The most interesting parts of the video are the interviews with the young Chinese Americans and hearing about their own experiences in China as Chinese Americans. I wish I could've gotten more of that.
I always say I’m from America while speaking in Chinese so you can kinda get it out of way in one sentence. You don’t have to expressly say you’re Chinese since it’s obvious.
I think it's pretty simple for those Chinese Americans when they live in China. You just need to say you're Chinese American (Mei Ji Hua Ren) and they will all understand you.
Wow as an abc who has been working with many first gen immigrants at a job for 4 months I definitely resonate! They constantly try to define me and each other by language, customs and culture. Thank you for doing this!! How did the 4 people in the video meet? Did you connect them to each other?
so glad to see this kind of video. save for later to show to my kids. things i need to pay attention when i help my kids to grow outside of China. i am so proud to be Chinese. but i understand that proud is stemed from my cultural which are not herigated only by gene.
This was a very interesting video. I can identify with them especially the growing up part of having parents immigrating from China. I spoke only English and was embarrassed of my parents. Did kinda wished I had learned Chinese. For the point of being asked where you are from and what am I (Korean, Chinese, or Japanese), I tell them where I was born (in the midwest of USA) or simply say my parents are from China. The only difference between the people in the video and me is that I'm old enough to be their parents. I have sons who are 4th and 5th Chinese Americans. Seems like things haven't changed much with ABCs and their identities.
The Chinese diaspora is a testament to the turmoil and humiliation that China has been suffering from for the past one to two centuries, and Chinese Americans are essentially products of this phenomenon. Hopefully as China continues to improve and prosper eventually Chinese people won’t have to feel like we have to abandon our homeland to settle somewhere else anymore. China will always be where my heart belongs to as a Chinese, the land where my ancestral memories lie.
Many of the Chinese food in America that does not exist in China do exist in the Philippines (beef brocoli, chopsuey, egg rolls, Chowmien noodles cooked in American style, orange chicken....etc.)
I lived for a while in Baku, Azerbaijan. My home was in a 4 story complex above a Turkish grocery store. Each morning at about 5AM I was awakened by someone tap dancing above me. I told other people about this & they said that was impossible because Azeris took their shoes off in the house. One morning I was headed out early & encountered an Oriental looking man coming down the stairs. I said "Hello, are you an American?" I was from California where that was a common ethnic type. He said "Nyet pazhalusta" in Russian. It turned out the Chinese Embassy was just 2 blocks away. Next to the Israeli Embassy. It reinforced my beliefs that the US is better because of its ethnic diversity.
My grandfather who emigrated to America to work on the railroads returned to China in the Twenties and got killed in a crossfire between two warlord rivals. So much for my visiting China. I have no connection with China whatsoever, besides, I am only half Chinese. I still cook Chinese food, Cantonese style of the early 20th century.
Good for you. For these expats career opportunities are the drive for everything so if your Chinese heritage can earn you fame, money or whatever you aspire, I m sure it would be time to re-valuate the situation. We all live in a global village after all.
These Chinese Americans comprise only a small percentages of millions of foreigner working in China. In Shanghai, there are many apartment exclusive for foreign nationals who congregated and segregated into their individual complex; they also send their kids to different foreign language schools- Japanese, Korea, German, Scandinavia, Russia, French, English, American, Taiwanese and etc. Land of opportunities draw people seeking better jobs from different countries in the same manner as what was the US in the last century. Empire comes and went as “Thirty years on the east side of the river, thirty years on the west side of the river".
Foreign language school that the Taiwanese send their kids to? Are you freaking kidding? If it's Hokkien or Hakka dialect that you are thinking of, then the Fujian and Cantonese people speak that too and I don't think there's a language school for that in China. That's like saying Californian kids who reside in NYC go to a special language school in New York where they learn to speak the East Coast dialect lol.
