If you want to see a different kind of bath house experience, be sure to check out my video about the Hot Springs resort in Shenyang! ruclips.net/video/5jtQekcBMEY/видео.html
You did nothing wrong and no one should force you to do anything that you are not comfortable with. Traditionally, it's more common for men to go public bath and hang out there; it's like a social event. They have tea afterwards and even play chess. I think the kind of spa that many do like is that you have your own area, where you do whatever you like, and then meet your friends afterwards in the common area with PJs. I have heard that some people hang out at these places all day because they serve food, very delicious food! Here is a good example from Amy in "Blondie in China." I think this is the kind of spa experience that may suit you better. ruclips.net/video/rTLDXED7V-c/видео.html I lived in Berlin at one point where people go naked in the public park doing sun-bathing. No one really cared. People in Denmark also have no fear of going naked in the public in the summertime. Cultural sensitivities are interesting. What's a taboo in one culture may not be the case in another.
We frequently visit the Qing He hot springs, I have a video about that one, be sure to check it out if you haven't yet, and there is one section off to the side of the dressing room that is specifically for the naked bathing, and I just avoid that area and go into the PJ area where we enjoy all the facilities. I've now become desensitized to everything and I'm not as shy anymore but I still try to change by half covering myself with my towel, and that's only because little kids are always looking at us, and I know it's only because they're looking at us as laowai..but I'm still a bit shy to whip out my fat ass in front of strangers 😂 ruclips.net/video/5jtQekcBMEY/видео.html
Public bathhouse with naked people is definitely a Northern China thing, people from Southern China (eg: Shanghai, Hongkong) would have a culture shock in this type of bathhouse.
@@nadineinchina I know people from Guangzhou goes to school in Shenyang had a similar meltdown in the bathhouse, and made video about it. By the way, you are stunningly beautiful, I would be struggling to control myself beside you.
Culture shock stories are funny. Its a self reflections looking at own frail nature and insecurities. Being vulnerable in the mirror vs public gaze makes one imagine how other perception can stir crazy ones paranoia of oneself, place in the world or day to day values and activities.
hoooooeeeeee..... i wasnt expecting a redhot xxx story lol im getting a little hot now.... no sauna involved XD....... you never went to sweden or norway!!!! i was forced to jump and run around naked in the freezing snow in scandinavia.... we were in the sauna and the tour guide there forced us to jump into the snow!!!! I was with my uncle and brother and other relatives FFS!!!!! im chinese but born and bred in the uk and had relatives getting married in the ice hotel....... ive never been naked in front of anyone!!!!! or eversince!!! so obviously i stink abit lol
Accept if you like it, reject it if you don’t like it. Many of my friends like to go to the public bathhouse to take a bath together. They used to ask me to come together. But after being rejected by me many times, they stopped calling. Other things have not changed
@@nadineinchina I am from harbin, the capital of heilongjiang province. There are a lot of public bathhouses too. When I was a boy, china was in such poverty that a lot of people did not even have chances to take a shower for a long time in winter. My father was a professor at a university and the university had a public bathhouse for the staffs and the students. No one gave a damn if others were watching him while taking a shower.
@@phelgawang5660 I remember when I lived in Liaozhong, the girls I lived with made it a weekly outting to go to the bath house and I truly didn't understand it. It was at that point when I realized just how privileged I was being able to take showers at random. It really gave me a different perspective on a lot things in my life. I will Always treasure the 4 months I lived there because it taught me that we should stop taking things for granted and always remember that even if we feel we have problems or we don't have enough, there will Always be People with way less. We should be more grateful in our Everyday lives. As for Harbin! Been wanting to visit but simply can't convince myself to attempt Harbin cold😄 I can barely Survive Shenyang cold 😨😄
@@nadineinchina the public bathhouses also play some other roles in China. 1. a lot of ppl go there for gambling. there are rooms just like hotels. people playing cards, majiang, etc. 2. some people simply go there to sleep overnighter. usually it's much cheaper. 3. males go there for prostitutes, who usually show up as Massage therapists
In Germany you can see a lot of naked people at the beach and sometimes in the park. When I first came to Germany to study, I even saw female students naked sunbathing on the school lawn.
I once met a German girl while traveling in Seoul. She loved going to the bath houses and I was very surprised by it. She told me it's quite normal in Germany 😝 I mean, i wish i was THAT comfortable in my own body to be naked everywhere😄😄
@@nadineinchina In Germany, especially in the summer in the East German region, you have to get used to suddenly encountering naked people lying on the grass while walking in the park. You also have to get used to families who are naked and playing together on the beach. Don't worry though, Germans won't force you to be naked, they'll just make you feel a little awkward about being not naked in certain places.
