I'm an American, toured china for the first time this February...amazing country...i plan to go back. My perspective is this: China is a relatively young country emerging into a super power (within the last 20 years really)...the fact that it has progressed as fast as it is is a miracle story which has never ever been done before in the history of humanity. Are some things going to lag behind and will catch up later? YES...things like proper hygiene, cultural dynamics, basic rights, and human rights are privileges that evolve as society itself becomes better accustomed to being wealthy. America is hundreds of years old but we are still struggling with basic civility and political empathy (the recent incident a few days ago is proof of this)...china will catch up, give them time
you are right about smoking. In general the smoking situation in big cities is better than smaller cities, better in southern part of China than northern China. I think the problem is due to that cigarettes are too cheap, lack of education, weak government regulations, too much freedom in this regard. Most cigarettes companies are state-owned - big money for the government. But i have to say it is getting better day by day, a lot of places prohibit smoking nowadays.
Hi Blake, thanks for your sharing. I agree on your point of hospital manners, the public hospitals are always so crowded and people are in rush. This is much complained by the younger generation of Chinese people as well, experience in private hospitals will be way better but that also costs a lot more. However about AC I don't think it would unavailable in most public places, at least in the major big cities, otherwise how could people survive the cruel Chinese summer...where do you live I'm curious? Maybe next time if you see no AC you can just ask the staff to turn it on, there's no reason to reject such a basic request. Hope you enjoy your time in China:))
You are right and wrong at the same time. Blind men and an elephant. The blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different part of the animal's body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then describe the animal based on their limited experience and their descriptions of the elephant are different from each other.
@@blakehandshake a lot of issue you face fundamental lead by language barrier. hard to find public toilet? can't find western restaurant in smaller town? those kind of things wont be problem who can communicate with locals.
in China, when talk about religious, you have the freedom of religious, but you don't have the freedom of promote your religious on others. also China's sovereign is above religious.
smoking is unfortunately from Mao's time period, during the cultural when so many people smoked like there's no tomorrow because it's cool, and still carried forward to this day. Thankfully, it's less with the younger generation because of cancer awareness. Don't know if this is still prevalent, but there use to be a peer pressure to smoke, when it's offered to you by a boss or manager, and would be rude to turn down. Of course in the western world, smoking is banned for the large part. Here in Canada, I still remember during the early 2000s when smoking was in certain establishment, though it's all banned now
I don't know which part of China you visited. Quite the contrary, there are bathrooms in public places. And it is quite easy to use apps to find the public toilets.
Me expressing my opinion in a respectful way makes me an unhappy troll? Have you watched any of my previous two videos and shorts about China? Probably not- Ignorance is a choice.
China has never been colonized by any country, especially an English-speaking one. It's amusing that you mentioned most people in China don't speak English. Why should they accommodate you by speaking your language as a foreigner in their country? For instance, as a bilingual Chinese American visiting Russia, should I expect to communicate with all Russians in Mandarin or English? Should I criticize them for not speaking my languages instead of Russian? Similarly, when you visit China, you should speak their language, not expect them to speak yours. However, successful cross-cultural communication is possible. For example, a Chinese tourist in America could learn some basic English phrases to facilitate communication or vice versa. Now, imagine being a Chinese tourist in America-would you speak Mandarin to all Americans and criticize them for not knowing Mandarin? Isn’t that quite amusing? In China, why is it an obligation for English to be spoken and not their own language??? You have a funny and absurd mentality toward non-English-speaking Chinese people in China. Even if they spoke English, they were not obligated to use it to communicate with you unless it was in places like airports or where China has foreigners coming in and out of the country since English is helpful and convenient for foreigners.
I clearly said they are not obligated and it is the foreigners responsibility to learn the language. If I was whining about that, your comment would be justified, but it’s very absurd and my attitude towards that in the video, and in reality, is not one of entitlement, as I always use basic Chinese words. I also said my Chinese needs to get better, so where is the anger coming from? I said it as a con to be an inconvenience. I guess attacking people on their videos when it isn’t justified is something you enjoy because it gives you a sense of fulfillment. You and many other people talk about colonization. If you truly were passionate about that, give the natives their land back, and move out of your house and let them in. You probably won’t. Nice try though!
I made this video a few months ago and just want to clear things up. At the time, I was living in a very small town, and finding public bathrooms were difficult. Now, i live in a bigger area. The bathroom issue doesn’t apply to all of China.
Chinese kids have the right to pee in public, it's just our culture. if you didn't see adult pee in public don't narrative as if you seen it. i heard some drunkee think they are in their own home when reality they are in public, which lead to them pee in public, but i never see it on my own eyes.
