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  • In early 2020, in a little known Chinese city, an event that would change the world forever began. That city, of course, was Wuhan. I’ll never forget it. I was living in Shanghai at the time, and was getting ready to take a vacation for the upcoming Chinese New Year, the biggest holiday in the country. A little over a month later, as the outbreak slowly spread to other cities and eventually other countries, I decided to catch a flight back home to New York and ride out the madness there. I figured it’d all be over in a few months. Little did I know, that decision would change my life. China closed the borders soon after, and I was stranded abroad. I had never been to Wuhan during the 7 years I lived in China. To be honest, I never gave it much thought. Many people assume it’s some backwater place, the kind of city where people were eating bats. On my return trip to the country, I wanted to actually visit the city and see if that was a fair description. Wuhan is hardly a small town: it’s the 8th largest city in China. It also has a very important history that stretches way back past 2020. But of course, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to see where everything began 3 years ago. I had to see it for myself.
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Комментарии • 3,8 тыс.

  • @SabbaticalTommy
    @SabbaticalTommy  Год назад +1163

    People are people..

  • @JobOthoniel
    @JobOthoniel Год назад +498

    4:04 , This is the example of real chinese people, all are very friendly, some are mad or had bad days, but in general are very friendly.

    • @InvincibleAkuma
      @InvincibleAkuma Год назад

      u sound like u know the chinese more than someone who was born in China, like me. LOL..Chinese people are friendly??? Either a funny joke, or a stupid statement.

    • @christianlau7971
      @christianlau7971 11 месяцев назад +12

      Maybe he's usually lonely,right.

    • @djannias
      @djannias 11 месяцев назад +16

      That guy was awesome! What a character

    • @awp-erator4525
      @awp-erator4525 10 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@christianlau7971yeah he was there playing by himself lol I felt bad

    • @256Justinian
      @256Justinian 10 месяцев назад

      no, keep telling yourself that. they are godless money worshippers now. u know nothing.

  • @MishaElRusito
    @MishaElRusito Год назад +320

    Lmao that grandpa is a character. Your videos are part of the reason I started learning Chinese, and they are very helpful for practicing it.

    • @peterwang5272
      @peterwang5272 Год назад

      如果中国共产党放开防火墙,中国人看到你们西方人的真面目会怎么样?🤣🤣

    • @MYTHOMINHTRAN
      @MYTHOMINHTRAN Год назад

      Is a piece feces Moron Serpentza or Laoshy86 server???

    • @占放
      @占放 6 месяцев назад +4

      我用這個視頻學習英文😂

    • @MishaElRusito
      @MishaElRusito 6 месяцев назад

      Lol im not tryna learn chinese charaters, hell no, I'd need a whole life for that@@占放

    • @sijiahou1228
      @sijiahou1228 Месяц назад

      smoking while playing sports is wild

  • @passby8070
    @passby8070 Год назад +59

    That grandpa is the coolest hommie I've ever seen! Absolutely love that interaction!

  • @J-217
    @J-217 Год назад +800

    Your videos do a great job of showing off the friendliness that the average Chinese person has towards foreigners. So disarming to be reminded that they’re like people anywhere else. Sad to see how geopolitics warps our perceptions of our fellow humans. This is important work you’re doing

    • @Joo-vw9kb
      @Joo-vw9kb Год назад

      Fort Derrick USA. The west and the like are evil because they worship the evil God of Abraham/Moses/Solomon. I am a Bible teacher n translator from Singapore, yet I am not a believer/religionist.

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

    • @KenDanieli2
      @KenDanieli2 Год назад

      They all hate Americans. Pay attention.

    • @commie5211
      @commie5211 Год назад +39

      because, the great wall blocked all those crap from outside and stopped the hate from spreading. the xenophobia is so sickening outside.

    • @dj_paultuk7052
      @dj_paultuk7052 Год назад +1

      You are joking right ?. The last time i went to China on my own i was basically treated like i had some kind of bad disease. I was denied entry into almost all restaurants and also some shops. Just because im white. That was in 2017.

  • @itravelworlds
    @itravelworlds Год назад +738

    You being able to chat with locals in their native language definitely sets this channel on whole another level. Love it.

    • @damonhtoo
      @damonhtoo Год назад +5

      There's several popular channels like that but they all offer something different. "Oriental Pearl" is another one.

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

    • @themiddlelayer
      @themiddlelayer Год назад

      @@damonhtoo Oriental Pearl is treating Asian people like zoo animals. lol She's like a different version of weeb.

    • @FollowMe42302
      @FollowMe42302 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/ufwXBpZK8u4/видео.html

    • @isaiahmcclure8894
      @isaiahmcclure8894 Год назад +4

      If you knew Chinese you'd easily tell his Chinese is nothing to write home about haha

  • @胖达-r5g
    @胖达-r5g 11 месяцев назад +5

    笑死了,那两个卖啤酒的用外国口音的中国话跟老外聊天😂

  • @SamRoberts-ng3pu
    @SamRoberts-ng3pu Год назад +1528

    I taught English online to over 500 Chinese kids. I grew an immense respect for the Chinese people; you should always separate politics from people.

    • @EclecticRealist
      @EclecticRealist Год назад +83

      Separate people from their politics? How is that possible?

    • @59Lemony
      @59Lemony Год назад +84

      ​@@EclecticRealistby trying really hard

    • @callum39645
      @callum39645 Год назад +115

      @@EclecticRealisteasy, you must not travel much

    • @Muddy.Teabagger
      @Muddy.Teabagger Год назад +56

      @@59Lemony its hard to do when the place hates everyone but there own.

    • @tafabeatz
      @tafabeatz Год назад +44

      You can always separate politics from people but very hard to separate people from politics and that’s the big issue, people being 🐑

  • @NowInIwoN
    @NowInIwoN Год назад +136

    Amazing job. This is high quality travel "vlogging" imo. You added so much dimension to a city that definitely is viewed in a skewed ignorant way by so so many people. You humanized it. Thats a successful mission I'd say. Thank you. The old dude smoking while working out is the Man!

    • @guestonearth1274
      @guestonearth1274 Год назад

      YEp , this guy misled us a diretion : Wuhan is sourse of Covid19 ... and THE LAB is there Wuhan ! Did this honest-looking guy meant to do this ?

    • @wyleFTW
      @wyleFTW 10 месяцев назад

      He even ate the dog meat skewer this guy is committed!

    • @islamisthetruewaytogod6812
      @islamisthetruewaytogod6812 9 месяцев назад

      Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
      Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
      Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
      Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
      Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
      Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
      Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
      Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
      It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
      (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
      God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
      (2:136 / Translated by Community)
      Salam (Peace) ----------------------------

  • @rlwings
    @rlwings 11 месяцев назад +170

    I love your calm approach. Many travelling RUclipsrs come across waaaay too hyper. I tire of these guys very quickly. But you are very good at cultivating peace and serenity... Very enjoyable, thoughtful and informative. Thank you!

    • @georgejoeychen
      @georgejoeychen 10 месяцев назад +5

      I agree that. Easy but not hyper

    • @johntchb
      @johntchb 10 месяцев назад +9

      This guys education seems on a much higher level too, no bad thing.

