I'm a Chinese living in Melbourne. I just found your channel and love all the videos you made!!! Thanks for introduing China with a positive attitude !!
Hey Poppy! I just wanna say that I knew this Chinese lady(Evelyn) when I just saw her in this video immediately!!! She was my IELTS teacher before I went to university in USA. It was five years ago. I couldn’t believe I can still meet her here!!! OMG, this is amazing! PLEASE Tell her that I miss her, and I’ve already backed to Shenzhen after I’ve done my college life, hope we can meet someday and I really want to thank her! Good job Poppy and thank you for sharing your life in Shenzhen:D
She is such a special person. I was so impressed by the way she handled scalper on one of her video. She sees thing in a broad perspective. Not like the usual response one would get from the internet. She sees it from a human-nature point of view, rather than your usual racial point of view. She totally disarmed the scalper and ended up being friend with him. That is the most amazing thing I ever see in my life. There will be no racist if everybody forget their own country of origin, and interact as human to human like she does. But how can a young lady like her being able to do that is beyond me.
That's because maybe only the racist ones happen to make responses in the internet. Which is why you assume internet responses are usually racist. But the fact is the internet behaves the same way as public opinion.
Hi Poppy, I've seen a few of your videos now. My passion was a writer that accidentally became a filmmaker. Despite years of commitment & sacrifice it just fell to pieces. I ran as far as I could & it became a new thing to travel & meet people that weren't so driven by capitalistic goals so I stopped comparing myself to people that I usually thought were better than me. I have met some great people & it's saved me. These videos help me feel better about my new start in my life. I salute you. Hope Guatemala treats you well.
I confess I am addicted to your videos, and wouldn't dare to miss any episode. With your great personality, I am sure you're an internationally loved character by those who would feel lucky to be your friends. Your Chinese is indeed improving.
Xi JinPing: ruclips.net/video/uD9b7mP6whk/видео.html How would you like to become my business partner and buy this European castle lady and bring your Sun Yat Sen friends there. The Germans are old and their young people are going to third world countries because they cannot command respect nor has the ability to create work take for example C-milk and his friends here I think you should teach this Kurt mental boys to attend your English class. No mindless roaming around white people in China he needs a job instead of becoming overwhelmed by the Chinese Worker who are driving huge 4 by 6 cargo trucks and feeling pathetic about it. How much more if he gets to ride China's bullet train this spoiled and insecure white brat might pee on his pants at the skill of the Chinese people. Sickly flue stricken, Joshua Wong and his umbrella brats on the other hand are so puny that C-milk will fart on their faces and this helpless brats will sniff it like its the holy grail and say, "Its the most beautiful perfume they smelled in their miserable sickly life. ruclips.net/video/g2HvTsF723U/видео.html That's right girl when i retire as Chinese President I will hire you as one of my manager and you can bring your Taiwanese friend and also C-milk, Serpentza and if possible Kurt Bell to own and greet tourist in this neglected German castle. In the meantime teach this wandering insecure brats English so that this boys will help you manage my castle's. Chavez Mugabe the future Venezuelan not adopted but real flesh and blood grandson of Africa's strong man and future multi billionaire Robert Mugabe is not the only rich man that can buy this withering European castles. Let's race King Salman who gets to buy more European castle's.
Basically, anyone who isn't any ethnic Chinese makes an effort to speak Mandarin or other chinese dialects with a Chinese (whether it be a Chinese from China or an overseas Chinese), we might think your pronunciation is off but we don't criticise. We think it's a good effort and therefore the responses are of the encouraging types, instead of laughing at it. The fact that you try is appreciated.
Big love to your video, Poppy! Not sure if it is a proper English expression. But I just have to shout it out loud. Your positivity attitude, respect towards other culture, and the way you expressed is really inspiring. Hope you enjoy your stay in China!
Love watching your video. I am Chinese and have been living in Canada for many years. I usually don't have a lot of chances to go back, and I believe the last time that I visited China was in 2012. Nevertheless, I still have a strong emotional connection with the country, and it has always been a dream for me to wanna go back. (just pure traveling to different cities, sites around the country, no family commitment). The reason why I love watching your videos is that, your video is full of enthusiasm and positivity, that I can literally feel myself being there through your video camera, being to those cities that you have visited, sites that you have been. Sorry about that I may have been little bit sentimental, but I just don't have that much courage to backpacking around China, and it's always been a thing that I strongly desire to do. (I will eventually do it maybe in couple years, and probably go back to China for my retirement, as Chinese call it fallen leafs go back to the root) Anyway, make long story short, good video, keep it up! If you have a chance, take a visit to Xi'an, and you're gonna be staggered and experience a whole different part of China. BTW, I am not from Xi'an, (I'm from Yangzhou), my girlfriend is. LOL
Thank you so much! You should backpack around China! Take a group of friends, then it will be less scary. It’s not always easy traveling on your own. I do it because I think it makes me a stronger person but I do prefer traveling with other people. And yes I do want to visit Xi’an! I’m working on my plans for 2018 and hopefully it includes a lot more cities in China!
Xi JinPing: ruclips.net/video/uD9b7mP6whk/видео.html How would you like to become my business partner and buy this European castle lady and bring your Sun Yat Sen friends there. The Germans are old and their young people are going to third world countries because they cannot command respect nor has the ability to create work take for example C-milk and his friends here I think you should teach this Kurt mental boys to attend your English class. No mindless roaming around white people in China he needs a job instead of becoming overwhelmed by the Chinese Worker who are driving huge 4 by 6 cargo trucks and feeling pathetic about it. How much more if he gets to ride China's bullet train this spoiled and insecure white brat might pee on his pants at the skill of the Chinese people. Sickly flue stricken, Joshua Wong and his umbrella brats on the other hand are so puny that C-milk will fart on their faces and this helpless brats will sniff it like its the holy grail and say, "Its the most beautiful perfume they smelled in their miserable sickly life. ruclips.net/video/g2HvTsF723U/видео.html That's right girl when i retire as Chinese President I will hire you as one of my manager and you can bring your Taiwanese friend and also C-milk, Serpentza and if possible Kurt Bell to own and greet tourist in this neglected German castle. In the meantime teach this wandering insecure brats English so that this boys will help you manage my castle's. Chavez Mugabe the future Venezuelan not adopted but real flesh and blood grandson of Africa's strong man and future multi billionaire Robert Mugabe is not the only rich man that can buy this withering European castles. Let's race King Salman who gets to buy more European castle's.
