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Here are some stories about when people didn't know I could speak Chinese, and I shocked them with my mandarin abilities.
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wait you have an image in the comments....that is cursed.
I think yr nose is cool
They say that the, Mayans were dislexic. 2012...... 2021. 😂
Thanks for the funny video. I try to make a small contribution while also having the convenience of YT premium, that way some of the channels I watch that frequently get demonitized also get something from me. Though, like your channel and others like SerpentZA & Philip DeFranco, I'll be a patreon.
Actually, would be cool if you and Winston were interviewed. I know Joe Rogan would be great, but that'd be pretty difficult. Maybe Tim Pool or Philip DeFranco, but think those have been mentioned before. Good luck.
you gained weight after coming back to the US
I sat opposite some middle school kids on a train in Japan and they spoke to each other things like “I bet you don’t have enough courage to say something to her in English” “you are taking English classes! Say something to her!” Etc. I thought it was so cute and was silently sitting there trying not to laugh and trying to look approachable. The kids were so shy and bashful and worried about using their English on me. In the end one boy said in a small voice “Hello”. I loved his courage and I said hello back. His mates went crazy and the boy got very proud and showed off how good his English was. I never told them I understood everything but it was so cute and innocent :)
China vs Japan 🇯🇵 😍
In 1968 I was in the Navy and we had come into Japan. After about a week a group of us took a train trip up to Tokyo from Yokosuka. The train was stopping at almost every little station on the way picking up people and dropping off. At one station a Japanese family got on the car we were sitting in, Mom, Dad, and a boy about 6 or so and a girl about 10 or 12, (we were all in our Navy uniforms). In perfect English the girl says, "Look Daddy, Sailors!" Turned out they were from the United States visiting the "old country". A number of us talked with them and they were so happy to have English speakers to talk with after so long just speaking Japanese. I still remember that time fondly to this day.
I did get the feeling in Japan many times that people who I suspected could speak English more than well enough to communicate with me in English actively avoided me as though they were scared to even attempt to use the English they knew on a native speaker and have their skills truly put to the test - though every time I had someone try, I was easily able to communicate with them because their English was pretty decent - certainly a lot better than my Japanese is anyway.
@@StreakyBaconMan Again, in 1968, a group of us were visiting the gardens complex in Kamakura (sp?) and a young boy, 16-16? came up to us and speaking halting English asked to be our tour guide. He carried a Japanese/English dictionary. He took up to some remarkable places and even got us into a 500/600 year old archery school that we would have totally missed. I liked Japan.
Omgggg thats the sweetestttttt!!! My heart melted ❤️❤️❤️
Funny story... I was hiking in Korea in the countryside and I passed by a priest and we started talking in French.
In that completely remote area, finding an elderly man speaking French was really a surprise.
Did you find out why he spoke French?
@@abbyalphonse499 He told me he lived in France for a few years and studied Church life there. But it was so amazing because he lived there for only 3 years.. and maybe 30 years ago, but still he could speak fluently to me. Never had I thought when I woke up that morning that I would speak French with a Korean priest on the top of a mountain.
Hon hon hon
Just imagine the priest's surprise that he found a literal French person in a remote area in Korea.
My wife had studied French in high school (Australia). When we were in Hanoi, a tiny little old lady (80+, I would guess) RAN up to her and started chattering away like we were standing under the Arc'd Triumph.
It was very surreal. Incidentally, we were mistaken for Russians too, on the same day.
Chinese Couple in Elevator: "Look at this ugly foreigner..."
Ugly foreigner: "In my defense, I have a good personality!"
Classmate in college, from Wisconsin, was in an elevator in China once, and the occupants were talking about him, and he was listening but not saying anything. Then they said "be careful, sometimes they know Chinese" and as he left, he turned and gave sort of a wink / nod.
Ugly Foreigner: That's funny.
I was thinking the same thing about you too.
@@michaelrobert8476 bro..bro but thats racism
@@fayandgake Not if you’re the minority!
@@rubyy.7374 Finally somebody with a brain 🙌🏻
I was in Vietnam and a lady brought her young daughter up to me and said in Vietnamese "this is how big they get in America." I told the daughter "Yes, and we eat children too." The mother got really embarrassed and ran off with her daughter.
lol
Thats what I would have said to the boys about why Im so hairy. "Because we eat little boys!!"
😂😂😂 this sound like a meme it should become a meme
Ha ha:) at least embarrassment is a civilized emotion.
Don't reveal our secrets, please. :-)
The French have a saying for that, "L'esprit de l'escalier", or 'staircase wit". When you think of the perfect response, only after you've left the conversation.
Never heard that one before (while I'm French, and not a young one). Thanks. :)
I'm french and I also never heard that.
Maybe you confuse that with german because we call it treppenwitz and it translates to... staircase wit
French here, dont know that expression
They have a saying in the US, "j'me la pète car je parle 2 mots de mandarin niveau maternelle" but this might be from a french poem.
I lived and worked in China 4 years, I loved it, but it is another planet, you speak the truth. Keep it up.
We're so fat because we have bigger noses that helps us find food sources much better.
im a american ex pat in the Philippines . and i often proclaim to my wife " fat foreigner!" haha . because the majority are obese, this is where fat retired guys go to hook up with younger women who settle for a stable income for herself and the kids the philippine father abandoned . its really a comical site to see a guy who is grossly over weight riding down the road on a 100 cc scooter . a wide load for sure .
HAHAHAHA, well said.
😄😄
Wonderful reply. Especially kids' brains should go wild about this theory.
@@boracay12 Can't the rich men who go there get women who are without children? Or do they not know about them before getting involved?
Am Black, my Cousin went to China & one time he caused a huge scene (police were called) people actually thought he was Kanye West😂lol
WAIT FOR REAL?! LMAO 😂
Last year my older ( where black ) went to china they thought he was Kobe no cap . He was telling me they kept repeating and following him saying "Kobe" " Kobe"
@@AngelusTheAngel THAT'S HILARIOUS 😂
@@LunaHiddenStars yea I was dyin when he told me that .
