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I'm from Hong Kong and must confess that, growing up from looking down on mainlanders, to slowly understand my root culture and history, then started loving and embracing it, took a long time. But along the way there are people like Alex you here allowing me to be able to get a glimpse of my motherland. I wish covid is gone cuz my dream is to one day visit Xinjiang with my family including my old parents. Lovely vid👍
Wow! I'm so glad to see your comment here, I hope there will be more and more Hong Kongers especially younger generations like you who are willing to have a better understanding of our motherland. Welcome to Xinjiang!
@@alexfromxinjiang pls ignore the trolls, pin them thats all you need to do. They have already made up their minds no need to reason with the radicals. Keep up with the videos and show the truth to more people. They will convert just like me 😃👍
Hi, Alex. I am from the Philippines. I am half-Chinese, but my late father was pure Chinese, where his parents came from Jinjiang, Fujian province (福建省晉江市), the place where most of the Chinese in the Philippines came from. You were right, China was diverse and we cannot expect everything to be the same, not even the food and culture.
This video is a Chinese propaganda. People in China do not have access to youtube, especially those in XinJiang. Uyghur people is being put to concentration camp. Only those CCP member can upload to youtube. Don't be fooled. You can google it yourself.
@@splendidsnapshot9915 I am already aware of the Uyghur people and I felt bad about them. I dunno how our vlogger friend here got access to TH-cam, but we must respect his privacy...
@@dennislee--529 you can google it, it's because they are part of CCP member, that is why they can post on youtube safely, and want to eliminate any negative news about XinJiang so they put propaganda video on youtube. This is done both by men and women. These are just actors and actress of CCP members Just don't be fooled.
Wow How interesting! I’m Scottish born Chinese and dream of travelling in China , this video shows the exact type of places I’d love to experience…talking to locals, eating local food and experiencing diverse cultures in China…I think we’ve all had enough negative media about China and it’s really uplifting to see different facets of this country ❤️
But like Han People are definitely committing cultural genocides. Tatar guy even forgot to speak his mother tongue. Tibet and Shinjiang are less-affected. Souther Mongolia is becoming completely Han. You guys can’t ban education on their mother tongue. It’s bad. Just stop and go back to Han ancestral land, please.
When the Soviet Union was established, lots of Russian people migrated to Xinjiang to escape possible persecutions. They have lived in Xinjiang ever since.
Do you know there are many Koreans in Kazakh too? During pacific war escaped the Japanese prosecution . I met some of them working in Shanghai , Kazakh nationality with Korean root
Your discriminate against people who do not speak English, but I tell your that Muhammad, Christ, and Buddha, don't speak English.If you are guilty of arrogance, if you are guilty of bullying the weak, please repent! If you do not commit the same sin again in the future, God will forgive you!Why don’t you people who speak English have anyone like Muhammad, Buddha Shakyamuni, and Christ? you who speak English are so proud every day and discriminate against people who do not speak English every day，I am ashamed of your.The land is the land of the earth, the sunshine is the sunshine of the sun, and your smile is the smile of the world.
AP recently visited Xinjiang and they themselves admit in thier article that they found no evidence of genocide. In the article they even have evidence that the culture of Uyghurs is preserved and protected
@@alexfromxinjiang Check out the videos of The New Atlas , he makes videos of how western media lies about China Russia Cambodia etc and debunks thier lies His channel is one of the best on TH-cam
@@cynicalnutcase4937 I'm envy of you, how come you're still able share any website link in a YT comment? I mean YT has been going spree to shut my loud mouth up since the last two months, everytime I tried to share any counter information that's against the narrative!!😭😩
@@cynicalnutcase4937 Literally at this point I'm probably restricted from sharing any information via external website. YT also did censor my comment containing website link in a discourse completely irrelevant to any political topic🙄
Когда некоторые люди видят только плохое в другой стране, не путешествуя и не видя места, которое нужно исследовать, они скрывают огромные внутренние проблемы своей страны или своей культуры, что представление о том, что мы лучшие, и у нас есть лучшее, очень негативно. применимо к любой стране и культуре !!
Because of your video, I wanted to travel to the west part of China even more! Been yearning to visit there for years because of its culture and rich history. I'm Chinese but born and raised in the UK.
Diversity? Hell yeah, many cities have it. Don't forget Yunnan and Kunming, 26 nationalities in the same area, all with their own cultures. I really love this part of China and the diversity of all China. "All nationalities are equal", that's from China's own constitution and all minorities are represented in the government. The Han-ethnocentricity people believe in just doesn't exist. It's a thing western people believe in because the judge China through their own race fixated imperialism.
I approve this, my son has (proudly) half Yi ethnicity. If there is something China does not lack is representativity for its many ethnic groups. Despite me being a foreigner (westerner as you said), I feel the Yi culture as my own. In fact, it's now blended into my own version of a multicultural culture. ;)
Just take a look at how the cowboys virtually decimated the indigenous Red Indian tribes of N America. Today these tribes are concentrated in reserve plots of land where once the whole of the ancestral lands belonged to them. Simply mordered and robbed wholesale.
@@CHAMONIX552 In Kunming there are 26 nationalities or ethnic groups in one and the same city. China has 56 in total, 55 of those count as minorities, as Han is the vast majority with +1.2 billion people. Maybe I used the incorrect word, in my language we say "nationalities". Maybe "ethnic groups" is the more correct word to use in English?
As an Indian, or rather being a non-Chinese, it is really difficult to find authentic Chinese videos or info. A part of it being China's internet policies but thank you Alex for shedding some light on the true life of China. Great videos and looking for more!
actually their internet policies in someway protected their people from western media provocation in someway.. in my country media play big part of dividing people.. the result is never ending conflict between ethnicity and religious people. i really hope my government somehow could control the internet and protect us from western media BS.
the one claiming that the genocide ended not because there wasn't one to begin with but Chinese gov was pressured into ceasing its genocidal activities?
I find the part on a Russian restaurant in Tacheng quite funny. The lady owner doesn't look at all like an ethnic Russian. Russia, just like China, is very ethnically diverse, and many ethnic Russians have DNA of other ethnicities due to centuries of migration, occupations by foreign polities, forced people movement and post-revolution encouragement of ethnic integration. Above said, that lady seems to have very little pure ethnic Russian DNA (if there is such a thing). She may indeed have Russian ancestry but her looks suggest that she also has Kazakh/other Central Asian background, that would be common for people migrating south from the Russian Empire into Xinjiang. I'd also say that the names of her dishes and their appearance does not seem at all Russian, they are rather some derivative of some Turkic/Central Asian or perhaps Tartar dishes. I'm not challenging the lady, her ethnic story, or her food (which by the way looks delicious). I am just comparing it to other Russian restaurants and dishes I've encountered during my travels through Russia, Ukraine, other countries with sizeable Russian minorities, Western Europe and the USA. Coincidentally, many of those Russian restaurants are run and staffed by ex-Soviet people who are not ethnic Russians.
Thank you for interviewing the people of Xinjiang and showing its diversity. It is important for the outside world to understand the real Xinjiang and not the false media. Your videos are great! I am now a subscriber. 😊
1:37 Wow! I never seen any E-bike rental service where the rides are integrated into the system like that, we don't have it here but this is so practical and convenient! It seems that the smart lock is integrated within the service system as well, which is awesome if that's the case😃
This kind of rental bikes is very common in China, it works in China very well because people in China don't steal or sabotage the bikes, they support their country and government with real actions.
Yes, the smart lock is Integrated with the system as well, you can easily lock and unlock the bike with your cellphone and pay your fees with your E-Wallet.
@@projectdiy9274 No, there are many spots across the city where you can return it. I just have to check the app to find out the nearest spot when I'm about to return it.
last time I checked in April, all the e-bikes required a Chinese ID number, at least the ones in Fujian and Guangdong. They look great though I like the exercise as well from standard bikes, which I used all the time in Shanghai.,
Love your videos. China is a mix of cultures. It is totally unique. A developing and thriving country, where a great amount of ethnic groups live together and share cultures. It is not like countries in the american continent and Europe, where there's not such diversity, other places in Asia, like Japan, way less diverse in this terms etc. Great to see another video from you. I love interviews.