Love that cat saying goodbye at the end. Your videos are always informative and fun to watch. Wish your proposed group trip to Guatemala a success, Poppy.
That was the sweetest video. I really enjoy your positive spin on life and your life in China. I especially like this video. I have some really great friends in China. If you work at it they will be friends for life. Thank you for the video.
Your sharing is interesting. Though I'm a Chinese living in Shenzhen I also think it's worth to watch because it's a different perspective to see our lives!
Thanks for sharing your experience! Nowadays we're really fortunate to have all the means necessary such as apps and speed of communication to look for friends. So you're correct that it largely depend on someone's effort and their willingness to intermingle with the local people. P.S. Commiserations for just missing out the Top 10 in the Mexico contest...for sure better luck next time! :D
Xi JinPing: ruclips.net/video/uD9b7mP6whk/видео.html How would you like to become my business partner and buy this European castle lady and bring your Sun Yat Sen friends there. The Germans are old and their young people are going to third world countries because they cannot command respect nor has the ability to create work take for example C-milk and his friends here I think you should teach this Kurt mental boys to attend your English class. No mindless roaming around white people in China he needs a job instead of becoming overwhelmed by the Chinese Worker who are driving huge 4 by 6 cargo trucks and feeling pathetic about it. How much more if he gets to ride China's bullet train this spoiled and insecure white brat might pee on his pants at the skill of the Chinese people. Sickly flue stricken, Joshua Wong and his umbrella brats on the other hand are so puny that C-milk will fart on their faces and this helpless brats will sniff it like its the holy grail and say, "Its the most beautiful perfume they smelled in their miserable sickly life. ruclips.net/video/g2HvTsF723U/видео.html That's right girl when i retire as Chinese President I will hire you as one of my manager and you can bring your Taiwanese friend and also C-milk, Serpentza and if possible Kurt Bell to own and greet tourist in this neglected German castle. In the meantime teach this wandering insecure brats English so that this boys will help you manage my castle's. Chavez Mugabe the future Venezuelan not adopted but real flesh and blood grandson of Africa's strong man and future multi billionaire Robert Mugabe is not the only rich man that can buy this withering European castles. Let's race King Salman who gets to buy more European castle's.
RespectOthers , what sort of tool of war are you? What is your horse riding via heel spurs interest? How many travelers do you follow? Why do hide you true self? Those who demand respect are those who show false respect and have goals to cheat and subjugate others. Good people have respect without being told, those who fake respect, are those who will lack future honor for what they respected. The fog of you page, is a kkk symbol for the mythical fiction is the only history we allow or enjoy, because our reality is wars and ambushing from the fog we hide in. I'd the smartest and most beauty are not all murdered or destroyed by means beyond the short sighted politeness, then "the fog" was not good enough. The fog is death to the better races. Why is your history garbage, and your reliance on a future purely fiction rooted, not planned? Why do you insist none white history is myth, and fake respect when you retell to distort and destroy Biblical and Greek history, real history, as non-white race myths we are polite about in church, but will never honor or keep?
Some other foreign youtubers who can speak Chinese really make a big success in china like thefoodranger or fulinfang or 山下智博，I think you are doing a really good job as they do,and deserve a better chance
As a Chinese, I want to tell you, because of cultural differences, in China, you have to make friends, because of race, the Chinese people will treat you as a guest, they think the initiative to harass guests is impolite, so you need to take the initiative to go up. You'll reap 100 times times The Passion
I'm Shenzhen-ese currently living in Tokyo. You should learn some Cantonese too. Although mandarin is considered the dominant language in SZ, if you want to learn the old Shenzhen it's Cantonese culture, the good way to start it is to learn Cantonese. We Shenzhen locals love to hear cantonese more than mandarin. I like the Shenzhen now because people from different provinces or countries created a more diverse culture. But I think it's also important to know the history of a place if you want to explore the uniqueness of SZ 's local culture.
As a Chinese, I'd say that we not really active to make friends with foreigners, because of language. Some of us do not think we have pretty well-spoken language, so it's hard to communicate more.
We Chinese are very proud of China, even though many of us like myself are not China citizens but rather overseas Chinese. We all have a deep connection to our ancestral homeland. My ancestors came to Singapore 200 years ago from China just like most of the Chinese-majority population in Singapore. We still celebrate Chinese New Year, uphold Chinese traditions and learn Chinese as a compulsory subject in school. Like overseas Chinese who are citizens of countries they are born in, such as Chinese Vietnamese, Chinese Thai, Chinese Filippino, Chinese Malaysians and Chinese Indonesians for example, even though we are not Chinese nationality and we are also part of the ethnicity of our birth country, we still remember and treasure our Chinese ethnicity and roots. Most Chinese outside of China who have integrated for generations in their host countries and have become citizens by birth, still significantly prefer to marry and have children with other Chinese to preserve our Chinese heritage. The pride of Chinese people and other East Asian countries like Korea and Japan is why we East Asians are homogenous countries, because we value our history, traditions and culture and want them to remain as pure as possible. We love to spread our culture and language to foreigners who come here because we are proud of what we have built over millennia.
China is not really a homogeneous country to be honest, unlike korea and japan. China has many minorities and many languages and dialects. Diversity is what makes China more interesting than korea and japan.
TheXanian: Even Japan is not 100% Japanese. I think it's around 98%. In the 1960s, Han accounted for more than 94% of the population of the People's Republic of China. Then the government cheated by imposing the one-child policy on Han and as a result, it's dropped to 90% now. If there had been no anti-Han policies in the PRC, the Han would have still made up around 95% of the population, as is the case in the Republic of China (Taiwan). So I think it's not fair to say that Japan and Korea are homogeneous and China is not, because there is no material difference between 95% and 98%.
