What Do Chinese Really Think About Leftover Women? - Intermediate Chinese - Chinese Conversation
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- With a over 30 million more men than women, how does China have "leftover women"? Women that many Chinese feel are too picky or don't meet certain standards and thus are "leftover"? And, are these women really rejects or have they deliberately chosen to remain single? Eileen goes to the streets to find out how ordinary people really feel about this unique Chinese phenomenon.
NOTE: These interviews were done in early December 2019, before the Coronavirus widely spread around China.
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Love your videos, you are a great interviewer. Thanks!
40 minutes of pinyin, chinese and english subtitiles?? You guys are very dedicated. Subscribed.
Agreed, it's very thorough.
Yeah so much material to work on
Agreed
There's hundreds of hours of this content on this channel, she and her team are truly amazing, and the best thing is that you can access their premium stuff lifetime for a one-time 30 dollar payment
Made me very happy to see another street interview. These are my favourite. And another amazing video. This will keep me busy for a few days.
people(viewers) like street interviews but don't like to be interviewed
doesn't matter that much the topics,you just want to hear average people opinions and not a politician or a journalist opinion who tends to be biased often
something was a little off,2 girls were one said "let me talk" it was daylight when they were interviewed and at the end of video it was evening
you can keep a person 5 minutes maximum 10 minutes to say his/her opinions but to keep them more than 30 minutes seems hostage situation
I have been using your contents to learn, practice, and acquire Mandarin. Thank you so much for helping me from 0 to HSK 5 in a year! The quality is superb! Your good karma will be rewarded.
Great stuff, probably the best way to learn Chinese is by listening to the Chinese speaking real-time. Thank you for providing that opportunity!
These street interviews are so valuable for learning, because they are natural and include different accents. Having subtitles and translation makes it very useful for expanding the vocabulary. Thank you Eileen!
But often what they say are lies. Please be aware of that.
Why the hell would someone specifically ask the interviewer to ask them why they didn't wash their hair? Hahaha
Luke Otter So that the interviewer doesn’t misunderstand her relationship with that guy she was going out with
7:50 dude is scoring mad points here, the girl loved his answer
Nah he is just a simp
Enjoy the English subtitles & the topics covered & the region accent is a bonus. You guys do the most work for subtitle than any other channel I've seen on the web. Great team you guys have. 🤟🏾
I've been waiting anxiously for a new video for a while...thanks for you great work..
Eileen & her team are the best, her videos are a combo of really hip, hot topics with sightseeing and a personal touch and the trilingual subtitles guarantee learning results. She's the ONLY teacher I know who can assure 100% listening comprehension, even up to native level, over time BECAUSE English is kept at a minimum. Out of the 4 pillars of language learning, listening comprehension is always the hardest to really master. I'd like to liken it to the ability of playing an instrument by ear, which so few possess because it was never taught them properly. Thanks so much, Eileen.
It's a relief that you have a new video. Kinda worried especially with the coronavirus going on. Stay safe!
Thanks, not only was this very insightful, the conversation was very organic and has nice cultural notes with cultural perspectives. Love your work high quality content.
you are not a leftover, cheer up ! not every human are meant to be married .... alone doesn't mean lonely. you are surrounded by friends who love you more than sibling.
Male and female marriage is the basic structure of society, just notice how far our Western society has degraded because of abandoning traditional marriage, and China is following in our footsteps just to look "modern", while in reality they have such a huge power that they don't even need to copy us, but for some reason they do
11:31 she had that answer LOCKED and loaded goddamn 😂
funny that she described herself. I find her still hot
lol, she seemed like a terrible person.
她太幽默了哈哈
Great video Eileen! I can really see all the hard work you put into this, by transcribing and translating everything! It's really interesting and useful, thank you :)
Impressive work for learning Chinese. It is helping a lot to understand Chinese words, but also modern Chinese culture. The whole video has so much value and it is very well done! Also, the interviewer reacts very well to the answers of the people counter attacking with new questions to clarify their answers. That demonstrates the level of concentration and preparation for this interview. Congratulations for such a good work! Subscribed and donated!