@@alexfromxinjiang Thank you! I'm from Brazil, one of the most diverse countries in terms of cultures, but yet I get more and more impressed by how China is so diverse. I can't think of a similar country in these terms. I hope I can visit China.
@@marcioleonardo7402 Wow! I have to thank Brazil for offering 3 football players to our national football team, one of them scored one goal for us in World Cup qualification game against Saudi Arabia. They are being loved by Chinese football fans!
@@xander2890duh...most of westerners just live in their little shield. they pictured china as this ISOLATED kingdom on a remote corner of euroasia continent. in actuality, china has always been a multi-ethnic civilization since ancient time b/c of silk road trades. that had nothing to with ccp or whatever. tons of ancient murals or acient sculptures depicting a very diverse population in china are still intact in many old buddist caves or temples. foreign traders from central asia, persian, or arabic world had settled in china for centuries. even a sizeable jewish population settled in kaifeng china since about a thousand years ago. chinese muslim Hui minority population look almost identical to han chinese majority. but if u look carefully, many of them still have distinct facial features. then you have euroasian looking uigher chinese, pure caucasian looking tartars chinese or tajik chinese.
I'm half Russian and half Chinese. This video was extremely interesting for me. First, because there are a lot of Tatars and Kazakhs in Russia and it's very unusual for me to see them in China. And it's really nice to see that Uyghur people actually live in China not oppressed as I thought P.S. this Russian food looks so much better than what we actually eat here🤣 Subscribed!
About 90 000 views so far. Wow, great job! Hope you'll get even more. And please, continue to show how real people live. Give them a face and a story, this is the best way to conquer racism and prejudice.
I did not know until recently there are actually Russian Chinese who have lived in China a few generations. The Russian Chinese are one of the 56 ethnicity groups of China. They live right here in Heilongjiang Province, which is just adjacent to my home province in China.
Kazakh have been in China for a very long time - Long before 18th - 19th century! Kazakhstan was part of the Russian Empire, which is why Kazakh in Kazakhstan speak Russian and Kazakh, but they have been independent after the Russian Empire collapsed. Most Kazakh in China only speaks Chinese and Kazakh.
All countries located along the Silk Road (specifically Central Asia) have been assimilated and interacted amongst themselves since thousand of years ago... If Russia releases other Oblasts located at North and Far East Asia and getting them to be independence, we'll have more new, unique and varities countries formed at northern and far east Asia e.g. Yakutia, Baruytia, Kamchatka etc... (hazel eye no longer belong to Chinese, Korean and Japanese but more...)
@@CN_SFY_General i think you should recheck the history! russia has been in contact with china for a very long time! it also depends on what part of russia that has contact with china too. if siberia, they have been in contact with china since the bc. if talking about western russia, the russian know about china, since the tang dynasty, around 600ad, but established trading really begin around song and yuan dynasty, especially during the yuan dynasty, because Genghis khan chased his enemy to poland before he died. during the ancient time the middle east and central asia was the middle people between china and europe. the knowledge of paper was transferred to central asia and middle east during the tang dynasty and then later to europe. back then most part of central asia and the middle east was part of the persian empire and the nomadic empire of many ethnics and tribes. as for the kazakh, they have been in contact with china for a very long time, basically after the establishment of the first silk road during the han dynasty, which is around 200bc.
Genocide means to vanish them from the surface of the earth. They are doing business well. So, definetely NO GENOCIDE. Alex, can you report the American Indian or Aborigine Aussie life too? 👍👍👍
Your discriminate against people who do not speak English, but I tell your that Muhammad, Christ, and Buddha, don't speak English.If you are guilty of arrogance, if you are guilty of bullying the weak, please repent! If you do not commit the same sin again in the future, God will forgive you!Why don’t you people who speak English have anyone like Muhammad, Buddha Shakyamuni, and Christ? you who speak English are so proud every day and discriminate against people who do not speak English every day，I am ashamed of your.The land is the land of the earth, the sunshine is the sunshine of the sun, and your smile is the smile of the world.
Japan is definitely the most homogeneous country, that has it's major benefits and drawbacks too. One day I would love to go to the western border of China and see the nature all the way up to Kashgar!
Japan is pretty homogeneous, but there are still Ryukuan people (Okinawans), Zainichi Koreans, many Japanese Brazilian residents, and Ainu up north. Many other peoples are moving to Japan too. The diversity is harder to see, but it’s definitely there.
Absolutely amazing.. Thanks for sharing... With several dozen different ethnic groups within China, we can only hope everyone can learn to live with each other in peace....Probably a tall ask....
I notice some comments about the equality of ethnics in China, here I paste my other comment for you to have some information: China actually is unbelievably implementing preferential policies to minority ethnic groups, letting the major Han ethnics think they are treated as second-class citizens. I can try to name some for you but there will be a lot more than that, 1. in the one-Child policy era, all minority ethnic was allowed to have 2 or more children, which led to the population of Uygurs boomed on the contrary of what they reported Genocide after the founding of the PRC. 2. in the life-most-important college entrance exam, minority ethnics will automatically add on scores. 3. they are allowed to carry controlled weaponry because they have such traditions. 4. religious freedom, of course, Han also has, everyone has, but the Han seldom needs that so-called freedom, but that is another story. Don't get me wrong, as a Han person, although I have the feeling of being undermined by such policies, I still agree with them. That is because, different from some self-righteous minds who believe they understand Freedom and Equality, we Chinese see Freedom and Equality from a higher level, which should be added weighting factor, here I mean the population, Tradition, which we respect all differences from the minority ethnics. Harmony, which means understanding their feelings.
Frankly even amongst Han Chinese there is much diversity. Of course Nationally, China prefers to play up similarities of ALL ethnic groups. But Han's speak a variety of dialects which in actual fact when compared to other places like say Europe, are effectively languages. I mean particularly a place like Fujian, many of the words don't even sound anywhere near PuTongHua. If you consider the Southern provinces as different in language and some customs, then the more homogenous areas basically other Northern plains. Peripheral areas in DongBei, South or South West and Western China have huge varieties of ethnicities. With population slow down and BRI/external circulation, these ethnic groups will play an even more pivotal role in coming decades. Also it looks like in time, China will also try to attract the best minds over to her Universities and will experience an influx of Immigrants to add to diversity. China has a ways to go to fully accommodate foreigners (as could be seen from some racial incidents involving Africans in Guangzhou area during Pandemic). But bigoted people are found everywhere in the world. With increase education and exposure, this should improve. As we can see already, there is a growing number of Inter Chinese-African marriages. West prefer to see China as faceless robots but it is the West that tends towards group think these days simplifying their view of the world. One thing ALL ethnicities share in common is love for food. Everyone has to eat.
I agree with you!. "Dialects" are wrongly used in the Chinese Languages. It should not be called Dialects but rather languages. I am Taishanese and I don't even have a clue what my wife said when she speak Hokkien. Can the world say that my wife and I speak different dialects. Rubbish! It is two different languages!.
@@truthful3777 For your information, the -ese suffix in the English language has the capacity to indicate disparagement or contempt So unless "Taishanese" is already a widely used and accepted term, I would suggest that you avoid using the -ese suffix and use something else instead
Thank you. You videos are very insightful showing people with different backgrounds live in peace. Western medias have no clues and very unprofessional, irresponsible as reporters.
I'm a Black American and when I lived in China I dated a woman who was Xinjiang Chinese. I got to learn a lot and she considered herself Chinese even though she didn't look Chinese. She was proud of the nation.
Thank you for your work. Is good to see the truth about China/Xingjiang. We see so many lies in the west (perpetrated by USA). I am sorry for them all. God bless you from New Zealand.
