Ranton: yeah physical pain is good, I think we should all experience it. Also Ranton when splashed by an oil spritz: AAAAAAAAAHHHH, I AM NEVER COOKING AGAIN
@@AcadianBacon8 i'm not gonna psychoanalyze ranton specifically, but in chinese culture, one will find that contradictions are everywhere. it's baked into the culture. call it generational trauma or whatever, but chinese parents very often pass on their mindset to their kids and their kids carry that mindset into their own children. regardless of their own opinions on said mindset, they often feel compelled to deliver it to their kid nonetheless.
yeah man this moment and when he talk to his sister later in the video, broke my heart in many pieces also seeint the other kids grandma forcing him to perform for her felt so bad
Believe it or not, but people actually lie. Personally, I’ve met plenty of two faced Asians in my life. It’s all to save face in front of others but behind closed doors they’ll sh*t talk a lot about others.
From my exp, it's not just Chinese (or even Asian) thing, (grand)parents are like that in general, only varying with the amount/intensity with that kind of behavior. She cried when she left him cause she lost her grandson, gave him away, not because she really felt sorry for him, hence why she's strict with him during training. It's not really about his feelings (otherwise he wouldn't be left there). Which also doesn't mean she doesn't love him. It's their way of raising kids and showing affection (although it might seem "cold" to outsiders, people not part of their culture). She was also flexing with him in public and in front of the cameras. It's not that black and white.
This is my favourite Ranton. He gives so much more detail and context to the videos and gives us the Chinese POV to things. It's so easy to think of the parents abandoning Aike to the Shaoling because his grandma is a monster (I mean, she is, but...), but Ranton also explains why someone would do that. And also it's genuine. Ranton is many things, but I've always found him sincere, so whn he tells how things are or aren't, I trust him.
Agreed. Kinda sad to see some people in his chat making jokes or being chauvinistic about Chinese people just being people, but that's par for the course when it comes to how the average western person is brainwashed to think about China.
Warriors like Shaolin monks shouldn't claim to be Buddhists, because Buddhism forbids violence! A primary virtue in Buddhism and other Indian religions is Ahimsa (Non-violence)!
Also, the kid saying that the happiest moment that he has when he's at the temple is when his family finally comes to visit him, yo... The amount of honesty...
''This isn't abuse, this is poverty'' that is honestly the realist thing you can say. Anyone else won't be able to see what life is like over there unless you have lived it and experienced it growing up.
I grew up in poverty and it is most def abuse. As a young kid I knew it was for the best however I knew that I hated them and I knew they were treating me badly so when I saw my grandpa die I did not cry b/c I just couldn't bring up myself to. I'm glad my mom was able to escape poverty and got me out of that sh*thole, it's most def abuse and class does not change the def of abuse there are better ways to get kids a better life rather than beating the sh*t out of then and calling them failures when they get a b in class or having to hide from the adults b/c they were drunk or to see your friends kidnapped or r*ped, it's abuse stop trying to defend it.
Yeah,that is true,but I have been wondering,isnt it better to teach him a trade rather than abandoning him in a school? I get that they cant afford a school tuiton but the parents could have teached him something useful (im not saying kungfu isnt useful,but it could have given him a career)
@@octavianneagu594 Arguably by sending him to such a tough environment, the kid learns the most important thing of all, mental resilience. I feel like a lot of shortcomings of Gen Z today simple come from the fact that we had it too easy. I only realized that after basic training, that as long as you try your goddamn hardest you can overcome most things. But you have to be willing to endure all the bullshit and pain that comes with seriously trying your fucking hardest.
Qiqi saying he felt nothing broke me, having to say everything's all right and your face clearly showing the opposite, the strength it takes to try to hold it all back ,i believe in you lil bro
Hi Ranton, this one is a bit different from what you think, here's some insight: these boys are not from one of the schools around shaolin, they are a group called "少林七小侠" ("shaolin boys" or sometimes called "shaolin little hero") that is organized by 释家门徒 organization of the temple. This group exists since 2020. They are 7 hand picked kids to form this group, with 2-3 back up kids, so total 9-10, and their (buddhist) names are heng xin, heng yi, heng yu, heng du, heng chen, heng rui and heng qi. They also do train hard like in the schools in the area no doubt, but they are not the common poor and anonymous kids like in most of the wushu schools. In fact they are famous, there is a whole production around this group. They have their own TV show with 12 episodes, were invited to cctv shows. Some of them have already acted in other TV series and movies (heng yi was in three tv series already). The group has their own douyin (chinese tiktok) account and bilibili account with ca 500k followers each, kuai shou account etc etc, there's a media company behind them. They get filmed for content every day. They have posters, merch, fan cards with info about their personality, summer camp to train with them or "like them" for a week etc etc. The hairstyle is decided by the producers. It's a bit like creating a boy band, but geared towards shaolin of course, in order to gain popularity and earn money. Even though i can't say for a fact, they might have chosen the kid with the mother that has 6mio followers on kuai shou to be part of the group, in order to grow a following faster. All of this doesn't mean that it is easy for the kids of course. But their situation is very very different from the kids at the normal shaolin wushu schools with comparatively poor perspectives for their future (I have lived in one next to the temple for some years). Not sure if you remember or are familiar with 少林七小福, a somewhat smaller yet similar project from the past, an orchestrated effort to keep shaolin relevant in the modern society that this group reminds me of. When the grandma says at 23:29 that she came out of shaolin temple its not entirely wrong, since its also the temple that is behind the project. A lot of the content and their tv show was shot at 少林水峪寺 though, which is still tightly associated with the temple.
This is really informative, thanks for sharing this. It was confusing to see how much media access was given to families making choices more typical of the poor yet were not, and how someone as familiar with Shaolin as Ranton couldn't fully reconcile with what he knew for fact with what was said and presented.
At first I was against your opinion about how this wasn't abuse for the kids, but now looking at it further and coming to the realization that for some kids this really is one of the only outlets rather than slaving away at a factory or becoming homeless changes the situation up - definitely makes me more grateful for my situation, thank you for opening my eyes to that
It’s China, like dude this kid can be working in a sweatshop making you nikes. I’m not saying this is good, I’m saying that they don’t have options like you and me.
@@John-uw2je Bro that one kids parents selling knock offs weren't fucking poor. That apartment/house looked better than anything I grew up in. Also didn't you literally watch the video the main argument they had was because they were shit parents and couldn't control their kids or though their kids were lazy.
The parents do it because it's one of the better ways for the kids eventually have some success in the future.. just like getting flu shots and stuff.. it hurts at the moment, but it's better for them long term. China is not like here in the USA.. there's no social security, welfare program or medicaid etc.. it can be a very hard life over there.
It's awesome to have you verify this documentary's authenticity. None of us who've ever been through it would actually know how accurate this is. It's amazing what they go through. Thanks!!
