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It's been 5 years!! I hope you are doing ok and that your trip was pleasant

Lets remember that Innovation REQUIRES a Competitive culture that loves to outdo EACH other for the sake of self gratification; which is essentially how we evolve progressively.

Individualism is ESSENTIAL to innovation. Having the confidence that you as an individual can change the world. Having the courage to stand against the collective crowd and break the status Quo. Do you understand now why it's hard for them to innovate. Copying/Manufacturing established designs does well under collectivism NOT for innovation. Hence, China's current stagnation/low quality products.

@Michelle Zhang great video! I really want to go check out the last place you showed - the real Shanghai - would you mind sharing the name of the neighborhood? Thank you!

Hi, very impressive indeed. Somehow I need to learn mandarin. I think it is awesome language to listen too. I'm currently watching Cdrama shows😊. Some words I've picked up from tv show😂 I liked your video.

I like this new term -heritage speaker，it's beautiful

I love this!!

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Can you please elaborate on the setting your hair on fire part?

I think one of the worst side effects of extreme collectivism is that it suck out the creativity out of many people. I've heard stories from western people teaching in Chinese schools. For example younger kids being completely puzzled when they could draw anything but they couldn't come up with any idea and didn't even seem to understand the task. The teacher repeated that they can draw anything, anything they would like to draw like a house or a leopard or really anything. And of course every single one of them ended up drawing a house or a leopard....

Congratulation for your decision. I should have done the same thing 9:12 long time ago and I didn't do it. I can tell you NYU is overrated and you can find the same education and some other places for less money.

I hear you Michelle. I did an NYU "Pre-College" program the summer in between my junior and senior years of college -- it was ok, but the competition to get admitted to the program + register for the classes was INSANE! NOT even CUNY classes were that nuts to get into. 😱🤮 I also did two free Tisch "Emerging Artists" 14-week programs also during my junior and senior years (once again, INSANE competition to get into the program/courses), AND, then promptly left NYC to go to college in Massachusetts. 🤣 Nearly EVERYONE I went to high school with in Brooklyn went to NYU, I was OVER IT. I had a MUCH better undergraduate experience at the small LAC I went to, versus my friends from high school who went to NYU. They were ALWAYS complaining about their experience, while I was pretty happy being up in New England, surrounded by nature, and having PLENTY of arts and culture around me, WITHOUT all the distractions of NYC (on top of NYU itself) to annoy me. Besides, I'd gotten QUITE ENOUGH of that growing up in Brooklyn. 🙄🤪 Good for you following your instincts. You should NEVER settle for being less than COMPLETELY happy on your academic journey. I'm 100% positive I would have dropped out of NYU myself had I gone there, ESPECIALLY as an undergrad. 👍 I myself returned SEVERAL years later to NYC to do post-graduate work @ NYU/Steinhardt, but by then, I wasn't as concerned with what attending NYU would be like, as much as I was just doing it to further my career so I could teach. BESIDES, it was a THOROUGHLY different experience as a post-graduate student for me @ NYU. I wasn't AT ALL invested whatsoever in campus life, I was just trying to complete post-graduate work, and NYU had the best program for it in my field, so c'est la vie.

i’m a junior who has been on my knees to go to NYU and after this I don’t know, i’m lost and im confused because i’ve kind of put all of my eggs into one basket, which I know was not a good idea, but i thought that NYU, based off the things i heard and read, was the best school for me. if it isn’t NYU it’s going to be community college, and I’m worried i’ll end up hating it there because of things listed here in this video and the comments. help!!!😊

I like your insights!! Glad you left!! You sound too smart for NYU!

Hello Michelle it's Alyan I agree that NYU is mad expensive that's why I plan transferring to Hunter college

Are you an ABC?

I went to MInerva College, it sucked. I left and went to NYU

I agree

Reason 1 was a good enough reason for me to laugh when I was accepted. I was like y’all are crazy if you think I’m going to pay this.

Charming. But naive. However, she's a thinker. That means there's hope for her.

It’s so much easier being white learning Chinese because I can just ask for help without sounding stupid.

Lots of your story parallels mine with Spanish. Believe it or not, I also used to say that I spoke "like a three year old." Although, I was second generation. Like my pronunciation was always on point but I used to say things that made me cringe. Edit - and I gotta say, people who fall along the lines of heritage speaker have a HUGE advantage. Looking back, Spanish was easy for me to learn. I had a sense for it already. Now I'm learning Mandarin and it's like my head is spinning.

I’m a first gen and in my 60s. I understand Mandarin but speak now at an elementary school level and frankly very regretful. My parents speak to me in Chinese but return them in English since they both are fluent in English. I was fortunate that my mother taught me to pronounce Chinese well even with a slight Shanrung accent. Chinese would think I great at Chinese but after a minute conversing then they realize my sentence structure is messed up. That’s my bucket list to be more fluent for what’s left of my life. TH-cam vids and google translator helps and when I am stumped, I ask my friends more fluent than me to help out.

China is not a collectivistic system. In actual collectivism the collective itself decides on the rules that govern the collective. In China there is a very small subset of the collective, the party, that decides the rules for the collective. Maybe Chinese people are collective oriented but that is abused and distorted by the party. China is greatly advised to get rid of it and become an actual collective without a ruling class. Like bees or ants. ... But that than is a locally operating democracy. Which does not exists on this planet currently Besides any functional collective needs unconditional freedom of speech to even see the solution space to any problem they face. Since China does not have this the collective can not even see optimal solutions let alone decide on them.