    • @islamisthetruewaytogod6812
      @islamisthetruewaytogod6812 9 месяцев назад

      Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
      Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
      Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
      Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
      Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
      Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
      Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
      Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
      It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
      (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
      God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
      (2:136 / Translated by Community)
      Salam (Peace) ----------------------------

    • @christopherpriestley2468
      @christopherpriestley2468 7 месяцев назад +1

      There was something that attracted me to watching his videos and i couldn't work it out, You have just pinpointed it. the calm relaxed way is what it is.

    • @voliteon
      @voliteon 7 месяцев назад

      Agreed

  • @tonepoet
    @tonepoet Год назад +219

    I love it, the dude is choking down a smoke while exercising. THAT'S the way you do it!! Thanks for the tour, Tommy.

    • @DW-op7ly
      @DW-op7ly Год назад +10

      Reminds me of when I was in highschool here in Canada in the 1980s. I was at the cross country meet. And there was a team from one of our more rural area warming up by smoking some cigarettes begore the race. Lol

    • @user-xk9ul5nx1j
      @user-xk9ul5nx1j Год назад

      Cranking tennis hoons

    • @ThePatriot-gm1fg
      @ThePatriot-gm1fg Год назад +1

      ​@@DW-op7lyReally? That's crazy. They must have been out of breath pretty quickly.

    • @jerryluan9106
      @jerryluan9106 Год назад +13

      someone said smoke is harm to my health, so I exercises everyday while I wanna smoke

    • @voxii_13
      @voxii_13 Год назад

      It really only hinders your breathing if you dont exercise frequently and smoke a lot. You dont just become short of breath from smoking once. @@ThePatriot-gm1fg

  • @imadrunk3576
    @imadrunk3576 Год назад +137

    I don't watch vlog type videos but this guy makes such interesting videos

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

    • @LegendLength
      @LegendLength Год назад +2

      Reminds me of Harold Baldr's channel. He kind of freely walks around and chats with poor families in slums etc.. The style makes a difference to normal boring travel shows.

    • @FollowMe42302
      @FollowMe42302 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/ufwXBpZK8u4/видео.html

    • @p_roduct9211
      @p_roduct9211 7 месяцев назад +1

      I appreciate that he is very organic in engaging with strangers. He doesn't focus too heavily in forging conversations like some vloggers do to display their 'wit' in bargaining or exposing scams. I enjoy how he throws in good bits of trivia and history, and that beer interaction was so cool.

  • @Jaybird209
    @Jaybird209 Год назад +8

    We live like pigs in America compared to these other countries! The streets and subways are so damn clean, no graffiti, and not a bit of trash on the streets!

  • @mmuzzwell3654
    @mmuzzwell3654 Год назад +92

    Absolutely brilliant start to this... They should make that smoking tennis player an ambassador. What a cool guy. The environment of Wuhan and it's people wouldn't be that out of place in Europe. Great vlog.

    • @zx9724
      @zx9724 Год назад +6

      that old man is 100% local wuhan.

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

    • @FollowMe42302
      @FollowMe42302 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/ufwXBpZK8u4/видео.html

    • @mmuzzwell3654
      @mmuzzwell3654 Год назад +1

      @@russelfang7434 Sorry for your loss.

  • @owenayre8797
    @owenayre8797 11 месяцев назад +92

    I'm glad you accepted the smoke. On a recent trip to the Pudong airport, the driver busted out the smokes at the end of the ride. Not being in a rush and not really a smoker, it was worth taking the time to chat with the man over a cigarette. It is a form of greeting, bonding experience, and a ceremony of sorts.

    • @TheLonelySingaporean
      @TheLonelySingaporean 3 месяца назад +5

      In China people offer cigarettes as a sign of friendship and respect. They even give it for weddings and to business partners. Some of them are really expensive.

    • @pasisovi
      @pasisovi 3 месяца назад

      The Covid narrative was a smokescreen created and planted by the We$t to distract its long expected financial meltdown that was eminent in 2018. Held artificially since the first ice break in 2008, many events were created to postpone the unavoidable world recession and the typical symptom of another catastrophic materialistic world war.

    • @OpoOnTheGo
      @OpoOnTheGo Месяц назад

      A Chinese man offered me a cigarette at Incheon airport, it was skinny and tasted of blueberries. I've quit since, but I'll happily trade some conversation for a cig to this day

  • @liyu_cn
    @liyu_cn Год назад +173

    as a wuhanese, i would like to tell you that the old man treated you in the most friendly way as he could. it's really hard to totally understand a culture as a foreigner, either any special culture in different parts of china.

    • @chris_ssj2
      @chris_ssj2 7 месяцев назад +9

      He did look like he was very social and friendly, really wholesome in my opinion :)

    • @Bee-ly4gx
      @Bee-ly4gx 7 месяцев назад +4

      I don’t think of 68 as old. Must be a sign that I am getting old. Loved the man though.

    • @liyu_cn
      @liyu_cn 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@chris_ssj2 yeah you totally right dude

    • @liyu_cn
      @liyu_cn 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@Bee-ly4gx yeah you right

    • @xingzuowang
      @xingzuowang 6 месяцев назад +2

      He try to be nice to you indeed

  • @atiliobatista86
    @atiliobatista86 Год назад +83

    I will never forget how u showed my country Brazil, since then, always great content, hope u came back one day to explore more unusual things like Lenções Maranhenses

    • @CM-zl2jw
      @CM-zl2jw Год назад +3

      @@A_R_B_GI’m coming to Brazil!!! I’m so excited ❤🇧🇷

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

  • @RockOfHoreb176
    @RockOfHoreb176 5 месяцев назад +8

    It's so sad, the Chinese people are so friendly and nice actually we don't have to go to war with, if it were up to us regular people we all would be friends. Sadly politicians want WW3. So sad.

    • @zoesin164
      @zoesin164 5 месяцев назад +1

      如果发生战争,那一定不是中国人民与美国人民的战争,而将会是美国资产阶级与全世界无产阶级的战争。
      If a war were to occur, it would certainly not be a war between the Chinese people and the American people, but rather a war between the American bourgeoisie and the global proletariat.

  • @cpt2525
    @cpt2525 Год назад +90

    I like your videos in China. My son learnt Mandarin from year one in school. He's 19 years old now and doing his BA in Pschychology . Your China videos are informative and knowledgeable. I have let him see them and I hope in the future things change in the world atmosphere and he may have a chance to work and live in China one day. Oh, and it is a beautiful country too. Cheers. We are in Malaysia!

    • @hxi7141
      @hxi7141 Год назад +1

      I think Americans are still allowed to come and work you know😂

    • @yuey0602
      @yuey0602 Год назад +1

      @@hxi7141 and Asean has a very friendly relationship with China. dont know what he/she is worring about🤣

    • @guestonearth1274
      @guestonearth1274 Год назад

      YEp , this guy misled us a diretion : Wuhan is sourse of Covid19 ... and THE LAB is there Wuhan ! Did this honest-looking guy meant to do this ?