Well done! Addressed a lot of issues ABC/ARC face both in the US and in China! I also like the short history of Chinese immigrants. But where is the other half?
you know what, i will only talk to my kids in cantonese and send em to Chinese schools even though i got no problem communicating with em in English at all
Because they ran from China to get a better life and worked their asses off to give that life to their children. Then they decide to go back to the place they purposely ran away from. I’d be pissed too.
The China they left is not the same China now China had made plenty of progress and development over the last 20 30 years. It is still a developing country but it is improving
I hope the girl at 8:30 eventually got a better grasp of Mandarin to figure out why nobody would accept "我是中国人" as an answer to "where are you from." The English word "Chinese" is very vague and has different meanings depending on the context - It describes a particular country's citizenship, a nationality, and often times an ethnicity as well, but Mandarin has a lot of very clear, distinct terms - 中国人 for Chinese citizens regardless of ethnicity, 汉族 or 汉人 for the majority ethnic group that makes up 91% of the country, 华人 or 华侨 or 华裔 for the overseas diaspora, and so on. A Chinese American describing herself as 中国人 is like Madonna describing herself as British.
Actually you are wrong. 中国人 is also what you call a Chinese person. Who gives a fuck. There's a lot of Mainlander people that has Chinese passport and are willing to trade it for American passport or whatever. Why do you think they migrate countries? Put yourself in a foreigner shoes. You want to move country to live a better life. You have kids in America. But your kids will hold a American citizenship. Does that make your kids less of a Chinese? No! If people are looking for Chinese actors in the role. Who has a better chance? Chinese-American or white Americans? Nationality is a lousy way of labeling people. They will always be 华人。
@@spikebaltar5071 You totally missed the point. 🙄 The point is about Mandarin, not English. 中国人 and 华人 both mean "Chinese" in English but the first one describes Chinese as a citizenship and the second describes Chinese as a heritage. You can call her Chinese in English but you would not call her 中国人 in Mandarin. Even you proved my point because in the end you call her 华人，not 中国人. Next time read before replying. 🙄
Huge historical complications indeed, and although it is - I know - kinda cool to suddenly land somewhere where most people look more like you, it's not that they are like you...Grew up as a warrior, and now, I'm among politically correct -ists!
Strong admiration! Black people are proud of themselves. It keeps me in reminder that I should be proud of mine. Chinese-Americans most of the time are too busy being white wash and forgetting their cultures. More Chinese-Americans should have pride like black people!
@@spikebaltar5071 love and respect, thanks. So much of our culture and history has been destroyed or corrupted. So we try to hold on to what little we have left.
Mole left side of spine Ying Chinese president King of my people mole left side of spine mark of Cain me you grandfather number 1 Head Dragon God's first son
You belong to a great nation ants have same birthmark as people mark land promised by God get right with Deny fear pain sickness disease say God heald you your family say no you can not covet my family there's Jew Roman type of people play mind game tricked earth 12 25 30 they die all's forgiven God leave Enoch South American Lord don't let people covet you your family say no
I feel deeply sorry for the Chinese who immigrated to such a terrible country as the USA. Hopefully you can return to China and and get some peace and learn about a great culture and eat some decent food.
lol wow. you sound like an uneducated america hater with no concept of China. Chinese culture was killed by Mao in the 60s, along with 60 million people with it. Chinese culture is coming back but it's nowhere as well defined and influential as American culture. Chinese culture is currently cutthroat apathetic capitalism (led paint on children toys to save money, cement mix in baby formula to save money). Chinese culture is nowhere near as equal as American culture (foreigners are never allowed to assimilate, women are not equal to men). It's also laughable that you compare American food standards with Chinese. 1/5 dishes in China are made with di gou you (sewage/gutter oil), and China lacks GMOs, which despite what the hipsters say, are one of the best inventions of mankind to guarantee hygienic food products. But go on, keep on hating America because Black Lives Matter told you to.
Verify110 Lol thanks for the laugh. I agree with you that Mao caused damage to the Chinese culture however they still have some amazing cultural sites. Moa reminds me of Trump . Unfortunately after two trips to the USA I have have only found a cultural waste land. Comparing the Terracotta Warriors or The Great Wall to Disneyland or I can't think of any other American cultural icon is laughable. Just think of food. The USA food is mainly junk imported from Germany or Italy compared to China, probably the most diverse and great food cultures of the world.