I would love to see Anton check out some Chinese weightlifting training. The more I see of Shaolin the more I realise just how much the Chinese weightlifting system must be inspired by it. There are so many parallels in the attitudes, methods, even the circumstances - poor kids sent to hopefully become something greater than just working on the farm their whole life. Going through the daily pain of stretching, hard training, being under the scrutiny of coaches with sticks who expect technical perfection, wishing they could see their family. What Anton said at 11:03 translates exactly to weightlifting in China. Foreign international level competitors and rich hobbyists go on training camps to China, training with provincial level Chinese youths and juniors. But the locals are just on another level of skill and toughness, because that's their whole life. And the foreigners get to go home.
Great video to open your eyes on how some kids from around the world struggle to strive to impress their parents and for a better outcome in their future. No choice at all for this little ones. Got to give the mad respect for their strength and courage.
idk man, they just straight up abandoned the kid for a year idk about that... for example ranton you went there BECAUSE you loved shaolin from movies and wanted to experience it for yourself, you wanted to go there yourself with passion, confidence and an actual love for the thing you were going into all while with consent of your own self, but for that kid it was none of those things.
Interesting. My brother who travels to Asia for business often once said that the two primary reasons Chinese leave China and spend so much money to relocate is to a) get their families away from the pollution (and lack of pollution control) and b) get their kids somewhere where it is less competitive and harsh to be educated. Thank you for the insight on the culture as a whole. And praise to these amazing children who are showing more discipline in a year than I will have in my whole life.
I loved this so much. No matter how much I’ve been through in my life as a child & as a man, nothing compares to what these kids have to go through. I’ve been hurt, I’ve seen terrible things, but at least I had the few family members I did have when I had them. These kids? They barely get to spend time with theirs. It’s humbling to see the determination & strength they display when training, when putting up with all they go through. I have so much respect for these young little men. I was raised to be proud of my heritage as a Greek man, but now I can say that easily, I’m proud of their heritage & their legacy too. Respect to the little guys man.
Ranton, could you please make more videos about Chinese culture? Seriously - your videos shows the most authentic reality. Big respect for you, keep doing good job 👍
that is 100% boomer asian parents mentality, no praise no matter how much you improved it possible the parents hustling day and night, wife with 6million followers, dad have to do support/manager role, mortgage for a modest condo lot.
I`ve been learning mandarin for a while now, but I think I`m still far from being able to speak well, but these kind of videos have been incredibly helpful with learning the culture and the 普通话. Thank you Rantoni for providing good comentary for these videos. С наилучшими пожеланиями, из России!
As a chinese person i think ranton has trouble understanding that just because its commonplace, it doesnt magically not become abuse. Its not about it being a big deal or having a horrified reaction to it, since this stuff doesnt shock us in the east, but lets just call a spade a spade
@@braevinmaund1210 some middle east culture is beating your wife to death cause she said something you didn't like, or in India girls getting fuckin sold to their husband without their consent and sometimes without even knowing beforehand. I will never respect that shit whatever anyone says, not all culture should be respected.
Completely right, culture, tradition or necessity doesn’t magically change to not being abuse, yes it’s their reality and only option but it’s for sure child abuse and the outcome of them making money and providing for themselves has adults doesn’t change that.
Regardless of the results, I want to remind people that physical and verbal punishment/abuse, leave lasting negative effects. Mental health and emotional challenges, lower cognitive ability, lower self-esteem, more aggression, and more antisocial behaviour. Stress from physical punishment for children can negatively affect their brain development. There are numerous studies even meta-analysis papers looking into this and it's clear that it is traumatic for the children. Are their skills impressive? Yes. Perhaps their tenacity is extremely high. But at what cost?
I think you'll struggle to find someone who disagrees with that statement. Ranton's point is that, in China, you have to be willing to do anything in order to stand out from the crowd. However, it's only the parents who understand that. The kids just want wanna be kids. So you end up with parents trying to give their kids a decent start in life. Knowing full well that they will suffer now. In hopes that they don't suffer in the future. China isn't a first world country. They don't have the same opportunities we do in the west.
Yes. Those lasting negative effects are better health, stronger willpower, less addiction to social media, ability to think for yourself, respect authority, work together and to grow up to be a productive member of society, compared to a whiny entitled brat who hasn't been told "no" their whole lives. You think people who practice martial arts are antisocial and aggressive? I suggest you check out how people who grew up in the Hood or the projects act like, and there's definitely been no Shaolin training there. We could all use some more physical discomfort and discipline in our lives. Trauma is a good thing. Burning your hand on the stove stops you from doing that better than being told 100 times.
tears in his eyes but he said "nothing much". i feel him. been to boarding school since kindergarten and every time i went home family asks hows everything and you just say it's okay.
12:00 As someone who went to Asia to improve Go (Weiqi) and ended up quitting (for an assortment of reasons, mainly because I thought it wasn't worth it), I met many masters and foreigners who told me the no. 1 reason many international students quit was because they had other options and desires.
I watched this video about a month ago. soooo good. lovely. A good head up for parents who wanna send their kids to the temple. I'll definitely send mine. beautiful video ❤
Man, I really love when you make this style of video. I think it's really cool to see this more chill side of you, as well as your own insight into the temple, and the surroudning culture. Interesting stuff. Hope to see more in the future!
Every culture is different and to a degree I really understand what ranton is saying about the punishment. What i don’t like is the bone hardening stuff they do with these kids. I think rantoni even said once that it’s basically useless and can really hurt your health.
"Every culture is different" is such a blank sentence. It doesn't mean anything. What culture? There is no consensus on a concrete definition of the word to debate on, people throw it around how it suits them. People will respond to this with their personal definitions that suit the outcome they want to see. Mostly, culture is said to be "something" that grows naturally between people that live together. China's modern "culture" has been created artificially by the CCP. It was planned and enforced. It is based on ideological assumptions and it's capitalist to the teeth. Mao completely failed all communist ideals and modern China is probably the most capitalist country in the world, looking at the economic dimension. The culture there has not grown whatsoever, it was superimposed on the people. It's just been long enough to forget something else exists. They are grinded down and oppressed so that they don't have the energy to rise up. Xi Jinping's China has become incredibly fragile, and he's become paranoid. This is not a "natural culture" that "has to be respected" like some indigenous religious stuff or whatever. Simply saying, "it's culture..." doesn't mean shit and it's in no way an adequate defence. If you're very forthcoming, you could see it as a factual statement. But it doesn't carry any normative weight determining whether that makes it good or bad. Ranton made the same mistake all of us have made at some point in our lives: he got defensive about something that is a huge part of his identity because he was afraid that acknowledging criticism would devalue him as a person. It's pathetic and *none of us* can say they'd never done it themselves. Child abuse in its broadest form is the mistreatment of children that leads to long-term emotional, and/or physical damage. As someone else already referenced, it's measurable up to the point where even noticeable brain damage is induced and the natural development of the child is impaired. This has nothing to do with culture. Culture doesn't make it okay. The only thing you can say is something like, "In Chinese culture, child abuse is largely considered as acceptable or necessary. It's largely affected by the economical position of the children's families." That might be a fact. It doesn't make it any better, though. This supposed, apologetic blanket of a "culture" is literal class treason at its best, it goes against everything stated in the Communist Manifesto and elsewhere. Maoism is Maoism and not Marxism. The Chinese working class has been enslaved by people slapping a brand on themselves, they lost all revolutionary potential because most of them are fighting for survival their whole lives. The US loves it, btw, because they can say or their own people that, "Communism = bad," not having to acknowledge that China's economical system is literally called "state capitalism" (greetings, a political scientist). *I know I got carried away, **_sorry,_* but as a closing statement I would like to remind everyone there Mao, Stalin, (maybe Lenin,) Castro, the Kim family - they would all have been brought to the guillotine if Karl Marx himself had a say in that.