Excellent video! Goethe: "Love is the ideal; marriage is the real; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. "
Hey guys, nice to see new content, your videos are of the best educational quality. Refreshing to see something other than Corona stuff (tired of it). I'll send my second donation as soon as I can, greetings from Chengdu!
My favorite channel for studying Chinese! You are amazing! I'm a big fan of street interviews and listening just usual conversation.
Great topic and amazing video as always! For those who want to learn more I highly recommend "Leftover Women: the Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China" by Leta Hong Fischer, a book that interviews "leftover women" and highlights, among other things, the role the Chinese government plays in spreading these ideas as well, for fear of social instability caused by too many unmarried men. A fascinating read!
I’m not a native Chinese guy, I’m a Chinese-Canadian living in China. Am 24 so younger than pretty much everyone in this video (I assume). I agree the preference for boys over girls has been catastrophic on a wider demographic level, but from my experience merely befriending these “leftover women”, I don’t have much if anything positive to say about them because sooner or later they all turn out to have BIG personality flaws and other problems.
@@AbsoluteZero6714 I wanted to marry a Chinese women will you please guide me.
@@sumandas9487 you need to be chinese or some east asian first. 🤣
@@hvuu1628 why?
@@RamMohammadJosephKaur because interracial is bad.
first time that i see your chanel, so great !! i started to learn chinese 3 weeks ago and this helps me to understand more words, recognize them and to see the prononciation with pinyin ! awesome
I could be wrong, but I don't believe that anybody truly wants to not find a partner.
are you ok? hope you're well and that everything get better in China. Thanks for the content!
Thanks Luiz, we doing okay.
@@MandarinCorner2 Maybe you can interview people about the coronavirus and their thoughts
There is hardly anybody on the street now.
@むく you are ignorant. First , we dont have all the numbers and info yet . You can't compare to something that's been around for years affecting people around the world, coronavirus has been around for 2 months and doing damage for one month. Second, it's a new virus , we don't know how dangerous it is if it gets around the world like the flu. Dont underestimate something that's new and unknown.
@むく Totally wrong. The south china morning post wrote, 13 Million people get flu in USA and 10 000 people died. And Corona Virus only died 2.2 percent. This is such a bullshit and propaganda of the Chinese CCP.
1. If 2.2 percent of 13 Million people would be 273 000 people in the USA are dead.
2. The death rate in the USA was 0,0769 percent from flu.
3. The rate in China now experts calculate with more than 3 percent.
4. The doctor in Wuhan was 34 years old when he died. How can you think, old people die only?
Try to use brain before spreading nonsense!
Great content! It is a good way for me to try and follow the conversation. But when I don't understand at all, I can still understand because of the translation!
Maybe a small tip. Sometimes you ask a closed question. For example: 'What should be her ultimate goal in life?' at 29:54. You follow up with having babies/marry or persuit happiness. This way people are framed to choose 1 of the 2 options. While when you ask open ended questions. Often way more interesting and random answers come.
Nevertheless I find Chinese people generally very open when you interview them. They go very indepth in their effort to answer your questions. In the West many people might not have this patience. Or even haven't thought about it that deeply.
太谢谢你了，你对我们真好！
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I too immediately subbed when I saw the amount of effort put into providing subtitles in three different sets! That really makes it easier to try pick up some Chinese from listening.
You deserve far more subscribers.
I wish there was a channel like this for Japanese too.
Stay safe dear teacher. Appreciate the new content!
Time stamps
1. What is the meaning of "leftover females" 01:39
2. What are some of the reasons for there being "leftover females" 4:44
3. What do parents of leftover females feel about their daughters? 13:02
4. What does Chinese society feel about "leftover females" 19:22
5. What do "leftover females" feel about themselves 24:10
6. What should be a Chinese woman's main goals in life 27:42
7. Is a woman's life incomplete without a husband or babies 32:18
8. Do people have to get married 34:53
9. What advice would you give to a "leftover females" 37:10
They are not leftover they are simply not married and why should they be? If a career minded Chinese woman wants to focus on her career and get married in her 30s or later there will be plenty of guys in the west who would be interested!
1. They are not leftover just unmarried.
2. It's probably that they haven't found their mr. right yet or that they just like being single.
3. They mostly feel like they want their daughters to have someone to rely on and by their side instead of handling everything alone.