Fun story! So have you never ever gone back to a bath house again? With all these years in China, surely, you would have gotten more invites and became comfortable with getting naked at the bathhouses
Never went back to a bath house but I've been to the Hot Springs many times and other indoor and outdoor pool places that has showers and locker areas requiring you to undress infront of others and I've somewhat adapted to it. But i don't think I have it in me to sit in a bath with many other naked ladies, mostly Cause I've seen them sitting spread eagle in the bath section of these pool places😂😂😂
@@nadineinchina LOL. I get it. I just found your channel, and am a new sub. I watched a bunch of your videos, but still have not seen one that covers the most important topics: 1. why go to China for new life? 2. Why stay for so long despite all the cultural differences? 3. How did you meet a mate in China and decide to raise a baby in China? 4. What's your long term goal in stay in China? Thanks and love your content
Would be nice if you will stay as neutral and unbiased. The words “horrible “ and “China “ together definitely a click bait so hopefully you won’t become another south African like see serpanZA lol
@@nadineinchina oh sorry I meant “worst” but it’s a kinda of reflex as another South African serpanZA has been notorious for China bashing for more subscribers using twisted and fake stories... he used to be quite neutral but changed as being china bashing due to it can get more attention and subscribers..
@@andyl3655 If you find my videos are anything like his then I'm doing Something Seriously wrong 😂 My blog series is all in good fun! And 10 years ago my innocent heart did feel like it was the worst moment in my life when faced with that experience that terrified me! 😂😂
Why not as long as it is legal, there is room for click bait and also drawing the crowd in. She is not performing at the Moulin Rouge where she is skipping in skimpy outfit. It is numbers and building up the audience, Watson.
@@nadineinchina thanks for the kind reply, I hope you won’t be offended. I have been following him since early days but feeling sort of betrayed after he changed to evil. I hope your channel will grow bigger and gets more attention! God bless you and bless those good and kind ppl!
Luckily you are not a hockey player, I love to shower after a game and some club rooms have no shower stalls but some do. The trick is to go in after everyone has a shower. With the stalls, it is better. Like you I am self conscious of my body and hence avoid exposing myself in the nude. Most South East Asian cultures are like that and I am surprised to see it is not the case in China. But the Japanese and Korean do the same in terms of pubic exposure, it must be in their culture. Nadine, you should transcribed it into a book as you are a good story teller and I am sure it will sell like hot cakes just as JK Rawlings did.
I forgot to mention it in the video, but I actually found out later that in a small town like Liaozhong, people do not shower at home, in order to save water and electricity, they go to a public bath house once or twice a week, and that it is much more cost effective, they did tell me that it's more often in Summer. In the bigger cities it's different but I do pass by these public bath houses every now and then. I actually know an older South African lady who loves it, but she is a very eccentric and odd duck..I think I was raised differently and maybe have unhealthy body issues 😂😂😂
@@nadineinchina My suggestion is very serious to jot down your experiences and write it into a book. You are actually living through a momentus part of history of which historians will look back that 2020 marked the emergence of China. Fanshen by William Hinton documented the period before the Revolution about daily lives in China. Then there is Red Star over China by Edgar Snow. These books have become best sellers and must read at university courses on Chinese politics and society.
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If you want to see a different kind of bath house experience, be sure to check out my video about the Hot Springs resort in Shenyang!
ruclips.net/video/5jtQekcBMEY/видео.html
This video is also a good record of bathhouses in northeast China 。ruclips.net/video/rTLDXED7V-c/видео.html&ab_channel=BlondieinChina
You did nothing wrong and no one should force you to do anything that you are not comfortable with. Traditionally, it's more common for men to go public bath and hang out there; it's like a social event. They have tea afterwards and even play chess. I think the kind of spa that many do like is that you have your own area, where you do whatever you like, and then meet your friends afterwards in the common area with PJs. I have heard that some people hang out at these places all day because they serve food, very delicious food! Here is a good example from Amy in "Blondie in China." I think this is the kind of spa experience that may suit you better. ruclips.net/video/rTLDXED7V-c/видео.html I lived in Berlin at one point where people go naked in the public park doing sun-bathing. No one really cared. People in Denmark also have no fear of going naked in the public in the summertime. Cultural sensitivities are interesting. What's a taboo in one culture may not be the case in another.
