Your friends and family are awesome. This is the impression of America I've always grown up with. Lots of different opinions but everyone is civil and inclusive. In recent years people have seemingly lost their minds.
I have to say, this is by far Katherine's most serious and hard-hitting video, touching on a range of highly controversial political, social, economic, and geopolitical issues. I could even see some of the interviewees looking a bit uncomfortable with the questions she put to them. But Katherine managed to pull it off in a very balanced and professional way. I really appreciate the time and effort she puts into creating such a thought-provoking episode-very well done.
Love this Q&A vid.... Like all your vids, this so so much more real than some other YT vids where one culture asks questions of another....Would be fun to have your family and friends ask questions to your village neighbors, and see your families/friends reactions. 😁😁
I like Katherine's videos, you are very real, unlike other social media who like to exaggerate things or make up lies for traffic. 喜欢Katherine的视频，很真实，不像其他社交媒体为了流量喜欢把一些事情夸大或者编造谎言。
Love this video describing your hometown in mandarin. Was in CN, Bridgeport several times back then 20 years ago, like moving around in cowboys town with people starring at you most of the time (not too sure now). Back then the local only drives old vehicles fearing parts will be ripped off any times when they are not around. Writing from a senior citizen from red dot South East Asia
I was shocked by the Chinese opening statement. I subbed when you were having 300 or 400 subscribers, and I remember back then how your accent sound. well, fast forward today, the contrast is like what you dad said, "my god", but in a amazing way.
like this new video talking about the US. feel that things have changed quite a bit since the covid. I felt pretty happy when I was living in the US back in 2012-2014. And after that i got to go back to travel for a few times.
This video was exceptional. Thank you & Appreciated From NEPAL 🇳🇵. I look forward to seeing more, especially one featuring a Q&A session with you and your family discussing your experiences in China and other significant aspects of life there.
Good insight into the current state of leisurely smaller town. It's much different & in a good way from what we saw on news media. The world is much better during our parents period with full employment and low living cost.
What an incredible mission you undertook. The interviewing looks really fun compared to hours you must have spent on editing this informative video. A thoroughly awesome job!👍 :D
Very interesting Q&A video. I enjoyed it so much especially when they spoke about Trump and Kamala. Different opinions indeed, but so funny. Very nice people. Love the Usa!! Thank you Katherine for this nice video 🍀💕🪻
About inflation.... In 2019, I used to buy Char Siu Bao (roast pork buns) for the office as they were only 50 cents in Chinatown. Now, they are in the $2.50-$3. range (how is it possible to jump 500% in just 5 years?). During the pandemic, tens of thousands of ethnic restaurants shut down as there was no business. Near my office, there was a Chinese restaurant that catered to just the Wall Street lunch crowd and would close their doors by 4 p.m. If I picked up food there 30 minutes before closing, I could buy the food by the pound for 50% less. And this was delicious and fresh quality Chinese food. I would get like 8 lbs of food for just $5. This was so inexpensive, I would buy for the neighbors also. Anyway, these mom and pop restaurants disappeared during the pandemic and never came back. Now, near work there are only the national fast food places that charge so much more for processed junk food.
Love your friend Pamela. Bold and smart. Her way of seeing how inclusive (in hate) and goal oriented (love money) the Republican party is almost like a daoist master. My god, it's like reading a parable from Zhuangzi - foreign edition where the ancient daoist master reincarnate in modern US. Goes very well with the baby yoda sweater she is wearing. 😁😂 Bravo!👏👏
I always comment on the weird one offs in your videos lol. Today its fencing. Fun sport and i was on my high school team for three seasons. By no means a great fencer but a good experiwnce
很好看. I like that the color girl with glasses as she is quite intelligent. Your two young males friends are very impressive too - one of them apparently knows something about China. Is that because of you? ❤
In summary, no one likes high inflation. The situation mentioned in other questions is something that everyone is used to, but it is clear from the tone that everyone hopes that the situation will get better.
thank you very much for making this insightful and informative video. and you are right, ordinary people's daily lives are far less dramatized as what the media exposed and depicted. and that two Vermont cousins are cute🤭 and btw, not being gossipy, but why lab coat said CYQ 郑琪
Kat please assure you lovely mom that there is nothing to be worried about in China (aside from too many food choices and occasionally heavy road traffic and dense pedestrians sometimes). I have sensed that she is still a bit nervous out of fears of China😅 when she tried to answer the question gun ownership.