Bwahahahahahaha
Summer of 2019 I was in Hohhot with my friend who speaks fluent English and Mandarin. For some context I am Mexican but I speak perfect English with a very standard American accent. When we were getting off of a bus my friend and I were speaking English when a group of older Chinese women said, "wow that Indian guy speaks really good English!" At which point my friend bursts out in laughter. Chinese people loved to assume that I was Indian just because I'm brown lmao.
Well no shit India and China share a border. How often do you actually thing someone in China meets a Mexican
@@johnLennon255 There are a lot of Mexicans in China lol. Also brown doesn't equal Indian hahahahaha
@@Youngratnest There are way more Indians in China than Mexicans. Its not wrong for a Chinese person to assume a brown person to be Indian
Lmao I'm mixed British and Turkish (Kurd) , they thought I was from fuckin xinjiang lmao once policeman asked if I had a chinese ID and was pretending I was a foreigner
in every nation they assume individuals nationality based on what they think they know and alot of individuals base it on stereotypes.
The story freaking out the kids on the bus is the most wholesome thing ever.
Ikr? So cute!
LOL second that.
College days while in an elevator:
Two girls from Spain speaking Spanish to one another and begin to talk about me. I play dumb to see what happens. Many insults and ragging on Americans. No surprise.
But as I listen I notice the dialect of their speech. One is clearly from Southern Spain (totally different dialect) however the other is from Barcelona area (Cataluña area)
I know exactly what I’m going to say. (People from Catalunya don’t just have a dialect, they actually have their own language) so as I get ready to get off the elevator I look directly at the girl from Barcelona and say in Catalan “you really shouldn’t make assumption that others don’t hear you. You might want to share that tidbit to your little friend”
The Sevillana girl looks confused while the Catalan girl just stares in shock with her mouth wide open.
Priceless.
Simon Mcfarland I was wearing my sorority letters and got on the elevator after parting ways w my sorority sister. They’re assumption WAS that I was some sorority chick -American w no experience outside my bubble so to speak. This was a few decades ago & yep, totally happened & was interesting to experience.
@Simon Mcfarland - Wow... I hope that wasn't serious. Asians, as a whole, can be VERY judgemental about other Asians. Taiwanese "vs" Filipinos would be an example, and I've met a number of Japanese that look down on Asians of other cultures as being unrefined. "Rice" is not "Rice".
As for Americans, we can draw hate from anywhere... We're "special" in that way... Just ask a growing number of our Canadian neighbors. It has nothing to do with being "European".
@@_Common_Logic_ Americans started getting hated after 1945 when you bombed Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Pakistan (NWFP FATA), Haiti, Cuba, Libya, Syria and in 1971 you even planned to invade India, but USSR intervened!
@@Email-mu1mv - You really need to distinguish the topic at hand and what the O.P was experiencing... If Two Russian students or two North Korean refugees happened to step into an elevator with me, do you actually think I would hate those individuals?...
Anyone who hates "Americans" would (in this example) most-likely have a distaste for us culturally... Stereotypically, boisterous, arrogant, nationalists with a self-centered mindset that stops at our own borders. To hate a nation's citizens for wars and crimes committed before they were born is just stupid... There is a big difference between a country's GOVERNMENT and its people. If Any East Indian students or immigrants happen to talk shit about me in an elevator, I'm guessing it wouldn't be because of my Government. We've certainly "earned" our own level of disrespect.
I do some work in Ukraine and over the years, have met many young Russian citizens. A few, of which I still speak to Tying them to Putin or worse yet, the Cold-War wouldn't make any sense. Take the language barrier away and we are mostly, the same.
I'll admit that I don't remember a lot of 1971, but I'm PRETTY darn SURE I wasn't making any plans to invade India. I'm not going to start a scrollable list of examples, but you might want to remember that Americans and even the American Military seem to be just FINE for the folks in India who wanted our military support after China attacked Indian troops three months ago.
@@scythianking7315 - We are talking about NATIONALISM and not PATRIOTISM... Patriots love their country. They show pride and willingness to defend it. However, patriots do not feel the need to dominate other countries or display the superiority present in nationalists... The need to be "Number One" and dominate others that often leads to military aggression.
East Germany, for example... It's true that the Soviet-occupied sovereignty hasn't existed since Germany was reunified in 1990, but the lack of narcissistic superiority remains the same... They display nearly NO nationalism as a country... West Germany.? Well, that's a different story
Latvia, Slovakia, and nations like Norway, which were formed long ago don't have a recent "creation myth" that inspires the obsessive, boisterous pride you see in other countries like the U.S. Do I even need to bring CANADA into this conversation?
America is always in (or involved in) a perpetual war somewhere... War critically influences a country's patriotism, and inevitably, nationalism. Citizens feel it is their duty to support their nation while it is embroiled in international conflict. Some countries haven't experienced this in modern history, or at least a generation... Therefore, they don't have that particular musket up their asses...
Don't believe me?... George W. Bush was essentially, an incompetent president with dismal approval ratings... Explain the overnight spike in his approval ratings after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Wars and tough talk breed pride within a nation (albeit temporary)... We (in America) keep that conflict fresh with new and constant conflict worldwide... Convenient where "morale" is concerned.
Again, you're obviously confusing nationalism with patriotism... Nationalism isn’t just pride in one’s country. It goes beyond that. Nationalists think that their country is superior to other countries. Because of their perceived superiority, nationalists won't collaborate with global efforts or unions. In extreme cases, it can lead to the segregation of ethnicities and even go as far as ethnic cleansing.
There are also forms of "economic" nationalism where you favor your goods and services over other countries. One example is the whole "Made In the USA" campaign. Everything else is inferior... VERY few countries can top our mindset there... VERY few.
I spend a lot of time in S.E. Asia, and I'll tell you that the FILIPINOS are FAR more patriotic than we are. Their PRIDE is incredible, but they are not even CLOSE to being nationalists. Learn the word, it's definition and it's implication before making such an incorrect, blanket statement...
Saying "Everyone on the planet" suggests that you've been NOWHERE as the ridiculous humility of some cultures is literally mind-blowing. Do some traveling... Communicate... Or just Google some dusty statistics if it's the best you can do... You're going to find that U.S. (and for some reason, Australian) nationalism tops the list and has for decades.
9:52 that man is kidnapping that girl in the pink..