First of all, China has way more ethnic minorities than korea and japan. This certainly makes China more diverse and more interesting to look at. And secondly, you should also realize that the so-called ethnic Han Chinese is not a homogenous ethnicity, neither in terms of culture/language and nor in terms of physical traits or even genetics. There are studies which show that Han Chinese from one region may be closer to the ethnic minorities of that region rather than to the Han Chinese from another part of China. In my opinion, the so-called Han Chinese is more like a geopolitical grouping of people rather than an actual ethnic group.
TheXanian: First, many so-called "minorities" did not even exist before the communist party took power. The KMT government never recognized 56 ethnic groups, nor did Ming, Song... I agree that China has more minorities than Japan and Korea, but still, they account for approximately 5% of the population, which does not make a big difference from Japan and Korea. Second, I understand that traditions and dialects among the Han in different provinces (sometimes even in the same province) can be different. But it doesn't take away the fact that the Han is an actual ethnic group. For example, subway is called "di tie" in China mainland and "jie yun" in Taiwan. But this does not mean that the Han in China mainland is a different ethnic group than the Han in Taiwan. The Han is one ethnic group expanded all over China, not different ethnic groups grouped together. Over thousands of years, things just evolved differently. That's why Han in different parts of China and the world have different traditions, dialects.
You are awesome!!! Thank you for your open minded videos, sharing your experiences & providing your recommendations. I loved my trips to beautiful China in 2017 & 2020, but I must go back because of your videos. Again, thank you & I wish you peace, joy & continuous blessings.
Hey Poppy, you are awesome!! Background music is wonderful as always, even it makes me want to dance. LOL The presentation of analyzing problems are pretty impressive!! I love the way you talk to us through videos. Your videos are meaningful and informative. You are changing the world by influencing subscribers like me. At least, I've started to think about something each time after watching your videos. Please upload more videos.
Hi，Poppy! I’m Cristina,I'm a Chinese and live in Shenzhen now, l 'm very glad to be your friend if you want haha. By the way, love your video very much!
I love the paper tearing parts those are genius And showing your interest in Chinese language and is really a easy way to communicate and making friends with Chinese.
love your video. I want you to know that you did actually help locals like me to realize how fascinating life can be here. When things became daily it would be hard to find them interesting. Thats why we need your video. Known you come back to China and may you have good days here, you are always welcome
Thank u soooooooooooooooooooooooo much to describe China in a subjective way, compare to that mean, picky, wired, selfish, prejudice South African Guy who live in Shenzhen , we don’t expect u to like being here, but don’t take advantage of China as an Cash printing machine by criticize China to flatter those westerners
Love your videos. You make me wanna go to shenzhen more often. I'm living right across the boarder btw, hope to meet you one day either in shenzhen or hk =p
when a foreigner friend ask me, are Chinese ppl racist, and i am actually had hard time to answer that question . also, every time when i make jokes they shocked , they told me that in their bias Chinese ppl do not make jokes. i would say, it is mostly because of the language barrier. although you can learn other languages, but language is not just a tool for communications. the way the language exist and the reason one word written like that are all affected by it culture. i would say, there are exist few Chinese who are racist. but for the majority, you have to understand Chinese language deeply (understand connotation of words) to understand why Chinese ppl ,talk , behave differently. so in China, we do not classify ppl by it skin color. but we do, somehow , a little bit, judge ppl by can you speak mandarin or not. if you can,then whatever your skin color is, you are Chinese to us
Have you considered enrolling in a local school to learn Chinese in a proper environment by certified teachers? That will be the best way for you to get conversational level of fluency in speaking and writing.
very well-rounded answer!! especially the culture shock part. it is true that you only start to enjoy the life in China when you know how to play(follow) with the rules. does take some time and effort
I enjoyed this! I love how you spread positivity and good will through your videos. Thank you for sharing all your exciting adventures and helpful tips. Best wishes in Guatemala. You are an inspiration and make the world a better place! :)
Hey Poppy, I had been in the United States for 4 years and came back to China in July 2017. I’ve been watching your video for a while. I like it and I like your positive attitude for everything. I would love to be your friend and maybe we can meet someday. My name is Lin.
Wow...It's amazing you have spoken the official language of China. I would give you A+. Hahaha...I live in Guangzhou nearby Shenzhen. Bless you have a good time in China.😄😄😄
Hey Poppy! I love your videos! I did my undergraduate and postgraduate in Britain. Just went back to Shenzhen last year. And I'm learning French recently. I'd like to be friends with you( well,,, if you like )!!. Anyway, welcome to my hometown.
I thought I recognized the Madilyn music. We are going to Canton Fair this year and could use some help. We are going to get an AirBNB and are going to both Phase 1 and 2 (me and my son) We are from Oregon and are going to youtube the whole experience. Going to be there from the 13th to the 30th. Would love to chat if possible about just some general stuff if you have time, otherwise, have enjoyed your videos, will be watching more! And coming back often if we have a good time. Great videos!
I can totally relate your experience with taking Evelyn to that restaurant lol. As a SZer studying at UCSD, I actually know so many about local San Diego restaurants/fun places, and many local friends of mine are now asking me for local recommendations lolol
It's very hard to make friends who are from a different cultural background. Even a country with such diversity like America, white people hang out with white people, black people hang out with black people, Asian people hang out with Asian people.
Love all of your videos and truly makes me want to come to China more. Maybe I should show your videos to my relatives who are anti Mainland China to give them a real picture of China instead of all of the negative propaganda that they hear on the news. Keep up the good work! Love your videos and channel!
Now I'm really miss my hometown after watched three of your videos....And thanks for telling the audience about a real China. And not like the media is just exposing the bad things in China. Even some Chinese made many awful things in the world, but I'm still proud of as a Chinese.
Hi Poppy, we are going to move from Tennessee to Shenzhen. My family has been watching your first hand video for a while, we hope we can meet you in Shenzhen. Best regards, Hu's family.
Omg!! There is and opportunity to travel with Poppy!! 😲 I would love to go to Guatemala! The food is basically the same from Mexico. They have some really beautiful places to go too!!