Interesting comments. I like that Americans do a lot of outdoor activities, whereas in China, most people are cities and hard find outdoor sports activities. I have a curious question: do you American family and friends comment about your life in China?
What we see portrayed in the media are often the two extremes of the spectrum, but the truth usually lies somewhere in between. Same goes for China, same for the US. Great video as always.
What is the biggest difference between the United States and China? 1、The biggest difference is the different payment methods. China is almost a cashless society, while the United States is still using paper. 2、There are almost no homelessness in China, while there are nearly 650,000 homeless people in the United States. 3、China is the safest society in the world, with no shootings and a low crime rate, while 330 million people in the United States have 390 million guns. Yesterday, there were dozens of shootings in the United States. 4、The United States is wooden houses, which are not durable and need to be repaired after a period of time. Moreover, the United States has a property tax, while most houses in China are reinforced concrete houses, which are particularly durable, and Chinese houses have no property tax. 5、Rice in the poorest areas of China costs two yuan a catty of vegetables and one to two yuan a catty of vegetables. Therefore, Chinese people in the poorest areas earn less than 1,000 yuan a month and live very well, while the cost of living in the United States is very high. Americans earn 4,000 dollars a month and have almost no savings. 6、The electoral systems of the United States and China are different. China's electoral system first elects 3,000 people's representatives, and then three thousand people's representatives are electing China's leader. The electoral system of the United States first elects 538 people's representatives, and then 538 electoral representatives are in the election of the president of the United States. Biden won 306 votes in 2020 and was elected President of the United States.
The fact that these topics are interests of people is big problem, e.g. gender, gun, election, etc. They are uniquely in US. One item is same across all countries, which is living expense.
1. in my house, nobody wears shoes. 2. usa has politicians, not statesmen. 3. is USA safe? depends on where you live. 4. inflation?? here in Canada, the govt said it has gone down, but every time I go to the grocery stores, I wonder if the govt is telling the truth?? i guess it's the same in USA. 5. in canada's passport application, there is a third choice for gender. i agree with your black friend that there are only 2 genders biologically.
Did you drive through the seedier areas of cities and towns and seen the "tent cities?" They're not as bad in most places as people say, except for Oakland, CA, but I definitely see more homeless in the last 5-7 years than the previous 50 years combined. Should give it a look if you have the time, it shows the widening gap between not just the haves and have-nots, but what's left of our middle-class and the have-nots. Bottom line is the country is in deep trouble, worse than at any time in my life, and our leaders need to do a great deal of "nation building" here at home.
I wish, the Americans can afford a comparable social system like in the EU is common, instead of fighting costly and senseless wars without absolutely no benefits for their society.
Fair representation of American culture. I would only add that DHS and surveillance are so involved in our lives that it's depressing. I'm still surprised Chinese people are able to access yt because of their firewall. Their police enforcement of the firewall must be arbitrary like enforcement of underage drinking laws in America.
They live in the suburbs where there is almost NO CRIME. 97% of the crimes are in the inner cities of Philadephia, New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Dalls, Los Angeles, Washington, DC., etc. As long as you stay away from the big cities, it is close to impossible of getting robbed or assaulted. Another thing most people are not aware of is that before 1960 the USA was an EXTREMELY low crime country. Crime really just exploded starting in the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement when there was massive riots, looting and burning of major cities: The most deadly riots were in Detroit (1967), Los Angeles (1965), and Newark (1967) and Washington (1968). Crime rates in the United States began to increase after World War II, and peaked in the 1980s and early 1990s: 1960s-1970s: The homicide rate doubled. 1980s: The homicide rate peaked at 10.2 per 100,000 people. 1990s: Violent crime nearly quadrupled and property crime more than doubled between 1960 and 1991.