10:50 wait no, she's trying to abduct HIM.
I was looking for this comment
No.... I think your right the first time
lol
😂😂😂👌
haha nice one
I had a Chinese friend in high school who mentioned how beautiful my big nose bridge was. I was always self-conscious of my nose until then... so I want to thank her for making me feel good about my nose for the first time in my life.
I was in Thailand and a pretty Thai girl with the cutest nose said "I wish I had a nose like yours" And I said why do you think you need to be punished?
Wow you poor thing I’m glad you’re not as self conscious - cheers
This is true- a prominent nose bridge on a woman is a sign of sensuality.
Daww, so wholesome.
@@bobbywoods684 I'm on board with that. I see a woman's nose with 'character' (a small lump in he middle) and my first thought is I hope she doesn't get plastic surgery, then before my second thought comes to mind I'm interrupted by a physical change in appearance (and I hadn't touched Viagra 💊).
When I first started dating my Chinese wife she was also obsessed with my nose bridge. She honestly didn't understand how westerners kissed because she thought our nose would get in the way.
Good thing you educated her on the issue then.
That was her way of getting a "Here let me show you" out of you.
Que linda!
That's like saying how do Chinese see since their eyes are so slanted
ya just tilt your head
I've never really had situations like these, but I've had the reverse happen a lot.
Like when I was in China, one time in a Beijing airport, I was talking to my brother in English while in line at a McDonalds. We're both American born and raised, bilingual with English being our first language, but we look very Chinese. So when we started talking these two younger boys in the line next to us looked up and openly gaped at us and I could practically read their minds. It was pretty hilarious.
Another time I was just sitting in a cafe one night talking to my mom over a soda. My mom was talking to me in Chinese and I was responding in English, the way we've been talking since I was very young, and this lady overheard us and came over. And no joke, she asked me to tutor her kid. She genuinely thought I was some sort of English prodigy but we told her no I was just American XD
And it blows me away when I meet Chinese people with really good English too. One summer I spent a day at a Beijing school as kind of a guest student and this girl showed me around. She had impeccable English. And I mean almost no accent distinguishable, which is really impressive for someone born and raised in China.
Side note though: gotta say, I'm NOT a fan of Chinese toilets
Toilets are probably the biggest reason I don't think I would ever visit.
In Japan, every european is "american", but in China I was also asked if I was Russian. Interesting difference.
It's about history,Guess whos a neighboring country beside china?(That's not an island), It's Russia,And There is an american military base in japan,there's also lots of business between america and japan,So it makes a lot of sense.
Russian Chinese is one of the official ethnic groups of China
@@markearnest3570 Yes it does happen and it is an insult to an Australian.
I'm an Indonesian. People in China think I'm Indian lmao
Because both Philippine and Japan have US military base there. That's just my opinion.
I lived in rural Japan for 16 years, and as one of the few gaijin, it was tough to go out alone after work and drink/eat alone w/out being bothered by some random, drunk guy next to me at the counter. As you know, you're always asked the same questions (in my case--Japanese): 1) country, 2) English teacher, 3) which (big) English school, 4) how long in Japan, 5) married, 6) girlfriend, 7) how many kids (etc., etc. and etc). Finally, I decided to play a new game: Question For Question, and the more intrusive their questions became, the more mine became. Usually, they'd shut up at the point when I asked where they worked or about their family. Most people would pick-up on what I was doing, but one dude went the distance. Turned into a lively cross-interrogation. Fun!
heheheh.
My wife's family has started including me on group text with 10 of them. I put up with it, but damn, they never stop once one is started and just give random thumbs up signs, yays, etc, etc. It'll die down and then someone will add some stupid comment and off they all go again. So to get revenge and drive a point home, I started answering at 2 and 3 a.m. I got knocked out pretty quick.
@@bobbywoods684 Love it!
So accurate haha lived in Japan 3 years also
I guess it's better that they are curious, rather than content to be ignorant about other races and cultures.
I've been working really hard on learning Cantonese. I know it's virtually useless with the exception of some regions in the mainland, but I want to see Hong Kong. Videos like this really motivate me to keep working hard. From what I understand it's a bit more complicated with mandarin, having extra tones and special expressions strictly only for Cantonese speakers, but this still makes me excited to complete my learning until I hit fluency levels.
Stay with Mandarin.
There's actually a lot of Cantonese speakers in Australia. But they can usually speak English well.
@@johnbensin2203 That's amazing to know. It's like you knew I am planning to migrate there. I'll be applying for a school very soon ^.^ Working Holiday seems out of the question though. But it is comforting that I'll get practice!
@@williamrichards8092 noooooo, that comes second. Canto first
@@TjRains actually I'm in Melbourne and I've been learning slowly for a while now.
From my travels around the city, a lot of Malaysian and Singaporean people also speak Cantonese, as well as HK people and Mainland Chinese from Guangdong province. To top it off, there are a lot of second generation people of Chinese decent that speak Cantonese and English, but a lot of them probably speak better English than Cantonese.
In conclusion there's heaps of people you can talk to.
You always do come up with amazing comebacks about 6 hours after the fact... it seems to be a law of physics or something. 😅
I still never hit that car with the trebuchet. I'll get around to it.
Its called thinking , sometimes it takes a while to think of something good
@@laowhy86 How about doing a video about why countries like South Korea, Japan, Taiwan & others as they have become more prosperous they have become more moderate & democratic, but as China becomes richer it turns more authoritarian, belligerent, etc? Why does prosperity bring out the best in countries like South Korea, Japan, Taiwan & others, but it seems to bring out the worst (politically speaking) in the Chinese?
I'll come back in 6 to 8 hours with a great response.
Lao of physics 😂
I've overheard people saying some incredibly rude things about me and my wife (who is Chinese but for some reason sometimes people don't notice this when she's with me). What I've often found when I call people out on it is that they respond with a way OTT "Oh, you speak Chinese! Your Chinese is so good. Wow, that's amazing. How long have you been in China?" and I'm like, how about we don't change the topic and instead address the shit you were just saying about us. It's amazing how people simply refuse to apologize for being rude.
