfie yourself, your friends, everything, food, why?
- [Jennie] Just showing other people I'm pretty.
- Ah, yes.
What's going on, how cool my life is, right?
- I think, also, selfie is more.
'Cause after you selfie you can do photo editing.
- Photo editing?
So you do selfie for photo editing?
- Yeah, basically.
- And there's so many different apps for...
- [Victoria] There are tons!
- I don't know, I don't use any one of them.
- They make you look skinnier,
face smaller, and even to make your eyelashes longer,
and make your legs look longer,
just make you become a
different person. - Wait, your legs look long?
Why do you want to make your legs look long?
- And then they can do it in a very subtle way
that you cannot tell that it's been Photoshopped.
And also, make your skin look smoother.
- So basically like a Photoshop on-the-go.
- Fake.
- Fake Photoshop.
But isn't it true sometimes there's still stories where
the girls, they post a photo, so maybe they're dating a guy,
and suddenly when the girl shows up,
like, who the hell are you?
You don't look anything like your photo at all, right?
- It happens a lot, yeah.
- Like, in the photo your big eyes,
and skinny, and long legs.
- I mean, even my friends,
sometimes my friend posts a photo, is that you?
'Cause I can't recognize you at all!
- But, why so much editing?
Leave a bit of filter, I get that,
but they make it look crazy, big eyes and like that.
It's almost cartoonish, I don't get it.
- Just maybe that's how they think this is pretty.
Even for my mom.
Maybe I shouldn't say that.
My mom's like, please Photoshop my photo before I post it!
- And what they hate is
you post her photos without Photoshop.
Without the permission. - Don't do that.
Never do that.
Like, good photo, you post it without the permission.
No, you don't do that.
- We even have to show if the two best girlfriends
that take the photo together.
And then you will slightly realize,
how come one has been Photoshopped?
The other one has not.
And that's how they start a fight.
How come you didn't Photoshop my photo!
- I think it's so widely accepted
and expected that if you don't do it, it's weird.
Like you need to do it. - Yeah.
And it doesn't matter the age.
It doesn't matter if they're 20 years old
or if they're 50 years old.
Yeah, it's amazing.
Number 2, the things that they love is...
- Being skinny.
- [Dan] Being skinny.
I think it's also the pressure from the society.
In China, more so, in Hong Kong as well.
It's a lot of pressure that...
I remember when I was going to school in Hong Kong,
the girls are even just a little bit overweight,
but they get a lot of judgment.
Judgment, they can only look at that little chubby girl.
You get a lot of that.
- Kind of bully, right?
- Almost like a verbal, mental--
- It's an instant label that you get.
It's like, oh, you're above the average weight?
That is who you are.
Like, they defined you.
- And it almost makes you like you're bad.
Like, I don't want to hang out with you, you're not cool.
That kind of thing.
- And we are not talking about overweight.
- Yeah, not overweight, just talking a little bit--
- Maybe five pounds more, or ten pounds more than average.
You are super fat.
They use the word fat.
- Fat, that's your fat.
- It's very unforgiving.
It's in your face. - You are fat.
Fat boy, fat girl.
Yeah, that becomes your nickname
for the whole many years, right?
Wow.
So, they do a lot of things to control the weight.
Sometimes very extreme.
- Very extreme.
- Like some things, I know they don't eat.
Or they eat tiny, little, small portions.
Or they would go on these crazy fasts that they...
Like, only juiced diet for long time, or what else?
They don't eat carbohydrates.
Even, they make themselves puke after they eat,
and they throw up.
- They throw up.
And then supplements, they take sometimes supplements.
- Yeah, very extreme measures.
- Well, my mom is an example.
For the past 30 years, she never eats dinner.
- Yeah, no dinner.
- Yeah, she only eats two meals a day.
But then she feels pretty, skinny.
- Maintain her weight, it's so,
And even just she gained a little bit of weight,
and she'd be like, oh my God, I gained like two pounds!
Such a big deal.
- She'd feel guilty if she had two pieces of pie.
- Yeah, the whole life.
A lot of pressure.
- A lot of pressure.
- So that's what they love, they love being skinny.
And what's the ideal weight?
It's whatever you are, five pounds less.
And then ten pounds less. - We have a
saying, (speaking in chinese),
which means if you are pretty,
then you should be less than 110 pounds.
Well, there's different ways
of how you feel about it, 110 pounds.
- Yeah, that's very skinny.
Like, tiny.
Wow, that's amazing.
Number three, what's the third thing
that Chinese girls love?
- Plastic surgery.
Of course, obviously is very popular in Korea.
Everybody has plastic surgery.
Not everybody, a lot of jerks have plastic surgery,
but in China thing's getting more popular.
Not necessary just plastic surgery,
we're talking like Botox, small eyelids.
Nose, yeah. - Eyebrows,
even eyebrows or even yeah.
- Injections, different things, right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Laser, right?
Make your skin maybe more white.
- All sort of things, yeah.
- And, this is what I see from a guy's perspective,
now when you watch TV drama or movies,
because a lot of the actors have plastic surgery.
They all try to make themselves look like Angelababy.
And they all look the same.
I can't tell the difference.
Like, since the first, second actress,
it could've been the same person.
- For the new generation of actresses.
- I could not tell the difference.
Like, before, the older generation, it's better.
You can see, oh that's a superstar.
It's more natural.
But now it all looks the same.
- And then you can clearly tell from the newer generation
of the newer actress, you can clearly tell some of them
never had surgery on some of them before.
- They all look the same.
- They're all very close to eachother.