We frequently visit the Qing He hot springs, I have a video about that one, be sure to check it out if you haven't yet, and there is one section off to the side of the dressing room that is specifically for the naked bathing, and I just avoid that area and go into the PJ area where we enjoy all the facilities. I've now become desensitized to everything and I'm not as shy anymore but I still try to change by half covering myself with my towel, and that's only because little kids are always looking at us, and I know it's only because they're looking at us as laowai..but I'm still a bit shy to whip out my fat ass in front of strangers 😂 ruclips.net/video/5jtQekcBMEY/видео.html
Great story! So funny! The other side is as equally traumatizing. lol
😂😂 I can't even imagine 😰😄
wow 10 yrs ago and i was thinking you only arrived last yr
yes, Yesterday actually exactly 10 years since I arrived. My blog series is about my experiences from that time when I arrived 10 years ago 😁
Finnish and Japanese people are also comfortable with communal bath time nudity.
Good stroy telling. I wish my memory from 10 years ago can be as detailed.
I wrote in depth journals at the time..that's the only reason why I can recall so much 😂
@@nadineinchina Looking forward to the next episode.
Public bathhouse with naked people is definitely a Northern China thing,
people from Southern China (eg: Shanghai, Hongkong) would have a culture shock in this type of bathhouse.
I'm glad it's not just me! There's such a vast different between North and South
@@nadineinchina I know people from Guangzhou goes to school in Shenyang had a similar meltdown in the bathhouse, and made video about it. By the way, you are stunningly beautiful, I would be struggling to control myself beside you.
Culture shock stories are funny. Its a self reflections looking at own frail nature and insecurities. Being vulnerable in the mirror vs public gaze makes one imagine how other perception can stir crazy ones paranoia of oneself, place in the world or day to day values and activities.
in the US being naked in the gym is normal for older folks, 50+
Japanese have public baths for men and women in the same pool.
😅😅😅😅 oh my
hoooooeeeeee..... i wasnt expecting a redhot xxx story lol im getting a little hot now.... no sauna involved XD.......
you never went to sweden or norway!!!! i was forced to jump and run around naked in the freezing snow in scandinavia.... we were in the sauna and the tour guide there forced us to jump into the snow!!!! I was with my uncle and brother and other relatives FFS!!!!!
im chinese but born and bred in the uk and had relatives getting married in the ice hotel....... ive never been naked in front of anyone!!!!! or eversince!!! so obviously i stink abit lol
😄😄😄😄
Guess that's sauna, burn of the unnecessary body fat . Touch your sweat you can feel oily stuff out from your body.
Need to go back to burn off some excess 东北菜 fat 😂😂
Accept if you like it, reject it if you don’t like it. Many of my friends like to go to the public bathhouse to take a bath together. They used to ask me to come together. But after being rejected by me many times, they stopped calling. Other things have not changed
Im surprised wong jing is so shy lol usually wong jing is the first to be the lewdest person XD
Traumatised by too many naked Chinese women!! Yeah happens to all of us sigh*
😂😂
as a Chinese male, I seldom go to public bath house. It’s too time wasting. It only takes a few minutes for me to take a shower at home.
yeah That's what I'm thinking! I guss it's part of Northeastern culture. People make a day of it!
@@nadineinchina I am from harbin, the capital of heilongjiang province. There are a lot of public bathhouses too. When I was a boy, china was in such poverty that a lot of people did not even have chances to take a shower for a long time in winter. My father was a professor at a university and the university had a public bathhouse for the staffs and the students. No one gave a damn if others were watching him while taking a shower.
@@phelgawang5660 I remember when I lived in Liaozhong, the girls I lived with made it a weekly outting to go to the bath house and I truly didn't understand it. It was at that point when I realized just how privileged I was being able to take showers at random. It really gave me a different perspective on a lot things in my life. I will Always treasure the 4 months I lived there because it taught me that we should stop taking things for granted and always remember that even if we feel we have problems or we don't have enough, there will Always be People with way less. We should be more grateful in our Everyday lives.
As for Harbin! Been wanting to visit but simply can't convince myself to attempt Harbin cold😄 I can barely Survive Shenyang cold 😨😄
@@nadineinchina the public bathhouses also play some other roles in China.
1. a lot of ppl go there for gambling. there are rooms just like hotels. people playing cards, majiang, etc.
2. some people simply go there to sleep overnighter. usually it's much cheaper.
3. males go there for prostitutes, who usually show up as Massage therapists
Hahaha…you are hilarious😂😂. China will change you😊.
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I think this is more of a thing with Northern Chinese. Anyway it's not a thing with everyone.
