in principle, the irony is that the Chinese guy would have never bought this kind of tape in China. He'd buy a good one "made in China". Only not so smart foreigners buy this kind stuff from Chinese, thinking that they are saving money. It kind of shows how lazy and irresponsible these Congolese folks are: they buy crap from China, then do shoddy non-work with it, then push it as a zinger onto a Chinese boss who's building an infrastructure project, instead of sucking it up and doing something for real.
He caught the guy from China bitching about a Chinese made good.... The problem is that the guy from China does too much bitching, not enough thinking. I said it elsewhere here.... teach the workers basic arithmetic. A lot of Americans are innumerate, why would Congoese be any different? Once the workers can reliably measure, now you have a basis for good data. Now you can tell where the losses are occurring. Those trucks don't seen to be made for offroad work. They have street tires. China can make or copy good offroad equipment. Limit the speeds that drivers can go using speed governors. Put fans in the trucks so that drivers have a breeze blowing onto them. They won't need to go flying down the road to stay cool. Start there....
Its sad to say, but this is even washed down. I did some contractor work over there and it was absolutley the worst experence ever. They get outfitted with electricity, water pipes which delivers fresh drinking water, get machinery to farm on the most fertile ground plus get taught (to no avail, the stupidity was jaw dropping) how to use the machinery for farming etc. You come back a few month later. The machinery is completely dismantled and everything sold for scrap. Same with the waterpipes and electrical wire. Everything was even worse afterwards. Then they complain and demand more handouts. Its all so tiresome. I will never ever step a foot on that continent ever.
@@deanasaursWhat was the point thats being missed? My family have stories from their time in Kenya in the 1980's/1990's where Europeans built schools only for the locals to strip anything from the buildings that can be sold for quick cash. If you're hinting at colonialism as the cause of these peoples woes then you've fallen for a false narrative.
Most of you are missing a point, the Chinese guy saw his own country come from a worse place than this 50-60 years ago and saw a lot of people die to make China is what it is today. His his contempt comes from the fact Africa gave up on it's self.
@@shaftlamer Yes, I think the Chinese man is referring to how the Europeans left a lot of technology, but things got arguably worse. The Africans did not build on it. They went backwards.
This is why chinese was employing only chinese people to do the work. It also reveals a lot that since the Belgians constructed the road in 1954 none of the locals ever considered to maintain it. Foreigners build and develop infrastructure and many great things in african countries but the africans themselves cant take care of it or just doesnt care.
Initially they werent on the project in the documentary, it didnt work out as can be glimpsed from just these selected clips, so iirc they switched over to flying in chinese experts to be the bosses and chinese convicts for the manual labor.
We indians were in similar situation, but we had education even before independence some of our scientist had won noble prize, so we built on what British left not so well, but its work in progress, we managed to send probe on moon. Africans were introduced to western education or educational institutes very late, it will take them a lot of years and add to it foreign interventions, foreign funded military coups civil war situation is hopeless
Hundreds of years of Colonization and slavery ravaged their resources, destroyed their culture and society beyond repair, yet somehow it is not the reason? Ok, armchair expert lol
@@FHARTZENGIGGLESwhite man got off Scott free. The black man got burned. The yellow are at least trying to uplift the black. At one point in history the black was advanced.
I too wonder why my country wastes millions of dollars annually on aid to African countries When corrupt African leaders will always be loyal to china Instead we should give that to countries like Armenia, vietnam, Afghanistan or Philippines
@@Darkest_matter When you wuz kangz n shieeet? Whites are pathologically empathetic, they tried to help you, failed, and then got spiteful before feeling guilty about it. The Chinese only deal with you because they know you're most gullible, short sighted people on earth and will cheer them on as they enrich your leaders and ransack your country because they said a few words to make it "anticolonial"
the chinese man is also incredibly narrowminded in his "analysis" because he selfishly is only interested in this phenomena only as far as it relates to his tasks. While he might describe how things are he doesnt explain why things are how they are, how very understandable it is that things ended up like this, and how to solve it. He is merely satisfied being condescending.
@@BridgeTROLL777 like I said, calls it like it is, no sugarcoating or nothing. Besides that, what good reason could there be for neglect, misuse, corruption and nepotism? Latest example: South Africa
@@BridgeTROLL777 The other guy explains why things are - stuff wasn't maintained. The chinese guy isn't there to solve the dysfunction within their society, he's not there to fix the road, he's there to do a job and the dysfunction is making that job diffifcult. Truth hurts.