4. A little bit of both but it's their own lives to decide.
5. They feel OK about it, because not everything in life has to involve being with a man.
6. Live as long as they are happy.
7. Yes and No it depends on the person themselves.
8. No it depends on if they want to get married.
9. Depends on if you want to get married you can always try later on in life, but if you really want to have kids than try before it's to late in life.
@@johnballard6725 yes. women have a choice but their biological clock on making healthy babies are degrading with age. That's the basic concern of left over women.
@ 2AM and I thoroughly enjoyed those interviews. Such a wide ranging points of view.
A few years back I ran into a phenomena called MGTOW, Men Going Their Own Way, here in North America. Many of the point's about the Left Over Women were brought up in the discussion of why men were not marrying. I'm too old now to really be MGTOW, as my "market value" has descended to rock bottom, but at the time, things were different. Yet I was still on the shelf.
In some ways these women have placed themselves beyond reach of "normal" guys.
When people said that the left over women had high standards, they didn't explain it very well. First off, yes they are materially and financially well off. But there also is the Social Status aspect. A woman who has achieved higher education, financial and career status, also has achieved a higher social status. A woman who has achieved high social status, won't marry below that status, even it the guy owns a small contracting business and makes good money.
The pool of guy's in the west who will meet the women's standards has diminished over the past 20 years. Fewer men are taking higher education, while the Universities are full of women looking for the perfect career and hopefully their "MRS" degree. Then they go into the working world and it's the same. Mr Right, has to be at or above their level. But there again the pool of men is a dwindling resource.
Interesting conversations. Subscribed, not for the language courses, just to learn more about China. Cheers
Wow this is a really good comment. I rarely see these on UA-cam
My lady with the glasses and bangs hit it out of the Park with her answers!
I think the lady from minute 11:15 is one of the best, polite, and true answer! Mi respects for her, she is the best to answer the question, congratulations to her!!👊😃😃
She starts 11,29
I hope the street interviews will continue ... Really love them and they're one of the reasons this channel is unique.
John from Life Academy: I am very happy to see another video from Mandarin corner. I was concerned about your health is because of the Coronavirus. This is an interesting video and I plan to study it for the next week or so. My comprehension is getting better and better and I am now focussing on characters. All the best to you and the team at Mandarin corner.
Eilleen, I like your 嗯 in response to the strange answers sooo much!!! Almost all these interviewee are great.
As for me if I will marry one, it must be likeminded one, like pretty much any of these independent and strong ladies in the video.
A silent pray for our brother @ 2:29
The woman at 4:46 understands relationships very well. She is very intelligent in her answers lol
So true!
The so-called “Left over women” are the independent ones. I don’t think they need to be in a hurry ♥️
I was drinking water and when they said over 30, water came through my nose and I started coughing.
Lol and that woman 😂.
What is ugly? Girl describes her friend standing next to her 😂😂😂
Excellent interviewer. She listens, and asks new questions arising out of the answers she receives.
Great topic! I've been waiting for it.
Why are the men not called "leftover men" when they are the ones who are REALLY left over?
because society doesn't give a crap about men.
They are called 剩男. But there are less leftover men than women in China.
@@julioduan7130 How is that possible, when there are far more men than women?
@@artugert It's all because of the men when they always thought having boys are good, and they get rid of girls after they are born because thinking their bad for the family.
@@jerryeiang1155 You didn't understand my question. There are more boys than girls. Therefore, there should be more leftover men than leftover women.
谢谢你Eileen!
These videos are amazing resources for chinese learners. ❤
Can't understand a word they are saying BUT...they ARE fascinating to listen to !!
Very detailed and well done interview as well as superbly edited with bilingual subtitles on a very interesting social topic with a non intrusive interviewer and several interviewees. 给你们写了个牛字。厉害厉害, 真不错！
Ain't virus is stopping me to love China, if I had the money I fly to China right NOW.
I'm learning Mandarin and your channel is super helpful with all the pinyin, Chinese characters, and English subtitle!! Also your content are varies. Great job.