You are wrong in most of your comments, cigarettes are no ban. Western social media didn't want to meet China's demands therefore they chose not to operate in China unlike Tit Tok had to meet all USA demand to operate in the USA.
@@blakehandshake Typical, if you don't want a conversation or a debate stop make up stories. When I go to the USA or a western country I respect their cultures & their laws and do a bit of their background studies to understand it better and go with an open mind to
@@iechuanlee9326 I’m not making up stories. Why would I do that if I would try to grow a channel? You can disagree with me, but that doesn’t mean you have evidence and the right to say that I’m making stuff up. Even if I wanted to “make stuff up” my wife wouldn’t allow me to do that, as she filmed everything and loves China a lot and has traveled here pretty often when she was a kid. There’s literally nothing in my video where I would show I’m not open minded and disrespecting Chinese culture. I’ve lived abroad since 2019 and have traveled to several Asian countries. You probably haven’t watched my other videos showing a lot of respect to this country, but being ignorant is a choice. Trolling someone on their channel is easy. Do what you want 🤷
No true man, you can find toilets everywhere, yes you have to get your own toilet paper, they don't charge you for using the toilet like in some other south east asian countries. In fact i have a tough time in Australia, went into the pizza Hut, and they had it locked up. Dam who locks up a toilet.?
"Most of what you've mentioned plus many more are the reasons why the Koreans and the Japanese rather not associate with the main land China because they have no culture! On the other hand,Taiwan is a different story! True Chinese culture still exist there!"
I'm an American, toured china for the first time this February...amazing country...i plan to go back. My perspective is this: China is a relatively young country emerging into a super power (within the last 20 years really)...the fact that it has progressed as fast as it is is a miracle story which has never ever been done before in the history of humanity. Are some things going to lag behind and will catch up later? YES...things like proper hygiene, cultural dynamics, basic rights, and human rights are privileges that evolve as society itself becomes better accustomed to being wealthy.
America is hundreds of years old but we are still struggling with basic civility and political empathy (the recent incident a few days ago is proof of this)...china will catch up, give them time
China 5000 years old.
I think you have very valid points. Thanks you for speaking up!! Keep exploring and be safe and enjoy!!!
you are right about smoking. In general the smoking situation in big cities is better than smaller cities, better in southern part of China than northern China. I think the problem is due to that cigarettes are too cheap, lack of education, weak government regulations, too much freedom in this regard. Most cigarettes companies are state-owned - big money for the government.
But i have to say it is getting better day by day, a lot of places prohibit smoking nowadays.
china will change for the better in the future. Slow but change will come. Looking at another 30 years and you will see that they will be better.
Hi Blake, thanks for your sharing. I agree on your point of hospital manners, the public hospitals are always so crowded and people are in rush. This is much complained by the younger generation of Chinese people as well, experience in private hospitals will be way better but that also costs a lot more. However about AC I don't think it would unavailable in most public places, at least in the major big cities, otherwise how could people survive the cruel Chinese summer...where do you live I'm curious? Maybe next time if you see no AC you can just ask the staff to turn it on, there's no reason to reject such a basic request. Hope you enjoy your time in China:))
You are right and wrong at the same time.
Blind men and an elephant.
The blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different part of the animal's body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then describe the animal based on their limited experience and their descriptions of the elephant are different from each other.
Thanks for watching!
@@blakehandshake a lot of issue you face fundamental lead by language barrier. hard to find public toilet? can't find western restaurant in smaller town? those kind of things wont be problem who can communicate with locals.
there are no smoking signs in most restaurants in china but so far no one enforce it
You have good advice.
I think this is an honest speaking, people dont care about privacy in hospital, they just hurry to get things done, I think it need time to change
in China, when talk about religious, you have the freedom of religious, but you don't have the freedom of promote your religious on others. also China's sovereign is above religious.
In Europe,they don’t have toilet paper.
Uh oh….
What? Which part of Europe?
@@stayfree870 France 🇫🇷 so far
smoking is unfortunately from Mao's time period, during the cultural when so many people smoked like there's no tomorrow because it's cool, and still carried forward to this day. Thankfully, it's less with the younger generation because of cancer awareness. Don't know if this is still prevalent, but there use to be a peer pressure to smoke, when it's offered to you by a boss or manager, and would be rude to turn down. Of course in the western world, smoking is banned for the large part. Here in Canada, I still remember during the early 2000s when smoking was in certain establishment, though it's all banned now
I don't know which part of China you visited. Quite the contrary, there are bathrooms in public places. And it is quite easy to use apps to find the public toilets.
He is an unhappy troll
Me expressing my opinion in a respectful way makes me an unhappy troll? Have you watched any of my previous two videos and shorts about China? Probably not- Ignorance is a choice.
China built 370,000 public toilets last year. How many were built in USA?