You can just tell.
- They all look the same.
It's like all the same factory.
- Yeah, something like that.
- It feels like that.
Like, this shape, like that.
Nose, and then eyes.
Yeah, it's amazing.
- Well, they want to be pretty.
- Again.
Again, the social pressure of that.
Maybe this is also in North America, maybe it's women.
We embrace, more, the independence.
Right, China it's more, hey, you know what,
just leave your daughter if it were a girl.
You know what, graduate, doesn't really matter.
Just get married.
Right, twenty something year old,
find some guy, just get married.
But here it's more, hey, pursue your career,
have a family, have your own thing going on.
What do you think?
- Yeah, definitely.
I think growing up, I mean, my parents had three daughters.
So growing up, it was never really about looking
for something to depend on.
It was all about empowerment.
It was all about, you need to create your life for yourself.
Right, it's not gonna be from us,
it's not gonna be from anyone else.
So they don't really impose the same type of mentality
that the traditional Chinese type were.
Better focus on looking pretty,
because you need to marry well,
and then that really determines everything else.
How the rest of your life is gonna look like.
- And maybe you marry someone who's got money,
then the family's good, it's well off.
- It's still shocking to me.
I went back, I haven't been back for the past ten years,
but I went back probably two years ago.
Right now, I saw on an elementary school,
on the side of the wall,
- Elementary school!
- they have this logo saying, girls just as good as boys.
I was shocked seeing that in front of the school in Chinese!
- It's a new thing.
- Basically telling people, please don't do abortion,
girls are same as good as boys,
don't just care about the boys, not the girls.
That was scary.
- That's unfortunate because
the Chinese culture, they value boys.
You can see the tradition of family.
They want to have a boy because they feel like
they can pass on the family name, legacy to a boy.
Daughter from the Chinese culture,
when they get married it's like they go away.
- The husband's family.
- Yeah, he's not the husband's family.
So when they have a boy, oh great!
Sometimes what's what they do.
They have one girl, two girls, three girls, daughters.
And then it's like, no, we want a boy.
- [Jennie] They want to have a boy.
- [Dan] We want to have a boy, right.
- Same for Hong Kong, right?
- Very so, very much so, very much so.
Hong Kong, I think now, in the last ten,
twenty years is better, just because people are living more
- For the village!
- for the village.
Yeah, more modern, right?
Like, we know in Hong Kong, as you know I'm
from the village at the new territory side.
The boys, you get certain rights that the girls don't.
So it's a little bit different.
What's number four?
- Number four is online shopping!
- Online shopping.
Well, guys like online shopping, too, right?
So, we like that too.
- But girls are crazier, trust me.
- I think it's the culture where, Alibaba,
they can spend a long time just shopping.
How many hours do you spend on it?
- Me?
- Yeah.
- Oh I'm not that crazy.
But I'm thinking China, they did research.
They said people spend probably seven hours,
five to seven hours per day on cell phones.
'Cause when they take transportation, subway...
- Yeah, they're watching something, playing something.
- Yeah, like it's a crazy number, yeah.
- I think the convenience of WeChat, number one.
- Yeah, WeChat, we talk about WeChat.
- Right, in the other episode we talked about that.
And it's a lot about the convenience.
If it's literally a matter
of one click for you to buy something.
One click, that really sold the product to me.
- And gets shipped to your home very, very quickly, right?
- In China sometimes the same day.
- If it's same city, yeah.
But we're talking about, you know how big China is,
but even now it's still North America,
if you want to buy something from New York to LA,
it takes you five days.
But in China, almost three days or less.
- Even these far distances.
- Far away, they can do that fast.
- If you want to watch our WeChat video,
you can click the 'I' button.
We talk about WeChat and how WeChat works
and exactly what it is and why is it so popular.
What's number five?
- Watching drama.
- Drama from China, drama from Korea, drama even from Japan.
And North America, too.
Yeah, very popular.
Very very popular, they did a
translation and everything else.
- But I think North American dramas are
more for people with a mature generation.
- Younger generations?
- 20 to 25. - Maybe 20.
There's still Korea and China.
- I love dramas.
If it revolves around
love, women. - And what's with the
Korean drama, where every time it's people crying,
and people dying, it's the same story.
Just people dying and people crying, and people dying.
- The main character, they're so rich.
- And they're so rich.
Okay, I had to say, that's where the selfie comes from.
It's so unrealistic, the main guy or the main actor
is successful, good looking and so kind,
infinite amount of money...
That just loves that little girl, nobody else.
And also the Korean drama.
When you watch other dramas, this is just my perspective,
the Korean drama is so slow.
You miss ten episodes, the story only moved like this much.
- Do you know why?
It's because - Like, what the hell?
- they are filming while they are playing on air.
- So they're making up BS lines?
- No, no, no it's just because if the drama's
getting super popular, they just drag it longer.
- Like, you watched one episode,
they're talking in the same room,
three episodes later it's still the same fricking room.
Still talking the same stuff.
What the hell is this, right?
I don't get it.
But girls love that.
They love the romance, and unrealistic rich dude.
- Just how much money they spend on idols...
- Here's a thing I want to talk about,
what about also watching drama.
On TVs nowadays they have the apps
where you can just scan and just buy stuff.
Talk about that.
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- The other day I saw the app.
If you watch the drama from the app,
or the app can take you from this drama, this episode,
maybe they have five different outfits.
- The actress is wearing that outfit,
and you can just click and buy from there
and get it shipped to you.
That's powerful.
That is very, very smart.
So, those are the top five things that Chinese girls love.
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