Happy you guys are back!! :)
hey, lovely teacher. I'm from IRAN and I really like the way u teach.. please make more video
Do you plan to marry only after 30 shawty?
That speed is good enough to learn
Oh my god, the Anhui girl (11:00) is hilarious. So savage.
She speaks the truth! The younger girls are still lying to themselves lol
Dragon lady. lol
lol
She's cruel.
Yes, I feel something not quite right socially with that girl. She's got an edge...I'm not sure what edge it is, but it's a little bit scary.
wow, that girl who said 'gays are people too', she's awesome. hopefully the next generation will think more and more like her.
Haha I just watched your original video about 'leftover women' a few days ago! Really great topic. And I love the format!
Thankyou Ellen, you are the mother of zhongwen -xuesheng ...because you not only give the language but also give the knowledge of life.
这个视频挺好看的，讨论了一些让女生(剩女)着急的问题。点赞👍🌹
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Despite cultures, we often deal with the same with generational views. it is also good to know, such phrasing is now considered a derogatory term.
As always, thank you for the Pinyin-Chinese-English format for people studying Mandarin!
Hope you're all doing okay and safe 🙏
Hush sweetie and go bake some brownies
@@itsallgoodz1 How insecure are you to be so threatened by a woman observing a basic fact..? Lmao sorry your mother never loved you, now little boy takes it out on all women 🥺 shoulda baked you some brownies
You comments oozed with feminazi vibes and bias, as there is another colloquial term "leftover men" yet you seems to be perfectly ok with that?! Stop riding your high horse by either admitting both terms are equally deregotory or stop siding with one only!
Great video, as always!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!! I am very happy everytime I see a notification from your channel saying you uploaded a new video :)
Thank you for all the great content I just found your channel!
Thanks for your effort to make these video with detail subtitles and pinyin. It's really help me to learn Hanyu.
A good format, great subs, and great questions,. This is top quality content fore sure!
This is a gold mine of good information about people speaking and words used, thanks. I think it has excellent value in that evokes emotion or comparison to one's own life and is easier to remember. At least the that's my theory. I'll remember some terms much more easily when I think of them in a rich context.
The speakers are very communicative and the answers thorough. I like the word set as it relates to goals, emotions, expectations, feelings. Many abstract but very important ideas.
'Left-over women' is a manufactured term used to disempower women who have not yet married, either out of choice or simply because they have not found a suitable or ideal partner. It is also a term that the rest of society can easily adopt to discriminate against those who have not conformed to 'social norms' by exerting societal pressure and perhaps a certain amount of unfair judgement on women have not yet married or who have divorced. It is a term that is conducive to the aims and interests of the existing patriarchy in China and both men and women on the mainland should reject it completely. - Great video by the way. Thanks Mandarin Corner. You are quite simply the best Chinese language learning source on the internet. There is no competition.
social norms are an important part of culture and society. they exist for a reason.
many western countries are seeing a degradation of social values because people are straying from the social norms.
we shouldn't be "empowering" single people and single parents. its not good for anybody. we should be holding on to the family bonds that strengthen society.
@@rokko_fable I agree that social values are important, but single people don't necessarily ruin anything. For those who don't create their own family, there just needs to be a focus on growing together as a community. If you don't have blood relatives, then you should be socializing and helping your neighbors. Neighborly bonds and friendship bonds can be just as thick as familial bonds.
@@pasleighlaylay6502 Neighborly and friendship bonds are virtually never as thick as healthy family bonds, and single parents absolutely do ruin society -- children of single parents are more likely to commit crimes, more likely to depend on government support, more likely to divorce, die younger, and have all other kinds of negative outcomes.
@@AUniqueHandleName444 That's because you're fortunate enough to have never come from a broken family and later been blessed by the embrace of friends and neighbors. If non-familial bonds couldn't be thick, adoption could never result in happy endings. Many single parents come from bad living situations already, so single or not, their kids were in for a hard time.
they are basically saying if you aint educated like me you are not on my level..thats being a asshole
These older women are absolutely beautiful, the guys over there need to get a check up from the neck up. I date Chinese women exclusively in my city in the USA and can say that the women have good values and qualities most American women do not have. Higher level of maturity and not all that drama that American women have
So you have a fetish based around race you say?