Poppy.. I think u really should go to xichong beach.. a village in shenzhen.. takes about 1hour and half drive from OTC.. there are a lot of foreigners and locals who can skateboard well and it is a popular place for surfing as well.. many ppl who are talented in skateboarding can also handle surfing soon! It's gonna be very fun
Where's Poppy Where's Poppy yes..go the gate 4 on xichong beach... there is a famous surfing club called OFF SHORE Surfing.. the atmosphere there in summer is really amazing! And I think their skateboard club in Nanshan is coming soon at the end of this month..
@Poppy: Go Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Harbin, Tibet (I think you need a local guide to show you in Tibet if you are a foreigner in Tibet) etc where the ethnic peoples and cultures there are different from core China, which is mainly Han. Tell us more about these regions if you can, based on your personal experiences.
Hey Poppy I would like to give you an interesting topic. It is one of the world's most prominent and celebrated festivals, with the "largest annual mass human migration in the world". ShenZhen would be an empty city during the CNY. Wait and see. Haha
Hey, I really like your video and this topic. I know it hard make some friends in local, especially in a country which is using different languages. I'm also form Shenzhen, yeah I would love to make friends with you!!
Remember the country you came from, say something bad about living in China, car accidents? sneakiness? marijuana?, used to live next door to robin lee, CHICO RULES
Hi Poppy,...your buddy Lester here in Los Angeles again are you taking lots of photos and eating lots and lots of great Chinese food and Peking Duck, you better girl...LOL...ENJOY!!!
Hi! I’m a new subscriber. I just found you and travelight so I subscribed to bought of you. I like the way you give the history and general information about the food and the places. You are very entertaining as well. I follow a group in El Salvador. I heard you say you love Guatemala and El Salvador is right next door. Their name is El Salvador Plus. I’m from Louisiana and will never travel out of the country so I’ll just tag along with you. Keep up the good work and be careful in your travels. Wish I could go on that trip with you.
The thing is that, I've never met no one who wants to make friends with me. I mean people not from china, lets call them foreigners lol, though I do speak English and no matter how much I helped, they just didn't give no damn. Its not even a question that is it hard to make a Chinese friend, you could always find or meet someone who likes to help. last time i was in checking in in a hotel in Beijing (kinda twist lol). I saw a girl from Spain got into trouble with the checking in, and the cashier of the front door just did their best to help her, and they said: you are not in your own country that's why we r sacrificing our own profit in order to help you. It was so lovely of those guys. all the things that im trying to say is that, ＷＨＹ ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT MAKING CHINESE FRIENDS??? As long as you could meet one, he/she would love to make friends with you(well, theres always some exception though, not all the chinese are friendly, so still need to be carefully of strangers, god knows what kind of crazy things they would do)
That is so true . As you might know ."serpentza" this RUclips channel has receive dirty money from CNN , 99% of his RUclips clip are all defame China deliberately .
Foodie Summer really cold but yeah thats typical dutch 😂 for good weather we go to spain haha, i saw you making yt videos to, i will sub💪👍 i know thehague in n out, i was born there i am now in amsterdam for work 👍
z3ro7o wow nice, I went to NL to study 4 years ago, live in Den Haag and now almost finish my school😝 I love eating in Amsterdam, they have a lot nice restaurant than in Den Haag 🙋🤗
I guess you don't know that poppy(plant) has an alias in Chinese: 虞美人(Yu the Beauty), which is named after a beautiful and loyal lady. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consort_Yu
I'm a Chinese living in Melbourne. I just found your channel and love all the videos you made!!! Thanks for introduing China with a positive attitude !!
Hey Poppy! I just wanna say that I knew this Chinese lady(Evelyn) when I just saw her in this video immediately!!! She was my IELTS teacher before I went to university in USA. It was five years ago. I couldn’t believe I can still meet her here!!! OMG, this is amazing! PLEASE Tell her that I miss her, and I’ve already backed to Shenzhen after I’ve done my college life, hope we can meet someday and I really want to thank her! Good job Poppy and thank you for sharing your life in Shenzhen:D
She is such a special person. I was so impressed by the way she handled scalper on one of her video. She sees thing in a broad perspective. Not like the usual response one would get from the internet. She sees it from a human-nature point of view, rather than your usual racial point of view. She totally disarmed the scalper and ended up being friend with him. That is the most amazing thing I ever see in my life. There will be no racist if everybody forget their own country of origin, and interact as human to human like she does. But how can a young lady like her being able to do that is beyond me.
That's because maybe only the racist ones happen to make responses in the internet. Which is why you assume internet responses are usually racist. But the fact is the internet behaves the same way as public opinion.
Well said!
Hi Poppy,
I've seen a few of your videos now. My passion was a writer that accidentally became a filmmaker.
Despite years of commitment & sacrifice it just fell to pieces. I ran as far as I could & it became a new thing to travel & meet people that weren't so driven by capitalistic goals so I stopped comparing myself to people that I usually thought were better than me.
I have met some great people & it's saved me. These videos help me feel better about my new start in my life. I salute you. Hope Guatemala treats you well.
I confess I am addicted to your videos, and wouldn't dare to miss any episode. With your great personality, I am sure you're an internationally loved character by those who would feel lucky to be your friends. Your Chinese is indeed improving.
I love the video Poppy! You always have such great production value, and what a sense of humor :) Thank you for creating and making my week better!
Xi JinPing: ruclips.net/video/uD9b7mP6whk/видео.html How would you like to become my business partner and buy this European castle lady and bring your Sun Yat Sen friends there. The Germans are old and their young people are going to third world countries because they cannot command respect nor has the ability to create work take for example C-milk and his friends here I think you should teach this Kurt mental boys to attend your English class. No mindless roaming around white people in China he needs a job instead of becoming overwhelmed by the Chinese Worker who are driving huge 4 by 6 cargo trucks and feeling pathetic about it. How much more if he gets to ride China's bullet train this spoiled and insecure white brat might pee on his pants at the skill of the Chinese people. Sickly flue stricken, Joshua Wong and his umbrella brats on the other hand are so puny that C-milk will fart on their faces and this helpless brats will sniff it like its the holy grail and say, "Its the most beautiful perfume they smelled in their miserable sickly life. ruclips.net/video/g2HvTsF723U/видео.html That's right girl when i retire as Chinese President I will hire you as one of my manager and you can bring your Taiwanese friend and also C-milk, Serpentza and if possible Kurt Bell to own and greet tourist in this neglected German castle. In the meantime teach this wandering insecure brats English so that this boys will help you manage my castle's. Chavez Mugabe the future Venezuelan not adopted but real flesh and blood grandson of Africa's strong man and future multi billionaire Robert Mugabe is not the only rich man that can buy this withering European castles. Let's race King Salman who gets to buy more European castle's.