    • @InvincibleAkuma
      @InvincibleAkuma Год назад

      Malaysian and singaporean can go to China any freakin time. 你tmd就是在搞笑的。这么爱中共就应该全家搬去中共国为它做贡献。哈哈哈哈

    • @老大哥在看着你-t2f
      @老大哥在看着你-t2f 11 месяцев назад

      学心理学这种僵死的理论不如学点拉康或者齐泽克的精神分析。

  • @peetiegonzalez1845
    @peetiegonzalez1845 Год назад +74

    I love the wholesome uncle exercising with a cig hanging out of his mouth. What a great encounter.
    Thanks for documenting these amazing travels. I hope you got out of there before posting these!

    • @islamisthetruewaytogod6812
      @islamisthetruewaytogod6812 9 месяцев назад

      Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
      Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
      Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
      Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
      Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
      Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
      Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
      Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
      It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
      (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
      God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
      (2:136 / Translated by Community)
      Salam (Peace) ----------------------------

  • @marttivallila
    @marttivallila 9 месяцев назад +25

    Very well done. This is one of the most entertaining and informative travel videos I have seen. What comes across strong and clear is how appreciative the Chinese are of any foreigner that speaks their language. I am prepared to follow you around the country to other places. Happy travels!

  • @jakstat9880
    @jakstat9880 Год назад +207

    "It was a man who said it....respect"
    What a breath of fresh air to see a tourist so wildly open and respectful to everyone. You're truly a classy guy.

    • @slcindiatv2945
      @slcindiatv2945 Год назад

      Cause foreigners are rare. They are not being replaced by minorities like the west is

    • @IARRCSim
      @IARRCSim Год назад

      @@PeterSzeto-es6em yeah unleashing Covid-19 on the world and causing trillions of damage and shortening millions of lives isn't even a stain on the city it came from. lol

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

    • @peterwang5272
      @peterwang5272 Год назад

      Can you imagine when CPC open the internet and see how you "genocide" us on RUclips?

    • @guestonearth1274
      @guestonearth1274 Год назад

      this guy misled us a diretion : Wuhan is sourse of Covid19 ... and THE LAB is there Wuhan ! Did this honest-looking guy meant to do this ?

  • @bsr6823
    @bsr6823 Год назад +209

    Chinese people are so amazing. Such a beautiful country with so many thousands of years of history. I dream of visiting there once in my lifetime.

    • @holypen77
      @holypen77 Год назад +14

      We welcome you.❤

    • @slapdogpuppyspank8754
      @slapdogpuppyspank8754 Год назад +2

      Some are darn right arrogant ignorant disgusting people.
      Yes I did live there.

    • @aphrodite090909
      @aphrodite090909 Год назад +26

      @@slapdogpuppyspank8754 I assume in your country there are only nice and friendly people which makes you believe all Chinese have to be good to outsiders

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

    • @kamillatocha
      @kamillatocha Год назад +1

      to bad its government is keeping a grip on this people ..

  • @nyrbsamoht
    @nyrbsamoht Год назад +63

    3:53 This type of dude is so typical of my time in China - In the more rural areas or in parks - people who are not rich or snobby like in the middle of the citys.
    These were consistently the nicest and most generous and friendly people I have met anywhere in my travels around world. The middle or lower class chinese. So generous and genuinely interested. They really really appreciated a foreigner taking time to learn the language. The men would always ply you with cigs and always give you a couple for the road aswell. very fond memories.

  • @davidh.65
    @davidh.65 Год назад +214

    This should be mandatory viewing for all Americans and Chinese. One human race and one love 🤝

    • @nicolewright8833
      @nicolewright8833 Год назад +1

      Sweet idea. Could you share that with the Chinese schools making kids chant ”Kill Americans”?

    • @Aluttuh
      @Aluttuh Год назад +9

      Its not about race, nationality, or wealth, its humanity vs talmudism.

    • @Aluttuh
      @Aluttuh Год назад +6

      THEY dont think you are human.

    • @pabis6817
      @pabis6817 Год назад +3

      @@Aluttuh who doesn’t? And why is the Talmud being evoked here?

    • @xmarine73
      @xmarine73 Год назад

      The Chinese are in a lot of trouble if their economy crumbles the way that those outside China are predicting.
      The Americans are in a lot of terrible if it doesn't.

  • @willsmith39
    @willsmith39 Год назад +146

    This was absolutely brilliant. Your interactions with ordinary residents humanise Wuhan and it's people - who seem absolutely lovely - in a place that's been so demonised. But you're absolutely not a shill, you're not trying to sell us a fake picture of the realities of trying to just give your opinion in a place that's not exactly keen to solicit them.
    I can't tell you how much I respect what you are doing.
    The other foreign RUclipsrs who can't even speak the language let alone read or write it and bring us a constant diet of "Americans can't believe this bridge China built!" 🙄 should hang there heads in shame. If they had any.

    • @MrGod47
      @MrGod47 11 месяцев назад +1

      Some foreign RUclipsrs who write clickbait titles such as "Americans can't believe this bridge China built!" probably because they're reacting to your usual Western media, especially Angloshpere media, who are rampantly and endlessly selling people (negative)"fake pictures" of China in order to slander and demonize China and Chinese. Many of your Western media are constantly filled with negative disinfo about China, and they're mostly "intentional" and with political agenda.
      Sabbatical here really is a rare breed of your kinds.

    • @fongponto
      @fongponto 11 месяцев назад

      The most expat vloggers I saw, also spoke chinese and pretty well too...

    • @willsmith39
      @willsmith39 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@fongponto I was thinking of the many popular overt shill/ propoganda channels like Barratt or Jason Lightfoot ( Living in China)or Gweilo60 who can't speak it past the basics or at all in Barratt seniors case, however other shills like Dumbrill or Cyrus can speak Chinese to a pretty decent proficiency similar to my own level it would be fair to say.
      My main point is I can't really think of many/any channels like this which are sincere.

    • @AFlyingCookieLOL
      @AFlyingCookieLOL 10 месяцев назад

      @@willsmith39 Shrills are used by anti-China haters. The west always calls people shrils when it doesn't fit their narrative. Cyrus and Dumbrill are stating facts but since you don't like it, you must be a western shrill.
      Look it's not the China's problem if your country can't do things like China and build proper infrastructure for the people, but Americans are too dumb to realize that

    • @willsmith39
      @willsmith39 10 месяцев назад

      @@ctourmaline Because that's exactly what they are. Every one of them, including Dumbrill or Dumbshill as he's more widely known, has produced EXACTLY what CGTN and state media asked for at the time they asked for it. When they did the collective de-dolarization nonsense propoganda videos - all within a week or two of the other - several actually used IDENTICAL thumbnails for the videos. Talk about lazy shilling ! If I was the CCP I'd actually dock their pay for that! 😊
      The Xinjiang propoganda series they all did - where they literally went with CGTN - was also very sloppy. They barely even bother to hide it.
      Anyway I'm not sure why I botherd to answer you. It's obvious you're Wumao, I can smell you guys a block away.