Duh, this is a CCP media propaganda, Dude...producing videos like this one about Xinjiang to fool the West. Ordinary Chinese ppl cannot access UTube to post. Only CCP hired agents are allow to post videos on UTube.
@@Ribble.B087 we see a lot of good things about western world on TH-cam. I believe that TH-cam is the biggest western media propaganda and brains wash your people everyday
I am a Chinese from Malaysia 🇲🇾. Thanks Alex for making this video to show the world how Xinjiang looks like and the diversity of its population. An eye opener for viewers to better understand Xinjiang than reading the skewed Western or Indian propaganda out to tell lies about it.
@@rynnierlim3206 Yes. The only time when a Chinese citizen can have a TH-cam channel is because it is state sponsored. You are a CCP Chinese playing the role of a Malaysian.
It is not "the skewed Western or Indian propaganda". Look at the following from Singapore: th-cam.com/video/X0OFEdwkW3E/w-d-xo.html There are numerous others criticizing the horrible treatment of Uighurs in China. Please open up your eyes unless you are brainwashed by CCP.
@DSki Dski Had you been in prison in China? May be Chinese serve good food to prisoners. Not like the west. In the US, food for students may be worse than those for the prisoners.
Thank you for this interesting video ... with such a big geographic spread ... there will be definitely some diversity in ethnicity... stay safe and healthy
Glad that TH-camrs like Alex and many others are showing the world the actual situations there unlike those who just speculate, judge and accuse without any solid proof or evidence from some unsubstantiated testimonies.
@Alex From Xinjiang lol, how about seeing through Alex's lies and figuring out this is all anecdotal evidences that never really tell anything except for his own propaganda. It would make you be more superior than what you think you are now. Try again! Alex is a known propagandist living in China, his only job is making promoting ads like this for the CCP, well, he might get paid a little more than some journalists in the West though, for the pride of keeping secrets about what he's doing.
@@hidetoshinakamura3656 Interesting.... hard for me to tell if he is legit or not. Yet, he never addressed the 'Elephant in the Room', that is, all the negative press globally for years about the persecution of certain ethnic groups in Xinjiang.. Maybe he can't talk about it as it is a taboo subject.
@@hidetoshinakamura3656 Yes I lied about the food and I pretended that they were delicious, are you happy now? LOL Anyway, for people who have "very good" sight and "independent" thinking ability like you, I just wanna say thank you very much for your comments, they really opened up my mind and let me realized that there is no limit to ignorance and arrogance. Good luck to you and your "bright" future!
As a overseas Chinese born in Indonesia, I knew what it likes living in such a diverse country. Indonesia has hundred of ethnicities including some seven millions Indonesian Chinese. China itself has 56 ethnic groups.
I have been to northern Xinjiang twice, spent time in Urumqi and in the countryside. It's very diverse and has best views and best food, for sure :) If it ever opens after the pandemic, I'm looking forward to come back again!
Ha! In California we had lots of East Asian people in some areas, especially the Bay Area around San Francisco, but out here in Minnesota we have Hmong and some other East Asians, but I guess we're known for having people from everywhere.
Oh my! I'm feelin' like I'm right behind you enjoying the tour, the foods and interation with the so diversed plessant locals. Thanks so much, sir. from Cambodia (🇰🇭) 🙏💝
Thanks for the video! Seems like the western parts of China are a lot more diverse than the eastern parts. Also keep up with the English! I can understand every word you said. Don't listen to some other rude comments out here that are out to discourage you. Most of them don't even speak Mandarin, let alone a second language...
Thanks for your video! You are probably one of the best chinese guy in speaking the English language. I must take my wife in touring the whole China one of these days. I love all the various types of food in the world!!
7:54 As an Indonesian, I always reminded of one of my Mom's cooking called "bistik" (read: 'bi' as in "bipolar/bilingual/etc." and 'stik' identical to "stick") everytime I see those in the other videos. It's derived from Western steak during colonial era but we developed it into our own. It's normally based on chicken, beef, or goat meat and typically served in similar fashion like those Xinjiang dish (I fail to understand the correct spelling, sorry😅), I think in this case this looks similar to how my Mom's bistik variety would look like. I love her cooking, maybe this dish will reminds me of my Mom's haha😋🤭
Perhaps the difference is the serving size. Our family never eat that much, usually it's enough as three-courses meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But say if I live alone with my gf/partner or friend, it can last for 2-3 days haha😁
@@alexfromxinjiang SEA countries have many things in common be it cuisine, tradition, custom, clothing, or culture😊 Just like how Northern Vietnam shares similar culture with Southern China or how Xinjiang also have many things in common with neighboring countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
I want to come to Xinjiang when going to China the next time. It must be very interesting. I didn't have such desire before when there were terrorists. Western politicians are trying to terrify Xinjiang again.
Hello Alex, thahks for the video. I appreciate very much your videos introducing The beautiuful Xinjiang to the whole world. I love this Province of China. Greeting from France.
Great video. When you introduce Xinjiang,can present more street view or scenery view from xinjiang. Really want to see it!! The interviews are really great!!!!
Great video, Alex ! Even every Han Chinses is 'not always Han', during Northern and Southern dynasties, the ethnic called Xiabei (鲜卑), a Proto-Mongolic ancient nomadic, rules the northern part of China, and they blend into Han's culture by changing their Mongo surnames to Han ones, for example, Ruogan (若干) was converted to Gou (苟), which is my surname. I'm from Xi'an, the one of the ancient capital of that time, so probabilistically speaking, I'm 'half Mongo half Han'. I think westerners are having trouble understanding the concept of ethnicities of Chinese or what is China ? They just think Ughurs are Muslim and Caucasian , so it's a good idea to tell the world Chinese are hurting Uygur people, but Uygurs are Chinses. So I think what they really mean is that atheist Han Chinese are hurting Muslim Caucasian. Another large portion of minority of Chinese are Hui (回) Chinese, they are also Muslim, but they look a lot like Han Chinese, so are Chinese hurting Hui people ? ..... So I think the key takeaway is that westerners think Uygurs are bullyed by Chinese because they are Caucasian. My question to westerners is : If you say Chinese are hurting Uygurs, then which ethnicity of Chinses are your referring to ?
Wow! Thank you for sharing with me the origination of your surname. It's very interesting to know where our ancestors came from and I always wanted to find out our family's history.
Jack Louie just because a culture makes contact with another like Turkic with Persian, and Scythian doesn’t make them Scythian. The ones in China are chinese. Some other ones make their own legend
Thank you for sharing a different view of China. Ethnic Hui (where you enjoyed your lunch) has already been part of China for thousands of years, at least we should remember Zheng He, the Ming Dynasty Admiral who had sailed the seven seas in the 15th century.
Zheng He was born in Yunnan Province... Hui was existed when Muslim traders from Arab and Central Asia came to China 1400 years ago and married with local Han... They then produced new generation called Hui which are sharing DNA with Han...
Alex in Australia we bring in backpackers from around the world to pick the fruit and vegetables and alot of them get paid between $2 -$5 per hour , now that's real slavery!!
Americans & British always get shocked at the ‘huge portions’ of food served in Asia. This is why they are often unhealthy. Always snacking, & always hungry between meals. They don’t eat enough at meal times. And eat too quickly. They love to talk about ‘fuss’ & ‘ it’s a hassle’. The food culture is quite shocking. Except for Amish, Italians, & a few other groups.
Really enjoyed your video Alex 👍 Good to see the multi ethnic society thriving there, the food dishes look very interesting especially the chilly chicken stew with broad noodles. Beautiful land & friendly peoples.