@@aimedia9020 probably not enough because of all the overweight people constantly 💩 from eating a lot
China has never been colonized by any country, especially an English-speaking one. It's amusing that you mentioned most people in China don't speak English. Why should they accommodate you by speaking your language as a foreigner in their country? For instance, as a bilingual Chinese American visiting Russia, should I expect to communicate with all Russians in Mandarin or English? Should I criticize them for not speaking my languages instead of Russian? Similarly, when you visit China, you should speak their language, not expect them to speak yours. However, successful cross-cultural communication is possible. For example, a Chinese tourist in America could learn some basic English phrases to facilitate communication or vice versa. Now, imagine being a Chinese tourist in America-would you speak Mandarin to all Americans and criticize them for not knowing Mandarin? Isn’t that quite amusing? In China, why is it an obligation for English to be spoken and not their own language??? You have a funny and absurd mentality toward non-English-speaking Chinese people in China. Even if they spoke English, they were not obligated to use it to communicate with you unless it was in places like airports or where China has foreigners coming in and out of the country since English is helpful and convenient for foreigners.
I clearly said they are not obligated and it is the foreigners responsibility to learn the language. If I was whining about that, your comment would be justified, but it’s very absurd and my attitude towards that in the video, and in reality, is not one of entitlement, as I always use basic Chinese words. I also said my Chinese needs to get better, so where is the anger coming from? I said it as a con to be an inconvenience. I guess attacking people on their videos when it isn’t justified is something you enjoy because it gives you a sense of fulfillment. You and many other people talk about colonization. If you truly were passionate about that, give the natives their land back, and move out of your house and let them in. You probably won’t. Nice try though!
I made this video a few months ago and just want to clear things up. At the time, I was living in a very small town, and finding public bathrooms were difficult. Now, i live in a bigger area. The bathroom issue doesn’t apply to all of China.
Chinese kids have the right to pee in public, it's just our culture. if you didn't see adult pee in public don't narrative as if you seen it. i heard some drunkee think they are in their own home when reality they are in public, which lead to them pee in public, but i never see it on my own eyes.
I don’t know what part of China you are in and what year are you in . Today is 7/14/2024. No AC that’s laughable
Thanks for telling me the date!
You are wrong in most of your comments, cigarettes are no ban.
Western social media didn't want to meet China's demands therefore they chose not to operate in China unlike Tit Tok had to meet all USA demand to operate in the USA.
We are all entitled to our opinions. Thanks for watching!
@@blakehandshake Yes opinion but not make up story. I won't make a story if it's not true.
@@iechuanlee9326 whatever you say
@@blakehandshake Typical, if you don't want a conversation or a debate stop make up stories. When I go to the USA or a western country I respect their cultures & their laws and do a bit of their background studies to understand it better and go with an open mind to
@@iechuanlee9326 I’m not making up stories. Why would I do that if I would try to grow a channel? You can disagree with me, but that doesn’t mean you have evidence and the right to say that I’m making stuff up. Even if I wanted to “make stuff up” my wife wouldn’t allow me to do that, as she filmed everything and loves China a lot and has traveled here pretty often when she was a kid. There’s literally nothing in my video where I would show I’m not open minded and disrespecting Chinese culture. I’ve lived abroad since 2019 and have traveled to several Asian countries. You probably haven’t watched my other videos showing a lot of respect to this country, but being ignorant is a choice. Trolling someone on their channel is easy. Do what you want 🤷
卫生间抽烟确实让人诟病，虽然我也是烟民，我也不喜欢这种行为，希望你玩的开心
收回我说的话，你的很多观点太想当然了，与事实不符
你妈妈没教你，do as the romans do?
@@TeacherXiaofu_Xixithanks for watching!
No true man, you can find toilets everywhere, yes you have to get your own toilet paper, they don't charge you for using the toilet like in some other south east asian countries. In fact i have a tough time in Australia, went into the pizza Hut, and they had it locked up. Dam who locks up a toilet.?
I guess my area and experience is different for whatever reason
@@keepingittight I should install it I didn’t know about it
You should learn how to use the “Bidet”!.!.
@@marlonelias I’ve gotten very comfortable using squatting toilets. Lolzzz
You know, I'd rather smell the smoke than weeds Or even drugs on the street, So I pick China.
That’s a good point.
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@@karmarleekl !!!!!!!
You must like the smell of weed which legal in some states in americ since you got a weed like logo on your shirt 😀
@@cuteandfunnyearthlings2863 it’s an adidas logo lolz.
Bro, do some research on " gutter oil! "
"Most of what you've mentioned plus many more are the reasons why the Koreans and the Japanese rather not associate with the main land China because they have no culture! On the other hand,Taiwan is a different story! True Chinese culture still exist there!"