@@Nitidusgoddamn wouldn’t be that many communists left if karl had any say. This is why the revolution failed, too many communists critiquing each other and stupid arguments over semantics. A little more solidarity and maybe capitalism wouldn’t have won out. Also I thought Mao killed all the landlords
@@Nitidus Modern Chinese culture isn't artifically created by the CCP. It has been affected by the CCP. But you just can't erase an entire culture and then force everyone to adopt a new culture. That's not remotely feasible. Go to rural China and you will be surprised how traditional some Chinese people still live on a day to day basis.
I agree, it's so weird how they justify and end the conversation with "Ah well it's poverty so they gotta do it", well yeah it doesn't fucking make it right idiot lmao
I don't know why I laughed so hard at "they handle it fine". Although I do agree that controlling your emotions is better than constantly showing them. That said I feel like some kind of outlet is extremely important in that case.
I get that I'm missing context but it was funny to see you go from "This isn't abuse." to "Yeah he would have beaten the shit outta that kid for falling down."
@Rantwo can you at some point do a video on Thai kids being put through muay thai at an extremely young age? Very large parallels to what goes on here.
Ich wollte einfach nur mal danke sagen für dein Wirken! 😊 Mein Sohn ist auch Halb-Chinese und ich bin mit den klassischen Erziehungsmethoden vertraut...also eigentlich wars der Grund für die Scheidung😅 Aber ihm gehts super und ich finde es richtig geil, dass du auch über den kulturellen Hintergrund sprichst. Keiner aus dem Westen kann das richtig verstehen, wenn er noch nie damit zu tun hatte. Dankeschön ☺️💪🏼👍🏼
Regarding the abuse thing, pointing out that this is better for them than sending them to the factory is correct but it's like stopping halfway in the analysis. the physical and emotional abuse that's done on them there is just in the continuation of the violence of the state that disregards their population; people are driven to these behaviors because of their social position. So when we ask ''is this abuse or not ?'' there's probably something wrong because then we're just asking ''what individual is at fault ? The parents, the teachers, no one ?'' when we should be looking at the general systemic conditions their in and blame that the way we would blame an abuser.
err just call it as it is, poverty, this is the reality of poor people, be it 3rd world or 1st world, just that in developed countries, they white wash it with organizations such as child welfare etc etc, but ultimately it doesnt fix the problem, it just gets swept under the carpet.
I'm late to the party but the Shaolin videos were very good! But it does show that family is everything, regardless of what you do in life... Very nice video!
I think he didnt want to say they were poor so he came up with some bullshit excuse. Easier to say it was the childs fault than his for not providing for his family.
@@cheesuschris2025 it takes bravery to announce that one cannot provide for his family. The bravery is taking the risk that the woman in that relationship will judge how much one is able, and that another may be able to provide more
Hearing you respond to some of the comments allows me to understand now that people in this country for any first world country will never understand what it is to live in poverty in a third world country.. being broke and homeless here is sooooooo different. And then the social, familial and financial expectations that are still in place in asian countries are friggin bonkers for anyone.. but when ur poor u just dont have tue options ppl have in other countries smh regardless you have made me a huge fan please keep up the great work!
Ngl this was tough too watch. Went to gymnastics when I was younger, and well back then the East German trainers were still around. Shit was tough, single tear rolled down when the lil fellow came home. Go Rest that month lil homie! 25:01 fuck me. That hit too close
I agree with what you said about it not being abuse for the most part, but abandoning your grandson at a shaolin temple shows gross neglect to a child's mind and emotions. One of the kids was FIVE when they sent him to the temple. Saying "he should know how to take care of himself" is such a horrible way to teach a child responsibility. There are so many forms of abuse, and giving children mental trauma because they're poor isn't really an excuse.
Let’s be honest, that last family looked more like they didn’t want to deal with having the kid around, because regardless of how much they played up for the camera they weren’t that poor, i bet the grandma complaint too much and she got stuck in her head that the kid needed to go away to the temple, and because she wears the pants and is awful to deal with, everyone has to comply, I’m half Asian and everyone who has that type of Asian grandma in their family knows what I’m talking about.
IT SHOWS THE STRENGTH AND FORTITUDE OF THE MONKS. RATHER IT IS AN ILLUSION ABOUT THEIR NOBLENESS, OR NOT, IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DREAM THAT WAS MORE ASTHETIC THAN MAKING A MOCK OF IT.
Man, the kid featured in the second video seems like he is from a well to do family. There is no reason for kids of their age to bottle up shit man. It will have harsh repercussions later on in life.
Very fucked up. Such horrible parents. The biggest fuck up our society does is make it seem like being a parent is a necessity. Not everyone has to be a parent
I love when Ranton doesn't rant but is instead just Anton-the shaolin guy who's surprisingly intelligent when not gaming and just understanding. To a lot of the westerners who maybe haven't seen such poverty or perhaps poverty in general, it seems hard to comprehend. The comments like "chinese are insane" or "this is child abuse" are terribly biased and untrue, and although it's true you could view it that way, that would be incorrect. To them it seems like a way out, possibly someone from the family breaking through and making something of themselves, and I think in most asians' understanding of life, making money or becoming something big is the sole source of pride or love they could give. The training is hellish, the pain is insurmountable and the grief over being gone from your close ones with no way out gradually turns you into stone, but as Ranton said it- it's really all they've got.
I mean it is still abuse. If you are not gonna train your child that way than you clearly think there is something wrong with it. You can do mental gymnastics as much as you want but intuitively you know it is abuse. Edit: Omg you described picture perfect abuse. Beat the hell out of them and than treat them super nicely. Holy shit. I can't even understand how you are not seing this yourself. Also just because there are other forms of abuse that a worse doesn't make this form of abuse different. It is kinda insane how you don't see it yourself. Why are people poor? Why do those conditions even exist? You should ask yourself that.