Basically, anyone who isn't any ethnic Chinese makes an effort to speak Mandarin or other chinese dialects with a Chinese (whether it be a Chinese from China or an overseas Chinese), we might think your pronunciation is off but we don't criticise. We think it's a good effort and therefore the responses are of the encouraging types, instead of laughing at it. The fact that you try is appreciated.
Big love to your video, Poppy! Not sure if it is a proper English expression. But I just have to shout it out loud. Your positivity attitude, respect towards other culture, and the way you expressed is really inspiring. Hope you enjoy your stay in China!
Thanks Jasmine! :)
Love watching your video. I am Chinese and have been living in Canada for many years. I usually don't have a lot of chances to go back, and I believe the last time that I visited China was in 2012. Nevertheless, I still have a strong emotional connection with the country, and it has always been a dream for me to wanna go back. (just pure traveling to different cities, sites around the country, no family commitment). The reason why I love watching your videos is that, your video is full of enthusiasm and positivity, that I can literally feel myself being there through your video camera, being to those cities that you have visited, sites that you have been. Sorry about that I may have been little bit sentimental, but I just don't have that much courage to backpacking around China, and it's always been a thing that I strongly desire to do. (I will eventually do it maybe in couple years, and probably go back to China for my retirement, as Chinese call it fallen leafs go back to the root) Anyway, make long story short, good video, keep it up! If you have a chance, take a visit to Xi'an, and you're gonna be staggered and experience a whole different part of China. BTW, I am not from Xi'an, (I'm from Yangzhou), my girlfriend is. LOL
Thank you so much! You should backpack around China! Take a group of friends, then it will be less scary. It’s not always easy traveling on your own. I do it because I think it makes me a stronger person but I do prefer traveling with other people. And yes I do want to visit Xi’an! I’m working on my plans for 2018 and hopefully it includes a lot more cities in China!
Xi JinPing: ruclips.net/video/uD9b7mP6whk/видео.html How would you like to become my business partner and buy this European castle lady and bring your Sun Yat Sen friends there. The Germans are old and their young people are going to third world countries because they cannot command respect nor has the ability to create work take for example C-milk and his friends here I think you should teach this Kurt mental boys to attend your English class. No mindless roaming around white people in China he needs a job instead of becoming overwhelmed by the Chinese Worker who are driving huge 4 by 6 cargo trucks and feeling pathetic about it. How much more if he gets to ride China's bullet train this spoiled and insecure white brat might pee on his pants at the skill of the Chinese people. Sickly flue stricken, Joshua Wong and his umbrella brats on the other hand are so puny that C-milk will fart on their faces and this helpless brats will sniff it like its the holy grail and say, "Its the most beautiful perfume they smelled in their miserable sickly life. ruclips.net/video/g2HvTsF723U/видео.html That's right girl when i retire as Chinese President I will hire you as one of my manager and you can bring your Taiwanese friend and also C-milk, Serpentza and if possible Kurt Bell to own and greet tourist in this neglected German castle. In the meantime teach this wandering insecure brats English so that this boys will help you manage my castle's. Chavez Mugabe the future Venezuelan not adopted but real flesh and blood grandson of Africa's strong man and future multi billionaire Robert Mugabe is not the only rich man that can buy this withering European castles. Let's race King Salman who gets to buy more European castle's.
@@JohnzeeMr go promote your channel elsewhere... This isn't a political channel don't try to ruin it
Love that cat saying goodbye at the end. Your videos are always informative and fun to watch. Wish your proposed group trip to Guatemala a success, Poppy.
So heartwarming. Poppy is such a positive person :)!
Sally Xu exactly
Poppy is so friendly she can make friends with anyone anywhere in the world.
Fun and lovely
Video.
Keep the good work.
Thank you Vlog18rodas!
Your videos are amazingggg keep up the open-mindedness!!
That was the sweetest video. I really enjoy your positive spin on life and your life in China. I especially like this video. I have some really great friends in China. If you work at it they will be friends for life. Thank you for the video.
Your sharing is interesting. Though I'm a Chinese living in Shenzhen I also think it's worth to watch because it's a different perspective to see our lives!
Thanks for sharing your experience!
Nowadays we're really fortunate to have all the means necessary such as apps and speed of communication to look for friends. So you're correct that it largely depend on someone's effort and their willingness to intermingle with the local people.
P.S. Commiserations for just missing out the Top 10 in the Mexico contest...for sure better luck next time! :D
RespectOthers Thank you RespectOthers! I was disappointed to not make top 10 but I know there will be other opportunities!
Xi JinPing: ruclips.net/video/uD9b7mP6whk/видео.html How would you like to become my business partner and buy this European castle lady and bring your Sun Yat Sen friends there. The Germans are old and their young people are going to third world countries because they cannot command respect nor has the ability to create work take for example C-milk and his friends here I think you should teach this Kurt mental boys to attend your English class. No mindless roaming around white people in China he needs a job instead of becoming overwhelmed by the Chinese Worker who are driving huge 4 by 6 cargo trucks and feeling pathetic about it. How much more if he gets to ride China's bullet train this spoiled and insecure white brat might pee on his pants at the skill of the Chinese people. Sickly flue stricken, Joshua Wong and his umbrella brats on the other hand are so puny that C-milk will fart on their faces and this helpless brats will sniff it like its the holy grail and say, "Its the most beautiful perfume they smelled in their miserable sickly life. ruclips.net/video/g2HvTsF723U/видео.html That's right girl when i retire as Chinese President I will hire you as one of my manager and you can bring your Taiwanese friend and also C-milk, Serpentza and if possible Kurt Bell to own and greet tourist in this neglected German castle. In the meantime teach this wandering insecure brats English so that this boys will help you manage my castle's. Chavez Mugabe the future Venezuelan not adopted but real flesh and blood grandson of Africa's strong man and future multi billionaire Robert Mugabe is not the only rich man that can buy this withering European castles. Let's race King Salman who gets to buy more European castle's.