That plate looks so tasty and delicious... As a south Italian (which implies we have a strong love for food and traditional food) I have so much respect for Asian countries and their long history of cousine and diversity in food. So rich and tasty. You need to dive in someone's culture to understand deeply. ❤ We italians get mad when other cultures destroy our original recipes to accommodate other types of palates and tastes. We're possessive of our cultural heritage and traditions we tend to think we're the best in the world cause of the Mediterranean climate and diet. But I truly believe that eastern countries have it similar to us due the respect they put into their cooking. The history keeps existing and that's what makes me think that Italy and Asian countries have a lot in common. Beautiful to see.
Your discriminate against people who do not speak English, but I tell your that Muhammad, Christ, and Buddha, don't speak English.If you are guilty of arrogance, if you are guilty of bullying the weak, please repent! If you do not commit the same sin again in the future, God will forgive you!Why don’t you people who speak English have anyone like Muhammad, Buddha Shakyamuni, and Christ? you who speak English are so proud every day and discriminate against people who do not speak English every day，I am ashamed of your.The land is the land of the earth, the sunshine is the sunshine of the sun, and your smile is the smile of the world.
I had uploaded a few videos on Bilibili, but I stopped updating it long time ago. So far TH-cam is the only platform that I'm using now. Thank you for paying attention to my channel.
God, I can't wait to travel to Xinjiang. China's such a great and beautiful country. I hope to see every single province/region if I can. So far, I've seen more than half! haha
@kerr XiaoUm I don't know why he didn't leave. Maybe the food was too good? I stayed in Sichuan for one week. That was six years ago. I still live in China and since then, I've been to: Guangxi, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Tianjin, Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, and Guangdong.
Alex...you are right in your comments and some critics are just ignorant as they have their own agenda. They are either jealous of you or they can't handle China's astounding success in handling over 50 minorities in the country. Certainly the West can't say they are able to take care of their own minorities. Just see how the Native Indians are treated in the US and First nations peoples are treated in Canada and how Aborigines are treated in Australia. These countries should be ashamed of themselves for the injustices meted out to the minorities. Keep up the good work, Alex and ignore those foolish and juvenile comments from those born losers.
Your words means a lot to me though sometimes I did find their comments annoying to me, but people like you would always make my heart warm. Thank you very much!
@@DafyddBrooks These guys are army of CCP member or state sponsored actor actress attacking youtube. Lots of them, since China has large population, shouldn't be difficult finding bots.
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I'm from Hong Kong and must confess that, growing up from looking down on mainlanders, to slowly understand my root culture and history, then started loving and embracing it, took a long time. But along the way there are people like Alex you here allowing me to be able to get a glimpse of my motherland. I wish covid is gone cuz my dream is to one day visit Xinjiang with my family including my old parents. Lovely vid👍
Wow! I'm so glad to see your comment here, I hope there will be more and more Hong Kongers especially younger generations like you who are willing to have a better understanding of our motherland. Welcome to Xinjiang!
@@alexfromxinjiang pls ignore the trolls, pin them thats all you need to do. They have already made up their minds no need to reason with the radicals. Keep up with the videos and show the truth to more people. They will convert just like me 😃👍
Good for you, Xel Kim! Growing up in North America, I must admit I had similar feelings. But same as you, I grew to feel proud of China!
@@EdwinaSY thats amazing, I'm glad we share similarities. Stay warm and keep safe friend 👍
I can't wait to do this too. I'm from Hong Kong as well
My first lesson about rich diversity of China is from Chinese Yuan. There are 5 languages printed on the note.
No matter how those media are labeling Xinjiang but people's smiles never lie. Great video Alex, ba wen.
Gracias Amigo! Big Shuai Shi😆
Hi, Alex. I am from the Philippines. I am half-Chinese, but my late father was pure Chinese, where his parents came from Jinjiang, Fujian province (福建省晉江市), the place where most of the Chinese in the Philippines came from. You were right, China was diverse and we cannot expect everything to be the same, not even the food and culture.
This video is a Chinese propaganda. People in China do not have access to youtube, especially those in XinJiang. Uyghur people is being put to concentration camp. Only those CCP member can upload to youtube. Don't be fooled. You can google it yourself.
@@splendidsnapshot9915 I am already aware of the Uyghur people and I felt bad about them. I dunno how our vlogger friend here got access to TH-cam, but we must respect his privacy...
@@dennislee--529 you can google it, it's because they are part of CCP member, that is why they can post on youtube safely, and want to eliminate any negative news about XinJiang so they put propaganda video on youtube. This is done both by men and women. These are just actors and actress of CCP members Just don't be fooled.
@@splendidsnapshot9915 you are brainwashed by western media propaganda.
@@dennislee--529 Tsinoy ka pala tol?
Wow How interesting! I’m Scottish born Chinese and dream of travelling in China , this video shows the exact type of places I’d love to experience…talking to locals, eating local food and experiencing diverse cultures in China…I think we’ve all had enough negative media about China and it’s really uplifting to see different facets of this country ❤️
And vlogging.
Mingling with expats who have been living in China for too long.
But like Han People are definitely committing cultural genocides. Tatar guy even forgot to speak his mother tongue.
Tibet and Shinjiang are less-affected.
Souther Mongolia is becoming completely Han. You guys can’t ban education on their mother tongue. It’s bad. Just stop and go back to Han ancestral land, please.
Alex is part of the propaganda machine.
@@BJPCameron How dare you to say that, and how can you say that? Do you have an eye?
@@forgettohaveaname2954 i can say it very easily because I am not under the thumb of the Chinese regime
When the Soviet Union was established, lots of Russian people migrated to Xinjiang to escape possible persecutions. They have lived in Xinjiang ever since.
Do you know there are many Koreans in Kazakh too? During pacific war escaped the Japanese prosecution . I met some of them working in Shanghai , Kazakh nationality with Korean root
Your discriminate against people who do not speak English, but I tell your that Muhammad, Christ, and Buddha, don't speak English.If you are guilty of arrogance, if you are guilty of bullying the weak, please repent! If you do not commit the same sin again in the future, God will forgive you!Why don’t you people who speak English have anyone like Muhammad, Buddha Shakyamuni, and Christ? you who speak English are so proud every day and discriminate against people who do not speak English every day，I am ashamed of your.The land is the land of the earth, the sunshine is the sunshine of the sun, and your smile is the smile of the world.
俄罗斯人在吉林
AP recently visited Xinjiang and they themselves admit in thier article that they found no evidence of genocide.
In the article they even have evidence that the culture of Uyghurs is preserved and protected
It is nice to know. Do you have the link of that article? Thanks.
Thanks for bringing this up.
@@alexfromxinjiang
Check out the videos of The New Atlas , he makes videos of how western media lies about China Russia Cambodia etc and debunks thier lies
His channel is one of the best on TH-cam
@@cynicalnutcase4937 I'm envy of you, how come you're still able share any website link in a YT comment? I mean YT has been going spree to shut my loud mouth up since the last two months, everytime I tried to share any counter information that's against the narrative!!😭😩
@@cynicalnutcase4937 Literally at this point I'm probably restricted from sharing any information via external website. YT also did censor my comment containing website link in a discourse completely irrelevant to any political topic🙄
Когда некоторые люди видят только плохое в другой стране, не путешествуя и не видя места, которое нужно исследовать, они скрывают огромные внутренние проблемы своей страны или своей культуры, что представление о том, что мы лучшие, и у нас есть лучшее, очень негативно. применимо к любой стране и культуре !!
Because of your video, I wanted to travel to the west part of China even more! Been yearning to visit there for years because of its culture and rich history. I'm Chinese but born and raised in the UK.
You are always welcome to Xinjiang!
How can you be Chinese if you're born and raised in the west? Chinese is a nationality, not an ethnicity. 😊
@@globetrotterbengaluru Most people refer Han ethnic group, myself also, as Chinese regardless where they grew up.
@@globetrotterbengaluru , it's more appropriate to call him ethnic Chinese like so many ethnic Chinese around the world.
@@chongleongchua4059
More appropriate would be Ethnic Han Chinese.