Im chinese but i lived in australia most of my life and when ranton brought up that suan nai shit bro literal childhood trauma lmfaooo, my mum always loved it but i never really did. Like imagine wall paint mixed with milk bro
I just feel like if you have gone through that shaolin training successfully you can achieve anything in life, this makes me respect Ranton even more. Yes he seems cracked in the head at times but hey who wouldn't after going through that.
wow great vid thanks for tghe upload bruh and giving it more exposure then it already had, and for everyone saying its child abuse look alittle deeper, we could never evolve as humans without struggle has been the biggest part of all our history since the beginning, pressure makes diamonds and sure when this boy hits 18 he will be a better man then most of the people i see walking these nyc streets everyday. yes the life is hard but he will gain so much from the struggle then i ever gained im still finding balance within my life, i never been forged into anything close to what this kid is being forged into. it sucks to see him sad indeed but he will surely smile in the end.
These people don’t look poor though. The reasons that the parents or grandparents say that they sent their kid to the Temple to have nothing to do with poverty. It’s all, “He wasn’t fit”, “He wasn’t disciplined”, “He had trouble studying.” And then when they come back they want to see them do Kung Fu when they come home? Even people in Mauy Thai fighters fight to make money but they don’t come back home to show their parents what they learned in all their years fighting. The dad even said, “I didn’t think learning King Fu would be useful” I mean. . .then why tf send him there then?
The parents definitely seem kinda sus. Feels like they couldn't be assed to raise him properly, and figured this would be a way to get him to pay out as an investment. They're hustling selling fake hypebeast shit, so I can't shake the feeling that the kid is just another part of their hustle.
Definitely. But I understand why they do it.. because it works. It provides the best results in shortest amount of time, basically it's efficient. If you don't understand how hard life can be over there it may seem monstrous, but oddly enough it's one of the better ways these poverty stricken families can sow the seeds of success in some of these kids. It's either that or homelessness, crime and starvation.
I think a big part of the reason why Aike's grandma sent him there, is that he didn't Tinghua, which is do what's being told, and she what displine him in this way
So sad to see these poor children have to been through these. I hope these kids can learn to be mentally strong, independent and one day can be very successful and treat others well.
Man the look on that kids face after saying he got left there for a year instead of the five days he was told. Makes you wanna go out and change the world so a kid never has to make a face like that. Shit hurts.
Ranton: yeah physical pain is good, I think we should all experience it. Also Ranton when splashed by an oil spritz: AAAAAAAAAHHHH, I AM NEVER COOKING AGAIN
Pussio real monk would have done a 360 and dodged that oil spritzer
Lol
Also: "I think everyone should go through this." (Viewer: Would you put your kids through this?) "FUCK no."
@@AcadianBacon8 i'm not gonna psychoanalyze ranton specifically, but in chinese culture, one will find that contradictions are everywhere. it's baked into the culture.
call it generational trauma or whatever, but chinese parents very often pass on their mindset to their kids and their kids carry that mindset into their own children. regardless of their own opinions on said mindset, they often feel compelled to deliver it to their kid nonetheless.
@@soulslasher7890 you better be Chinese to be yapping about this. Chinese "culture" is not contradictions or is it baked into it.
Bro the barber that these kids go to should get a documentary that man is a supervillain.
It's like bro, at that point just shave it all off....👀 😂
Rantons hair origin story
It's very traditional, but yeah 😂
its culture...
It’s a different style in a different culture. Jeez
QiQi’s eyes said it all when asked how it made him feel to be told he’ll stay for 5 days but was left for a year. Really feel for the kid.
yeah man this moment and when he talk to his sister later in the video, broke my heart in many pieces
also seeint the other kids grandma forcing him to perform for her felt so bad
The Grandma: It was so hard, I cried so hard when I left him there
Also the Grandma: Your hands hurt you little bitch? Now I need 20 more backflips.
Yeah that was kinda fucked. I guess she didn't want him/her to look bad for the camera crew.
@@AfferbeckBeatsnah, that's the asian grandma in every reunion that wants to brag about their grandchild's skills to her relatives.
Believe it or not, but people actually lie. Personally, I’ve met plenty of two faced Asians in my life. It’s all to save face in front of others but behind closed doors they’ll sh*t talk a lot about others.
From my exp, it's not just Chinese (or even Asian) thing, (grand)parents are like that in general, only varying with the amount/intensity with that kind of behavior. She cried when she left him cause she lost her grandson, gave him away, not because she really felt sorry for him, hence why she's strict with him during training. It's not really about his feelings (otherwise he wouldn't be left there). Which also doesn't mean she doesn't love him. It's their way of raising kids and showing affection (although it might seem "cold" to outsiders, people not part of their culture). She was also flexing with him in public and in front of the cameras. It's not that black and white.
I think it was the grandma from the other family that was so strict, I think its 2 different people
This is my favourite Ranton. He gives so much more detail and context to the videos and gives us the Chinese POV to things. It's so easy to think of the parents abandoning Aike to the Shaoling because his grandma is a monster (I mean, she is, but...), but Ranton also explains why someone would do that. And also it's genuine. Ranton is many things, but I've always found him sincere, so whn he tells how things are or aren't, I trust him.
11:21 perfect example...Just when I thought he wasn't seeing the other side of it he acknowledged it lol.
Agreed. Kinda sad to see some people in his chat making jokes or being chauvinistic about Chinese people just being people, but that's par for the course when it comes to how the average western person is brainwashed to think about China.
Ikr
Warriors like Shaolin monks shouldn't claim to be Buddhists, because Buddhism forbids violence!
A primary virtue in Buddhism and other Indian religions is Ahimsa (Non-violence)!
@@ramizparkar4199 Real shame history exists then, huh?
4:46 Kid “my grandma dropped me off, I didn’t even know she left me”
Ranton “wow this is really good stuff” 😂
make a vid with ranton mafaka irl
Yeah 😂
man that's crazy. And these kids just think it's okay and forgive them. I'd be holding a grudge lol
Also, the kid saying that the happiest moment that he has when he's at the temple is when his family finally comes to visit him, yo... The amount of honesty...
The feels on that one was heavy
Anime moment right there
''This isn't abuse, this is poverty'' that is honestly the realist thing you can say. Anyone else won't be able to see what life is like over there unless you have lived it and experienced it growing up.
Well, poverty IS abuse, just done by the state to its people rather than parents to their children.
I grew up in poverty and it is most def abuse. As a young kid I knew it was for the best however I knew that I hated them and I knew they were treating me badly so when I saw my grandpa die I did not cry b/c I just couldn't bring up myself to. I'm glad my mom was able to escape poverty and got me out of that sh*thole, it's most def abuse and class does not change the def of abuse there are better ways to get kids a better life rather than beating the sh*t out of then and calling them failures when they get a b in class or having to hide from the adults b/c they were drunk or to see your friends kidnapped or r*ped, it's abuse stop trying to defend it.
