Our "Unfiltered Chinese" is on Spotify now: open.spotify.com/show/3a9MUaOuqV2UrYSw0vkXvm?si=b42a7c945f6549d8 !!! Follow and listen to the audio version without background music🙌 Pinyin+Hanzi+Translation here: ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered
Since I don't wish to offend, distract, or otherwise bother you might not want to read whatever else is in this comment (time is precious) I think Chinese women are starting to feel less compelled to have/want white skin. I also think Chinese women still want an oval face, with large cute ears, and a tiger tooth, which are not Western beauty standards. I generally don't talk about race because people can be horrible, why fixate, let alone encourage. Women the world-wide became more muscular during the past 50 years, though of course in murrica many others became overweight, to put it politely. White skin is an adaptation to the absent sunlight in northern climate: it arose from the fact we absorb vitamin d through the skin. I am reasonably certain white people are more likely, even much more likely to get skin cancer; I am old enough that this fact (use sun screen to avoid skin cancer) was not known in my childhood. I don't think there are any beauty standards about noses, which is interesting since that is where physiognomy varies most. Yeah, westerners don't know about double versus single eyelids. I personally have no preference, and hope that this desire to change one's face with surgery disappears as racism declines, which is also a world-wide trend. Btw I'm old enough that literal race segregation was still a reality during my childhood. You probably don't know either how bad it was, or how much improvement has happened. I should be less lazy and write this in Chinese. btw Hanfu is wonderful, which is a thing that arose fairly recently, just in the last 10 years or so. I can tell you about Russian beauty standards. Expect lots of Chinese-Russian marriages with Chinese men and Russian women. Basically Russian life kills of the men, and sex selection killed of Chinese women, so they both have a population imbalance, but in the opposite direction. Like we see I am not a diplomat.
Thank you rita for your smashing videos and charming Jun (You make a hell of a team) , By the way "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" as the saying goes. Love from France.
It's a lot of wasted energy isn't it? I tell my daughter as long as you eat right and exercise to be fit and healthy that's your best version. In the world there are tall beauties, petite beauties, big eyes beauties small eyes beauties, light skinned beauties and dark skinned beauties etc etc. Don't fall into the trap of trying to be something unnatural to yourself. If you see a different type of beauty you can appreciate it and if you are confident there will be people who can appreciate your type of beauty as well. If you encounter a boy that wants you to change to be a different type of girl he needs to chase that type instead of trying to change you to be something you're not. Anyway my first time watching your channel. I'm trying to improve my Mandarin and this kind of content helps!
This series already generated a lot of Anki flashcards! I add my comment on ‘learning Chinese’ here because this seems to be one of the latest videos. I am an almost absolute beginner. Last summer I had a long trip across China (not ‘classical China’) and before leaving I took an intensive online 15-day course of Survival Chinese. I focussed only on what I thought I would really need (I travelled with a local guide, so I had not to book flights, trains, hotels, etc.) and on the right pronounce. I am Italian and my difficulties with phonetics are way different from those of English native speakers. Anyway I was very surprised when, on day 1 in China, I realised that people actually understood me (almost never the reverse….). I have been studying already Korean and Japanese for some years, and this combination helped more than I expected. Yet, back home, I decided to start studying Chinese seriously. Unfortunately I am no longer in my 20s, and I cannot devote 2-4 hours per day to studying. Yet I try to be ‘exposed’ to the language as much as possible (C-dramas help, especially those with dubbed lead actors. This implies a great work in listening while reading subs, pausing, re-listening, shadowing, creating Anki cards. Fortunately I need few hours of sleep…. I see that at the very beginning I was able to understand only known words, now I can isolate new words by myself, so in this case a further step use be added: a check on Pleco about characters and tones). As I live in Milan, I have many opportunities to speak with native speakers, ranging from sale assistants in fashion stores to colleagues in the academic world (who are able to give me safe answers to my questions). I discovered your channel today and I immediately subscribed. What a pity that such resources did not exist when I was younger!
Great video, interesting topic! I think typical Asian features are beautiful, because it fits the face. I wish more Asian women would realize their beauty unique to them. Unless someone isn't horribly disfigured through a disease or by an accident, no plastic surgery should be done. Pale skin used to be fashionable in ancient Europe as well. Ladies of the upper class would use umbrellas or hats to protect them from the sun, in addition faces were powdered to appear as white as possible. I think similar beauty standards to have fair skin also applied to ladies in ancient Japan. Keep up the great work!