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Hello from France, Il love all your videos. Your loved ones are lucky to live in a small town in Vermont, far from the hustle and bustle of big American cities. It's not that different from the Chinese countryside
Your friends and family are awesome. This is the impression of America I've always grown up with. Lots of different opinions but everyone is civil and inclusive.
In recent years people have seemingly lost their minds.
I have to say, this is by far Katherine's most serious and hard-hitting video, touching on a range of highly controversial political, social, economic, and geopolitical issues. I could even see some of the interviewees looking a bit uncomfortable with the questions she put to them. But Katherine managed to pull it off in a very balanced and professional way. I really appreciate the time and effort she puts into creating such a thought-provoking episode-very well done.
i gave them a disclaimer beforehand that i didn't come up with the questions and just skip any that seem too controversial😂😂😂so hope that helped😂
Love this Q&A vid.... Like all your vids, this so so much more real than some other YT vids where one culture asks questions of another....Would be fun to have your family and friends ask questions to your village neighbors, and see your families/friends reactions. 😁😁
I like Katherine's videos, you are very real, unlike other social media who like to exaggerate things or make up lies for traffic.
喜欢Katherine的视频，很真实，不像其他社交媒体为了流量喜欢把一些事情夸大或者编造谎言。
媒体把各种冲突都放大了，其实在普通人生活中都是日常的生活，并没有那么多的起伏，通过阳离子了解了很多东西
媒体需要流量，编造各种新闻，断章取义。
我相信阳离子在视频中引述的新闻报道是真实的。关于治安，舅舅不锁房门和车门。
（说到编造各种新闻，首先想到的是亩产万斤；不错，这 “媒体” 二字）
@@linwoodhucse628除了媒体，还有带节奏的网军
@@rexma9712 也不尽是媒体的问题，大部分观众喜欢看新奇，谁爱看每天不变的生活故事？市场需求决定一切😃
如果是 “官网”。。。@@user-we88888
Kat回乡的几个视频都非常棒！
有表妹就是棒。
只有对通胀/物价涨幅的回答全部一致，其他回复还是多元化，和实际完全一样，感谢分享
物价只有一个方向，那就是涨、涨、涨，大家感同身受，我们这边很多东西都涨价超过一倍了😭
我太爱这个视频了，帮我了解一部分美国的情况❤❤❤谢谢你，阳离子。
Thanks for helping me understand what real Americans think, we are not that different, we are families on this tiny planet.
So fun to follow you Katherine!
Love this video describing your hometown in mandarin. Was in CN, Bridgeport several times back then 20 years ago, like moving around in cowboys town with people starring at you most of the time (not too sure now). Back then the local only drives old vehicles fearing parts will be ripped off any times when they are not around. Writing from a senior citizen from red dot South East Asia
I was shocked by the Chinese opening statement. I subbed when you were having 300 or 400 subscribers, and I remember back then how your accent sound. well, fast forward today, the contrast is like what you dad said, "my god", but in a amazing way.
阳离子越来越迷人了，也许是爱情的魔力吧！向你的家人及朋友问好！很不错的视频！
wow，这些问题真的很尖锐啊！能看到这么真诚的视频，真是太爱你了！
As good as usual. Looking forward to the next episode.
Thanks to your relatives and friends for answering these questions
Excellent! Thank you!
很喜欢这个视频，一群美国不同地方、不同背景的普通人，讨论大家关心的话题，非常好！让我们更加了解彼此。
不错的采访， 不过样本太少，希望以后可以采访更多人
Grèat video, real people, real lives
like this new video talking about the US. feel that things have changed quite a bit since the covid. I felt pretty happy when I was living in the US back in 2012-2014. And after that i got to go back to travel for a few times.