Nice segue hahaha
For many, it's easier to be ignorant.
racism is in their culture, han supremacy and all that
Chinese people don't care about being rude. They think they are speaking the truth, it doesn't matter.
Had a similar thing happen with two Japanese tourists talk about my beard on a bus stop. First time I ever got a compliment, it was two Japanese dudes. They were cool, recommended a good local eatery
That was not THE first time you've ever gotten a compliment that has to be untrue
I was in Shenyang, Liaoning. And one day, i (i'm french) was getting back to my appartment with my girlfriend (she is russian) after a dinner with friends, we got back quite late, and in the elevator, there was a chinese couple that was staring at us and the guy start saying : "hey look, i'm sure this American guy just picked up this girl at the club and he is taking her to his appartment now".
my girlfriend gave him a killer look, and the chinese girl said :"She seems to understand what we are saying, are you sure she doesn't speak chinese ?"
and the guy confidently said: "No, foreigners never learn chinese"
Then my girlfriend replied: "you are wrong, i understood everything"
You should have seen the guy's face, it was hilarious
He understood English?!
@@nikkei325i no, he didn't, my girlfriend answered in chinese
I usually just stop and ask "what time is it?" on my way out.
Hahaha slut shaming asians. (Im kidding btw. Lol ur poor girlfriend. Lol awe haha thats a good one)
😂😂😂😂
I once was in a food court at a mall in the States. They had a sign that said something like "real Japanese food made by real Japanese people." I ordered my food and noticed they were speaking Mandarin. In Mandarin, I said, "Where are your Japanese people?" They had the deer and the headlight looks and just said "Mei you" or we don't have any.
I went to a Japanese restaurant and ordered in Japanese and the people's faces just froze and they said English is fine. And they were Koreans running the restaurant.😂
Same in japan in their language school, they think western students are not worth the best of their society, you can get some chinese japanese speakers.
Well China is located next door to Japan... 差不多啦。
They probably just advertise that way because they know that Americans will have a better opinion of Japanese people than of Chinese people.
In Miami I went to a Japanese restaurant but found out they were Chinese. A bit disappointed but I love all.
Chinese language is so different from English. I am always impressed when someone learns it. I am Vietnamese and Filipino and I have arm hair weird
You hate the appearance of your nose? I've never seen your nose as a noteworthy feature and I think you look great overall. Don't worry about that.
I was born with (minimal) cerebral palsy. It affects my walking. It was fascinating walking around my neighbourhood in Tokyo in the 1990s. Some people were obtuse enough to circle round me, gawking. I have had a few stupid comments from younger kids in the UK over the years but people in Japan seemed particularly unused to people with disabilities.
I was able to chat to a wheelchair user and she explained - her mum translating - that her mum would wheel her around their block a couple of times in the Summer.
She then said '...and if we meet any neighbours, we apologise for being such an embarrassment to them.' (Her mum confirmed this). I was so shocked I had to double-check their comments to see if I'd somehow misunderstood...
your comment doesn't fit your name
@@nmsspacedude1793 I really hope Japan adopts just little bit of progressivism. That shits fucked
@@ubhumma yeah and progressivism is just an ideology though, just like being conservative is just a social condition, we can’t really point our fingers. Because it doesn’t mean right or wrong. This really depends on Japan themselves. Which i agree with you.
I’m in Houston; Hurricane Laura comes tonight. I appreciate this positive-vibe video. 👍🏻
stay safe man
It is about time to LEAVE! God bless. Not a laughing matter.
How hard will she come, is the question.
Same, stay safe everyone
Ravine Seder Laura is a cat. 3 with predictions of becoming a cat. 4 at 145 mph when she slams the into the shore around midnight CDT.
Thanks for bringing back some funny memories! My child hood was in Germany and so i speak German but never use it so no one knows. My boss had a German partner and her girlfriend came over and we went for drinks. His partner then started talking to her girlfriend in German and graphically explaining how bad he was in bed. I bit my tongue for as long as i could then said in German, "don't assume the English can't speak German". They went purple. I never saw him the same way and changed jobs not long after.
Thank you, I really liked this video. I was an English teacher in Beijing for many years and I can relate to this. I must say I miss China, not for its politics or hospitals but for the friends I made and the interesting places that one could always discover. Unfortunately I was obliged to leave, there seemed to be a crackdown on foreigners (just before the covid-19 problem happened) but considering what's happening in China these days, being told to leave seems to be a good thing. However, I still have the nostalgia, which leaves a huge emptiness inside. That's what happens when you lose your home, the job you love and your friends, so I guess it's natural. I am pleased that you managed to leave and keep your family safe. Take care.
I was with another white American classmate in China a few years ago when a woman came up to us to practice English. She asked if we were Russian, to which my friend responded that we were American. The woman then said in all seriousness “but you’re not fat.”
Wow! That’s pretty funny.
Never been to China, but have a number of similar stories from rural Japan. In the cities there are a fair number of westerners that speak Japanese, but not so in the more rural areas. One difference I imagine in Japan is just about all the young folks want to try out their English once they know you speak Japanese, since clarification can be done in Japanese.
The kids on the bus story is awesome. The lady at Yellowstone now thinks the Americans government had people spying on them the whole time they were in the US lol
lol I never thought of that
I was going to say the same that she either thought you were a spy for the US government.
Totally true, i bet that is what she thought
Probably made her think that you’re an American minder lol
@Phil Watts That is extremely boring.....zzzzz. Snowden told me so.
When I was in China for ten days I was astonished by how unaware the locals were about current affairs/events happening around them in China.
Pretty sad I thought.
you have to understand there are many people who never went to school or have limited education .
Most of what happens in China is censored. The locals only know what they are allowed to. Lucky for us we have "China in Focus", "China Uncensored" and "Crossroads with joshua philipp" here on RUclips.
When I lived in Zhengzhou, there was such little interest in world affairs, it was like living in the Shire
@@502964924 It takes little to no education to know a new loop is being built around Bejing (the city) and the entire driving public would/could appreciate the better traffic flow.
Funny, as a German living in the USA I am wondering the same, why the average American knows so little about what the world is like outside the self proclaimed greatest country on earth.