Yeah,that is true,but I have been wondering,isnt it better to teach him a trade rather than abandoning him in a school? I get that they cant afford a school tuiton but the parents could have teached him something useful (im not saying kungfu isnt useful,but it could have given him a career)
@@octavianneagu594 Arguably by sending him to such a tough environment, the kid learns the most important thing of all, mental resilience.
I feel like a lot of shortcomings of Gen Z today simple come from the fact that we had it too easy. I only realized that after basic training, that as long as you try your goddamn hardest you can overcome most things. But you have to be willing to endure all the bullshit and pain that comes with seriously trying your fucking hardest.
@@underplague6344 Speakin, facts.
Qiqi saying he felt nothing broke me, having to say everything's all right and your face clearly showing the opposite, the strength it takes to try to hold it all back ,i believe in you lil bro
Kid truly became buddhist.
Hi Ranton, this one is a bit different from what you think, here's some insight: these boys are not from one of the schools around shaolin, they are a group called "少林七小侠" ("shaolin boys" or sometimes called "shaolin little hero") that is organized by 释家门徒 organization of the temple. This group exists since 2020. They are 7 hand picked kids to form this group, with 2-3 back up kids, so total 9-10, and their (buddhist) names are heng xin, heng yi, heng yu, heng du, heng chen, heng rui and heng qi. They also do train hard like in the schools in the area no doubt, but they are not the common poor and anonymous kids like in most of the wushu schools. In fact they are famous, there is a whole production around this group. They have their own TV show with 12 episodes, were invited to cctv shows. Some of them have already acted in other TV series and movies (heng yi was in three tv series already). The group has their own douyin (chinese tiktok) account and bilibili account with ca 500k followers each, kuai shou account etc etc, there's a media company behind them. They get filmed for content every day. They have posters, merch, fan cards with info about their personality, summer camp to train with them or "like them" for a week etc etc. The hairstyle is decided by the producers. It's a bit like creating a boy band, but geared towards shaolin of course, in order to gain popularity and earn money. Even though i can't say for a fact, they might have chosen the kid with the mother that has 6mio followers on kuai shou to be part of the group, in order to grow a following faster. All of this doesn't mean that it is easy for the kids of course. But their situation is very very different from the kids at the normal shaolin wushu schools with comparatively poor perspectives for their future (I have lived in one next to the temple for some years). Not sure if you remember or are familiar with 少林七小福, a somewhat smaller yet similar project from the past, an orchestrated effort to keep shaolin relevant in the modern society that this group reminds me of.
When the grandma says at 23:29 that she came out of shaolin temple its not entirely wrong, since its also the temple that is behind the project. A lot of the content and their tv show was shot at 少林水峪寺 though, which is still tightly associated with the temple.
This is really informative, thanks for sharing this. It was confusing to see how much media access was given to families making choices more typical of the poor yet were not, and how someone as familiar with Shaolin as Ranton couldn't fully reconcile with what he knew for fact with what was said and presented.
@@afivey you're welcome. Yes I think so too, without the background knowledge it must be confusing.
This... I don't know if it's better or worse than it seems, honestly...
But thanks for the comment anyways.
this just makes it worse so those kids are tortured not because they have no other options but for the enrichment of their parents.
Thanks for the added context. how can I see these kids content
Holy shit, the difference in attitude between Qiqi's parents and grandma and Aike's grandma was really scary.
No Grandma, we will just visit that retirement home for 5 days
lmao
🤣🤣🤣
This was really heartbreaking. Glad I caught this one on stream
When your parents tried to make money on TH-cam and now you have to go to the Shaolin torture school.
It’s actually a reality tv show, and those kids are like a shaolin boy band.
When that kid deliberately messed about when she told him to preform for the camera.
I'm proud of that kid.
This is very similar to what Jackie Chan described about his childhood, training at the China Drama Academy.
sheesh youre right
his stories were crazy
and now i see it in a deeper perspective
Truee
At first I was against your opinion about how this wasn't abuse for the kids, but now looking at it further and coming to the realization that for some kids this really is one of the only outlets rather than slaving away at a factory or becoming homeless changes the situation up - definitely makes me more grateful for my situation, thank you for opening my eyes to that
to be fair, that doesn't make it not abuse. just less abusive than the other option.
@@TGPDrunknHickExactly
@@TGPDrunknHickCoddled westerner spotted.
@@Justin-pe9cl nah just common sense but, you can justify the fact your parents clearly beat you if you'd like.
@@TGPDrunknHick Said the coddled westerner.
so we just gonna go past that kids grandma abandoning him at the temple? lmao
No because ranton just said it's normal to be an immoral cunt if you are poor.
Boy if this wasn't in China that reunion scene would be wayyy different....😂
"Did you miss me?"
"5 Days My Ass, You Lied to Me!!! 🤬"
It’s China, like dude this kid can be working in a sweatshop making you nikes. I’m not saying this is good, I’m saying that they don’t have options like you and me.
@@John-uw2je couldnt care less about it lmao it was just wild the kid or the crew aint say anything
@@John-uw2je Bro that one kids parents selling knock offs weren't fucking poor. That apartment/house looked better than anything I grew up in. Also didn't you literally watch the video the main argument they had was because they were shit parents and couldn't control their kids or though their kids were lazy.
When parents lie to you like that and just leave them somewhere for a whole 11 months... How are these kids supposed to trust their parents again?
They don't
Ngl I still would
fr that's the worst part about this the dishonesty just made it way harder for him, for completely no reason
The parents do it because it's one of the better ways for the kids eventually have some success in the future.. just like getting flu shots and stuff.. it hurts at the moment, but it's better for them long term. China is not like here in the USA.. there's no social security, welfare program or medicaid etc.. it can be a very hard life over there.
@@Junkzillaboxisn’t it funny how the “communist” country doesn’t have one of the most basic left-wing policies of social security/welfare.
Ranton when he sees children beaten and crying: nah man, it's not abuse
Ranton when asked if he will train his kids the same way: What? No, why?
I doubt you're allowed to do that in our Western countries, pretty sure that's abuse
I remember seeing them jogging when I visited 4 years ago. It was raining hard, and they still did their daily routine.
If it was summer they were probably glad it was raining lol
It's awesome to have you verify this documentary's authenticity. None of us who've ever been through it would actually know how accurate this is. It's amazing what they go through. Thanks!!
bro, if my relative told me I'm only going to be there five days and ends up being a year, trust issues rest of my life.