Diversity? Hell yeah, many cities have it. Don't forget Yunnan and Kunming, 26 nationalities in the same area, all with their own cultures. I really love this part of China and the diversity of all China. "All nationalities are equal", that's from China's own constitution and all minorities are represented in the government.
The Han-ethnocentricity people believe in just doesn't exist. It's a thing western people believe in because the judge China through their own race fixated imperialism.
I approve this, my son has (proudly) half Yi ethnicity. If there is something China does not lack is representativity for its many ethnic groups.
Despite me being a foreigner (westerner as you said), I feel the Yi culture as my own. In fact, it's now blended into my own version of a multicultural culture. ;)
Just take a look at how the cowboys virtually decimated the indigenous Red Indian tribes of N America. Today these tribes are concentrated in reserve plots of land where once the whole of the ancestral lands belonged to them. Simply mordered and robbed wholesale.
26 Nationallities?
@@CHAMONIX552 In Kunming there are 26 nationalities or ethnic groups in one and the same city. China has 56 in total, 55 of those count as minorities, as Han is the vast majority with +1.2 billion people. Maybe I used the incorrect word, in my language we say "nationalities". Maybe "ethnic groups" is the more correct word to use in English?
@@CHAMONIX552 In Kunming city there are 26 ethinc groups living in the same city. China has 56 in total.
What an eye opening vlog for those who don't know how diverse is China! Thanks bro!
As an Indian, or rather being a non-Chinese, it is really difficult to find authentic Chinese videos or info. A part of it being China's internet policies but thank you Alex for shedding some light on the true life of China. Great videos and looking for more!
actually their internet policies in someway protected their people from western media provocation in someway.. in my country media play big part of dividing people.. the result is never ending conflict between ethnicity and religious people. i really hope my government somehow could control the internet and protect us from western media BS.
that why i said our government should get rid of the GFW...1.3 billion people can talk with the world....
不理解，中国的互联网政策不影响你从外部看中国内部的视频吧？
@@ye-01m can you please write it in English? Not able to decode
@@iama_deity你們的輸入鍵盤都沒有翻譯的嗎😢
Alex did you see the AP article about Xinjiang?.One day ,I will visit Xinjiang,thax for your wider perceptive from France
the one claiming that the genocide ended not because there wasn't one to begin with but Chinese gov was pressured into ceasing its genocidal activities?
I haven't but I will check it out later. You are always welcome to Xinjiang!
@Brandy Clutch ofc not, that's why I said it never happen to begin with
TH-cam keeps deleting the links
@@yigesbg8145 there's no country which doesn't have dark history. UK ,France, US have dark history
Alex, thanks for sharing Xinjiang from a different perspective. Keep up with the good work. Cheers!
Great work Alex!...as usual. HONEST and Decent people will ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH. 🎯 Keep up the good work. 👍
@@yigesbg8145 Your appointment with the psychiatrist is overdue.
darn, xinjiang is so colorful, and those pastries at 6:18 looks freiikng gooood!
I really wanted to try them but I was on a diet, such a shame.
I find the part on a Russian restaurant in Tacheng quite funny.
The lady owner doesn't look at all like an ethnic Russian. Russia, just like China, is very ethnically diverse, and many ethnic Russians have DNA of other ethnicities due to centuries of migration, occupations by foreign polities, forced people movement and post-revolution encouragement of ethnic integration. Above said, that lady seems to have very little pure ethnic Russian DNA (if there is such a thing). She may indeed have Russian ancestry but her looks suggest that she also has Kazakh/other Central Asian background, that would be common for people migrating south from the Russian Empire into Xinjiang.
I'd also say that the names of her dishes and their appearance does not seem at all Russian, they are rather some derivative of some Turkic/Central Asian or perhaps Tartar dishes.
I'm not challenging the lady, her ethnic story, or her food (which by the way looks delicious). I am just comparing it to other Russian restaurants and dishes I've encountered during my travels through Russia, Ukraine, other countries with sizeable Russian minorities, Western Europe and the USA. Coincidentally, many of those Russian restaurants are run and staffed by ex-Soviet people who are not ethnic Russians.
countries of Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq too
As an ethnic Russian I confirm neither the dishes are Russian, nor the lady is Russian. Her ancestors may come from Russia.
Well, we also gotta remember that not all Russians are Slavs or look like one.
Thank you for interviewing the people of Xinjiang and showing its diversity. It is important for the outside world to understand the real Xinjiang and not the false media. Your videos are great! I am now a subscriber. 😊
I'm very glad you like my videos!
if there is a chance，I recommend you to take a trip to xinjiang.Its a beautiful place.
1:37 Wow! I never seen any E-bike rental service where the rides are integrated into the system like that, we don't have it here but this is so practical and convenient! It seems that the smart lock is integrated within the service system as well, which is awesome if that's the case😃
This kind of rental bikes is very common in China, it works in China very well because people in China don't steal or sabotage the bikes, they support their country and government with real actions.
Yes, the smart lock is Integrated with the system as well, you can easily lock and unlock the bike with your cellphone and pay your fees with your E-Wallet.
@@alexfromxinjiang you have to return it where you rent the bike?
@@projectdiy9274 No, there are many spots across the city where you can return it. I just have to check the app to find out the nearest spot when I'm about to return it.
last time I checked in April, all the e-bikes required a Chinese ID number, at least the ones in Fujian and Guangdong. They look great though I like the exercise as well from standard bikes, which I used all the time in Shanghai.,
so nice to see the integration of different ethnic groups. They all seem so happy!
I feel that some seem to be a little hesitant to speak in their ancestral tongue...
@@ptg01 I live in Australia and I am reluctant to speak my dialects with friends in front of white aussies.
@@yenriver5255 Of course... as that would be rather rude....
Love your videos. China is a mix of cultures. It is totally unique. A developing and thriving country, where a great amount of ethnic groups live together and share cultures. It is not like countries in the american continent and Europe, where there's not such diversity, other places in Asia, like Japan, way less diverse in this terms etc. Great to see another video from you. I love interviews.
Thanks a lot for your support, and China has a lot more to offer, welcome to China!
@@alexfromxinjiang Thank you! I'm from Brazil, one of the most diverse countries in terms of cultures, but yet I get more and more impressed by how China is so diverse. I can't think of a similar country in these terms. I hope I can visit China.
@@marcioleonardo7402 Wow! I have to thank Brazil for offering 3 football players to our national football team, one of them scored one goal for us in World Cup qualification game against Saudi Arabia. They are being loved by Chinese football fans!
Also China -- all people united by the kneeing culture, all kowtow before the CCP.
@@xander2890duh...most of westerners just live in their little shield. they pictured china as this ISOLATED kingdom on a remote corner of euroasia continent. in actuality, china has always been a multi-ethnic civilization since ancient time b/c of silk road trades. that had nothing to with ccp or whatever.
tons of ancient murals or acient sculptures depicting a very diverse population in china are still intact in many old buddist caves or temples. foreign traders from central asia, persian, or arabic world had settled in china for centuries. even a sizeable jewish population settled in kaifeng china since about a thousand years ago.
chinese muslim Hui minority population look almost identical to han chinese majority. but if u look carefully, many of them still have distinct facial features. then you have euroasian looking uigher chinese, pure caucasian looking tartars chinese or tajik chinese.
I'm half Russian and half Chinese. This video was extremely interesting for me. First, because there are a lot of Tatars and Kazakhs in Russia and it's very unusual for me to see them in China. And it's really nice to see that Uyghur people actually live in China not oppressed as I thought
P.S. this Russian food looks so much better than what we actually eat here🤣
Subscribed!
About 90 000 views so far. Wow, great job! Hope you'll get even more. And please, continue to show how real people live. Give them a face and a story, this is the best way to conquer racism and prejudice.
I did not know until recently there are actually Russian Chinese who have lived in China a few generations. The Russian Chinese are one of the 56 ethnicity groups of China. They live right here in Heilongjiang Province, which is just adjacent to my home province in China.