Very enjoy your video, thanks
This video was exceptional. Thank you & Appreciated From NEPAL 🇳🇵. I look forward to seeing more, especially one featuring a Q&A session with you and your family discussing your experiences in China and other significant aspects of life there.
喜欢。
真得是非常棒的视频！
同感！👍
谢谢你做这个Q&A，很有趣！
Great show with the
Questions and answers from your chinese inquiries
Opening in mandarin...Top 😊
挺有趣😊
Thanks! Super interesting to know.
This is such a great episode! I learned a lot of new things about American from this episode even though I have lived here for 2 decades.❤
陽離子 晚上好🌠🤗
晚上好🌛
Thank you so much for doing this. This is so much fun seeing your friends talking about all these stuff. Take care Katherine. Love you...❤
nice Q&A video. informative, thanks!
爱你，太诚恳了，真的不得不关注你，加油！@！！！！！！
Good job!
very interesting, thanks for your sharing ! waiting for your update . . .
阳离子好美好正好优秀~
非常感谢你带来这么多精彩的访谈，邀请了这么多人，让我们得以一窥美国的政治光谱。不知道这些视频有没有在中国国内平台播出。
Very good video!🎉
Good insight into the current state of leisurely smaller town. It's much different & in a good way from what we saw on news media. The world is much better during our parents period with full employment and low living cost.
Very nice investigation.
very interesting video!
very like one of your friend, the middle one.😀
挺好的这个视频
What an incredible mission you undertook. The interviewing looks really fun compared to hours you must have spent on editing this informative video.
A thoroughly awesome job!👍 :D
I love all your videos. Thank you for taking the time to do this :)
And welcome home :)
Interesting.
Excellent video! That must be your cousin on your dad's side because the resemblance is striking!
You are awesome
Very interesting Q&A video. I enjoyed it so much especially when they spoke about Trump and Kamala. Different opinions indeed, but so funny. Very nice people. Love the Usa!! Thank you Katherine for this nice video 🍀💕🪻
About inflation....
In 2019, I used to buy Char Siu Bao (roast pork buns) for the office as they were only 50 cents in Chinatown. Now, they are in the $2.50-$3. range (how is it possible to jump 500% in just 5 years?). During the pandemic, tens of thousands of ethnic restaurants shut down as there was no business. Near my office, there was a Chinese restaurant that catered to just the Wall Street lunch crowd and would close their doors by 4 p.m. If I picked up food there 30 minutes before closing, I could buy the food by the pound for 50% less. And this was delicious and fresh quality Chinese food. I would get like 8 lbs of food for just $5. This was so inexpensive, I would buy for the neighbors also. Anyway, these mom and pop restaurants disappeared during the pandemic and never came back. Now, near work there are only the national fast food places that charge so much more for processed junk food.
Love your friend Pamela. Bold and smart. Her way of seeing how inclusive (in hate) and goal oriented (love money) the Republican party is almost like a daoist master. My god, it's like reading a parable from Zhuangzi - foreign edition where the ancient daoist master reincarnate in modern US. Goes very well with the baby yoda sweater she is wearing. 😁😂 Bravo!👏👏
一直见你说英语，没想到你中文这么好！
I always comment on the weird one offs in your videos lol. Today its fencing. Fun sport and i was on my high school team for three seasons. By no means a great fencer but a good experiwnce
Great thoughts and answers - though your blond friend reminds me of Donna from the West Wing???
很好看. I like that the color girl with glasses as she is quite intelligent. Your two young males friends are very impressive too - one of them apparently knows something about China. Is that because of you? ❤
Honestly, I can tell that most answers and viewpoints of ordinary people in both countries are pretty much similar except politics
In summary, no one likes high inflation. The situation mentioned in other questions is something that everyone is used to, but it is clear from the tone that everyone hopes that the situation will get better.