The nose thing is SO TRUE. When I would hear someone say I'm handsome in China, I would say "You're handsome also, wo ai ni." Obviously, it freaked men out, hahaha. I had a couple walk past and the man said I was ugly in Cantonese (I was in Hong Kong at the time), and I know a little Cantonese also, so I said "you're ugly also, but your wife is very pretty." Then to her, "Would you like to go on a date with me?" Hahaha. Love the videos you and Serpentza make. I learned so much before moving to China. Really helped me a lot.
This reminds me of something my roommate told me one day in 1981 when I was living in San Francisco. He had just come back from having lunch with a lady friend in China Town. While they were ordering their drinks one waiter said to another waiter in Mandarin what a nice set she had. So, she asked a question about the food in Mandarin. Their eyes got really big from the shock but their waiter answered the question. A little while later the waiter came back to get their order. While on the way over he and the other waiter were still talking about her breasts but in a different dialect. She ordered in that dialect. At this point one would think they would have learned their lesson but they didn't. As the food arrived the two of them were still commenting in yet a third very obscure dialect about what they would like to do with her in a bed. She looked up, smiled laughed and said something to them in the third dialect. Whatever she said caused them to quickly exit the dining room in terror. What they didn't know was that my roommate's friend monitored and translated Chinese electronic transmissions for the CIA.
Now that's something.
fkng legend
ROFLMAO, thanks for that Robert!!!
Yo. This shit is nuts dude. Make yt videos on these kind of experiences.
Im sure xd
I've never lived in China but I've been to China a few times and studied a lot of Chinese. I was once in a Chinese buffet restaurant and there was a waitress who was topping up the food, and another waitress nearby. The first waitress shouted to the other one in Chinese, "hey, do you reckon this one here is a man or a woman?" -- at the time, I had really long hair and a baby face, so it may have been hard to tell that I was a guy, but I turned round and said to her in Chinese, before the other waitress had time to reply, "well, last time I checked, I don't have boobs and a vagina". The woman nearly dropped dead and the other waitress spoke to me in English and said, god, she's such an idiot, I don't know why she asked that anyway, I'm so sorry. I still go to that place sometimes and bump into her and she still gives me a sort of nervous smile then scurries away. I was so proud of myself 🤣
That was friggen awesome LOL!
Get a haircut and grow a beard
@@4nd3rzzon Get a haircut and get a real job, clean your act up and dont be a slob, get it together like your big brother bob
@@Jedda73 in the netherlands being a bob means you don't drink while going to a party. Then after the party is over the Bob can drive everyone safely home.
@@4nd3rzzon yeah, I now have done 😂
I fondly remember being on a bus in Manchester (England) in the early 80's with some flatmates and hearing a group of Chinese students chatting and giggling behind us - but the look on their faces when one of our group spoke to them as we go off was a delight - he was 3rd generation Hong Kong raised, and had been listening to their insults about us.
As for the hairy arms - My wife (in Thailand) has become used to other ladies running their fingers through my (admittedly thick) arm hair without even realising they are doing it :)
One time in London I had a Chinese uber driver (incredibly rare) and I blew his mind when I started speaking to him in mandarin, we had a nice conversation :)
How you got to know he is a Chinese?
@@pawpawzheng8572 most east Asians in London are Chinese, I think he may have had some charms in the car too (it was a long time ago now)
How did you get so Orange?, asking for a friend
Is your friend the president?
The dangers of living in California 😂
Well duh, he's addicted to carrots.
Bad milk powder..😄
Duh! He lives in southern CA. You tan there. Your color must be off on your monitor because he doesn't look orange at all.
I love people like you. Bridge the gaps, bro. We all have more in common than we do different.
I was always amused in Beijing. I was travelling with four other westerners. Except I was tall and blonde, so funny. I was the only one who attempted pleasantries in Mandarin. Even only nodding and replying to hello made a world of difference, I was the only one in the group who wasn't pestered when in a shopping area.
At our hotel, I always said good morning to this one man in particular and even venturing into saying good morning, I hope you have a good day or similar, maybe I was getting it wrong. On checking out, he came over to me, presented his card and informed me that anytime I came back, he would be pleased to assist me personally, in English. Well, that went down like a lead balloon when I was asked what he had wanted. They found it hard to believe that the gentleman was in fact the manager.
My group had regularly ignored him, silently standing in the foyer, keeping his eye on everything and everyone. So it goes to prove if you are polite to those around you, it usually is repaid in spades, or so I find.
In 4♠doubled if you're lucky
I have a Swedish friend who visited a remote place in Thailand. He said his acquaintance introduced him to his 5 year old nephew. As soon as he said hello, the kid screamed and ran away from them. Later their mom explained its his first time to see a foreigner and thought he was a ghost because of his skin tone. But as soon as he spoke to the kid in Thai and explained where he's from, the kid relaxed lol.
I absolutely loved every second of this video! I could have listened to 3 hours of that. Please do an episode like this again!
Christmas 2018 I was in Dahlonega, Georgia with a date. We wanted to take pictures in front of a large Christmas tree in the town square but couldn't get a couple's photo because one of us had hold the camera. Looking around I saw a group of college-age students. When I approached them I noticed that they were speaking Chinese, so (in Chinese) I asked them if they would take our picture. They agreed (in Chinese) and took our picture. I spoke with them for about 2 minutes but it wasn't until I said xiexie that they realized I had been speaking Chinese the whole time. What a boost to my ego since my Chinese sucks and I earned many, many points with my date that day.
Enjoyed this one! By the way, calling locals “foreigners” is not just a Chinese thing. I’m Japanese and we call the locals “Gaijin” (laowai) too even when we’re on THEIR turf. It’s probably a “Greater East Asian” thang. LoL.
Your born anywhere in Asia you are a foreigner if you are white. Foreigner is overused in Asian. But they hate it if called it in our countrys
I think it’s a ‘language influencing culture/mindset’ thing going on here, as East Asian languages tend to have clear distinctions of ‘us vs. them’ aka ‘people within the family vs. those from outside of the family’. Thus with ‘laowai’, it’s simply an idea of ‘people different from us’, not meaning disrespect in any way.