@@MexxProtectOh I don’t know decades of apartheid which allowed westerners to rob South Africans of their businesses by taking away their rights their freedom education land and pretending that what followed is of their own doing.
The only infrastructure ever built in Africa was by OUTSIDE nations... They've never learned how to build or maintain a single thing, technically. That's why all vehicles are imported.
Yeah, it is sad they cannot get their shit together. They could be a power-house with all those resources. PLUS, they receive so much aid. No other country is even close.
@@christopherh2336And it completely shines through in this documentary. Its like an adult supervising a bunch of children! Also shows that laziness isn’t a culture thing. But a genetic thing! I’ve seen prison road crews that work harder!😂
Africans invented steel. Who knows what else Africans created, including trade and capitalism. Africa had trade for generations. Africa, being so wealthy in plant and animal life, and most often not needing fire except to cook, did not require industrialization. Humans are best adapted to Africa because we spent the bulk of our existence as human beings there. When you have it good most of the time, you do not evolve. Every organism wants to conserve energy. Europe and parts of Asia were arctic cold part of the year. We had to change the world around us just to survive. We need special food treatment to keep the vitamins in the food. We needed to be forward thinking because we only had one or two growing seasons. Europe and Asia had incessant wars. War drives technical growth because technical growth helps win wars. We evolved organizational strategies to win war. Our habits to survive changed us.
Also the documentary "Hotel Paradise", about a certain demographic in Bulgaria, that not even communist government could get into line: th-cam.com/video/yTQu41ffoSs/w-d-xo.html
@Anton43218 If this video about a certain demographic in US doesn't blow your mind, I don't know what will (also, search my channel for "Jarred"): th-cam.com/video/MDQUfr88ZG0/w-d-xo.html
They all are, some of their good ones cost just a bit more. I use measuring tapes every time and they all flex at shorter lengths eventually through use but quicker with weathering and misuse which might be what the boss pondered.
another dumb ass who don't know anything..china products have grades..If u r a cheapskate..u get what you pay for..good stuff from china are not cheap..understand that before you comment
The goods made in China only as good as how much you are willing to pay for them. Pay more - get a better quality product, pay less - get a worse quality one.
@@serhiyranush4420 lol no you've clearly never traded with them, they use identical stems to international yet theirs are 'rated' as higher standard that is what you could classify as say a C they would claim was actually an A grade when they sell it to you
The moment where the Congolese dude pointed out the tape measure was made in China and the Chinese boss said nothing was great. To me, that could have been ordinary men from anywhere in the world taking the piss out of each other. 😂 Gotta give the Chinese boss props for not getting defensive or lashing out about it. He agreed without agreeing. 😂
Yeah I thought that was pretty funny as well, and he didn't retort back cause he knew where the African dude was coming from. Anyway the two of them give jibes at each other without retorting back
Lao Yang comes off as strict, demeaning but somehow still likeable while Eddy comes off as lazy and incompetent while still being likeable. Im sure they ended up getting along.
Lao Yang comes off as narrow minded, uneducated, racist and full of Chinese propaganda to spread the belief that Africans need colonisers. But I guess it's just your perspective
As weird as it may sound, I think they’re actually getting along just fine in all of these outtakes, and I’m not being sarcastic. - I haven’t seen the full documentary, so my apologies if there are scenes where they’re yelling and swearing at each other / threatening each other in the larger documentary.
@@Cfb2987 There are scenes of the blacks and Chinese in their respective quarters, talking amongst themselves about the other group with complete contempt. You are getting the wrong impression from these scenes. The frustration and blaming becoming increasingly blatant towards the end.
@@technologicalwaste7612 sad to hear that, but thanks for letting me know. It felt better to believe that it was just extra harsh ribbing and piss taking with goodwill underneath it. 😕
Kinda have to give respect to the chinese master's right hand man: the dude speaks his ethnic language, french (lingua franca in his country), english and mandarin.
So he can spout excuses in three different languages? Too bad that doesn’t actually translate into anything meaningful. He is completely incompetent in every other aspect.
@@smelltheglove2038he's just the messenger, his job is to follow the cranky Chinese man around and try to make deals while explaining details, give him a break.
'This Measure Tape sucks' "Ofcourse, its made in China" 'How do You Know?' "Because it says 'Made in China'" ... ... 'Let's Measure it' Its hilarious how passive aggressive the Chinese and Congolese are to eachother.