The section on Trump vs Kamala is so real it’s depressing. Thanks, Katherine, for showing your followers how Americans feel about this election.
Great interview of locals about life. My question is who are you going to vote for president Katherine?
我所知道的接觸過的美國人大部份很善良！只是😅妳知道的
谢谢提供不同视角，来自不同人群，地域
thank you very much for making this insightful and informative video. and you are right, ordinary people's daily lives are far less dramatized as what the media exposed and depicted. and that two Vermont cousins are cute🤭
and btw, not being gossipy, but why lab coat said CYQ 郑琪
So, I just watched Katherine's video on politics for the first time, and now I'm curious to know-who's she gonna vote for? 🤔
One thing seems to be similar between Chinese and American people: They are always smiling, when a question is too hard to answer.
interesting
美国人的业余娱乐还是挺健康和多样的，没一个说是在家刷短视频。。🤣
✅🤩 I CAN'T WAIT FOR YOUR PARENTS TO VISIT YOU!
Kat please assure you lovely mom that there is nothing to be worried about in China (aside from too many food choices and occasionally heavy road traffic and dense pedestrians sometimes). I have sensed that she is still a bit nervous out of fears of China😅 when she tried to answer the question gun ownership.
美国人热爱大自然，很容易参与户外生活非常非常的好，不过这视频画风是显示美国的建设比较老旧了
Interesting comments. I like that Americans do a lot of outdoor activities, whereas in China, most people are cities and hard find outdoor sports activities. I have a curious question: do you American family and friends comment about your life in China?
Katherine is a very real and oddly uniquely charming person. Stay weird.
Great discussion. You should ask the questions about guns in Florida not Vermont the home of Bernie Sanders.
❤❤❤
这集非常好
这是一个很好了解美国人的视频，除了少了一个川粉😄
6:47 正好有一个川粉
@ 原来川粉都觉得川普是傻屌？她只是觉得川普比哈里斯更适合当总统而已
有啊😂
One of your best videos K. It promotes better people to people understanding. I’d say Canadians are pretty much the same.
谢谢你阳离子，你真是天使，喜欢你的视频。尤其这种展示中美文化差异的内容。希望中美人民多沟通，保持善意❤❤❤❤这是世界原本的样貌
我投阳离子！！！
What we see portrayed in the media are often the two extremes of the spectrum, but the truth usually lies somewhere in between. Same goes for China, same for the US. Great video as always.
说到媒体，毕竟有 世界新闻自由指数排名。
中国第 172，在 180 个国家和地区中。
Are you back to Zhejiang?
What is the biggest difference between the United States and China?
1、The biggest difference is the different payment methods. China is almost a cashless society, while the United States is still using paper.
2、There are almost no homelessness in China, while there are nearly 650,000 homeless people in the United States.
3、China is the safest society in the world, with no shootings and a low crime rate, while 330 million people in the United States have 390 million guns. Yesterday, there were dozens of shootings in the United States.
4、The United States is wooden houses, which are not durable and need to be repaired after a period of time. Moreover, the United States has a property tax, while most houses in China are reinforced concrete houses, which are particularly durable, and Chinese houses have no property tax.
5、Rice in the poorest areas of China costs two yuan a catty of vegetables and one to two yuan a catty of vegetables. Therefore, Chinese people in the poorest areas earn less than 1,000 yuan a month and live very well, while the cost of living in the United States is very high. Americans earn 4,000 dollars a month and have almost no savings.
6、The electoral systems of the United States and China are different. China's electoral system first elects 3,000 people's representatives, and then three thousand people's representatives are electing China's leader. The electoral system of the United States first elects 538 people's representatives, and then 538 electoral representatives are in the election of the president of the United States. Biden won 306 votes in 2020 and was elected President of the United States.