  • @psiga
    @psiga 11 месяцев назад +18

    Kick butt. You've done it justice, I think! I feel too uncomfortable with the current geopolitical climate to put any priority toward visiting China right now, but Wuhan city looks wonderful, and the people were charming. I'm thankful for videos like this, to keep the humanity alive. ^‿^

  • @Peter-MH
    @Peter-MH Год назад +48

    What a lad! Baseball cap on sideways, playing tennis in the park, not a care in the world! The Chinese people are generally pretty awesome! 👍

  • @tie1onoutdoors
    @tie1onoutdoors Год назад +57

    I've binge watched so many episodes after finding this channel. I find other cultures so interesting, and I love seeing other countries. Thats one thing I have to say I enjoyed about serving in the Navy was being able to see other countries. Now that I am no longer serving, the virus and just recently finding out I have a child on the way I know traveling is no longer an option for me. Thank you for sharing your journeys with us viewers.

  • @paullewis6213
    @paullewis6213 7 месяцев назад +12

    I visited Wuhan last June and had an amazing few days there. I too was one of the few foreigners and went to the site of the wet market. It’s an overwhelming feeling to be at the centre of an historic event that had such a profound impact on the world. Now the city has regained its energy. People were friendly, food was wonderful and so many beautiful sites along the river and East Lake. Absolutely worth a visit!

  • @rayhowong4139
    @rayhowong4139 Год назад +213

    As a chinese, i think your videos aboult China are objective and not biased, love the way you talk aboult the background, history, fun fact of chinese city.
    China is vast, hopefully you can explore more places and have a good time in China :)

    • @kasperh.s2066
      @kasperh.s2066 Год назад +4

      hard to be when you keep having to look over your shoulders

    • @sylviegiroux8424
      @sylviegiroux8424 Год назад +2

      I hope he can explore and have a good time without being you know...disappeared

    • @paulbucklebuckle4921
      @paulbucklebuckle4921 Год назад +2

      Hello from England.

    • @WhittaII
      @WhittaII Год назад +3

      @@kasperh.s2066 the real problem is the government, never the average citizen!

    • @aftereffects00
      @aftereffects00 Год назад +8

      @@kasperh.s2066 In US you need to look over shoulders especially at night... because people might stab you from behind without reason but you are safe in China even you walk alone after mid night,.. Well, Do you prefer to look over your shoulders in China or prefer to look over your shoulders in US ? LOL...

  • @peterelliott2914
    @peterelliott2914 Год назад +61

    I miss that about China! People are so open and up for a chat. Even here in New Zealand it's not the same and we're supposed to be friendly. It's a shame seeing their reaction to your being American but also great that they so quickly get over it. They recognise nice people when they see them so thanks for showing us your chats with Chinese people :) Take care.

    • @FollowMe42302
      @FollowMe42302 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/ufwXBpZK8u4/видео.html

    • @peterwang5272
      @peterwang5272 Год назад

      Can you imagine when CPC open the internet and see how you "genocide" us on RUclips?

  • @SurfDweller
    @SurfDweller Год назад +11

    I know very little of the cities in China, but I was struck by how clean and well kept they seem to be. Is this the norm? I went to Seattle some time back and was shocked that it was full of homeless druggies lying on the sidewalks, yelling and screaming at passersbys, trash and needles in the gutters, ragged tents lining the sidewalks and feces in the doorways of the shops. Sad how we've let our once beautiful cities turn into dumps. I very much enjoyed the video.

    • @jingweiliu-nu4xd
      @jingweiliu-nu4xd 11 месяцев назад

      你可以多看一些关于中国的旅游视频

    • @fusong1982
      @fusong1982 Месяц назад

      this is very normal for big cities in China

  • @waynem7186
    @waynem7186 Год назад +299

    The people of China are so kind, warm, and generous it seems. This is a great series. I'm really enjoying this and looking forward to my trip throughout China.

    • @VVVZIP
      @VVVZIP Год назад +9

      Welcome

    • @InvincibleAkuma
      @InvincibleAkuma Год назад

      lol, they are only kind when they see u in person. You have no idea about what they say on the chinese forums. I was chinese, and am still following chinese media. Whites are called white skin pigs in China. Do I need to tell you what they call other races?Probably not gonna share with you, cuz youtube will delete my comments automatically.

    • @jozefbania
      @jozefbania Год назад +2

      Especially when you have some kind of tragic accident and nobody reacts.

    • @曾志海-c4z
      @曾志海-c4z Год назад

      Study the morden China history and your guys will find a new China.

    • @CHINAFUJIAN
      @CHINAFUJIAN Год назад +15

      @@jozefbanialet’s be fair what u had mentioned are happening everywhere not just in China

  • @fresh_eire
    @fresh_eire Год назад +105

    My favourite video of yours in a long time Tommy. It's easy to hold a view of a country when all you hear is the negative. It was really nice to see a positive side of China for a change and break down some of those negative ideas, which I would also be guilty of. Wuhan looks like a cool city with nice people.

    • @KenDanieli2
      @KenDanieli2 Год назад

      You mean all the ones who dislike when he says he's American?

    • @wisetibetanmonkey1624
      @wisetibetanmonkey1624 Год назад +3

      ​@@KenDanieli2Americans who travel are different. Just look at him! 😅

    • @pastasoo
      @pastasoo Год назад +4

      Everything in the world has it's pros and cons, when someone is narrating the negatives then they have a very obvious objective

  • @Johnny_Socko
    @Johnny_Socko 10 месяцев назад +51

    I'm from the USA, and about 10 years ago I had an email "pen-pal" who lived in Wuhan, but was originally from Changsha. So I managed to learn a little bit about those two cities. So it was crazy to watch this video from Tommy and see those two specific cities referenced. I guess recent events have given people a strange impression of Wuhan, but I will always have good feelings about it because of my pen-pal.

    • @beneric4851
      @beneric4851 9 месяцев назад

      IM from Changsha too😂

    • @islamisthetruewaytogod6812
      @islamisthetruewaytogod6812 9 месяцев назад

      Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
      Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
      Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
      Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
      Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
      Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
      Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
      Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
      It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
      (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
      God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
      (2:136 / Translated by Community)
      Salam (Peace) ----------------------------

  • @grumpyoldwizard
    @grumpyoldwizard Год назад +319

    Wouldn't it be wonderful if people all around the world got along?
    We can learn so much from different people and cultures.
    Thanks so much for the video!

    • @porkbacon4everyone227
      @porkbacon4everyone227 Год назад +1

      @@FollaVagabunda Military Industrial Complex (& banks, MSM's & corporate politicians) always prioritize $$$$$$$$$$, regardless how many people injured/die from ANY conflict/war. And it's never been for 'democracy', 'human rights' & other b.s. !!!

    • @nancyjackson3909
      @nancyjackson3909 Год назад +19

      We do its just the media doesnt want us too media i mean that place in jordan

    • @HenritheHorse
      @HenritheHorse Год назад +2

      @@nancyjackson3909 Exactly

    • @nunyabusiness896
      @nunyabusiness896 Год назад

      @@FollaVagabunda Tell that to the CCP.

    • @kountrygunz2032
      @kountrygunz2032 Год назад

      @@FollaVagabunda Tell that to the CCP

  • @kaceesavage
    @kaceesavage Год назад +75

    Looks like a waaaaaay nicer place than I would have imagined.

    • @wewbie
      @wewbie Год назад +3

      It is basically a city just below Beijing and Shanghai, not any random little town

    • @johnsmith-cw3wo
      @johnsmith-cw3wo Год назад

      @@wewbie upgraded to first tier few year ago.

