- Crazy rich Chinese people, they definitely exist.
And I read this article today about how they're sending
their kids to go do Western etiquette lessons
and the video is the most hilarious thing,
just take a look.
(violin and drum beats)
I've lived in the Western world for quite a few years now
and this is an etiquette I never knew about.
Are we suppose to walk around as if we have
a notebook on our heads?
Is this how white people walk?
If you walk like that, just stare forward
without looking down.
You're gonna step in dog shit.
Now what is the purpose of like walking like this?
Is it a posture thing?
Is having a longer neck considered attractive?
Is this hot, trying to stretch my neck?
Am I hot enough to join BLACKPINK?
How about this, my neck is so long,
it's not even in frame anymore.
- Kids should be kids, that's true, but at least
they should have some disciplines.
They can't for example in public situation they can't yell,
they can't scream, it's so inappropriate
- Yeah I agree with that, you shouldn't yell in public
that's not very nice, but you don't need to spend
$100 dollars an hour to teach your kids
to not yell in public.
I can teach you that for free.
Hey, stop yelling,
I'm gonna break your toes if you keep yelling.
(laughing) Or threaten them with the classic Asian mom move,
you know the back scratcher?
Cost me like what?
Three pounds, which is like four U.S dollars on Amazon.
- Pay more attention to the children's quality.
- Oh look at what they're eating.
Look at what they're eating.
These rich Chinese kids, it looks like some sort of toast
with ham, egg and caviar.
- So I think they, first they can afford it,
for the second thing, they're willing to pay for it,
because this class is very necessary.
- Necessary.
(slow motion vocals)
How out of touch can you be?
Like climate change is getting worse,
wealth inequality is getting wider and wider
but this lady is sitting there,
you know what we need in this world?
Proper caviar eating technique.
We need to teach society the right way to eat fish eggs.
- I would say it's a bit tire but very interesting.
- I have a feeling she's lying.
Yeah you know what we found interesting while we
were seven years old?
Just learning how to walk properly, balancing a book
on my head, learning what fork to use for caviar
during brunch.
This is tiger parenting to the next level.
Just let her play fortnight.
- Parents are Chinese, they are proud to be Chinese
happy to be Chinese.
- This guy, Guillaume Rue de Bernadac.
I think you need to have a name like this
to teach this class.
That's how they screen you,
you have accent marks in your name, you're hired boy.
Man he's charging $100 dollars an hour to do this.
This guy's a smart business man.
- So they want their kids to be able to be sent
to schools abroad or to travel.
(gentle violin and drum beat)
- If you behave like this when you're abroad
you're gonna be bullied.
And you have to walk like you're balancing
a book on your head so you can't even look around
to see who's coming round the back to mug you?
If you behave like this, the only people
who will be your friends are other Chinese people
who act like this.
You're not gonna be able to assimilate to society.
Now these parents think all white people act like this?
Have you been to any pub in the Western world?
They can't balance a book on their heads.
Most of them are so drunk they can't even hold
a book in their hands.
I did some digging on this Guillaume guy.
I found his Instagram page and that is a goldmine also.
Here are a few highlights from this Instagram page.
This video teaches you how to get rid of lipstick
from a wine glass.
- Keep it and place it, on your belly over here.
And then discreetly, with your thumb,
you will clean it without out looking at it.
If you look at it, you will attract
all the people attention.
So you've got to need to talk to people
and once you're done, you just, place it back.
And you clean your thumb, inside your napkin,
discreetly of course.
- If your friends care that you have lipstick
on your wine glass, find new friends.
Oh she has lipstick on a wine glass, what a whore.
Don't hang out with those people.
All right, here's another one.
How to peel a banana with fork and knives,
without eating it like a monkey.
(foreign language)
- I think that's how serial killers eat bananas.
If you eat a banana like that, you need therapy son.
I understand where the parents are coming from.
If you're an Asian person who grew up in Asia
and you move to the Western world or you go to visit,
yeah there are certain things, certain behaviors
that are different, but it's not this balancing a book
on your head or walking one step at a time thing.
Here are a few Western etiquettes that I thought
I had to learn when I moved from Malaysia
to the Western world.
Number one, when you're eating, chew with your mouth closed.
I know in Asia, sometimes you chew with our mouth opened
or we slurp noodles when we eat them
because we are told, that's an expression of enjoyment
and that's okay.
And the one thing, the biggest Western etiquette
that tripped me up, was sniffing.
You know when you walk around, sometimes you have like
mucus in your nose and you go (sniffs)
Western people hate that.
They rather you blow your nose.
And as an Asian person, blowing your nose in public
that's considered rude, so if you're here
yeah you gotta change your behavior a bit,
bring some tissue with you,
blow your nose, put it in your pockets,
carry those germs with you the whole day.
Yeah I think it's ridiculous too but,
we're in the Western world, we gotta adapt.
Ever have someone blow their nose and then shake your hand?
And you're like, what the fuck?
Keep your germs to yourself dude.
I think I just contracted malaria.
If you're Asian and you grew up in the Western world,
did your parents teach you any Western etiquettes
or did you have to learn them yourself?
Or if you're an Asian person who grew up in Asia
and then moved to the Western world
where there any behaviors you had to change?
Behaviors that you thought was normal
but was considered impolite in Western society.
Let me know in the comments below,
I'm really curious to find out.