I love the series Chinese Unfiltered because it teaches us more than just new words; it shows how to maintain a conversation with native Chinese speakers. Thank you! A good topic idea would be the language gap between us (30years+) and the younger generation. I’ve been living outside my home country for over 12 years, and when I talk to my nephews or watch something on TV, I often have to figure out certain words from the context, because just hearing them wouldn’t be enough for me to understand. I imagine you might feel the same. This would be interesting because it reflects the everyday Chinese spoken by the younger generation, which hasn’t yet made its way into the textbooks created by our generation. So, it would not be video about teaching expression, rather how language is alive and how it marks each generation. Because, sometimes reading Weibo is like reading Confucian, need a lot of interpretation to suppress the generation gap.
I was listening to this episode on Spotify while driving today and the audio on spotify is much quieter than it is on youtube. Is it possible for you to make the audio louder for the podcast uploads?
When I was in China everyone was so obsessed with beauty standards and everyone could talk about it like you. I am from Germany and If I would make such a video I would not know what to say. We dont talk about beauty that much like chinese.
I think you are all beautiful. Do not get hung up on physical beauty. A man wants a lady who who is loving, kind and emotionally supportive. Compliment a man like you would want to be complimented. Tell him he is nice and kind and fun to be around. There is a double standard. But it works both ways. There is a saying; girls get flowers on birthdays and valentines and on dates, but a man gets flowers from a girl for the first time at his funeral and on then on his grave.
24:20 Now a content related comment! We European women are shifting from ‘anti-aging’ to ‘skin longevity’ concepts. And, please, can you explain what exactly ‘phoenix eyes’ are? I see a lot of fox eyes also here, in most of cases as the result of an extreme face lift….
I appreciate listening to the Mandarin no matter what the content. These two women do well at that. According to stats 42% of Americans are obese. I don't think there is a word in mandarin that differentiates fat and obese.
Our "Unfiltered Chinese" is on Spotify now: open.spotify.com/show/3a9MUaOuqV2UrYSw0vkXvm?si=b42a7c945f6549d8 !!!
Follow and listen to the audio version without background music🙌
Pinyin+Hanzi+Translation here: ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered
Since I don't wish to offend, distract, or otherwise bother you might not want to read whatever else is in this comment (time is precious)
I think Chinese women are starting to feel less compelled to have/want white skin. I also think Chinese women still want an oval face, with large cute ears, and a tiger tooth, which are not Western beauty standards. I generally don't talk about race because people can be horrible, why fixate, let alone encourage. Women the world-wide became more muscular during the past 50 years, though of course in murrica many others became overweight, to put it politely.
White skin is an adaptation to the absent sunlight in northern climate: it arose from the fact we absorb vitamin d through the skin. I am reasonably certain white people are more likely, even much more likely to get skin cancer; I am old enough that this fact (use sun screen to avoid skin cancer) was not known in my childhood.
I don't think there are any beauty standards about noses, which is interesting since that is where physiognomy varies most.
Yeah, westerners don't know about double versus single eyelids. I personally have no preference, and hope that this desire to change one's face with surgery disappears as racism declines, which is also a world-wide trend.
Btw I'm old enough that literal race segregation was still a reality during my childhood. You probably don't know either how bad it was, or how much improvement has happened.
I should be less lazy and write this in Chinese.
btw Hanfu is wonderful, which is a thing that arose fairly recently, just in the last 10 years or so.
I can tell you about Russian beauty standards. Expect lots of Chinese-Russian marriages with Chinese men and Russian women. Basically Russian life kills of the men, and sex selection killed of Chinese women, so they both have a population imbalance, but in the opposite direction.
Like we see I am not a diplomat.
This is the best. Chinese, pinyin and english subtitle at a time.
Thank you rita for your smashing videos and charming Jun (You make a hell of a team) , By the way "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" as the saying goes. Love from France.
Glad you love our content!!
Wesh un autre français 🎉❤
It's a lot of wasted energy isn't it? I tell my daughter as long as you eat right and exercise to be fit and healthy that's your best version. In the world there are tall beauties, petite beauties, big eyes beauties small eyes beauties, light skinned beauties and dark skinned beauties etc etc. Don't fall into the trap of trying to be something unnatural to yourself. If you see a different type of beauty you can appreciate it and if you are confident there will be people who can appreciate your type of beauty as well. If you encounter a boy that wants you to change to be a different type of girl he needs to chase that type instead of trying to change you to be something you're not. Anyway my first time watching your channel. I'm trying to improve my Mandarin and this kind of content helps!
A fascinating discussion between two lovely women!