    • @InvincibleAkuma
      @InvincibleAkuma Год назад

      most of the chinese cities look good outside, but fked up inside. Dont ask me how I know. I was born a chinese in China.

  • @IvanRiveraStagea
    @IvanRiveraStagea Год назад +42

    I was in Wuhan in December 2019. It's much nicer than what most people think. All of China's 19 Tier 1 cities are modern and very developed.
    There are fond things that I remember in my short trips to China. One of them is complete strangers sharing their food with me (in restaurants, during plane rides, etc.) or giving me little souvenirs.

    • @Christubeopher
      @Christubeopher 9 месяцев назад

      You probably wouldn't have been sharing food with complete strangers in December 2019 if the Chinese government hadn't covered up the new virus it had accidentally released a couple of months earlier!

  • @d.stamand
    @d.stamand Год назад +32

    Please, go to Changsha one weekend if you can, it will blow your mind. The people are freaking awesome.

  • @dr.woozie7500
    @dr.woozie7500 Год назад +134

    Thank you for providing an inside view of China that few Westerners ever get to see. I think if we all stop listening to how our media portrays other countries and cultures, we can actually make progress in understanding each other and move towards peace.

    • @hakujin1
      @hakujin1 Год назад +12

      It's not a problem with the peopl, the problem is with the totalitarian, increasingly clandestine & overreaching Govt aka CCP

    • @Cheesecake99YearsAgo
      @Cheesecake99YearsAgo Год назад

      ​@@hakujin1Chinese government is just protecting their citizens from fake news from the west
      Just the Xin Jiang terrorism sponsored by CIA
      But the US is eavesdropping on other countries using the 5 eyes spy network
      If you don't believe you can try exposing them lol

    • @Speed-t9i
      @Speed-t9i 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@hakujin1trueeee

    • @mikebo3775
      @mikebo3775 11 месяцев назад +16

      @@hakujin1 you are talking about USA, not China. You fool 😀😀

    • @AFlyingCookieLOL
      @AFlyingCookieLOL 10 месяцев назад

      @@hakujin1 No, the people in China are happy because the government is doing things to help the people, unlike in US where you have homeless everywhere and the country doesn't even build decent public transport. The reality, Chinese people are happy because of the government and the west is NOT happy about China's success.
      So the thing that the west created Chinese good and government isn't overall is completely junk.

  • @shotgunwound
    @shotgunwound 3 месяца назад +3

    I am from China and study social science. I can tell you honestly that you don't get this friendliness if you are a Chinese person. It is pretty depressing living in China, mistrust and indifference are generally how i experience among strangers. It is getting worse and worse with the Chinese economy going down and increasing high unemployment rate. The friendliness that most of Chinese people show towards foreigners is because they rarely see a foreigner and they have their projected fantasy towards you.

    • @MrReymoclif714
      @MrReymoclif714 3 месяца назад

      Very good point!

    • @YuBro01
      @YuBro01 Месяц назад

      it's like family and guests, when guests come you need to entertain

  • @kevrymell6636
    @kevrymell6636 Год назад +75

    What I like about Tommy is that he is so respectful to the local people - no matter where he is in the world. He always seems to approach a new place with an open mind, rather than preset views which makes his videos very refreshing....

  • @bbiwyou
    @bbiwyou Год назад +77

    Fascinating video, and one of your best yet. It's great that you've added some background history of Wuhan.And most important : so relieved to see that despite current geopolitic situation, Chinese people are still able to chat and laugh with a random foreigner, moreover an American ( who curiously, speaks Chinese so well). Your knowledge of the language is certainly an asset, but your ability to initiate and maintain a conversation with random people you meet never fails to impress. Hardly can't wait for your next stop.

    • @leanlifer
      @leanlifer Год назад

      Your comment shows how much the western media outlets have been manipulating the public views towards another country.
      Chinese media does that too, to be fair. Many people here do believe every single American cities are filled with homeless drug addicts on the streets and all American people are suffered from gun violence.

    • @CM-zl2jw
      @CM-zl2jw Год назад +1

      Totally agree with you.

    • @CM-zl2jw
      @CM-zl2jw Год назад +1

      @@funkyfennec3680I don’t think he’s a tanky. Do you really think so?? I think Tommy is cia. He’s super interesting and unique. His ability to speak foreign languages is astounding. He does set things up with the girls sometimes which is cheesy but…. ?? oh well.

  • @shanghaiffgg
    @shanghaiffgg 3 месяца назад +14

    I am an Irishman who has been living in China for 17 years. I think your representation of China is fair and balanced. Amazing people and horrific government sums it up for me. the foreign community was devastated during covid when most people left and never came back. It's common for me to go days in Beijing without seeing a single foreigner.

    • @wasabiginger6993
      @wasabiginger6993 2 месяца назад

      Well clearly the US Corp of America is run by Zionist gangsters (the Oligarchs CIA "colonialists") ... so have come to realize that I dropped into a planet run by banksters ... welcome to Enterprise Earth ... with trading also done on the inter galactic black markets where human DNA & sex trafficking are the most valuable commodities ... if what humans left here with souls knew what was really going on with Ukraine and Biden Sr ... but no, still no one dare talk about that!

    • @alexk5772
      @alexk5772 2 месяца назад

      You may not know that Chinese people are very supportive of their government, with an approval rating of over 90%. But you used the word "horrific", and as a Chinese, I strongly disagree. The fake media will give you a bad image of ordinary Chinese people. What about the Chinese government? They will only paint a worse image.

    • @yuemeili1368
      @yuemeili1368 2 месяца назад +1

      中国政府不可怕。他们一直在努力让国家更好,让人民过上好日子🎉

    • @speedingable
      @speedingable 2 месяца назад +1

      I feel like what you said is a bit contradictory, the government is terrible, but you lived in a country with this government for 17 years?

    • @shanghaiffgg
      @shanghaiffgg 2 месяца назад +2

      @@speedingable that’s right. You don’t think it’s possible to live in a country for an extended period with a horrible authoritarian government but lovely people? EVERY foreigner and almost all Chinese think the government is horrible there. Doesn’t stop you making money and living a life though.

  • @aggedor2
    @aggedor2 Год назад +45

    I lived in Wuhan a few years, had a startup there, left a couple of years before pandemic. Had Re Gan Mian almost every day - 在武汉,每天吃热干面!Still had a lot of friends there when the pandemic started, was very scary, was chatting with them every day. Almost all of them left, but then when they realised how bad things became in their home country, most wanted to go back to Wuhan but couldn't due to border closures! 3 years later, only a couple left.

  • @Giles20
    @Giles20 Год назад +20

    Bro, you gotta check out the East Lake in Wuhan. Such an awesome place. I actually visited Wuhan when I lived in China, just after they opened from the COVID lockdown back in Sept 2020. Came to the same conclusion as you, it's such an awesome city!

  • @mikef888au1
    @mikef888au1 Год назад +35

    Thank you for showing the real China. I've traveled through many parts of the mainland, and found people singing, dancing/exercising, and generally having a friendly social time every evening in parks and public squares. It's sort or surreal, but very sweet. Thanks for this video of Wuhan, I think I will visit in the future.