I would love to see Anton check out some Chinese weightlifting training. The more I see of Shaolin the more I realise just how much the Chinese weightlifting system must be inspired by it. There are so many parallels in the attitudes, methods, even the circumstances - poor kids sent to hopefully become something greater than just working on the farm their whole life. Going through the daily pain of stretching, hard training, being under the scrutiny of coaches with sticks who expect technical perfection, wishing they could see their family. What Anton said at 11:03 translates exactly to weightlifting in China. Foreign international level competitors and rich hobbyists go on training camps to China, training with provincial level Chinese youths and juniors. But the locals are just on another level of skill and toughness, because that's their whole life. And the foreigners get to go home.
Sounds like the Muay Thai scene in Thailand.
Great video to open your eyes on how some kids from around the world struggle to strive to impress their parents and for a better outcome in their future. No choice at all for this little ones. Got to give the mad respect for their strength and courage.
idk man, they just straight up abandoned the kid for a year idk about that... for example ranton you went there BECAUSE you loved shaolin from movies and wanted to experience it for yourself, you wanted to go there yourself with passion, confidence and an actual love for the thing you were going into all while with consent of your own self, but for that kid it was none of those things.
Interesting. My brother who travels to Asia for business often once said that the two primary reasons Chinese leave China and spend so much money to relocate is to a) get their families away from the pollution (and lack of pollution control) and b) get their kids somewhere where it is less competitive and harsh to be educated. Thank you for the insight on the culture as a whole. And praise to these amazing children who are showing more discipline in a year than I will have in my whole life.
I loved this so much. No matter how much I’ve been through in my life as a child & as a man, nothing compares to what these kids have to go through. I’ve been hurt, I’ve seen terrible things, but at least I had the few family members I did have when I had them. These kids? They barely get to spend time with theirs. It’s humbling to see the determination & strength they display when training, when putting up with all they go through. I have so much respect for these young little men. I was raised to be proud of my heritage as a Greek man, but now I can say that easily, I’m proud of their heritage & their legacy too. Respect to the little guys man.
"No I don't think it's abuse" ten seconds later "no relax and try again they would get beaten hard, they always beat the kids the hardest" XDD
Ranton, could you please make more videos about Chinese culture? Seriously - your videos shows the most authentic reality. Big respect for you, keep doing good job 👍
oh man ABSOLUTELY
ranton if you see this
please maaan
that is 100% boomer asian parents mentality, no praise no matter how much you improved
it possible the parents hustling day and night, wife with 6million followers, dad have to do support/manager role, mortgage for a modest condo lot.
Thanks!
I`ve been learning mandarin for a while now, but I think I`m still far from being able to speak well, but these kind of videos have been incredibly helpful with learning the culture and the 普通话. Thank you Rantoni for providing good comentary for these videos. С наилучшими пожеланиями, из России!
I believe the reason master said: don't worry, today is easy. is because today they're filming so they can't be that harsh on them like usual😂
As a chinese person i think ranton has trouble understanding that just because its commonplace, it doesnt magically not become abuse. Its not about it being a big deal or having a horrified reaction to it, since this stuff doesnt shock us in the east, but lets just call a spade a spade
every culture is different, and you gotta respect it. of all people, you as a weeb should understand that.
@@braevinmaund1210 that is literally my culture
@@braevinmaund1210 some middle east culture is beating your wife to death cause she said something you didn't like, or in India girls getting fuckin sold to their husband without their consent and sometimes without even knowing beforehand. I will never respect that shit whatever anyone says, not all culture should be respected.
Completely right, culture, tradition or necessity doesn’t magically change to not being abuse, yes it’s their reality and only option but it’s for sure child abuse and the outcome of them making money and providing for themselves has adults doesn’t change that.
@@braevinmaund1210 Why?
Some aspects of culture will inevitably lead to bad outcomes, thats why cultures change
Regardless of the results, I want to remind people that physical and verbal punishment/abuse, leave lasting negative effects. Mental health and emotional challenges, lower cognitive ability, lower self-esteem, more aggression, and more antisocial behaviour. Stress from physical punishment for children can negatively affect their brain development. There are numerous studies even meta-analysis papers looking into this and it's clear that it is traumatic for the children.
Are their skills impressive? Yes. Perhaps their tenacity is extremely high. But at what cost?
i agree. i dont think the end justifies the means.
It's all part of the journey. Not everyone can understand the value in their lifestyle
I think with this type of stuff, you become eather depressed, angry or desensitised and the last is I think the most common.
I think you'll struggle to find someone who disagrees with that statement.
Ranton's point is that, in China, you have to be willing to do anything in order to stand out from the crowd. However, it's only the parents who understand that. The kids just want wanna be kids. So you end up with parents trying to give their kids a decent start in life. Knowing full well that they will suffer now. In hopes that they don't suffer in the future.
China isn't a first world country. They don't have the same opportunities we do in the west.
Yes. Those lasting negative effects are better health, stronger willpower, less addiction to social media, ability to think for yourself, respect authority, work together and to grow up to be a productive member of society, compared to a whiny entitled brat who hasn't been told "no" their whole lives. You think people who practice martial arts are antisocial and aggressive? I suggest you check out how people who grew up in the Hood or the projects act like, and there's definitely been no Shaolin training there.
We could all use some more physical discomfort and discipline in our lives. Trauma is a good thing. Burning your hand on the stove stops you from doing that better than being told 100 times.
More content like this bro. That was great insight on Chinese life and shaolin
tears in his eyes but he said "nothing much". i feel him. been to boarding school since kindergarten and every time i went home family asks hows everything and you just say it's okay.
i like these reaction videos you do and i feel like i can get a great insite from someone who knows what he is talking about.. keep it up champ :D
Telling your kid its only for 5 days but sending him for a year plus is exactly asian parenting at its finest
12:00 As someone who went to Asia to improve Go (Weiqi) and ended up quitting (for an assortment of reasons, mainly because I thought it wasn't worth it), I met many masters and foreigners who told me the no. 1 reason many international students quit was because they had other options and desires.
I watched this video about a month ago. soooo good. lovely. A good head up for parents who wanna send their kids to the temple. I'll definitely send mine. beautiful video ❤
I'm glad that kid is dreaming big. Gonna need that superstar money to pay for the extensive amount of therapy for that abandonment issue.
Man, I really love when you make this style of video. I think it's really cool to see this more chill side of you, as well as your own insight into the temple, and the surroudning culture. Interesting stuff. Hope to see more in the future!
Learning a martial art makes u a clown for others bro
"DO THAT!DO THIS!"
Yeah I started crying watching this, very surprised we get to see it. I'm very grateful for my life right now
Every culture is different and to a degree I really understand what ranton is saying about the punishment. What i don’t like is the bone hardening stuff they do with these kids. I think rantoni even said once that it’s basically useless and can really hurt your health.
Shit is just nonsense man. Pure nonsense
"Every culture is different" is such a blank sentence. It doesn't mean anything. What culture? There is no consensus on a concrete definition of the word to debate on, people throw it around how it suits them. People will respond to this with their personal definitions that suit the outcome they want to see.