Philippines too
It's that way in most ethnically/culturally homogenous non-immigrant countries. figured this out from Italian and Russian friends who also refer to others as foreigners
But yeah, the whole on foreign turf thing might be East asian
No it’s weirder than that. I worked in Haiti for the UN in 1995-96, and discovered that Haitians call all foreigners “blanc” (as a noun), even, say, a senior police official from Benin or diplomat from Côte d’Ivoire...
Thank you for sharing your life experience with us through your travels and all the hard work you do doing these videos and editing highly appreciated.
I like how you kept this video very upbeat and I was feeling very down today and it brighten up my day thank you very much God bless you guys.
Haven't watched the video yet but had to comment that your content is excellent as I've been a subscriber for years. Also had to tell you that I love you Laowhy!!
Thanks bro!
Reminds me of the time when I was in an elevator and a German couple was speaking very rapidly in a dialect I couldn't follow at all, so I decided to have some fun.
As they exited the elevator, I called out the very coloquial word, "Tschus!!" meaning bye-bye.
They turned around as the doors were closing, jaws dropped to the floor, certain as they were I had clearly understood them. I grinned with an evil and sly wave of my fingers at them and SLAM went the doors.
It was PRICELESS!!
Sehr gut.
There's nothing more amusing to me than Chinese realizing I understand what they are saying. They always assume I can't speak Mandarin when I'm standing around them.
I love that
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
~George Orwell
100%
@Alex F then theres that
Develop the habit of making people sick of the orthodox alternate opinion until yours comes out as more popular. Then defend the old as not necessarily outdated. It doesn't matter where an idea comes from nor its age.
Alex F a democratic socialist who also supported anarchists at certain points in his life apparently
@Alex F IIRC Orwell was attracted to Marxism/Leninism, but after working with those types in the Spanish Civil War, he was no longer a fan.
Your honesty and speaking style is so refreshing.
This is true
I had the perfect English thing happen to me in Korea. I went to buy a book and asked the guy behind the counter if there were any other books in the series that I was purchasing and he told me all about the series instantly in near native English. It was a crazy shock for me.
I lived in the Philippines for a number of years and they would ALWAYS say "Americano" so I'd always reply "Australian" but eventually gave up. I thought about getting a T-shirt printed that says "I am not American" My wife taught me a sentence that means "I understand everything you said" which brought some pretty shocked looks when I thought people were talking about me :l
"Why he doesn't look like them??"
"Well, why don't you look like a kpop/jpop singer??"
I was at a bar and two sexy women said to each other: "All the GOOD men are married!" and I said (in passing them) "Yes, and all the GOOD women too!"
Word
Brilliant x 10.
You da’man!
Awesome
Aenon E. Moss ....👏👏👏♥️
When a kid yells out 老外 or 外国人, i just yell back and point “中国人！‘ When i kind yells "FOREIGNER", I yell back "CHINESE!" Once in Starbucks, they labelled my cup "外国“ (FOREIGNER). I can't imagine doing that in the USA...
WOW, with all the comments, you are the only one who can actually type Chinese, Impressed.
If you are an African America tourist they will write something worse.
@@seanhartnett79 yep. I overheard someone calling me a monkey. Kinda sad
Thank you so much! I was having problems sleeping, but this video fixed that.
14:47 the Chinese thinking is so embedded to the point where you’re still thinking about face 😂
It's not unique to China, it's literally universal, wherever humans are they care about "face". In Corporatespeak it's called "brand".
@@-haclong2366 different cultures have it at different degrees of intensity. The cultures in East Asian countries *revolve* around face. Most other cultures *revolve* around honour, and they separate the two of these concepts from each other.
I once had a Chinese colleague. I held my hand over my face, palm in, and said, "Have we lost face?"
He started laughing, said, "We do that too!!!"
@@TechnoMinarchist The concept is however not foreign; consider that the brand of humor that brings one's self down is actually called "self-effacing".
Be proud of the nose, rock it man! Always stay fresh, be safe, be well during this public health emergency against the virus Laowhy! Always appreciate and respect your opinion on culture and humanity man!
I love these language stories.
Years ago I did a month long immersion French course in Provence. Only French was to be spoken by all students.
One of the other guys was from China. We could only communicate in our basic French. By the end of the month we were both much better.
As we were about to get the shuttle to the airport, I said to him in English how much I had enjoyed learning with him. He smiled and said “mais je ne parle pas anglais” (but i don’t speak English). For some reason I just assumed a Chinese guy in France would speak English. Anyway we still keep in touch, as always in French.
My Korean wife says the same thing "Foreigner" to me and those around me. I look at her and reminder her that she's the foreigner one in the US 😂
‘Reminds me of an account that I read, several years ago, of an interview of a (at the time) famous American actress. She’d had to work in a strange and exotic country (Canada), and complained bitterly that the coin-op vending machines only took “foreign Canadian coins”.
tell her to stay in the kitchen
Amazing she had to be reminded.
What country does she think she is in.
Legally, if she's your wife, she's not a "foreigner" anymore, as she's a citizen due to your marriage.
@@joshuarichardson6529 You don't immediately get citizenship just because you marry an American.
HI Matt!! I can so relate to this topic. I am a typical NY girl, but I took 5 years of Spanish in school. I can understand it perfectly & I can speak it enough to get by. .Once in a Hotel, I was with my daughter, who was just a few months old. She was 10 lbs when she was born, so she always looked like she was older than she was. I was in an elevator & my daughter started to cry in her stroller. I have severe spinal problems, so I was just going to wait to we got to our room, and the other 3 passengers, who had been speaking English, switched to Spanish & began talking about my daughter & I. I listened & smiled & when I was getting of on my floor, I turned to them & said..in English..Thank you, I think she's cute too, but you are wrong..she is only 3 months old. I'm not ignoring her, I can't pick her up due to a back injury, but she will be fine, so no worries...
The elevator door closed on their shocked expressions...
😄😎💕
I live in China and have worked in an engineering company here for a couple of years. I'm still amazed that my work colleagues (including my boss) will refer to me as Laowai (foreigner) instead of my name when talking about me.
This is so true...I always hear them start to talk Mandarin and say rude things about non-chinese. Then I turn and say something in Mandarin. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all - this means you Chinese people.