  • @TheDysartes
    @TheDysartes Год назад +10

    Up north, my wife's family refer to the large dumplings as steamed buns. The iPhone is slightly cheaper in China than the UK, though I think that's because of VAT (Value Added Tax).
    I think most countries don't like you asking questions on a number of subjects, and there have been instances where tourists have suddenly found themselves in a sticky situation. I remember years ago a group of aircraft spotters/enthusiasts found themselves being accused of spying in Greece, because they took some images of a plane. It was all innocent on their part, but they were arrested and questioned by the Greek authorities.
    I think a lot of people are worried about visiting China at the moment because of all the propaganda being pumped out by some Western countries saying it's unsafe to visit. I've seen videos where it suggests that you could be arrested for spying.
    The media would have you believe that you'd be arrested for being outside the virology lab, and yet you happily wandered around the outside it with a camera....lol

  • @x0Kamix0x
    @x0Kamix0x Год назад +43

    As a Chinese person who grew up in the West, it really pains me to see the relationship with China deteriorate. The China I see when I visit is not at all what people here think... and I just wish more people would take the time to watch your videos to understand others better before casting judgement.

    • @islamisthetruewaytogod6812
      @islamisthetruewaytogod6812 9 месяцев назад

      Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
      Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
      Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
      Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
      Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
      Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
      Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
      Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
      It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
      (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
      God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
      (2:136 / Translated by Community)
      Salam (Peace) ----------------------------

    • @gappergob6169
      @gappergob6169 9 месяцев назад

      Competition for supremacy. If Chinese developed even more, a lot of western industries will collapse. After all in industrialized era, fewer workers needed for production.

  • @xingyuw7868
    @xingyuw7868 3 месяца назад +7

    Even I am a Chinese, I still can get a lot of fun from video through your communication with the local people. Thanks

  • @ACS1010
    @ACS1010 Год назад +32

    I’ve enjoyed a number of your videos; this one is OUTSTANDING.
    Hits so many notes : informative, entertaining, insightful, and a model of how to travel respectfully with a light heart through this amazing world.

    • @FollowMe42302
      @FollowMe42302 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/ufwXBpZK8u4/видео.html

  • @kakarote23
    @kakarote23 Год назад +30

    I've watched many RUclipsrs filming Wuhan, but almost all of them have overlooked the Yangtze River, which is a crucial element of Wuhan. Walking along the riverbank or crossing the Yangtze River on foot from the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge are both excellent experiences and materials to capture.

    • @islamisthetruewaytogod6812
      @islamisthetruewaytogod6812 9 месяцев назад

      Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
      Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
      Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
      Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
      Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
      Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
      Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
      Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
      It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
      (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
      God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
      (2:136 / Translated by Community)
      Salam (Peace) ----------------------------

  • @JMEUTEUW
    @JMEUTEUW 9 месяцев назад +4

    I’ve known some Chinese people in Europe, for the most part very friendly and hard working.

  • @DivinesLegacy
    @DivinesLegacy Год назад +69

    It’s always nice seeing footage of China from a pedestrian viewpoint, Because on google earth you can barely see anything or on RUclips it’s showing off the absolute richest areas.

    • @calvyncraven1141
      @calvyncraven1141 Год назад

      Follow Kathrine'd Journey to the East to see rural China.

    • @piffdaddy420
      @piffdaddy420 Год назад

      yea exactly... he even went and ate at a place that sold cat meat skewers. i think its really fucked up and i am very disgusted... they have skinned cat upside down hanging there at 25 minutes into the video. chinese people fuckin suck for doing this to cats. and part of their fucked up culture is that they torture the animal to death because they think it makes it taste better when they eat it. its so horrible...

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

    • @evergreennj8950
      @evergreennj8950 Год назад +2

      Yes. But interesting you have not seen any of the older posts from the Food Ranger, Monkey Abroad, or some of the new posts from Blondie in China or Katherine's journey to the East...

  • @paulkimani8487
    @paulkimani8487 Год назад +12

    The guy with cigarettes 🚬 just made my day😂😂He is so Humble 💗

  • @BestPropTutorials
    @BestPropTutorials 9 месяцев назад +26

    Wow, you genuinely sold me on Wuhan. The people seem so friendly, the city has that charming old feel to it while also being clean. I had a completely different image in my head of what Wuhan would be. Definitely on my bucket list.

  • @gosunflower
    @gosunflower Год назад +40

    14:04 Rarely hear this expressed nowadays but agreed. The notion that China is not innovative makes no sense considering that they invented paper, printing, gunpowder, and the compass, among a myriad of other things. Heck even now Japan and Korea still use the Chinese writing system for their languages

    • @MikAnimal
      @MikAnimal Год назад

      I’ll call bullshit. All of that was literally killed and buried and shunned by the ccp. There is genetic potential for creativity but it is tortured, traumatized and otherwise beaten out of them.
      Chinese thought even before communism can be restrictive but adding communism to Chinese inclinations made and environment deadly to creativity.

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

    • @demri123
      @demri123 Год назад +4

      Well originally yes. But modern Korea is 99% Hangul. Some older people use Hanja, which is what they call Chinese characters. A few younger ppl know it. Very few

    • @LiyueHuman
      @LiyueHuman Год назад +3

      @@demri123ironically on Korea ID card, they use their Chinese names 😂

    • @river5613
      @river5613 Год назад +1

      Huawei Pro Mete 60

  • @imsosmart942
    @imsosmart942 Год назад +69

    I've been sick at home for a week with a bad cold and laying around watching TV. I wanted a break from politics, and I found your channel. IT'S FANTASTIC! I also watched the China show and have been for several years. I'm pretty well traveled myself, in Europe. I doubt that I would go into the East, so I really enjoy seeing what you bring to us! THANK YOU! Sharing your channel...

    • @will_mcdermott
      @will_mcdermott 11 месяцев назад

      It’s just proof that the news exaggerates the magnitude of the world’s problems. But this video shows the reality.

    • @islamisthetruewaytogod6812
      @islamisthetruewaytogod6812 9 месяцев назад +1

      Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
      Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
      Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
      Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
      Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
      Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
      Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
      Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
      It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
      (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
      God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
      (2:136 / Translated by Community)
      Salam (Peace) ----------------------------

  • @qubit7112
    @qubit7112 Год назад +17

    Showing us cultures that many people will never have the opportunity to understand is fantastic. Appreciate your work subscribed and liked the video. It makes me want to visit!

  • @MarkSalhany
    @MarkSalhany Год назад +78

    I'm loving this China series! It's been very illuminating getting to see some of the provinces. Hoping you make it to Yunnan province eventually. I've always wanted to see Kunming and Xishuangbanna

    • @胡蓝-m2i
      @胡蓝-m2i Год назад +1

      冬季的时候去到南方省份过冬,是一个好主意!

    • @nikokokokokoko
      @nikokokokokoko Год назад +4

      I’m from Xishuangbanna😂It’s quite rare for knowing it by foreigners😂

    • @MarkSalhany
      @MarkSalhany Год назад +2

      @@nikokokokokoko I only know about Xishuangbanna from my travels in northern Thailand and talking with some Chiang Rai locals who have family there. I've always wanted to visit myself. The culture seems very beautiful and unique, the temples look spectacular, and plus there are rainforests!