（不明白从这个视频为什么得出这 6 点不同，以及为什么需要得出不同。视频中，并没有对比）
真要看到不同，当然是选举。其中，能看到选民对政策的集体制约。
另外，无现金支付：在智能手机出现之前就有了：交通卡，银行卡，信用卡， paypal ，网络支付 。。。
（在中国，很久很久以前，也有月票，年票）
The biggest difference is, USA politicians keep talking and do nothing. Chinese government keeps doing something and says so little.😄
在中国，需要说么！@@麦声萝卜丝原创歌曲
“USA politicians keep talking and do nothing”？但是，美国怎么成了世界强国
这一期太棒了，对老美来说这些问题都很敏感吧，大家都表现的很棒，都有自己的观点。
只有性别和投票属于敏感问题，枪看个人看法吧，其他都不算
The fact that these topics are interests of people is big problem, e.g. gender, gun, election, etc. They are uniquely in US. One item is same across all countries, which is living expense.
👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍
What the heck!? Where was my question!?
👍
1. in my house, nobody wears shoes. 2. usa has politicians, not statesmen. 3. is USA safe? depends on where you live. 4. inflation?? here in Canada, the govt said it has gone down, but every time I go to the grocery stores, I wonder if the govt is telling the truth?? i guess it's the same in USA. 5. in canada's passport application, there is a third choice for gender. i agree with your black friend that there are only 2 genders biologically.
i had questions..how does public toilet in US looks like given so many genders..do they shared and if shared how to share among genders?
互联网就是个放大镜
Did you drive through the seedier areas of cities and towns and seen the "tent cities?" They're not as bad in most places as people say, except for Oakland, CA, but I definitely see more homeless in the last 5-7 years than the previous 50 years combined. Should give it a look if you have the time, it shows the widening gap between not just the haves and have-nots, but what's left of our middle-class and the have-nots. Bottom line is the country is in deep trouble, worse than at any time in my life, and our leaders need to do a great deal of "nation building" here at home.
I wish, the Americans can afford a comparable social system like in the EU is common, instead of fighting costly and senseless wars without absolutely no benefits for their society.
Jill stein for president.
其实我蛮想问生活在美国的美国人，通胀(物价或生活成本)真的严重吗?...
Fair representation of American culture. I would only add that DHS and surveillance are so involved in our lives that it's depressing. I'm still surprised Chinese people are able to access yt because of their firewall. Their police enforcement of the firewall must be arbitrary like enforcement of underage drinking laws in America.
其实还是有点不准确，阳离子的亲友们明显住在小城镇或郊区，这些地方治安的确很好，跟中国没啥区别。最大的区别是大的城市，晚上出门在街上逛的确要有勇气。
They live in the suburbs where there is almost NO CRIME. 97% of the crimes are in the inner cities of Philadephia, New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Dalls, Los Angeles, Washington, DC., etc. As long as you stay away from the big cities, it is close to impossible of getting robbed or assaulted. Another thing most people are not aware of is that before 1960 the USA was an EXTREMELY low crime country. Crime really just exploded starting in the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement when there was massive riots, looting and burning of major cities:
The most deadly riots were in Detroit (1967), Los Angeles (1965), and Newark (1967) and Washington (1968). Crime rates in the United States began to increase after World War II, and peaked in the 1980s and early 1990s:
1960s-1970s: The homicide rate doubled.
1980s: The homicide rate peaked at 10.2 per 100,000 people.
1990s: Violent crime nearly quadrupled and property crime more than doubled between 1960 and 1991.
I'm just shocked at how many people can't say the name of their presidential candidate correctly.
我就说啊，大家都是人，怎么可能差别那么大！看来一般美国人和一般中国人大家都差不多！
谢谢阳离子带来真实的一个普通人的生活
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Hello from France, Il love all your videos.
Your loved ones are lucky to live in a small town in Vermont, far from the hustle and bustle of big American cities. It's not that different from the Chinese countryside