我感觉我到哪个视频都能看到你。。。从政治类，到这种生活类，只要跟中国有关的都能看到你。。。哈哈
RespectOthers , what sort of tool of war are you? What is your horse riding via heel spurs interest? How many travelers do you follow? Why do hide you true self? Those who demand respect are those who show false respect and have goals to cheat and subjugate others. Good people have respect without being told, those who fake respect, are those who will lack future honor for what they respected.
The fog of you page, is a kkk symbol for the mythical fiction is the only history we allow or enjoy, because our reality is wars and ambushing from the fog we hide in. I'd the smartest and most beauty are not all murdered or destroyed by means beyond the short sighted politeness, then "the fog" was not good enough.
The fog is death to the better races. Why is your history garbage, and your reliance on a future purely fiction rooted, not planned? Why do you insist none white history is myth, and fake respect when you retell to distort and destroy Biblical and Greek history, real history, as non-white race myths we are polite about in church, but will never honor or keep?
Some other foreign youtubers who can speak Chinese really make a big success in china like thefoodranger or fulinfang or 山下智博，I think you are doing a really good job as they do,and deserve a better chance
I love this video. I hope I make some new friends when I visit China next week.
As a Chinese, I want to tell you, because of cultural differences, in China, you have to make friends, because of race, the Chinese people will treat you as a guest, they think the initiative to harass guests is impolite, so you need to take the initiative to go up. You'll reap 100 times times The Passion
I'm Shenzhen-ese currently living in Tokyo. You should learn some Cantonese too. Although mandarin is considered the dominant language in SZ, if you want to learn the old Shenzhen it's Cantonese culture, the good way to start it is to learn Cantonese. We Shenzhen locals love to hear cantonese more than mandarin. I like the Shenzhen now because people from different provinces or countries created a more diverse culture. But I think it's also important to know the history of a place if you want to explore the uniqueness of SZ 's local culture.
唔知有冇廣東裔深圳人同我一齊都subscribe咗佢嘅Channel。
By the way my home in SZ is also in nanshan district near SZ bay and shahe river. When I miss home I watch your videos.
Aze Fan 其實深圳以前也不是漁村，只不過是這樣宣傳而已。算是還大的縣城吧。因為靠近香港以前其實也有很多邊境貿易。
劉廸桓 me 😀
劉廸桓 来自华侨城
Excellent video Poppy. You have great points that really hit the mark.
As a Chinese, I'd say that we not really active to make friends with foreigners, because of language. Some of us do not think we have pretty well-spoken language, so it's hard to communicate more.
Poppy, stating the obvious, you and Jordan should team up as contestants on The Amazing Race. You two are unstoppable.
We Chinese are very proud of China, even though many of us like myself are not China citizens but rather overseas Chinese. We all have a deep connection to our ancestral homeland. My ancestors came to Singapore 200 years ago from China just like most of the Chinese-majority population in Singapore. We still celebrate Chinese New Year, uphold Chinese traditions and learn Chinese as a compulsory subject in school. Like overseas Chinese who are citizens of countries they are born in, such as Chinese Vietnamese, Chinese Thai, Chinese Filippino, Chinese Malaysians and Chinese Indonesians for example, even though we are not Chinese nationality and we are also part of the ethnicity of our birth country, we still remember and treasure our Chinese ethnicity and roots. Most Chinese outside of China who have integrated for generations in their host countries and have become citizens by birth, still significantly prefer to marry and have children with other Chinese to preserve our Chinese heritage. The pride of Chinese people and other East Asian countries like Korea and Japan is why we East Asians are homogenous countries, because we value our history, traditions and culture and want them to remain as pure as possible. We love to spread our culture and language to foreigners who come here because we are proud of what we have built over millennia.
LittleHampie89 中国本来不等于中华人民共和国，但作为一个地理政治概念现在基本等同了。华夏是民族文化概念。所以移民海外的就不是中国人了，但永远是华人。
China is not really a homogeneous country to be honest, unlike korea and japan. China has many minorities and many languages and dialects. Diversity is what makes China more interesting than korea and japan.
TheXanian: Even Japan is not 100% Japanese. I think it's around 98%. In the 1960s, Han accounted for more than 94% of the population of the People's Republic of China. Then the government cheated by imposing the one-child policy on Han and as a result, it's dropped to 90% now. If there had been no anti-Han policies in the PRC, the Han would have still made up around 95% of the population, as is the case in the Republic of China (Taiwan). So I think it's not fair to say that Japan and Korea are homogeneous and China is not, because there is no material difference between 95% and 98%.
First of all, China has way more ethnic minorities than korea and japan. This certainly makes China more diverse and more interesting to look at. And secondly, you should also realize that the so-called ethnic Han Chinese is not a homogenous ethnicity, neither in terms of culture/language and nor in terms of physical traits or even genetics. There are studies which show that Han Chinese from one region may be closer to the ethnic minorities of that region rather than to the Han Chinese from another part of China. In my opinion, the so-called Han Chinese is more like a geopolitical grouping of people rather than an actual ethnic group.
TheXanian: First, many so-called "minorities" did not even exist before the communist party took power. The KMT government never recognized 56 ethnic groups, nor did Ming, Song... I agree that China has more minorities than Japan and Korea, but still, they account for approximately 5% of the population, which does not make a big difference from Japan and Korea.
Second, I understand that traditions and dialects among the Han in different provinces (sometimes even in the same province) can be different. But it doesn't take away the fact that the Han is an actual ethnic group. For example, subway is called "di tie" in China mainland and "jie yun" in Taiwan. But this does not mean that the Han in China mainland is a different ethnic group than the Han in Taiwan. The Han is one ethnic group expanded all over China, not different ethnic groups grouped together. Over thousands of years, things just evolved differently. That's why Han in different parts of China and the world have different traditions, dialects.
Thank you for showing the real modern China🙈
WE get anti-Chinese propaganda in our media.
aww Evelyn is so sweet!!