Bryce Oxley If you look beyond the superficial aspects of one's culture - which is hardly an objective measure - you might get to admire aspects of American (and Western) culture, like due process, an independent judiciary, habeas corpus, a free and independent press, philanthropy and much of the modern Information Age. There's a reason why it's had its mark everywhere in the world, including in China.
All comes down to dick war. White people feel their dick smaller than the blacks so they vent out here in different forms. If you guys just cut to the chase in your arguments, it would save you a lot of time and effort in typing.
Cantonese is a separate language from Mandarin. Both are in the Sino-Tibetan family under the Sinitic group, but they are separate languages. Although their literary traditions are the same
The most interesting parts of the video are the interviews with the young Chinese Americans and hearing about their own experiences in China as Chinese Americans. I wish I could've gotten more of that.
I always say I’m from America while speaking in Chinese so you can kinda get it out of way in one sentence. You don’t have to expressly say you’re Chinese since it’s obvious.
I think it's pretty simple for those Chinese Americans when they live in China. You just need to say you're Chinese American (Mei Ji Hua Ren) and they will all understand you.
Wow as an abc who has been working with many first gen immigrants at a job for 4 months I definitely resonate! They constantly try to define me and each other by language, customs and culture. Thank you for doing this!! How did the 4 people in the video meet? Did you connect them to each other?
If your ancestors were from germany, italy or norway and you decide to live in the old country, you'll discover how much better you had it before.
so glad to see this kind of video. save for later to show to my kids. things i need to pay attention when i help my kids to grow outside of China. i am so proud to be Chinese. but i understand that proud is stemed from my cultural which are not herigated only by gene.
This was a very interesting video. I can identify with them especially the growing up part of having parents immigrating from China. I spoke only English and was embarrassed of my parents. Did kinda wished I had learned Chinese.
For the point of being asked where you are from and what am I (Korean, Chinese, or Japanese), I tell them where I was born (in the midwest of USA) or simply say my parents are from China.
The only difference between the people in the video and me is that I'm old enough to be their parents. I have sons who are 4th and 5th Chinese Americans. Seems like things haven't changed much with ABCs and their identities.
The Chinese diaspora is a testament to the turmoil and humiliation that China has been suffering from for the past one to two centuries, and Chinese Americans are essentially products of this phenomenon. Hopefully as China continues to improve and prosper eventually Chinese people won’t have to feel like we have to abandon our homeland to settle somewhere else anymore. China will always be where my heart belongs to as a Chinese, the land where my ancestral memories lie.
I and our family will never go to China! America is where we were born and the country our dad fought for in second World War not China!!!
And we are better having you.
Thanks a bunch.
Many of the Chinese food in America that does not exist in China do exist in the Philippines (beef brocoli, chopsuey, egg rolls, Chowmien noodles cooked in American style, orange chicken....etc.)
I lived for a while in Baku, Azerbaijan. My home was in a 4 story complex above a Turkish grocery store. Each morning at about 5AM I was awakened by someone tap dancing above me. I told other people about this & they said that was impossible because Azeris took their shoes off in the house. One morning I was headed out early & encountered an Oriental looking man coming down the stairs. I said "Hello, are you an American?" I was from California where that was a common ethnic type. He said "Nyet pazhalusta" in Russian. It turned out the Chinese Embassy was just 2 blocks away. Next to the Israeli Embassy. It reinforced my beliefs that the US is better because of its ethnic diversity.
Nice! China government need to improve to take more care of the people, *then* more Chinese people will comeback.
My grandfather who emigrated to America to work on the railroads returned to China in the Twenties and got killed in a crossfire between two warlord rivals. So much for my visiting China. I have no connection with China whatsoever, besides, I am only half Chinese. I still cook Chinese food, Cantonese style of the early 20th century.