Kazakh have been in China for a very long time - Long before 18th - 19th century! Kazakhstan was part of the Russian Empire, which is why Kazakh in Kazakhstan speak Russian and Kazakh, but they have been independent after the Russian Empire collapsed. Most Kazakh in China only speaks Chinese and Kazakh.
Kazakhstan got independent After Uni Soviet dissolved, not Rusia Empire
All countries located along the Silk Road (specifically Central Asia) have been assimilated and interacted amongst themselves since thousand of years ago...
If Russia releases other Oblasts located at North and Far East Asia and getting them to be independence, we'll have more new, unique and varities countries formed at northern and far east Asia e.g. Yakutia, Baruytia, Kamchatka etc... (hazel eye no longer belong to Chinese, Korean and Japanese but more...)
@@fadhilwaynie9620 I know! Thanks for sharing the details...
Kazakh with Russia only went back for 200 years or so, not very long.
@@CN_SFY_General i think you should recheck the history! russia has been in contact with china for a very long time! it also depends on what part of russia that has contact with china too. if siberia, they have been in contact with china since the bc. if talking about western russia, the russian know about china, since the tang dynasty, around 600ad, but established trading really begin around song and yuan dynasty, especially during the yuan dynasty, because Genghis khan chased his enemy to poland before he died. during the ancient time the middle east and central asia was the middle people between china and europe. the knowledge of paper was transferred to central asia and middle east during the tang dynasty and then later to europe. back then most part of central asia and the middle east was part of the persian empire and the nomadic empire of many ethnics and tribes.
as for the kazakh, they have been in contact with china for a very long time, basically after the establishment of the first silk road during the han dynasty, which is around 200bc.
Genocide means to vanish them from the surface of the earth. They are doing business well. So, definetely NO GENOCIDE. Alex, can you report the American Indian or Aborigine Aussie life too? 👍👍👍
china is bad at genocide.. should learn from european..
@@xmb6793 LoL. Only crazy and uncivilized people learn genocide from the West, Bro. LoL
Your discriminate against people who do not speak English, but I tell your that Muhammad, Christ, and Buddha, don't speak English.If you are guilty of arrogance, if you are guilty of bullying the weak, please repent! If you do not commit the same sin again in the future, God will forgive you!Why don’t you people who speak English have anyone like Muhammad, Buddha Shakyamuni, and Christ? you who speak English are so proud every day and discriminate against people who do not speak English every day，I am ashamed of your.The land is the land of the earth, the sunshine is the sunshine of the sun, and your smile is the smile of the world.
@@沙椿桉 Be calm, Bro. He just don't enjoy or maybe don't understand the beauty of God creation of diversity. LoL
@@xmb6793 lmao true, after all the UK alone managed to kill millions of people around the world during the era of the British Empire.
Japan is definitely the most homogeneous country, that has it's major benefits and drawbacks too. One day I would love to go to the western border of China and see the nature all the way up to Kashgar!
You will be surprised China have never been so good in 87 years
Japan is pretty homogeneous, but there are still Ryukuan people (Okinawans), Zainichi Koreans, many Japanese Brazilian residents, and Ainu up north. Many other peoples are moving to Japan too. The diversity is harder to see, but it’s definitely there.
probably korea
Japan is a very good country
There's a china town in japan like every where else,..❤️
Absolutely amazing.. Thanks for sharing... With several dozen different ethnic groups within China, we can only hope everyone can learn to live with each other in peace....Probably a tall ask....
Love your TH-cam clips, convinced me to visit Xinjiang in my future travel plans.
I notice some comments about the equality of ethnics in China, here I paste my other comment for you to have some information:
China actually is unbelievably implementing preferential policies to minority ethnic groups, letting the major Han ethnics think they are treated as second-class citizens. I can try to name some for you but there will be a lot more than that, 1. in the one-Child policy era, all minority ethnic was allowed to have 2 or more children, which led to the population of Uygurs boomed on the contrary of what they reported Genocide after the founding of the PRC. 2. in the life-most-important college entrance exam, minority ethnics will automatically add on scores. 3. they are allowed to carry controlled weaponry because they have such traditions. 4. religious freedom, of course, Han also has, everyone has, but the Han seldom needs that so-called freedom, but that is another story.
Don't get me wrong, as a Han person, although I have the feeling of being undermined by such policies, I still agree with them. That is because, different from some self-righteous minds who believe they understand Freedom and Equality, we Chinese see Freedom and Equality from a higher level, which should be added weighting factor, here I mean the population, Tradition, which we respect all differences from the minority ethnics. Harmony, which means understanding their feelings.
少民里好像白族不加分吧，因为教育水平较高。不过加分这项确实有待提高，我个人觉得按地区加分比按民族更合理些
Frankly even amongst Han Chinese there is much diversity.
Of course Nationally, China prefers to play up similarities of ALL ethnic groups.
But Han's speak a variety of dialects which in actual fact when compared to other places like say Europe, are effectively languages. I mean particularly a place like Fujian, many of the words don't even sound anywhere near PuTongHua. If you consider the Southern provinces as different in language and some customs, then the more homogenous areas basically other Northern plains.
Peripheral areas in DongBei, South or South West and Western China have huge varieties of ethnicities.
With population slow down and BRI/external circulation, these ethnic groups will play an even more pivotal role in coming decades. Also it looks like in time, China will also try to attract the best minds over to her Universities and will experience an influx of Immigrants to add to diversity.
China has a ways to go to fully accommodate foreigners (as could be seen from some racial incidents involving Africans in Guangzhou area during Pandemic). But bigoted people are found everywhere in the world.
With increase education and exposure, this should improve. As we can see already, there is a growing number of Inter Chinese-African marriages.
West prefer to see China as faceless robots but it is the West that tends towards group think these days simplifying their view of the world.
One thing ALL ethnicities share in common is love for food. Everyone has to eat.
I was amazed by how much and how deep you know about China!
The world actually become such a big village for everyone..
I agree with you!. "Dialects" are wrongly used in the Chinese Languages. It should not be called Dialects but rather languages. I am Taishanese and I don't even have a clue what my wife said when she speak Hokkien. Can the world say that my wife and I speak different dialects. Rubbish! It is two different languages!.
@@truthful3777 For your information, the -ese suffix in the English language has the capacity to indicate disparagement or contempt
So unless "Taishanese" is already a widely used and accepted term, I would suggest that you avoid using the -ese suffix and use something else instead
@@yuenhai Rest assured it is widely used. I being a " Taishanese" also don't mind....
It’s incredible to see how diverse China really is. There’s so many different ethnic groups within it’s borders
Xinjiang shall be in my list when travelling to China. Thanks for the video.
Damn, wish I was there. Like very much to try their foods.
hahaha Xinjiang is a food paradise.
Didn't know there are Chinese people of Russian heritage in Xinjiang as I thought they mostly live in north east China.
Well it does make some sense since Xinjiang is close to Kazakhstan and Russia
There are Jews living in China since the Song dynasty.
These Russians were colonists as Russia tsar wanna make Xinjiang as part of a Russian empire. They just failed.
Thank you. You videos are very insightful showing people with different backgrounds live in peace. Western medias have no clues and very unprofessional, irresponsible as reporters.
My pleasure, glad you like my videos!
Very happy to see this. My cousin and I love to visit such places. Will be there once travel restrictions are lifted.
Greetings from Singapore! XinJiang looks like the coolest place in China! So diverse I am amazed.
I'm a Black American and when I lived in China I dated a woman who was Xinjiang Chinese. I got to learn a lot and she considered herself Chinese even though she didn't look Chinese. She was proud of the nation.
She’s probably just part of a different ethnic group because Chinese isn’t an ethnicity.
Thank you for your work. Is good to see the truth about China/Xingjiang. We see so many lies in the west (perpetrated by USA). I am sorry for them all. God bless you from New Zealand.
US was trying to take down China with their propaganda and stir up internal conflict.