Mostly, culture is said to be "something" that grows naturally between people that live together. China's modern "culture" has been created artificially by the CCP. It was planned and enforced. It is based on ideological assumptions and it's capitalist to the teeth. Mao completely failed all communist ideals and modern China is probably the most capitalist country in the world, looking at the economic dimension. The culture there has not grown whatsoever, it was superimposed on the people. It's just been long enough to forget something else exists. They are grinded down and oppressed so that they don't have the energy to rise up. Xi Jinping's China has become incredibly fragile, and he's become paranoid. This is not a "natural culture" that "has to be respected" like some indigenous religious stuff or whatever.
Simply saying, "it's culture..." doesn't mean shit and it's in no way an adequate defence. If you're very forthcoming, you could see it as a factual statement. But it doesn't carry any normative weight determining whether that makes it good or bad. Ranton made the same mistake all of us have made at some point in our lives: he got defensive about something that is a huge part of his identity because he was afraid that acknowledging criticism would devalue him as a person. It's pathetic and *none of us* can say they'd never done it themselves.
Child abuse in its broadest form is the mistreatment of children that leads to long-term emotional, and/or physical damage. As someone else already referenced, it's measurable up to the point where even noticeable brain damage is induced and the natural development of the child is impaired. This has nothing to do with culture. Culture doesn't make it okay. The only thing you can say is something like, "In Chinese culture, child abuse is largely considered as acceptable or necessary. It's largely affected by the economical position of the children's families." That might be a fact. It doesn't make it any better, though.
This supposed, apologetic blanket of a "culture" is literal class treason at its best, it goes against everything stated in the Communist Manifesto and elsewhere. Maoism is Maoism and not Marxism. The Chinese working class has been enslaved by people slapping a brand on themselves, they lost all revolutionary potential because most of them are fighting for survival their whole lives. The US loves it, btw, because they can say or their own people that, "Communism = bad," not having to acknowledge that China's economical system is literally called "state capitalism" (greetings, a political scientist). *I know I got carried away, **_sorry,_* but as a closing statement I would like to remind everyone there Mao, Stalin, (maybe Lenin,) Castro, the Kim family - they would all have been brought to the guillotine if Karl Marx himself had a say in that.
@@Nitidusgoddamn wouldn’t be that many communists left if karl had any say. This is why the revolution failed, too many communists critiquing each other and stupid arguments over semantics. A little more solidarity and maybe capitalism wouldn’t have won out. Also I thought Mao killed all the landlords
@@Nitidus You're writing so much shit .
@@Nitidus Modern Chinese culture isn't artifically created by the CCP. It has been affected by the CCP. But you just can't erase an entire culture and then force everyone to adopt a new culture. That's not remotely feasible. Go to rural China and you will be surprised how traditional some Chinese people still live on a day to day basis.
Hey I'm Emile from Benin, My shaolin Monk name is Yàn Lùo. This video reminded me my training in the Shaolin Monastery in 2023. Great moment.🥰🥰🥰
This is child abuse. If it is necessary because of poverty, then poverty should be abolished. No child should be tortured this way.
I agree, it's so weird how they justify and end the conversation with "Ah well it's poverty so they gotta do it", well yeah it doesn't fucking make it right idiot lmao
L take. Typical western superiority complex. Shitting on eastern cultures, which were advanced when you were still living in mud huts.
Your reaction and commentary videos are the only ones on TH-cam that I enjoy and have me coming back. Thank you
I don't know why I laughed so hard at "they handle it fine". Although I do agree that controlling your emotions is better than constantly showing them. That said I feel like some kind of outlet is extremely important in that case.
These kids are awesome and so tough. I wish them the best of luck.🙌🏼🤜🏼🤛🏼
I get that I'm missing context but it was funny to see you go from "This isn't abuse." to "Yeah he would have beaten the shit outta that kid for falling down."
I practiced Shaolin quan for about a year when I was a kid and watching these kids train brings up some memories
18:19 "my 5 yo kid is not playing like the others nah bruh gotta send him to the Shaolin Temple" things are wild really wild there lmao
1.4 billion people in the country, you gotta do something extreme so your kids can succeed. Defo a hard knock life.
@Rantwo can you at some point do a video on Thai kids being put through muay thai at an extremely young age? Very large parallels to what goes on here.
Ich wollte einfach nur mal danke sagen für dein Wirken! 😊 Mein Sohn ist auch Halb-Chinese und ich bin mit den klassischen Erziehungsmethoden vertraut...also eigentlich wars der Grund für die Scheidung😅
Aber ihm gehts super und ich finde es richtig geil, dass du auch über den kulturellen Hintergrund sprichst. Keiner aus dem Westen kann das richtig verstehen, wenn er noch nie damit zu tun hatte. Dankeschön ☺️💪🏼👍🏼
Regarding the abuse thing, pointing out that this is better for them than sending them to the factory is correct but it's like stopping halfway in the analysis. the physical and emotional abuse that's done on them there is just in the continuation of the violence of the state that disregards their population; people are driven to these behaviors because of their social position.
So when we ask ''is this abuse or not ?'' there's probably something wrong because then we're just asking ''what individual is at fault ? The parents, the teachers, no one ?'' when we should be looking at the general systemic conditions their in and blame that the way we would blame an abuser.
This is what happens when China allows capitalism and liberal reform
err just call it as it is, poverty, this is the reality of poor people, be it 3rd world or 1st world, just that in developed countries, they white wash it with organizations such as child welfare etc etc, but ultimately it doesnt fix the problem, it just gets swept under the carpet.
My guy says it’s not child abuse then 10 seconds later talks about them being beaten with sticks 6:08
5:40 I like that ranton says this isn't abuse and then seconds later 6:05 😂
I'm late to the party but the Shaolin videos were very good! But it does show that family is everything, regardless of what you do in life... Very nice video!
18:20 'His Grandma spoils him, off the torture camp he goes'
Bruh
I think he didnt want to say they were poor so he came up with some bullshit excuse. Easier to say it was the childs fault than his for not providing for his family.
@@cheesuschris2025 it takes bravery to announce that one cannot provide for his family.
The bravery is taking the risk that the woman in that relationship will judge how much one is able, and that another may be able to provide more
@@manubishe you said that like women are incapable of love
Hearing you respond to some of the comments allows me to understand now that people in this country for any first world country will never understand what it is to live in poverty in a third world country.. being broke and homeless here is sooooooo different. And then the social, familial and financial expectations that are still in place in asian countries are friggin bonkers for anyone.. but when ur poor u just dont have tue options ppl have in other countries smh regardless you have made me a huge fan please keep up the great work!
Great kids. Wishing them the best.🤘
11:40 glad you saw that angle, it popped into my mind the moment you were talking about it beforehand
Bro you should do a collab with Radal it could be really funny
Agreed
Nah Radal the type of bloke to make a joke and then stay silent for 5 minutes
Did you say "I never did because fuck that shit!" 😆😆 dude, you're really cool 😎😎 (straight, direct, honest) I appreciate that! 🙏🙏
i cried 3 times so touching
27:41 when you say it’s a tough country to live, the competition and ones just a number, one can tell hearing this
Ngl this was tough too watch.