澡堂应该只有北方有。
wait a sec ! did u agree unknowingly to have a shower with another woman in the apartment' bathroom ? wulala 😀😀😀
I guess I did! 😂
So funny.
In Germany you can see a lot of naked people at the beach and sometimes in the park. When I first came to Germany to study, I even saw female students naked sunbathing on the school lawn.
I once met a German girl while traveling in Seoul. She loved going to the bath houses and I was very surprised by it. She told me it's quite normal in Germany 😝 I mean, i wish i was THAT comfortable in my own body to be naked everywhere😄😄
@@nadineinchina In Germany, especially in the summer in the East German region, you have to get used to suddenly encountering naked people lying on the grass while walking in the park.
You also have to get used to families who are naked and playing together on the beach. Don't worry though, Germans won't force you to be naked, they'll just make you feel a little awkward about being not naked in certain places.
Fun story! So have you never ever gone back to a bath house again? With all these years in China, surely, you would have gotten more invites and became comfortable with getting naked at the bathhouses
Never went back to a bath house but I've been to the Hot Springs many times and other indoor and outdoor pool places that has showers and locker areas requiring you to undress infront of others and I've somewhat adapted to it. But i don't think I have it in me to sit in a bath with many other naked ladies, mostly Cause I've seen them sitting spread eagle in the bath section of these pool places😂😂😂
@@nadineinchina LOL. I get it. I just found your channel, and am a new sub. I watched a bunch of your videos, but still have not seen one that covers the most important topics: 1. why go to China for new life? 2. Why stay for so long despite all the cultural differences? 3. How did you meet a mate in China and decide to raise a baby in China? 4. What's your long term goal in stay in China?
Thanks and love your content
@@redstwok1123 Some good topics that I will be sure to cover in the neat future! Thanks for watching!
Warm spa is a Dongbei/Northeast China thing. Similar to sauna in Scandinavia.
Sounds like you went to a cultured country. but to folks not cultured enough!!;)
haha
You are just a good old fashioned conservative girl
来啦！
🙏😂🙏👍🙏🙂
Would be nice if you will stay as neutral and unbiased. The words “horrible “ and “China “ together definitely a click bait so hopefully you won’t become another south African like see serpanZA lol
I never used the word "horrible"😁
@@nadineinchina oh sorry I meant “worst” but it’s a kinda of reflex as another South African serpanZA has been notorious for China bashing for more subscribers using twisted and fake stories... he used to be quite neutral but changed as being china bashing due to it can get more attention and subscribers..
@@andyl3655 If you find my videos are anything like his then I'm doing Something Seriously wrong 😂 My blog series is all in good fun! And 10 years ago my innocent heart did feel like it was the worst moment in my life when faced with that experience that terrified me! 😂😂
Why not as long as it is legal, there is room for click bait and also drawing the crowd in. She is not performing at the Moulin Rouge where she is skipping in skimpy outfit. It is numbers and building up the audience, Watson.
@@nadineinchina thanks for the kind reply, I hope you won’t be offended. I have been following him since early days but feeling sort of betrayed after he changed to evil.
I hope your channel will grow bigger and gets more attention! God bless you and bless those good and kind ppl!
Luckily you are not a hockey player, I love to shower after a game and some club rooms have no shower stalls but some do. The trick is to go in after everyone has a shower. With the stalls, it is better. Like you I am self conscious of my body and hence avoid exposing myself in the nude. Most South East Asian cultures are like that and I am surprised to see it is not the case in China. But the Japanese and Korean do the same in terms of pubic exposure, it must be in their culture. Nadine, you should transcribed it into a book as you are a good story teller and I am sure it will sell like hot cakes just as JK Rawlings did.
I forgot to mention it in the video, but I actually found out later that in a small town like Liaozhong, people do not shower at home, in order to save water and electricity, they go to a public bath house once or twice a week, and that it is much more cost effective, they did tell me that it's more often in Summer. In the bigger cities it's different but I do pass by these public bath houses every now and then. I actually know an older South African lady who loves it, but she is a very eccentric and odd duck..I think I was raised differently and maybe have unhealthy body issues 😂😂😂
@@nadineinchina My suggestion is very serious to jot down your experiences and write it into a book. You are actually living through a momentus part of history of which historians will look back that 2020 marked the emergence of China. Fanshen by William Hinton documented the period before the Revolution about daily lives in China. Then there is Red Star over China by Edgar Snow. These books have become best sellers and must read at university courses on Chinese politics and society.