Duh, this is a CCP media propaganda, Dude...producing videos like this one about Xinjiang to fool the West. Ordinary Chinese ppl cannot access UTube to post. Only CCP hired agents are allow to post videos on UTube.
@@Ribble.B087 I am Chinese and I’m using TH-cam. Oops 👀 what u say
@@Ribble.B087 what’s your purpose saying this???ordinary person using TH-cam here
@@Ribble.B087 we see a lot of good things about western world on TH-cam. I believe that TH-cam is the biggest western media propaganda and brains wash your people everyday
I am a Chinese from Malaysia 🇲🇾. Thanks Alex for making this video to show the world how Xinjiang looks like and the diversity of its population. An eye opener for viewers to better understand Xinjiang than reading the skewed Western or Indian propaganda out to tell lies about it.
Indeed alex your vlog opened my eyes to the diversity of xinjiang ang its russian influence, i hope its culture spread truout the chinese country.
You do know that only China state sponsored channels can exist in TH-cam.
@@SuccessforLifester . U mean UTube belongs to China’s gov control? Uhh ok, go tell that to Indian 🇮🇳 first they will probably believe u!
@@rynnierlim3206 Yes. The only time when a Chinese citizen can have a TH-cam channel is because it is state sponsored. You are a CCP Chinese playing the role of a Malaysian.
It is not "the skewed Western or Indian propaganda". Look at the following from Singapore:
th-cam.com/video/X0OFEdwkW3E/w-d-xo.html
There are numerous others criticizing the horrible treatment of Uighurs in China. Please open up your eyes unless you are brainwashed by CCP.
Hi. Greetings from Singapore 🇸🇬 shall visit Xinjiang. .
My country is also a multicultural harmony society , too.
But videos from China can only be pro China or CCP. You will not get the full picture. Just treat this video as a tourism ad.
Great video Alex. Thank you for sharing ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing. I was in China back in 2013 with my wife. I too wish covid was over. Travel is a great experience. Memories last a lifetime.
Wow Xinjiang is amazing for cuisine.
@DSki Dski shame on you！
@DSki Dski Had you been in prison in China? May be Chinese serve good food to prisoners. Not like the west. In the US, food for students may be worse than those for the prisoners.
th-cam.com/video/Y9jpCs8Jsyw/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=NewsNationNow
Definitely diverse! Cool video! Nice interactions with the locals.
Thank you for this interesting video ... with such a big geographic spread ... there will be definitely some diversity in ethnicity... stay safe and healthy
Man I miss China. Great video, really takes me back I ate in so many Uyghur restaurants as a foreigner it was one of my favorites.
Beware! those from China. Your organs will be harvested if you continue to speech here!
Glad that TH-camrs like Alex and many others are showing the world the actual situations there unlike those who just speculate, judge and accuse without any solid proof or evidence from some unsubstantiated testimonies.
I'm glad that audiences like you are able to see through them and choose to stand by us.
Yeah we need more ppl like u against the rising forces of shittingza and loserwhiner86
@Alex From Xinjiang lol, how about seeing through Alex's lies and figuring out this is all anecdotal evidences that never really tell anything except for his own propaganda. It would make you be more superior than what you think you are now. Try again!
Alex is a known propagandist living in China, his only job is making promoting ads like this for the CCP, well, he might get paid a little more than some journalists in the West though, for the pride of keeping secrets about what he's doing.
@@hidetoshinakamura3656 Interesting.... hard for me to tell if he is legit or not. Yet, he never addressed the 'Elephant in the Room', that is, all the negative press globally for years about the persecution of certain ethnic groups in Xinjiang.. Maybe he can't talk about it as it is a taboo subject.
@@hidetoshinakamura3656 Yes I lied about the food and I pretended that they were delicious, are you happy now? LOL
Anyway, for people who have "very good" sight and "independent" thinking ability like you, I just wanna say thank you very much for your comments, they really opened up my mind and let me realized that there is no limit to ignorance and arrogance. Good luck to you and your "bright" future!
As a overseas Chinese born in Indonesia, I knew what it likes living in such a diverse country. Indonesia has hundred of ethnicities including some seven millions Indonesian Chinese. China itself has 56 ethnic groups.
at least several hundred if sub ethnic counted in. plus there are other smaller ethnics not listed too
Keep up the good work man! Love to see all these videos and showing us the Xinjiang from another perspective!
I have been to northern Xinjiang twice, spent time in Urumqi and in the countryside. It's very diverse and has best views and best food, for sure :) If it ever opens after the pandemic, I'm looking forward to come back again!
Thank you Alex….keep the videos coming!
I love your program
Ha! In California we had lots of East Asian people in some areas, especially the Bay Area around San Francisco, but out here in Minnesota we have Hmong and some other East Asians, but I guess we're known for having people from everywhere.
Of course the states might be one of the most diverse countries in the world.
Oh my! I'm feelin' like I'm right behind you enjoying the tour, the foods and interation with the so diversed plessant locals.
Thanks so much, sir.
from Cambodia (🇰🇭)
🙏💝
Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks for the video! Seems like the western parts of China are a lot more diverse than the eastern parts.
Also keep up with the English! I can understand every word you said. Don't listen to some other rude comments out here that are out to discourage you. Most of them don't even speak Mandarin, let alone a second language...
Big thumbs up.
Thank you Alex for the great video. Apart from the multi-ethnicity i love the food u showed me. I am salivating just from watching the food 🤣😂.
hahaha I hope you didn't watch it at midnight.
Same here. Damn.
Beautiful language and delicious food👍
Thanks for your video! You are probably one of the best chinese guy in speaking the English language. I must take my wife in touring the whole China one of these days. I love all the various types of food in the world!!
that 5:15 Tatar ethnic guy. If his name is William, from Essex with his grand father being the Baron of Kent, it will look very natural ...
hahahaha you made my day, bro.
7:54 As an Indonesian, I always reminded of one of my Mom's cooking called "bistik" (read: 'bi' as in "bipolar/bilingual/etc." and 'stik' identical to "stick") everytime I see those in the other videos. It's derived from Western steak during colonial era but we developed it into our own. It's normally based on chicken, beef, or goat meat and typically served in similar fashion like those Xinjiang dish (I fail to understand the correct spelling, sorry😅), I think in this case this looks similar to how my Mom's bistik variety would look like.
I love her cooking, maybe this dish will reminds me of my Mom's haha😋🤭
Perhaps the difference is the serving size. Our family never eat that much, usually it's enough as three-courses meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But say if I live alone with my gf/partner or friend, it can last for 2-3 days haha😁
I'm glad this video reminds you of your mom. As far as I know, Philippines also has a similar dish called Bistek.
@@alexfromxinjiang SEA countries have many things in common be it cuisine, tradition, custom, clothing, or culture😊 Just like how Northern Vietnam shares similar culture with Southern China or how Xinjiang also have many things in common with neighboring countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
@@GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies1435 I remember that I was shocked when my Indonesian friend was ordering food in Tagalog once we ate out in Manila.
Yes, in Mindanao where majority speak Cebuano or Bisaya language, we also have Bistik, omg, it's one of my favorite dish.
Hello from the Philippines! I always think of Chinese as amazing people and China as a beautiful country.
I want to come to Xinjiang when going to China the next time. It must be very interesting. I didn't have such desire before when there were terrorists. Western politicians are trying to terrify Xinjiang again.
Me too! I am glad Xinjiang is safe again. I will definitely visit!
welcome！
我2020年新疆旅行了一个月，去了江布拉克，天池，乌鲁木齐，石河子，塞里木湖，伊犁，昭苏，夏塔，特克斯，那拉提，库车，库尔勒，吐鲁番，库木塔格，这一路我被美景震撼，各族人民的幸福生活让我很喜欢，我爱新疆❤
Your videos are humble. Thanks for sharing.
That is what makes them so beautiful. Well put👏👏👏👍👍
Hello Alex, thahks for the video. I appreciate very much your videos introducing The beautiuful Xinjiang
to the whole world. I love this Province of China. Greeting from France.