Your friend is as sweet as you are! Good on you for seeing what’s good in other cultures.
That’s awesome to have a friend who speaks English and can teach you her language awesome videos thanks for sharing
thank you!
You are awesome!!! Thank you for your open minded videos, sharing your experiences & providing your recommendations. I loved my trips to beautiful China in 2017 & 2020, but I must go back because of your videos. Again, thank you & I wish you peace, joy & continuous blessings.
I appreciated you interacting with local Chinese people. It’s so authentic. By the way, the cat is cute👍
Hey Poppy, you are awesome!! Background music is wonderful as always, even it makes me want to dance. LOL The presentation of analyzing problems are pretty impressive!! I love the way you talk to us through videos. Your videos are meaningful and informative. You are changing the world by influencing subscribers like me. At least, I've started to think about something each time after watching your videos. Please upload more videos.
Poppy has a really positive attitude as an expat. Live happily!
A girl like u with such positive and open minded personality will do well everywhere
Just sent my email! Even though I haven’t known your channel for very long, I already love you! You are such an inspiration!
Hi，Poppy! I’m Cristina,I'm a Chinese and live in Shenzhen now, l 'm very glad to be your friend if you want haha. By the way, love your video very much!
辛巴 can i be your friend?
Alfredio d' joliette of course!🤗
I live in Shenzhen too, can I be your friend?
辛巴 哈哈哈，我也在深圳，蛮多人看poppy的视频，可惜我英语不好
Cheryl Crews Yes! You can add my wechat if you want~
I love the paper tearing parts those are genius
And showing your interest in Chinese language and is really a easy way to communicate and making friends with Chinese.
Great Video, Poppy! Volim te (Serbian)
this is the road i do exercise ( bicycle and jogging) everyday. from xili st to hongshulin park along 大沙河
Woah, Poppy, your channel is amazing!
love your video. I want you to know that you did actually help locals like me to realize how fascinating life can be here. When things became daily it would be hard to find them interesting. Thats why we need your video. Known you come back to China and may you have good days here, you are always welcome
U are a genius language learner,that’s really impressive.I have to say I only learned 4 sentences after 2week travel in Italy
Great video Poppy!!! So many friendly people in China :-)
Thank you!!
View points are correct.Great.
Thank u soooooooooooooooooooooooo much to describe China in a subjective way, compare to that mean, picky, wired, selfish, prejudice South African Guy who live in Shenzhen , we don’t expect u to like being here, but don’t take advantage of China as an Cash printing machine by criticize China to flatter those westerners
I am an Chinese in Guangzhou and I found it is quite hard to make foreign friends.
because you kiss their asses, just be normal.
Love your videos. You make me wanna go to shenzhen more often. I'm living right across the boarder btw, hope to meet you one day either in shenzhen or hk =p
Hi Poppy, great job. What a small world! Evelyn is my friend, too.
when a foreigner friend ask me, are Chinese ppl racist, and i am actually had hard time to answer that question . also, every time when i make jokes they shocked , they told me that in their bias Chinese ppl do not make jokes. i would say, it is mostly because of the language barrier. although you can learn other languages, but language is not just a tool for communications. the way the language exist and the reason one word written like that are all affected by it culture. i would say, there are exist few Chinese who are racist. but for the majority, you have to understand Chinese language deeply (understand connotation of words) to understand why Chinese ppl ,talk , behave differently. so in China, we do not classify ppl by it skin color. but we do, somehow , a little bit, judge ppl by can you speak mandarin or not. if you can,then whatever your skin color is, you are Chinese to us
Have you considered enrolling in a local school to learn Chinese in a proper environment by certified teachers? That will be the best way for you to get conversational level of fluency in speaking and writing.
very well-rounded answer!! especially the culture shock part. it is true that you only start to enjoy the life in China when you know how to play(follow) with the rules. does take some time and effort
I enjoyed this! I love how you spread positivity and good will through your videos. Thank you for sharing all your exciting adventures and helpful tips. Best wishes in Guatemala. You are an inspiration and make the world a better place! :)
haha... right after counting, "can you lower the price a bit?" perfect phrase to learn for Shenzhen. Btw- she has very good pronunciation.
Hey Poppy, I had been in the United States for 4 years and came back to China in July 2017. I’ve been watching your video for a while. I like it and I like your positive attitude for everything. I would love to be your friend and maybe we can meet someday. My name is Lin.
Thank you for loving China
Wow...It's amazing you have spoken the official language of China. I would give you A+. Hahaha...I live in Guangzhou nearby Shenzhen. Bless you have a good time in China.😄😄😄
Hey Poppy! I love your videos! I did my undergraduate and postgraduate in Britain. Just went back to Shenzhen last year. And I'm learning French recently. I'd like to be friends with you( well,,, if you like )!!. Anyway, welcome to my hometown.
I thought I recognized the Madilyn music. We are going to Canton Fair this year and could use some help. We are going to get an AirBNB and are going to both Phase 1 and 2 (me and my son) We are from Oregon and are going to youtube the whole experience. Going to be there from the 13th to the 30th. Would love to chat if possible about just some general stuff if you have time, otherwise, have enjoyed your videos, will be watching more! And coming back often if we have a good time. Great videos!
I can totally relate your experience with taking Evelyn to that restaurant lol.
As a SZer studying at UCSD, I actually know so many about local San Diego restaurants/fun places, and many local friends of mine are now asking me for local recommendations lolol
Awesome video keep up the good work Poppy
thank to show the real China.
what do you mean ? wasnt china always like this?
I wanna cry watching this I miss China I miss home. Thank you ❤️
oh，the part of video skateboard was recorded in nanshan shahe river，near my house！
hey poppy... ! great vids... let me know when you are around Shanghai!
It's very hard to make friends who are from a different cultural background. Even a country with such diversity like America, white people hang out with white people, black people hang out with black people, Asian people hang out with Asian people.
Xingmeng Liu sounds make sense
Love all of your videos and truly makes me want to come to China more. Maybe I should show your videos to my relatives who are anti Mainland China to give them a real picture of China instead of all of the negative propaganda that they hear on the news. Keep up the good work! Love your videos and channel!
