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Hey, junghwa I'm going to be talking about
The five things that foreigners hate about chinese people the most and for all my Chinese
friends and subscribers down in the comments
I'd like you to write the five things
That Chinese people hate about foreigners the most because that's an upcoming video that I'll be doing with my wife
So please give me your suggestions down there anyway. Let's begin
What are the five things that foreigners hate the most about Chinese people I?
I have to reiterate because it seems that most people don't understand what generalization is but I am of course
Generalizing here now the first thing we're going to talk about is the lack of compassion and empathy
This must be the number one thing that
both myself and all of my foreign friends gripe about all the time when it comes to living in China or
Hello, Chinese person
Okay
Anyway umm-hmm like I was saying the lack of compassion and empathy that you see in China is astounding
And I'm talking about all sorts of things if you see somebody get hurt
It's very seldom people will actually step forward to help them and of course there are reasons for this which I've discussed in the past
You know there's a lot of scams, and there's a lot of people taking advantage of other people here
So people are scared and also you know when you've got such a huge amount of people you get that bystander effect
Either way, it is still a massive massive problem here, so not only is it when it comes to helping other people
But animals as well, it's very common to see people
Boiling animals alive :( you know cooking animals alive doing all sorts of terrible things to animals
Beating them because this is absolutely no law against animal cruelty in China so also the the whole thing about
You know killing animals for their parts for traditional Chinese medicine things like that so you know the lack of empathy and compassion is
Really quite disturbing and I'd play setters the top of the list number two
lack of foresight
Now what I'm trying to say here. Is that in China? You've got this phenomenon
Where people will grab something now without thinking about the future?
They don't really have any long-term goals when it comes to things like business
Friendships that kind of thing so if an opportunity arises now. Let's say for somebody to make
10,000 RMB
But if they were to take that opportunity now and forgo making a hundred thousand RMB over a year
They would take the 10,000 RMB now
and of course this sours a lot of business deals because you know you might order a product from a from a factory and
they can save costs by giving you a
Faulty product and so they do that and then you end up with a faulty product
And you never do business with them again
And this is very unfortunate because it sours business deals like I said
and it also sours relationships because there's a very much a grab now don't think about the
Consequences sort of thing going on here in China, and this is what leads to things like food scandals
fake drugs
The milk powder scandal all of that kind of stuff comes out of this short sightedness next thing
I'm going to talk about is rude social etiquette
I'm talking about things like
cutting in queues
Urinating in public. It's usually the children that do that, but spitting in public
You know these kind of general things talking very loudly on the phone when you're in a the place like a bus or a train
These are really a big bugbear of most of the foreigners
I know as well, and it's one of those things that I think is you know generally the older generation is
Responsible for this however the younger generation all of them have picked up this habit, too
And it's really annoying and I guess the only thing that can
Fix this is education. You know it's not good to spit if anyone here watching this video thinks
It's okay to spit on the floor on the ground when you're in public. You know what that spreads disease
I don't know if you ever learnt anything about disease and pathogens and stuff
But don't spit because it's bad for everybody's health around you and it's disgusting do it in the bathroom
Okay, rant over number four
Having money as a god now
This is a bit of a byproduct of religion being completely wiped out during the Cultural Revolution
Etc, but we can notice behind me we have all the new year's decorations
They're up there, but a lot of this is all about bringing
Fortune and bringing money. It's all about coins and fake coins and stuff. It's all about money money money and
You know if you if you spend any time with with Chinese people you'll start to realize that
Money is the most important thing in their lives of course money first
Family second may be money food then family or money family then food something like that
But those seem to be the top three priorities in you know daily life here in China
And it's unfortunate because it leads to a lot of the societal problems that happen here because money is
Put above morals and in other words it supersedes morals people will
Scam do immoral things sell their own mother if they can make money
you know what I mean this should probably actually move all the way up to number one to be honest because