Great video. When you introduce Xinjiang,can present more street view or scenery view from xinjiang. Really want to see it!! The interviews are really great!!!!
Good content. Hi Alex. I am your fan from Singapore. Always looking forward for your new videos
Glad you like my videos!
Great video, Alex ! Even every Han Chinses is 'not always Han', during Northern and Southern dynasties, the ethnic called Xiabei (鲜卑), a Proto-Mongolic ancient nomadic, rules the northern part of China, and they blend into Han's culture by changing their Mongo surnames to Han ones, for example, Ruogan (若干) was converted to Gou (苟), which is my surname. I'm from Xi'an, the one of the ancient capital of that time, so probabilistically speaking, I'm 'half Mongo half Han'.
I think westerners are having trouble understanding the concept of ethnicities of Chinese or what is China ? They just think Ughurs are Muslim and Caucasian , so it's a good idea to tell the world Chinese are hurting Uygur people, but Uygurs are Chinses. So I think what they really mean is that atheist Han Chinese are hurting Muslim Caucasian.
Another large portion of minority of Chinese are Hui (回) Chinese, they are also Muslim, but they look a lot like Han Chinese, so are Chinese hurting Hui people ? ..... So I think the key takeaway is that westerners think Uygurs are bullyed by Chinese because they are Caucasian. My question to westerners is : If you say Chinese are hurting Uygurs, then which ethnicity of Chinses are your referring to ?
Wow! Thank you for sharing with me the origination of your surname. It's very interesting to know where our ancestors came from and I always wanted to find out our family's history.
Rouran? xianbei Tuoba are in Northern Wei but Rouran were defeated by gorturks
They are all Chinese even Mongolia will return to China they will forget the name Mongolia too
Jack Louie nope Mongolia would suicidebomb China before such things happen it’s the most anti Chinese place ever. Outer
Jack Louie just because a culture makes contact with another like Turkic with Persian, and Scythian doesn’t make them Scythian. The ones in China are chinese. Some other ones make their own legend
from Korea,, Love this video. Never have been to China. Hope I can visit one-day :)) what a nice video pal.
Thank you for sharing a different view of China. Ethnic Hui (where you enjoyed your lunch) has already been part of China for thousands of years, at least we should remember Zheng He, the Ming Dynasty Admiral who had sailed the seven seas in the 15th century.
Zheng He was born in Yunnan Province...
Hui was existed when Muslim traders from Arab and Central Asia came to China 1400 years ago and married with local Han... They then produced new generation called Hui which are sharing DNA with Han...
Alex in Australia we bring in backpackers from around the world to pick the fruit and vegetables and alot of them get paid between $2 -$5 per hour , now that's real slavery!!
That dish looks very tasty but the portion is WOW. I think you can feed like 5 people.
hahaha you are absolutely right!
Americans & British always get shocked at the ‘huge portions’ of food served in Asia. This is why they are often unhealthy. Always snacking, & always hungry between meals. They don’t eat enough at meal times. And eat too quickly. They love to talk about ‘fuss’ & ‘ it’s a hassle’. The food culture is quite shocking. Except for Amish, Italians, & a few other groups.
If I went to Xinjiang, I would just be eating the entire day. That food looked so good.
Lovely place ! east meet west . Food looks great !
We want more. It'd be better 2-3 episode per week. 10,0000 subscribers at least, I think.
I will try my best, thanks a lot for your support!!
Interesting that all restaurants serve for and use chopsticks
Yeah! you might noticed that I ate bread with chopsticks, haha
@@alexfromxinjiang 哈哈😂🤣😆
纽约大部分人都会用快子，
@@alexfromxinjiang same here, even i m indonesian chinese, so basicly we can use anything from hand, western cuttery and chopstick
i am singaporean !Thx u so much for the videos!I will nt skip any of your as as a token appreciation!!thx u so much
Really enjoyed your video Alex 👍
Good to see the multi ethnic society thriving there, the food dishes look very interesting especially the chilly chicken stew with broad noodles.
Beautiful land & friendly peoples.
glad you enjoyed it!!!
Love the Video, Peoples & of course Foods!
Great Job Alex & Thank you for sharing.
Tacheng's original name is Tarbagatai which is in Mongolian and it's a Mongolian land. Tacheng is really the abbreviation of it.
That plate looks so tasty and delicious... As a south Italian (which implies we have a strong love for food and traditional food) I have so much respect for Asian countries and their long history of cousine and diversity in food. So rich and tasty. You need to dive in someone's culture to understand deeply. ❤ We italians get mad when other cultures destroy our original recipes to accommodate other types of palates and tastes. We're possessive of our cultural heritage and traditions we tend to think we're the best in the world cause of the Mediterranean climate and diet. But I truly believe that eastern countries have it similar to us due the respect they put into their cooking. The history keeps existing and that's what makes me think that Italy and Asian countries have a lot in common. Beautiful to see.
दुनियाँका आँखा खोलिदिनु भयो तपाईंले । धन्यवाद !
Nice video. Hope to visit Xinjiang in the near future. FYI I am Singaporean.
You're gonna get fired by YT if this continues 😂😂
hahaha
haha continuously kicking YT's butt. You are awesome.
Your discriminate against people who do not speak English, but I tell your that Muhammad, Christ, and Buddha, don't speak English.If you are guilty of arrogance, if you are guilty of bullying the weak, please repent! If you do not commit the same sin again in the future, God will forgive you!Why don’t you people who speak English have anyone like Muhammad, Buddha Shakyamuni, and Christ? you who speak English are so proud every day and discriminate against people who do not speak English every day，I am ashamed of your.The land is the land of the earth, the sunshine is the sunshine of the sun, and your smile is the smile of the world.
@@沙椿桉 are you fever?
foods are impressive. did your team finish those food?
Delicious looking food, makes me hungry
@DSki Dski th-cam.com/video/Y9jpCs8Jsyw/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=NewsNationNow
bro, thanks for your blog, best wishes from malaysia
Well done, Alex...
Hi Alex, do you also maintain your own channels on Weibo, Bilibili, Youku, Kwai/Kuaishou and TikTok/Douyin?
Thanks for the video by the way.
I had uploaded a few videos on Bilibili, but I stopped updating it long time ago. So far TH-cam is the only platform that I'm using now.
Thank you for paying attention to my channel.
@@alexfromxinjiang I think now is the best time to update them again
Xinjiang become more popular than ever, i interested to watch videos from the rural areas of Xinjiang...
Thank you for the video, love to see your adventure and interaction with the local there.
Well done Alex! Keep up the good work.
Fascinating. It is wonderful to get a couch trip of this wonderful land thanks to you!
great video my friend
God, I can't wait to travel to Xinjiang. China's such a great and beautiful country. I hope to see every single province/region if I can. So far, I've seen more than half! haha
@kerr XiaoUm I don't know why he didn't leave. Maybe the food was too good? I stayed in Sichuan for one week. That was six years ago. I still live in China and since then, I've been to: Guangxi, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Tianjin, Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, and Guangdong.
Alex...you are right in your comments and some critics are just ignorant as they have their own agenda. They are either jealous of you or they can't handle China's astounding success in handling over 50 minorities in the country. Certainly the West can't say they are able to take care of their own minorities. Just see how the Native Indians are treated in the US and First nations peoples are treated in Canada and how Aborigines are treated in Australia. These countries should be ashamed of themselves for the injustices meted out to the minorities. Keep up the good work, Alex and ignore those foolish and juvenile comments from those born losers.
Your words means a lot to me though sometimes I did find their comments annoying to me, but people like you would always make my heart warm. Thank you very much!
what would you say to the people and Uyghurs who have been brutally pushed around by the CCP?
@@DafyddBrooks These guys are army of CCP member or state sponsored actor actress attacking youtube. Lots of them, since China has large population, shouldn't be difficult finding bots.