Good for you. For these expats career opportunities are the drive for everything so if your Chinese heritage can earn you fame, money or whatever you aspire, I m sure it would be time to re-valuate the situation. We all live in a global village after all.
What? Mao and Chiang? 😂
There's 180 different color Ying Chinese people
“worked for CNN, WSJ, The Guardian…” ha i knew it 😂😂😂
Oversea Chinese is the best way to address Chinese raise and bred abroad.
These Chinese Americans comprise only a small percentages of millions of foreigner working in China. In Shanghai, there are many apartment exclusive for foreign nationals who congregated and segregated into their individual complex; they also send their kids to different foreign language schools- Japanese, Korea, German, Scandinavia, Russia, French, English, American, Taiwanese and etc.
Land of opportunities draw people seeking better jobs from different countries in the same manner as what was the US in the last century. Empire comes and went as “Thirty years on the east side of the river, thirty years on the west side of the river".
Foreign language school that the Taiwanese send their kids to? Are you freaking kidding? If it's Hokkien or Hakka dialect that you are thinking of, then the Fujian and Cantonese people speak that too and I don't think there's a language school for that in China. That's like saying Californian kids who reside in NYC go to a special language school in New York where they learn to speak the East Coast dialect lol.
Well done! Addressed a lot of issues ABC/ARC face both in the US and in China! I also like the short history of Chinese immigrants. But where is the other half?
Peace and love from Egypt I love USA USA USA USA USA USA
these folks are lost.
you know what, i will only talk to my kids in cantonese and send em to Chinese schools even though i got no problem communicating with em in English at all
James Lam Good idea. Never let them forget their culture.
Just don’t forget where you live.
Chinese Parents seem OFFENDED when they want to go to china.
Because they ran from China to get a better life and worked their asses off to give that life to their children.
Then they decide to go back to the place they purposely ran away from.
I’d be pissed too.
The China they left is not the same China now China had made plenty of progress and development over the last 20 30 years. It is still a developing country but it is improving
It's nice to see Chinese who speak English fluently
@Milagros B. : They are *CHINESE-American* . Not White-American.
@@spikebaltar5071 Americans are Americans no matter what color they are
You’ve never been to California or at least the USA have you?
what happened to the... after break,
It depends it's a westerner or a Chinese.
I hope the girl at 8:30 eventually got a better grasp of Mandarin to figure out why nobody would accept "我是中国人" as an answer to "where are you from." The English word "Chinese" is very vague and has different meanings depending on the context - It describes a particular country's citizenship, a nationality, and often times an ethnicity as well, but Mandarin has a lot of very clear, distinct terms - 中国人 for Chinese citizens regardless of ethnicity, 汉族 or 汉人 for the majority ethnic group that makes up 91% of the country, 华人 or 华侨 or 华裔 for the overseas diaspora, and so on. A Chinese American describing herself as 中国人 is like Madonna describing herself as British.
Actually you are wrong. 中国人 is also what you call a Chinese person. Who gives a fuck. There's a lot of Mainlander people that has Chinese passport and are willing to trade it for American passport or whatever. Why do you think they migrate countries? Put yourself in a foreigner shoes. You want to move country to live a better life. You have kids in America. But your kids will hold a American citizenship. Does that make your kids less of a Chinese? No! If people are looking for Chinese actors in the role. Who has a better chance? Chinese-American or white Americans? Nationality is a lousy way of labeling people. They will always be 华人。
Many Chinese people ask where you’re from to see if you are from the same city or province. If you are, they will say, Oh we are老乡.
@@spikebaltar5071 You totally missed the point. 🙄 The point is about Mandarin, not English. 中国人 and 华人 both mean "Chinese" in English but the first one describes Chinese as a citizenship and the second describes Chinese as a heritage. You can call her Chinese in English but you would not call her 中国人 in Mandarin. Even you proved my point because in the end you call her 华人，not 中国人. Next time read before replying. 🙄
Huge historical complications indeed, and although it is - I know - kinda cool to suddenly land somewhere where most people look more like you, it's not that they are like you...Grew up as a warrior, and now, I'm among politically correct -ists!