All the scams all the scandals all the you know
Poisoning of children etc etc all comes from the fact that people put money above everything else
And I'm not saying that Western people aren't greed that Western people don't chase some money of course they do
Depending on the country etc etc people do terrible things for money
But the problem is it's ingrained in Chinese society that money is so important that it gets put above
That life and it gets put above
people's well-being and it gets put above
friendship, and it's really annoying because if you're from the West you know money at least the people I hang around with and
My family etc money is not that important money is a tool
Money is something that you use in order to you know live a nice life or in order to do things, but it definitely isn't
Put above the livelihood of other people and it's never put above your morals because morals can't be bought
number five
lack of individuality
now this may come as a surprise to some of you out there, but
China has a very collectivist society in other words people like to be the same people don't like to stand out
This is a of course a product of history. It's been like this for a long time. It's Confucian values
and of course communism and all that kind of thing the nail that stands out gets hammered down
So people like to all be the same they kind of like to have the same ideas
They kind of like to aspire to the same things they like to drive the same sort of cars wear the same sort of clothes
Have the same sort of hairstyles you get the picture
*evil uncle spotted*
It's basically a very sort of collectivist society, and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm not trying to say that should change
But it is something that really annoys foreigners
You know like I said, that's the point of this video other the five things foreigners hate about Chinese people
And this is one of them and the reason for this is of course
People don't make up their own minds people don't have their own ideas about things
And this is incredibly apparent if you ever look at the comments section of my videos
when somebody
thinks that I've said something bad about China which happens quite a lot because there's a of course a language barrier and
sometimes some of the things I say my videos can very easily be construed as harsh criticism of
China so what will happen is you'll get somebody reads it incorrectly
Goes online on the Chinese Internet's and says
This foreigner is saying blah blah blah blah blah
Next minute you'll see like 10 million comments ok not that many
But you'll see hundreds of comments all saying you are a bla bla bla bla bla in my comments sections
I delete most of them because they are all the same
anyway next month somebody will
Discover something I've said in my videos
And then they'll go post it online and then you'll get another hundred odd comments saying the same thing
Oh, you are a bla bla bla bla bla so there's all these funny rumors going on around
The Chinese internet about me
You know things like my wife supports me and that I make money by
Saying bad things about China, and I've got foreign powers paying me, and you know it's kind of crap which of course is nonsense
But it's really funny to see the lack of individuality and so when somebody says something that spreads a rumor an incorrect rumor
Everybody jumps on the bandwagon and instead of having their own
Individual thought they just follow the leader like a sheep, so this is quite annoying
It's also annoying when it comes to I don't know just
the vibrance of life
If you look around you'll see the same
shops
You know even though. They're not the same chain. You'll see the same sort of shops same sort of signs same sort of food
same sort of attitudes
And it doesn't matter if you're in the very south of China the very north
The very east the very West you'll find a lot of the same
sort of attitudes and the same sort of things and so
It can actually be quite boring and this is one of the things that we don't like
Hello
Where are you? There you are
Very happy to meet you
cool
But you know the thing is at the end of the day
It passes a noisy truck I should have added noise to the list because I'm pretty sure you notice just during this video
How noisy China is?
At the end of the day I do absolutely love China and the reason why I'm pointing out these five things
It's because I secretly hope that these five things will improve
because if these things can these problems can be overcome I
think China will be an
Incredible place you know and so I'm also looking forward to the feedback from my Chinese
Subscribers and Chinese fans because I would like to know from them from their point of view
What they hate about foreigners because it's always good to know
What you can improve?
So I'm looking forward to the feedback
Thank you guys for watching as always it's good to be back in China
you know I've just come back from that trip to America and
That's coming soon in fact in a couple of days. You'll see the first episode of our new series about Chinese food
It's gonna be good. It's going to be great
Anyway enough waffling on love you guys can't wait to see you in the next video and until next time. You know the drill
Stay awesome