@XMB the American rubs Vietnam with their investment dollars and use propaganda to bash china mainland
Plizzz do visit the Chinese glass Bridge i wanna see your reaction😀
hhhh , It's a little bit scary
Now I'm really miss my hometown after watched three of your videos....And thanks for telling the audience about a real China.
And not like the media is just exposing the bad things in China. Even some Chinese made many awful things in the world, but I'm still proud of as a Chinese.
I don't think it's hard. If you are a nice and open person, you can make friends anywhere in the world.
Hi Poppy, we are going to move from Tennessee to Shenzhen. My family has been watching your first hand video for a while, we hope we can meet you in Shenzhen. Best regards, Hu's family.
Omg!! There is and opportunity to travel with Poppy!! 😲
I would love to go to Guatemala! The food is basically the same from Mexico. They have some really beautiful places to go too!!
I am a Shenzhen resident living in Orange County, not that far away from San Diego. Feels like we exchanged our place...
When the music started kick in, I believed that you're getting together
New hair do looking good!
Poppy.. I think u really should go to xichong beach.. a village in shenzhen.. takes about 1hour and half drive from OTC.. there are a lot of foreigners and locals who can skateboard well and it is a popular place for surfing as well.. many ppl who are talented in skateboarding can also handle surfing soon! It's gonna be very fun
Really? Then I definitely should go!
Where's Poppy Where's Poppy yes..go the gate 4 on xichong beach... there is a famous surfing club called OFF SHORE Surfing.. the atmosphere there in summer is really amazing! And I think their skateboard club in Nanshan is coming soon at the end of this month..
I really wanna go but I’m an amputee and wear prosthetics. Walking in the jungle can be really hard. Good luck to you guys
@Poppy: Go Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Harbin, Tibet (I think you need a local guide to show you in Tibet if you are a foreigner in Tibet) etc where the ethnic peoples and cultures there are different from core China, which is mainly Han. Tell us more about these regions if you can, based on your personal experiences.
Tibet and Xinjiang are not easy places to visit. Altitude sickness in Tibet can kill
Tibet!
Harbin and Heilongjiang are over 93% Han Chinese and Inner Mongolia is almost 80% Han Chinese. The entire Northeast is 95% Han Chinese.
China is a very nice country i want to go there
You rock Poppy!
Hey Poppy I would like to give you an interesting topic. It is one of the world's most prominent and celebrated festivals, with the "largest annual mass human migration in the world". ShenZhen would be an empty city during the CNY. Wait and see. Haha
Hey, I really like your video and this topic. I know it hard make some friends in local, especially in a country which is using different languages. I'm also form Shenzhen, yeah I would love to make friends with you!!
Remember the country you came from, say something bad about living in China, car accidents? sneakiness? marijuana?, used to live next door to robin lee, CHICO RULES
poppy~thank you!
Hi Poppy,...your buddy Lester here in Los Angeles again are you taking lots of photos and eating lots and lots of great Chinese food and Peking Duck, you better girl...LOL...ENJOY!!!
you are pretty good in editing
Another amazing video
Hi! I’m a new subscriber. I just found you and travelight so I subscribed to bought of you. I like the way you give the history and general information about the food and the places. You are very entertaining as well. I follow a group in El Salvador. I heard you say you love Guatemala and El Salvador is right next door. Their name is El Salvador Plus. I’m from Louisiana and will never travel out of the country so I’ll just tag along with you. Keep up the good work and be careful in your travels. Wish I could go on that trip with you.
The thing is that, I've never met no one who wants to make friends with me. I mean people not from china, lets call them foreigners lol, though I do speak English and no matter how much I helped, they just didn't give no damn. Its not even a question that is it hard to make a Chinese friend, you could always find or meet someone who likes to help. last time i was in checking in in a hotel in Beijing (kinda twist lol). I saw a girl from Spain got into trouble with the checking in, and the cashier of the front door just did their best to help her, and they said: you are not in your own country that's why we r sacrificing our own profit in order to help you. It was so lovely of those guys. all the things that im trying to say is that, ＷＨＹ ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT MAKING CHINESE FRIENDS??? As long as you could meet one, he/she would love to make friends with you(well, theres always some exception though, not all the chinese are friendly, so still need to be carefully of strangers, god knows what kind of crazy things they would do)
>Think globally n Act locally< 🤙🏻👍✨
谢谢你客观评论，而不是像serpentza一样故意抹黑中国
That is so true . As you might know ."serpentza" this RUclips channel has receive dirty money from CNN , 99% of his RUclips clip are all defame China deliberately .
你的名字是本人吗？
@@samgor6423 - serpentza is a shape shifting lizard monster.
那就是一坨狗屎
告诉我一个Serpentza说的不对的事情。
Great video!
Thanks Poppy Great Advice
Your chinese friend is so nice, I love this kind of girl.
Whose cat? Poppy grew up playing soccer so longboarding is a piece of cake
if you're still in China, I wish you would show us the Zhangjiajie Glass Bottom bridge.
Kaffenburger it's very far from where poppy live in China
Fun video 👍 i am from TheNetherlands - Amsterdam, iloveyou- ik hou van jou ( some dutch 😂😘 )
z3ro7o 😂😂hey, hands up! I am from China. And now live in Den Haag! I found Dutch culture is amazing as well :D
Foodie Summer good to hear, i am in thehague today fixing my iphone 😂 at the () store, at the passage, i hope you have a good time overhere
z3ro7o haha good luck with it :D the weather is so bad those days
Foodie Summer really cold but yeah thats typical dutch 😂 for good weather we go to spain haha, i saw you making yt videos to, i will sub💪👍 i know thehague in n out, i was born there i am now in amsterdam for work 👍
z3ro7o wow nice, I went to NL to study 4 years ago, live in Den Haag and now almost finish my school😝 I love eating in Amsterdam, they have a lot nice restaurant than in Den Haag 🙋🤗
I guess you don't know that poppy(plant) has an alias in Chinese: 虞美人(Yu the Beauty), which is named after a beautiful and loyal lady.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consort_Yu
Two great language teachers.
i love your video, haha
Of course not! We like to make friends with good people from all over the world:) Hurray!
Positive!