    • @nikokokokokoko
      @nikokokokokoko Год назад +2

      @@MarkSalhany Yeah we share similar culture to Thai and Lao, plus the minority group of Dai people they speak their language which is quite similar to Thai and Lao as well. There is direct flight from Xishuangbanna to Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai, it’s easy to get around here. Buy a ticket then you’ll be here lol

    • @MarkSalhany
      @MarkSalhany Год назад +1

      @@nikokokokokoko I will I will! Just gotta get around to applying for a tourist visa for China and I'll make a visit. Nonstop from Chiang Rai sounds nice and fast.

  • @jamesn4790
    @jamesn4790 Год назад +14

    The old man playing solo tennis, so great!! Wuhan added to my list👍

  • @Tzippi
    @Tzippi Год назад +14

    I love this vlog! You captured the essence of the tennis man. He was so sweet! Fantastic content! ❤

  • @shirleytan5162
    @shirleytan5162 Год назад +85

    I’m amazed by how friendly the uncle is . I haven’t been to China but this video totally change my perspective of the country . Planning to visit China in the next few months ❤

    • @islamisthetruewaytogod6812
      @islamisthetruewaytogod6812 9 месяцев назад

      Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
      Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
      Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
      Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
      Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
      Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
      Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
      Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
      Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
      It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
      (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
      God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
      (2:136 / Translated by Community)
      Salam (Peace) ----------------------------

    • @user-kn2is2et8q
      @user-kn2is2et8q 7 месяцев назад +2

      欢迎你来中国旅游,如果有任何问题都可以找警察,中国的警察可以帮你解决任何问题。
      在中国如果遇到友好的陌生人,中国人会表达出更加友好的态度。

    • @lalalalalalala127
      @lalalalalalala127 7 месяцев назад

      Welcome!

    • @骑着熊猫去打酱油
      @骑着熊猫去打酱油 6 месяцев назад

      I assumed your previous perspective came from western media.

  • @sandraheald7073
    @sandraheald7073 Год назад +66

    Wuhan looks a really nice place, thanks for showing us around, and having fun with the locals! My youngest daughter went to Beijing for 4 months, and won an award for learning Chinese, proud mum moment, as my mum was also good with languages. Love dumplings. Those tree lined streets make it seem more relaxed.

  • @__-xy9gx
    @__-xy9gx Год назад +14

    Man, this takes me back to my time spent there years ago. It's such a beautiful country with some of the best food and some of the warmest/friendliest people one could encounter.
    Also, he's telling the truth about leaving with a carton... the number of cigarettes people will try to give you after friendly conversation is staggering

  • @iamsheep
    @iamsheep Год назад +4

    The idea that China can't innovate comes from the fact that it had a reputation of copying western products I guess. But how that became some sort of fact about its people and then tied to political ideology and governance is so weird. China was historically very innovative prior to the Industrial Revolution. Paper, the compass, gun powder, etc and none of those inventions were created under a democracy or freedom of speech. Technological innovation has nothing really to do with political freedoms, but rather a meritocracy, education and capital.

  • @auyeongwy
    @auyeongwy Год назад +32

    Fun fact: I was in Wuhan half--a-year before the whole COVID thing broke out. Nice 2nd-tier city - I could feel that the people were more.... "simple/innocent" compared to people in the tier-1 cities. Back then, I also felt that it was more carefully developed with an eye attempting to conserve more of the "historical feel" than how the T1 cities had become very urbanized. But that was then - unfortunately I have retired my globe-trotting career days with the arrival of children.

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

    • @evergreennj8950
      @evergreennj8950 Год назад +3

      In a few years, you'll be able to globe-trot again - with them tagging along. My kids loved their trip abroad this summer which included Japan and China. Beijing still has lots of "historical" places to visit as well as some really futuristic ones.

    • @niavellir7408
      @niavellir7408 9 месяцев назад

      What is a tier city?

    • @evergreennj8950
      @evergreennj8950 9 месяцев назад

      @@niavellir7408 RUclips lists 3 replies but I only see yours and my earlier reply, before I posted this one. Do you see another? I'm assuming you've already searched "Chinese city tier system" and have already found out what it is?

  • @WaldoBMC3
    @WaldoBMC3 10 месяцев назад +9

    seems like a nice place and alot of people are friendly. Im happy you do these videos. alot of Americans think these places are bad to go. I wish some day one day I would be able to travel to these places. I might be a little old now at 43. it was a dream of mine as a kid. I always loved Chinese culture. respect to you friend.

  • @busouting
    @busouting Год назад +15

    The man at the beginning wanted to make you a pro at playing one man tennis and keep you there as long as possible. But you are a professional traveller 😃. That's what you get for going off the beaten track. Bless him! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing

  • @AwesomeFish12
    @AwesomeFish12 Год назад +14

    At first glance I thought the old guy was a 12/13 year old, I was surprised to see he was in his late 60s. What a nice guy and he's found a good way to stay fit and make new friends.

  • @psoon04286
    @psoon04286 Год назад +70

    You’re cool, man. As an Asian living in Canada Ive been bombarded with very biased anti-China reporting. Im grateful for the many other channels like yours that let us see the real situation - no political agenda. Thank you👍🏼👍🏼😄

    • @RickyVall3y
      @RickyVall3y 10 месяцев назад

      What exactly is Anti China reporting? Is it truly like this in Canada?

    • @emperorqianlong527
      @emperorqianlong527 10 месяцев назад

      @@RickyVall3ytalk of china in the west is typically portrayed as a monolithic dystopian society where the government has every information and will make you disappear if you step out of the line.
      Ofcourse- this is in equivalence to any flawed conspiracy theory about government control, but their media doesnt see it as so

    • @awp-erator4525
      @awp-erator4525 10 месяцев назад

      ​@RickyVall3y you haven't seen any major us or canadian broadcasting network talk about Chinese spies and China and how china's doing this and china's doing that? 😂

    • @awp-erator4525
      @awp-erator4525 10 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@RickyVall3yliving under a rock you are bro

  • @Kaygee79
    @Kaygee79 Год назад +29

    Wow, another fantastic history lesson here! And a beautiful looking city Wuhan is!

  • @davidcunningham2074
    @davidcunningham2074 Год назад +17

    Wuhan is pleasant friendly city. love the interaction with the tennis ball hitting old man. Tommy is so polite that he even smokes a cigarette with him even though he does not smoke.

  • @BluesyVlogs
    @BluesyVlogs Год назад +12

    Amazing content, why on earth i haven't come upon this channel before or why YT didnt recommend it to me is beyond me. It's my kind of content! ❤ I was surprised how modern and clean it looks, for some reason i imagined Beijing or Shanghai being more like that, but Wuhan could easily be mistaken for a Japanese major city or even South Korean, lots of great food at super affordable prices. And the infrastructure no different from many majory cities in the west. Totally different than expected, must say, and i've been around the world.

  • @phoso1
    @phoso1 Год назад +19

    This video makes me want to go to Wuhan, China. People are genuinely nice and friendly there. Thank you for the upload Sabbatical. ❤

  • @chinito6715
    @chinito6715 Год назад +25

    1:48 is such an amazing interaction! It’s so cool you guys connecting. Love that that old guy is still putting in work!