11:20 - Wow... what an explanation
Chick at 11:30 roasted the heck out of her friend with her standing right there!
I watched all 40mins, something that i seldomly do, keep your pinyin, hanzi, and translation, the most important elements to learn fast
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谢谢Mandarin Corner! 我学会了很多新的词汇量
I love your videos and they have helped me improve my mandarin a lot! Keep doing what you are doing!
Thank you very much for the content. It's been a long time without a nice video, thank you for the hard work. keep it coming :)
I've been looking for some interesting intermediate content for a while now and .. here it is! Time to take my Mandarin listening comprehension to the next level
I’m an American, and I think the statement left over woman is a terrible statement. I know it’s a different culture and sayings. But when I think of leftovers, I’m thinking food that might not get eaten and thrown in the garbage. And a human life is more precious than that. It just doesn’t sound good to me. That’s all.
It seems chinese women choose money and strength over love and companionship. Same in the states but our women wouldn't admit to it so quickly.
And yet it seems like if a woman is married to a strong financially successful man who is busy at work and has little time for her, she will be very prone to cheating on him (and probably vise-versa)
Great content, lots of good phrases and ways to express oneself. Interesting mix of personalities too.
很有意思的话题，我感谢你们拍这个视频。那两个年轻女儿的看法很现代， 他们也好像很聪明。我觉得他们想的跟大部分德国的年轻人左右一样。
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Thank you for your video. It's extremely helpful.
i apresiate your work a lot , your intelligence shines in the interviews, you really do it very well , few times I´ve seen interviews so good managing the questions and the arguments so good, keep it going, posdata , i think that I alredy love you , regards from colombia
Awesome video!!! I really love the street interview series.
Your changing the answer to quickly and I can’t keep up with the conversation, sorry to mention it, it is the first time it has happened, and I like your show
Use *UA-cam speed control* to slow down the conversation.
@@MandarinCorner2 I don’t know how to do that, I’ve seen two or three of your shows and that was the only one that I couldn’t keep up with
@@MandarinCorner2 thank you though
It's nice to know that feminism has infected young Chinese women too. Great news for Chinese guys. All we need now are interviews with older Chinese women asking, "Where have all the good men gone?"
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祝贺你！你到了51，1 Subscribers! A few months ago there was just 48 thousand, i think!
this interview has a high quality
That term is rather weird. As one woman said here, they are just "not married", that is all. I guess it has to to with the special marriage situation in traditional Chinese families: Married means the woman's family has the right to invade the husband'S lifefor ever and share his income. Right?
So, the daughter was seen as an investment which had to bring returns. In earlier times more than today, I hope ...
That's true if the man and women got married and they both have great careers but what will happen if they had a child, that would mean the wife would have to give up her career to take care of the child and the husband will have to work double for the wife and child wouldn't that be harder for the both of them in life.
I started studying chinese 3 years back & Stayed in China for 1 year. My chinese is at lower intermediate level. After long gap, i started studying chinese again. I am preparing for HSK 5 & 6 and also going through all of your videos.
How are you now? I am progressing again after a break but maybe 1/2 as far as you to start.
@@RiDankulous at wat level you are in？ wat is your exposure to tis language?
Thanks for the video!
If I already admired Chinese women, now I admire more than ever!!!
The girl at 4:48 is spot on. Very insightful.
God bless you priestess the great for all you have done for me, l will forever recommend your great work my wife now love me now more then ever 💗
Korea: gold miss
Japan: Christmas cake
China: leftover...
In english we call them old maids so... thats way worse than leftover
Interesting! Thanks.
Another beautiful and very very useful video ❤❤❤❤
By looking the numbers of women and men in china I think this term for women won’t be used a lot. Thanks for the video ☺️☺️👏🏻
It means women in time are getting clever and respect and love more themselves❤❤❤❤
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Your videos remain outstanding. Your format of teaching through dialogues about interesting and relevant topics has no match. My small issue is with the English translation which is critical for some learners (I am one). Sometimes I find small mistakes. For example shen you tihui I feel means she has a deep understanding. You translate tihui to mean resonates which I don’t think is the most precise word here.