So the Chinese-Americans are loyal to the motherland after all? Why not be loyal to the ROC, an American ally??
New Yorkers represent! Woo hoo!
You look more north american than the Mayflower immigrants.
Made me actually laugh. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
How do the Chinese feel about Black people in America?
Strong admiration! Black people are proud of themselves. It keeps me in reminder that I should be proud of mine. Chinese-Americans most of the time are too busy being white wash and forgetting their cultures. More Chinese-Americans should have pride like black people!
@@spikebaltar5071 love and respect, thanks. So much of our culture and history has been destroyed or corrupted. So we try to hold on to what little we have left.
Hi, do you have any problem to blend in with the local people ?
夷狄入华夏者，华夏之，华夏入夷狄者，夷狄之。
Read my letters to editor and articles in Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.
Mole left side of spine Ying Chinese president King of my people mole left side of spine mark of Cain me you grandfather number 1 Head Dragon God's first son
To Stephy Chung: Since you're Chinese you should pronounce Beijing correctly. It's "jing" as in "jingle" NOT zzzing. Come on you know better.
Actually, not quite. "Jing" would rhyme with "gene" but with an "ng" ending.
Asian American sounds better
I prefer those who don't sound like white bitches.
You belong to a great nation ants have same birthmark as people mark land promised by God get right with Deny fear pain sickness disease say God heald you your family say no you can not covet my family there's Jew Roman type of people play mind game tricked earth 12 25 30 they die all's forgiven God leave Enoch South American Lord don't let people covet you your family say no
history is boring
I feel deeply sorry for the Chinese who immigrated to such a terrible country as the USA. Hopefully you can return to China and and get some peace and learn about a great culture and eat some decent food.
lol wow. you sound like an uneducated america hater with no concept of China. Chinese culture was killed by Mao in the 60s, along with 60 million people with it. Chinese culture is coming back but it's nowhere as well defined and influential as American culture. Chinese culture is currently cutthroat apathetic capitalism (led paint on children toys to save money, cement mix in baby formula to save money). Chinese culture is nowhere near as equal as American culture (foreigners are never allowed to assimilate, women are not equal to men).
It's also laughable that you compare American food standards with Chinese. 1/5 dishes in China are made with di gou you (sewage/gutter oil), and China lacks GMOs, which despite what the hipsters say, are one of the best inventions of mankind to guarantee hygienic food products.
But go on, keep on hating America because Black Lives Matter told you to.
Verify110
Lol thanks for the laugh. I agree with you that Mao caused damage to the Chinese culture however they still have some amazing cultural sites. Moa reminds me of Trump . Unfortunately after two trips to the USA I have have only found a cultural waste land. Comparing the Terracotta Warriors or The Great Wall to Disneyland or I can't think of any other American cultural icon is laughable. Just think of food. The USA food is mainly junk imported from Germany or Italy compared to China, probably the most diverse and great food cultures of the world.
Bryce Oxley If you look beyond the superficial aspects of one's culture - which is hardly an objective measure - you might get to admire aspects of American (and Western) culture, like due process, an independent judiciary, habeas corpus, a free and independent press, philanthropy and much of the modern Information Age.
There's a reason why it's had its mark everywhere in the world, including in China.
All comes down to dick war. White people feel their dick smaller than the blacks so they vent out here in different forms. If you guys just cut to the chase in your arguments, it would save you a lot of time and effort in typing.
Bryce Oxley what part of the US did you I visit?
Wow, they sure got beautiful gals there
This is so much like lame stream media.... I couldn't watch it all the way through. Boring....
cantonese is a dialect, not a language, just saying
Charlie Tian That's just China's ideology.
If Cantonese is really just a dialect, you can say the English is just a dialect of German
Cantonese is a separate language from Mandarin. Both are in the Sino-Tibetan family under the Sinitic group, but they are separate languages. Although their literary traditions are the same