The fact that measuring tape goes to 1 meter has nothing to do with made in China. When you buy measuring tapes, there are different types, so 1 meter tape is cheaper than 3 or 5 meter tape, no matter where its made, so worker was assigned to buy measuring tape and he just bought cheapest one, without thinking that it is insufficient for the job.
nah. the Harbor Freight tapes are different then a classic Stanley. They do just buckle like that from the slightest mis-handling. lol. I've got a HF tape that does just that, real delicate. You either cope or go buy a better quality one at 3x the price.
My uncle directed a mine in Zambia, much the same job as this guy. He told me that the first 3 days after payday, none of the workers show up for work. They're busy drinking, gambling and whoring away their paycheck. And when they have nothing left, they come back to work... and then promptly ask for an advance on their next paycheck while making up fake excuses for why they need the money, it's always some sick relative. They're just like this, and it's why everywhere they live is shit, whether it's Detroit or Mombasa.
Possible solution: pay them daily(?) Probably not possible though as long as there is no working insurance companies and executive there and the employers have to use the monthly salaries as insurance funds to deduct stolen goods from...
@@polaki18they also don’t pay them daily because they will gamble with other workers and get into fights on company property. Better for them to 🐒 out in some mud hut “casino”
This is what happens when you put people who've been living in tribes, immediately into society. The Chinese have had large societies for thousands of years. Latin Americas had Inca, Aztec, and Maya. India has also been large & affluent. And all are currently at least having partially functioning societies. But Africa, similar to North American indigenous who were also living in tribes when colonized, and look at the issues.
@@jake.presents Wealthiest continent on earth and in the 6000 years of the existence of civilization they didn't manage to form any coherent type of society south of the desert save for briefly Mali. They are incapable.
@@jake.presentsthey never had a chance, the world outpaced them fast enough to spoil them with things they never learned to make for themselves. It's sad, really. They got boned, just not in the way they complain about.
He didn't actually say "it's so tiresome" -- a literal translation is "this is so hard to accomplish"...it can certainly be construed as meaning "this is so tiring" (because something hard to do is often tiresome) but I think the connotation is more along the lines of "sigh this shouldn't be so difficult" rather than "this is so tiring." But yeah, it's incredible how Africa is basically stuck in neolithic times!!
To most Americans, "tiresome" pretty much means something is difficult, annoying, pain in the ass, frustrating etc. So if this was originally subtitled for an American audience... It's probably fairly accurate to the emotions he was feeling in that situation.
He says "Aiya, it's really difficult dealing with these matters/this situation", which does carry the implication that it's a troublesome and tiresome matter. I guess a closer translation would be "It's so tiresome, dealing with all this."
@@GansHanders Nonsense, the Africans in charge of these countries are making boat loads of money, while the people are starving. The cost of maintaining an African empire for a European nation is not worth dealing with Africans and Africa. Besides, most European countries would rather just import the cheap foreign labor and replace their own native citizens, instead of expending treasure, sweat, and blood to maintain these failed nations any more than is profitable.
@@GansHanders you said there was no money to be made, I didnt say anything about slaves. If you watched the video they are paying the Chinese in minerals to build the infrastructure. So there is money to be made and plenty of it
I visited Africa only once. But it was astonishing to me to the point I thought "This is gonna be IMPOSSIBLE to fix, not in a 1000 years", and the other bad thought I had was "It seems like they want (or are ok at least) to live surrounded by sheit". We were visiting a small city. Only to stay there one night. Only one decent place to stay. At night we went for a walk. We saw a building with one hole (less than a meter) on the bottom corner of one former nice building. Clay. Solid. The guide told us a non profit organization built it with european funds not that long ago as a multitask building (sports, meetings, medical attention if needed...) but it was being used by people to sleep there since it was nicer than their homes, but the rats were a problem. Big problem. They entered through the hole. He told us that the same non profit org that built it, sent funds to repair the hole a lot of times and the money disappeared. So, instead, they decided to send the materials needed to fix it. A LOT of them. More than necessary to fix that hole. Brand new tools better than the ones I use in my house in Europe. Well... the materials, the bricks, the tools... everything was there alongside the building. Few meters away to the hole. I asked the guide... since you now have everything you need to fix it, why don't you (or they) fix it?? He smiled with not that much frustration and said; "C'est comme ça" It is what it is. That experience summarizes Africa. As another comment said, they would sell a tractor by pieces that can make them earn 3000/year wrking, for 50 bucks but NOW and without working.