I love your channel and I love your videos rita your accent is beautiful ❤❤❤❤
This series already generated a lot of Anki flashcards! I add my comment on ‘learning Chinese’ here because this seems to be one of the latest videos. I am an almost absolute beginner. Last summer I had a long trip across China (not ‘classical China’) and before leaving I took an intensive online 15-day course of Survival Chinese. I focussed only on what I thought I would really need (I travelled with a local guide, so I had not to book flights, trains, hotels, etc.) and on the right pronounce. I am Italian and my difficulties with phonetics are way different from those of English native speakers. Anyway I was very surprised when, on day 1 in China, I realised that people actually understood me (almost never the reverse….). I have been studying already Korean and Japanese for some years, and this combination helped more than I expected. Yet, back home, I decided to start studying Chinese seriously. Unfortunately I am no longer in my 20s, and I cannot devote 2-4 hours per day to studying. Yet I try to be ‘exposed’ to the language as much as possible (C-dramas help, especially those with dubbed lead actors. This implies a great work in listening while reading subs, pausing, re-listening, shadowing, creating Anki cards. Fortunately I need few hours of sleep…. I see that at the very beginning I was able to understand only known words, now I can isolate new words by myself, so in this case a further step use be added: a check on Pleco about characters and tones). As I live in Milan, I have many opportunities to speak with native speakers, ranging from sale assistants in fashion stores to colleagues in the academic world (who are able to give me safe answers to my questions). I discovered your channel today and I immediately subscribed. What a pity that such resources did not exist when I was younger!
Rita is so beautiful. Exactly my beauty standard.
Great video, interesting topic! I think typical Asian features are beautiful, because it fits the face. I wish more Asian women would realize their beauty unique to them. Unless someone isn't horribly disfigured through a disease or by an accident, no plastic surgery should be done. Pale skin used to be fashionable in ancient Europe as well. Ladies of the upper class would use umbrellas or hats to protect them from the sun, in addition faces were powdered to appear as white as possible. I think similar beauty standards to have fair skin also applied to ladies in ancient Japan. Keep up the great work!
I love the series Chinese Unfiltered because it teaches us more than just new words; it shows how to maintain a conversation with native Chinese speakers. Thank you!
A good topic idea would be the language gap between us (30years+) and the younger generation. I’ve been living outside my home country for over 12 years, and when I talk to my nephews or watch something on TV, I often have to figure out certain words from the context, because just hearing them wouldn’t be enough for me to understand. I imagine you might feel the same. This would be interesting because it reflects the everyday Chinese spoken by the younger generation, which hasn’t yet made its way into the textbooks created by our generation. So, it would not be video about teaching expression, rather how language is alive and how it marks each generation. Because, sometimes reading Weibo is like reading Confucian, need a lot of interpretation to suppress the generation gap.
Rita! 同为汉教人，特别喜欢你的内容，也推荐给了我的自己的学生。小小的反馈：感觉剪辑切得有点儿快，视觉上有些晃眼，不知道其他小伙伴同样的感受。
Every Chinese girl is Beautiful! Love ❤️ Love!
Boys are Handsome as well!
Hi Rita laoshi, in the future can you also put the subtitles in the video, not embedded so that we can use migaku to study your video?
Hello I'm from Delhi India 🇮🇳 . I'm learning Mandarin Chinese 🇨🇳
很有趣！很多‘不好看’的美丽标准其实是美国的美丽标准。好像每个地方的人都想改变自己。
Jun does have great shoulders
I was listening to this episode on Spotify while driving today and the audio on spotify is much quieter than it is on youtube. Is it possible for you to make the audio louder for the podcast uploads?
When I was in China everyone was so obsessed with beauty standards and everyone could talk about it like you. I am from Germany and If I would make such a video I would not know what to say. We dont talk about beauty that much like chinese.
I think you are all beautiful. Do not get hung up on physical beauty. A man wants a lady who who is loving, kind and emotionally supportive. Compliment a man like you would want to be complimented. Tell him he is nice and kind and fun to be around. There is a double standard. But it works both ways.
There is a saying; girls get flowers on birthdays and valentines and on dates, but a man gets flowers from a girl for the first time at his funeral and on then on his grave.
24:20 Now a content related comment! We European women are shifting from ‘anti-aging’ to ‘skin longevity’ concepts. And, please, can you explain what exactly ‘phoenix eyes’ are? I see a lot of fox eyes also here, in most of cases as the result of an extreme face lift….
Jun Laoshi, how do you say "nice muscles" in Mandarin?
草没有任何容貌焦虑，那人为什么要有呢，我没有😂
说得好！这个思路非常有道理😄
I appreciate listening to the Mandarin no matter what the content. These two women do well at that. According to stats 42% of Americans are obese. I don't think there is a word in mandarin that differentiates fat and obese.
Plz do swordsman 3 the east is red plz that's my special request from Kentucky USA ❤❤❤
Will you plz do swordsman 3 the east is red plz that's my special request from Kentucky USA ❤❤❤
Pale European's skin may be a weak point. It's almost transparent and very sensitive to sunburn and wrinkles more easily.
Lucy Liu 非常的漂亮耶我觉得。中国审美真的很奇怪。
I hate how I look 🤣