  • @user-lo1xn9zd1k
    @user-lo1xn9zd1k 5 месяцев назад +1

    I have CONGO...INDIA...CHINA...AND JERUSALEM TO PALESTINE....UR EPISODES AND YOUR PERSPECTIVE POISE AND KNOWLEDGE IN LANGUAGES ...SO GREAT ...IAM HOOKED ...WHERE NEXT ADVENTURE

  • @Random_qubit
    @Random_qubit Год назад +11

    Would love to see you link up with Bald or Harald in China and show them around , would make for excellent content ! (BTW ur my fave travel vlogger , excellent work u do in showing educating everywhere u travel to)

  • @gabe1784
    @gabe1784 Год назад +101

    Right after you mentioned wuhan was called “the Chicago” of China you walked in front of a statue that sorta looked like “the bean” but hollow..pretty neat haha

    • @tenchichrono
      @tenchichrono Год назад +24

      it's not really the chicago of china cuz there ain't no gun violence here.

    • @gabe1784
      @gabe1784 Год назад +11

      @@tenchichrono yeah very true lol

    • @James-lz2ks
      @James-lz2ks Год назад +3

      I noticed the similarity to the bean 😃

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

  • @ibbyseed
    @ibbyseed 10 месяцев назад +3

    One can criticize the Chinese government and still respect the Chinese people.

  • @thompson7271
    @thompson7271 Год назад +145

    I've traveled to most of the world. The most recent place I visited was china in Hangzhou. It is perhaps the most underrated place in the world and the people are perhaps the most generous and good hearted people for a developing country you will find. For us people in the west we fear and often times are afraid of the unknown.

    • @CM-zl2jw
      @CM-zl2jw Год назад +6

      I’m afraid of people who love wearing masks. Seems inhumane and unnatural.

    • @_chipchip
      @_chipchip Год назад +39

      @@CM-zl2jwyes people taking tiny measures to look out for each others wellbeing.. that’s what you have an issue with? Just say what you really mean.

    • @dadforever5049
      @dadforever5049 Год назад +14

      @@CM-zl2jw I'm seeing plenty people wearing masks in the US right now. I went to my office today and was so happy meeting my co workers i haven't seen since COVID started, some of them were wearing masks. we had a great time. i don't see anything inhumane or unnatural about.

    • @CM-zl2jw
      @CM-zl2jw Год назад

      @@dadforever5049 ruclips.net/video/xh4C9izrjGI/видео.htmlsi=umyjtAz7Exnqc11r

    • @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6
      @indianumba1usnumba1chynalo6 Год назад +1

      Wuhan virus 🦠🧪
      CHYNA VIRUS AKA WUFLU 🥣🦇🇨🇳

  • @timqi1616
    @timqi1616 Год назад +5

    感謝借您老外的鏡頭去武漢一游,開頭一手夾煙一手打球的老頭像個老頑童,歪戴棒球帽,腕戴金錶,還連連遞烟拍照讓人捧腹😅🤣😂

  • @Manxmann
    @Manxmann Год назад +10

    Great video! Very imformative. I teach English to many Chinese, online, and they are all lovely people. So happy to have found your channel. Keep uploading your great work. Cheers😊

  • @mrchildgrownold3852
    @mrchildgrownold3852 Год назад +13

    Not what I expected, on the other hand I didn't really know what to expect. At the end of the day he's right just people ❤

  • @BatuSmoka808
    @BatuSmoka808 Год назад +16

    This has to be my favorite China video of yours so far! From gramps playing one-man tennis, eating baos, exploring the city, and talking to the locals also those girls from Nanjing were pretty. Love your perspective on China and the world, we're all are more similar than we are different. Just keep being respectful and aware bc I would hate to see your videos get cut short. Safe travels bro can't wait for the next one!

  • @honestrob6993
    @honestrob6993 Месяц назад +1

    Genuinely come back here to watch this regularly, that old guy in the park, your Chinese language capabilities & just your overall reaction is just golden. Please go back to China Tommy bud.

  • @shahijmal
    @shahijmal Год назад +16

    Beautiful video as always, I'm sure a lot of people are still anxious and some skeptical but I think this will ease it a little.

  • @galochusan
    @galochusan Год назад +14

    Fantastic. I had a fourteen hour layover in Shanghai, China back in 2019 onwards to Malaysia. It was a pleasant five hour walk and the brief interaction with the locals at night was an amazing experience. Traveling solo gives you hindsight on the beauty of what to expect and is the best remedy for whatever ails ya, good or bad. Always be on the good, folks.

  • @wildeyestudios5
    @wildeyestudios5 9 месяцев назад +9

    You're authentic af, your interactions are authentic af, your content is authentic af. True RUclipsr making true content. Subscribed

  • @nocturnalforsaken4519
    @nocturnalforsaken4519 Год назад +4

    if u are secret agent i am sure you do lousy job. u event promote beer in tik tok 😂😂😂

  • @stevena.7022
    @stevena.7022 Год назад +6

    What's your secret?
    Cigarettes and Tether-ball !

  • @davdav1370
    @davdav1370 Год назад +5

    14:11 Speaking about Chinese innovation, google this: Countries that filed the most international patent applications in 2022

  • @larrycarino4903
    @larrycarino4903 Год назад +6

    Thak you for showing the natural side of the Chinese people. Your videos are amazing.

  • @zrx550
    @zrx550 11 месяцев назад +1

    26:40 When people share cigarettes, it's being polite for them to hand you two at a time, and you take one for being polite. I don't smoke, I didn't know that until my father in law taught me.😂

  • @euroschmau
    @euroschmau Год назад +12

    Wuhan, being a big river city in the heart of China, is more akin to Saint Louis than Chicago. What's China's Chicago? I'd say Zhengzhou because it's adjacent to the nation's agricultural heart and is/always has been a major railroad junction.

    • @leanlifer
      @leanlifer Год назад

      Zhengzhou is more like Atlanta, given it's not as fancy as Chicago.

  • @DLH.23
    @DLH.23 Год назад +9

    It makes you realize that people are all generally good, and just like us--but we have leaders in power that cause conflicts. Your video made me both happy and sad--but it was great either way.

  • @iamamoghalfmanhalfdog5325
    @iamamoghalfmanhalfdog5325 Год назад +2

    Lol why is old guy dressed like that 😂 bless him

  • @theadventuresofbrockinthai4325
    @theadventuresofbrockinthai4325 Год назад +10

    I have seen a few of your videos and you have impressed me. I just subscribed to your channel and will try to follow you as you travel through China.
    My Dad spent 6 years in China and fell in love with the country back in the 30's. I had plans to go to China back in 2019 but then the co vid hit and that was the end of that trip. I live in Thailand and have been here for 16 years now, and I think, after watching your videos, I will reschedule my trip to this wonderful country. Thank you.

  • @sliya
    @sliya 11 месяцев назад +2

    I think you’ve been to the wrong place. It’s written”眼镜市场“ which means eyewear market, that’s not the famous wet market (海鲜市场)at all.