Why don’t you look like the actors on the movies? 🤣
Actually he does look like one of the characters from Bill and Ted LoL
Quasimoto
all Chinese look like jackie chan
He IS getting a bit chubby during lockdown...
@@commentfreely5443 and jackie chan looks like a potato XD potato face XD. So all chinese are fries from now on their favorite colour is ketchup and their skin is like a chrispy french frie
My kids have friends who went to a Chinese/English bilingual school here in San Francisco so they're fully fluent (in both languages!)
They're not Chinese so no one suspects that they can understand. They have lots of great stories about telling off old ladies who are talking about them.
Oh, did I mention that they're Black?
Cool story bro....
That’s awesome
Want a medal?
SHEESH
The little old Chinese women were black? That's a first!
Loved these stories! I have my own share of similar experiences, even one in Yellowstone. When I returned from China on 1990, I went on a trip with my brother hitting a lot of the national parks. Chinese tourists weren't many yet, but there were usually a few. In Yellowstone, I shocked a boy when I warned him in Mandarin to be careful of the bubbling mud. At Mesa Verde, I helped a Chinese woman find a drinking fountain when I overheard her son say he was thirsty. When I started speaking Chinese, not only was she shocked, but a group of German-speaking tourists stopped talking and turned to stare.
I've been watching your videos for a few years now. I'm so happy to see you safe and sound back in the U.S.A.
Amazing stories, keep carrying on!! can't wait to hear more!!
I had a TON of similar experiences as a white guy who can speak Vietnamese in Vietnam.
Laowhy thinks it's common for foreigners to be called handsome without realizing it's actually just him who gets called that
Isn't it just the thing where people from outside of your ethnic area are different and stand out more which in turn can be preceived to some as handsome?
@@anopirsten7565 this
Thanks for another awesome video. Both very funny and interesting and I love how good you are at freely sharing both the good and bad experiences you have both with others and yourself too. The fact that you are so grounded and self-aware makes your videos great on so many more levels than just the interesting facts about China from a American or Westerner perspective.
The store about the kids who thought you escaped from the zoo is really cute. I had a similar experience where let some kids believe I was a ghost.
My family is from the soviet union but not Russia. Soviet Union had a lot of republics ;)
Are you Kazakh or Ukrainian?
I want to answer, but I want to be amused by the guesses. Incidentally my ethnicity/nationality is also different, so I want to throw that out there for people to "choose your own soviet mutt".
@@khananiel-joshuashimunov4561 This year I've met 3 people from Uzbekistan. Before that my only impression of Uzbekistan was from Borat and you know how accurate that was. Are you an Uzbek or from Uzbekistan by any chance?
Kyrgyz?
@@ebonydarkness Borat is from Kazakhstan.
When I see Chinese people in my German hometown, I sometimes just shout " Laowhy"
Lol, what happens then?
Gut gemacht.
AHAHAHAH I do same in taly ..or I do shout "Wagana" ( same of laoway in Wenzhounese , maybe a little more unpolite word) here most of chinese comes from Wenzhou area
@@vixoaduo7288 It's not impolite at all in Wenzhou, it's pretty neutral.
Ha ha I might start doing that in new Zealand where I live. Great idea
Lot's of illegals from Fujian working in Chinese/Asian restaurants all over the US.
And lots of Chinese working in Japanese restaurants. I can often hear waiters speak putonghua.
@@randmorf A lot of Chinese people open sushi restaurants because the margin is better than the typical chinese restaurant and it's seen as more "upscale" and less labor intensive.
Thanks Dude, your content is frank, fair & refreshing. And I appreciate the speed in which you talk. I never feel like I could finish your sentences. Two thumbs up!
Your nose is amazing. Be proud of it.
It is so cool to hear you speak Chinese. I am so sick of hearing Europeans bragging about how
many languages they speak. I think they probably don't speak those languages very well or
they picked it up at home ( they didn't learn on their own.)
The fact you are American and you learned Chinese as an adult is awesome!!!. Good going.
These boys are absolutely awesome! They're really doing a great thing!
I am Australian Chinese that looked a little Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese. Even Chinese people are surprised when I speak Chinese to them. About 12 years ago I was in A sushi restaurant where the staff there were speaking with my mother's XingHua dialect and I spoke to them with that dialect. They were surprised as it was an uncommon dialect.
Chinese that looked a little Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese? how is that even work?
@@ridzkyasdi2510 Wonderin same, All asians look the same
@Jacky Phantom please elaborate, enlighten us
@Jacky Phantom They all look same to me and I bet you couldn't say what nationality one is based on looks.
I saw an American guy on RUclips who can speak several dialects. He would stand in large groups of Chinese, listen to conversations, then talk to each group in their dialect. Much applause and open mouths, haha
I haven't finished watching it yet... But I love it! You have the best humor. I did buy my VPN from a link of yours months ago. It's excellent. Thank you.
Faith Po , I use a very popular but more expensive one, but totally believe in using a VPN. You are right on track with your remark about his great use of humor! LOL
You brought a lot of light to me in listening to all the interesting experience you have had..in surprising some being able to speak Chinese ..Mandarin......always blessings in the HU
I’ve been living in Japan off and on for 20 years. I have a lot of quite similar stories. Being bilingual and abroad opens up some wild roads to both comedy and embarrassment 🤣
This is so similar to my years in Korea and Japan. I studied and know Korean and Japanese, so sometimes I regret knowing what they say as they look at me. LOL!!!!!
This was a fun video. Thanx. I felt like crap and now I'm smiling.
When I was studying in Taipei, I would surprise people on the MRT when I heard strangers talking about my friend's shoes. Learning a new language is a great way to bridge the gap between cultures.
lol ur friend must have had some nice shoes
I had a female classmate in Czechoslovakia that hated me because i wasn’t handsome. How dare i not be handsome like George Michael.
I wonder what she thought when she found out he would’ve liked you significantly more than her.
I have lived in the United States for over 20 years, got a Ph.D. from Princeton, and published 2 academic books in English. Many Americans still assume that I don't speak English.
Thank God the comment section has automatic google translate, or else I wouldn’t have understood your comment.
😂
You guy's made me look like a genius when back in December and January I was telling anyone who would listen how bad this covid was going to be and they all scoffed and told me I watched too much RUclips. Thanks for the heads up. I just Wished I would have went out and bought stock in clorox. Love your content, keep up the good work.