Went to gymnastics when I was younger, and well back then the East German trainers were still around.
Shit was tough, single tear rolled down when the lil fellow came home. Go Rest that month lil homie!
25:01 fuck me. That hit too close
I've never teared up so much watching a TH-cam video like this 🥺🥺
I agree with what you said about it not being abuse for the most part, but abandoning your grandson at a shaolin temple shows gross neglect to a child's mind and emotions. One of the kids was FIVE when they sent him to the temple. Saying "he should know how to take care of himself" is such a horrible way to teach a child responsibility. There are so many forms of abuse, and giving children mental trauma because they're poor isn't really an excuse.
Doesn't seem much different to leaving them at a strict boarding school
@@gamuhnerdu4759 it is definitely 100% different
Wow, that documentary was beautiful... like really beautiful.
21:50 made me spit out my food hahaha
This helped me realize just how much I took for granted here in the US. Like in China you truly start with nothing
Let’s be honest, that last family looked more like they didn’t want to deal with having the kid around, because regardless of how much they played up for the camera they weren’t that poor, i bet the grandma complaint too much and she got stuck in her head that the kid needed to go away to the temple, and because she wears the pants and is awful to deal with, everyone has to comply, I’m half Asian and everyone who has that type of Asian grandma in their family knows what I’m talking about.
IT SHOWS THE STRENGTH AND FORTITUDE OF THE MONKS. RATHER IT IS AN ILLUSION ABOUT THEIR NOBLENESS, OR NOT, IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DREAM THAT WAS MORE ASTHETIC THAN MAKING A MOCK OF IT.
You know the Shaolin Documentary is good when even Ranton who hates Shaolin now tells us is legit at this point 🤣
What a nice adventure with you Rantwo. Thanks you :)
Man, the kid featured in the second video seems like he is from a well to do family.
There is no reason for kids of their age to bottle up shit man. It will have harsh repercussions later on in life.
Honestly, it just seems like they're too busy with their hustle and sent him there just to take him off their hands. Kinda fucked up.
Very fucked up. Such horrible parents. The biggest fuck up our society does is make it seem like being a parent is a necessity. Not everyone has to be a parent
I love when Ranton doesn't rant but is instead just Anton-the shaolin guy who's surprisingly intelligent when not gaming and just understanding.
To a lot of the westerners who maybe haven't seen such poverty or perhaps poverty in general, it seems hard to comprehend. The comments like "chinese are insane" or "this is child abuse" are terribly biased and untrue, and although it's true you could view it that way, that would be incorrect. To them it seems like a way out, possibly someone from the family breaking through and making something of themselves, and I think in most asians' understanding of life, making money or becoming something big is the sole source of pride or love they could give.
The training is hellish, the pain is insurmountable and the grief over being gone from your close ones with no way out gradually turns you into stone, but as Ranton said it- it's really all they've got.
I mean it is still abuse. If you are not gonna train your child that way than you clearly think there is something wrong with it. You can do mental gymnastics as much as you want but intuitively you know it is abuse.
Edit: Omg you described picture perfect abuse. Beat the hell out of them and than treat them super nicely. Holy shit. I can't even understand how you are not seing this yourself. Also just because there are other forms of abuse that a worse doesn't make this form of abuse different. It is kinda insane how you don't see it yourself. Why are people poor? Why do those conditions even exist? You should ask yourself that.
Im chinese but i lived in australia most of my life and when ranton brought up that suan nai shit bro literal childhood trauma lmfaooo, my mum always loved it but i never really did. Like imagine wall paint mixed with milk bro
Ranton must feel like watching a documentary about his hometown. Like how he recognizes the roads and places.
i love it when you brought up the passport and the choice dilemma. Reminded me of something i've heard from shi heng yi
I just feel like if you have gone through that shaolin training successfully you can achieve anything in life, this makes me respect Ranton even more. Yes he seems cracked in the head at times but hey who wouldn't after going through that.
wow great vid thanks for tghe upload bruh and giving it more exposure then it already had, and for everyone saying its child abuse look alittle deeper, we could never evolve as humans without struggle has been the biggest part of all our history since the beginning, pressure makes diamonds and sure when this boy hits 18 he will be a better man then most of the people i see walking these nyc streets everyday. yes the life is hard but he will gain so much from the struggle then i ever gained im still finding balance within my life, i never been forged into anything close to what this kid is being forged into. it sucks to see him sad indeed but he will surely smile in the end.
These people don’t look poor though. The reasons that the parents or grandparents say that they sent their kid to the Temple to have nothing to do with poverty. It’s all, “He wasn’t fit”, “He wasn’t disciplined”, “He had trouble studying.” And then when they come back they want to see them do Kung Fu when they come home? Even people in Mauy Thai fighters fight to make money but they don’t come back home to show their parents what they learned in all their years fighting. The dad even said, “I didn’t think learning King Fu would be useful” I mean. . .then why tf send him there then?
The parents definitely seem kinda sus. Feels like they couldn't be assed to raise him properly, and figured this would be a way to get him to pay out as an investment. They're hustling selling fake hypebeast shit, so I can't shake the feeling that the kid is just another part of their hustle.
funny curious fact, in the part of the balanciega jacket, the "ciega" part in spanish means blind
Won't ever understand Ranton's stance on the abuse. That shit is vile and inhumane.
Still awesome content in the channel and I appreciate it.
Definitely. But I understand why they do it.. because it works. It provides the best results in shortest amount of time, basically it's efficient. If you don't understand how hard life can be over there it may seem monstrous, but oddly enough it's one of the better ways these poverty stricken families can sow the seeds of success in some of these kids. It's either that or homelessness, crime and starvation.
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while 😅
that grandma, holy shit
I think a big part of the reason why Aike's grandma sent him there, is that he didn't Tinghua, which is do what's being told, and she what displine him in this way
I have a feeling you're gonna be very surprised at how much your opinions will change about all this stuff once (if) you become a father.
I have a feeling you've never experienced poverty.
@@ShadowQrow If you think what's on that video is poverty, I think you're the one who has never experienced it.
@@Fanaro Good one
This kid is a this breaking point and cant crack, when asked something so heartbreaking, when he is clearly in pain. Tough shit.
So sad to see these poor children have to been through these. I hope these kids can learn to be mentally strong, independent and one day can be very successful and treat others well.
That’s what the training is for.
Massive betrayal trauma shown in the beginning.
last time i was this early my gf left me
Man the look on that kids face after saying he got left there for a year instead of the five days he was told. Makes you wanna go out and change the world so a kid never has to make a face like that. Shit hurts.