I am from Taiwan living in new zealand. I tried to warn my co workers as early as first week of Feb. Everyone treated me like I am either smart/really dumb. Now. If they see me topping up on my PPE gear, they do the same as well without complaining.
@City17.76 Keep tell 'n them what they need to know. . JESUS IS LORD OF ALL
Me too. I warned people back in November.
Dude, not just stock in Clorox, also Zoom, Amazon, and Doordash.
It was bad for the elderly and those with weak immune systems. Stop acting like the China virus was so bad.
Why is your nose so tall ... because my name is Pinocchio 🤥 I’m an astronaut 👩🚀 and broke out from a zoo!
Dude! Rofl
Wait til one of the reasons on why its noticed so strongly among Asian women........
I am American and have lived in Thailand for 7 years now. I am not as fluent as I wish, but still get such a wonderful feeling when I travel through the countryside. Thais are such friendly decent people, especially rural folks. When you speak Thai with them, they instantly smile, and just start chattering away. Mostly it's super-positive and complimentary. They love that you have taken the time to learn their language. I love it so much here, and am so happy it's not China with the CCP and all that crap. I genuinely love the ordinary Chinese, but the Chinese tourists I see and the CCP suck so bad. The tourist groups that come to Thailand are so disrespectful, loud, rude, spitting everywhere, breaking in line......just nasty people. So, yes, I live with this dichotomy/love/hate for the Chinese. Thankfully, I don't really need to concern myself with Chinese as I am in Thailand. Peace out.
Thanks man, I really needed a break from everything. Good vibes!
You are pretty handsome, you know - in a very american way.
I agree
We are all handsome and pretty when were young.
@@warrenpuckett4203 quite true
You are a handsome man, just your noise is a bit prominent. Why don't you consider a light operation?
Fyuhbn 35667 What?! That’s awful. Why in the world would you literally risk death to augment a physical feature??
i once met a guys from Hongkong... an he seemed to be obsessed with the appearences of me and a friend... because he told us that we are incredibly handsome... well at first., we were pretty confused, but after 5 minutes he introduced us to his wife and she told us the same :D:D:D
Want to really piss them off? Say you’ve been studying Chinese for almost a year now. ^^
In Beijing, I had a Korean classmate boast he had beign studying Chinese for only 2 months. His Chinese was pretty good then, as Koreans study a lot of Chinese in their high school. One implication is that he meant Chinese is an EASY language to learn. That would rile a Chinese as they are so convinced their language is the most difficult in the world, which only Chinese people can speak properly lol.
So yes, always tell them you've been studying for less time than you actually have.
Project Makhtesh I grew up in Japan, going to their schools. At Uni age, catch a cab and play with drivers... having no accent was hilarious to listen to them red with rage as they tried to debunk my claim -only been studying for a year. 🤣 or... when some food was exceptionally good proclaim, “could not understand unless Japanese”. Being fair, Japanese communication is a lot of subtle gesture & grunting left out of texts.
Dude you are literally one of the coolest people i've met..."I'm a hairy ape that learnt how to speak" trololol.
I am Dutch, and I studied Japanese. When I went to Okinawa for a while, the standard thing I heard was 'Amerikajin desu ka?' They would just assume I was American. Probably because of the US military base there, but I had to constantly prove them wrong. Somehow they even liked it better if I wasn't American.. foreign relationships will always be a thing. Oh, and they would always tell me my Japanese was so amazing even though I was only a first-year student back then 8'D
Lekker bezig!
This video did bring some joy even with My power being out and in 100 degree heat. I loved the hairy arm part and asking if you were a human that was hilarious.
As a person with black skin, I can tell you that I wasn't celebrated like a typical White person would be because there's a lot of bad stereotypes about black people and also, dark skin color is literally ridiculed in China, that's why over 90% of the girls use skin bleaching products because according to the contemporary culture in China today, the more white you are the more beautiful you are.
In India the stereo type is the same. Thailand too from what I can gather. No idea why. Hope your time there wasn't spoiled by the stereo type tho.
"No idea why." For real?
A lot of the skin tone stereotypes are ingrained in some cultures due to the perception that people with lighter skin were more well off, and thus didn’t have to work out in the sun (in agrarian societies). This was very true in Europe a century or two ago. It’s why European women walked around with parasols (sun umbrellas) and why you will see Asians do the same today.
A lot of this is forgotten today because as we (westerners) found more leisure time, and began working inside more and more people with tans were believed to have more leisure time to participate in outdoor activities. It’s why high school girls go tanning
In Canada I see European Canadians spend $75 to make their skin dark so consider it a blessing you are naturally this way.
@@Prairielander Blessing. That's one thought.
As a Japanese who grew up overseas, I got so used to commenting out loud in public that it's hard to contain that once we're back in Japan😂
Spanish is my language to listen in on. My best interaction was at a 7-11; the clerk knew I spoke Spanish, but the customer in front of me didn't and he was talking about me and what he'd like to do with me. I just listened passively and the clerk gave me a look and let the customer talk, when he finished I smiled and the clerk said to him, "Ella habla español." The customer's face said it all. It was really a satisfying experience.
Now Lyft and Uber drivers on the phone with their family are my entertainment.
Why are you mingling with non-whites, traitor
Lol. I worked with a woman who was Dominican, so she was fluent in Spanish, but dark skinned. The Mexicans making fun of her got a surprise when after hearing disparaging remarks you shouldn't be saying to dark-skinned people in ANY language, she cooly remarked in Spanish (condensed version) that, yes she was dumb. She was so dumb she didn't realize that a Mexican "Donkey Show" could produce OFFSPRING!
After the SHOCK, they were very polite and apologized...😃
@@ewerton8463
Bruh.....
Funny that your friend was considered too dark to be a Spanish speaker. My wife's quite dark, Spanish tourists here in Scotland will sometimes slyly scrutinise her, checking out a possible compatriot by chucking a Spanish phrase into the air hoping to elicit a response. Whereupon she'll respond in her fluent university learned Spanish! She's 100% Scottish.
Spanish is not generally a language you want to assume people don't understand. xD