@@buravan1512because then that would be one more to the one gorillionth African famines and “why isn’t the rest the world doing anything to help them?”
They are friends but the chinese guy is extremely candid when the measuring tape was wrong the guy said the tape was made in china as a joke and the guy took it
@@bazimyanI do think it's a joke, as in poorly constructed which is certainly what a lot of Chinese goods are notorious for. However, the comment misses the point entirely: the tape measure works fine, it's just not long enough. Which in reality makes it a self own, since it's his home turf and he should have the proper tools available...
I think calling them friends is generous at best. Seems more like colleagues on a project which isn't going well, since the inherent tension is always there ready to burst at any moment. The Chinese guy is there to get a job done, and this sole Congolese he can communicate with fluently is the outlet for the frustration he's constantly feeling. The man doesn't agree with him at all, hence the "it's only been 50 years" comment and makes excuses for his people. They're work mates, and not great ones at that...
lol only idiots buy bad tapes from Chinese no-name "manufacturers". There are plenty of good tools made in China. You just need to have the brains to value good tools, and you'll pick the right stuff.
Specifically in the Congo, the indigenous population have been picking low hanging fruit and eating bushmeat for all of history. Culturally and biologically they are not cut out for collaborative work and creating/maintaining a large well organised society. Asians, westerners, Arabs, native Americans and even Polynesians have all overcame difficult circumstances to prosper. A lot of the Congolese people don't even want to progress because they are scared about losing their way of life, traditions etc.
It isn't fear of losing their tradition. It's being lazy and pathetic. Proof is the fact that they're getting bullied by a nation the size of New York.
@@xealit Dude, 1924 was the Warlord era. The country was broken into many states. If you're gonna generalize and simplify the traits of an entire ethnic group, at least pick a better example.
the Chinese man asks why didnt Africans learn anything if they were colonised by the Europeans. Well, the same thing can be asked about China: why didnt the Chinese learn anything after being colonised by the Japanese? The Japanese are generally polite, disciplined, clean, have good hygiene, and live alongside robots. China? They spread Covid19 across the planet because of their poor sanitation standards in their wet markets. Parents let their kids crap in the streets in Beijing, and mainland Chinese tourists are notoriously rude and crass whenever they travel abroad. Again, why didnt they learn good manners and discipline from the Japanese? Truth hurts. Im just…speaking the truth in love ;)
Reminds me of the story about when we did send them a ship full of farm animals, (cows chicken sheep pigs) they slaughterd all and ate them. On the question why they said they were hungry.. We then again explained animal products and breeding and send a new ship.. They also got slaughterd.. Hopeless.. Till the day of now they are stil hungry 😂
The "bridge" discourse over st twitter brought me here. It's honestly a tragedy what the Africans do or fail to do for themselves, you cannot blame colonialism for this, not anymore. They have had enough chances to build back but simply do not do it. I will admit where I live in southeast Asia has issues like these but, damn, its just something else over there.
what do you mean by "to build back"? Build back to the _pre-colonial_ times? then that's kind of exactly what they are doing, isn't it? They did not have railroads before the colonialism - no railroads now. The drive road is also messed up. If these Chinese ever get something done there, who is going to maintain it?
Have you considered looking at the leaders of these countries? It feels like every leader and government is more corrupt and vain than the last, nothing ever gets done and over time the small folk only end up looking at what's right beneath their feet, never thinking forwards. The longer it goes on, the deeper a hole is dug and the more likely the next leaders are just as bad or worse, giving the corruption more time to plant its roots and further ruin any well-meaning person's ability to make amends. It's a vicious cycle that needs intervention, but more often than not, what comes next only worsens everything.
Some just don't belong in civilization and it's useless to try and bring civilization to them. Just leave them to their ancient ways and keep them separate from the civilized world.
Places in China are as bad if not worse as well. Lived in Suzhou for two years but spent a lot of time away from Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou etc. And these are newly constructed places. It goes well beyond the Tufo Dreg construction and ghost towns. I did some humanitarian aid work in Africa on assignment for two of my 22 years in the USAF and both Africa and China have similar conditions. Far worse than Oakland, although this is California we're talking about. That's due to policy and demographics.
@@janus3555 The tofu dreg stuff was funny when the US were putting people on the moon. These days bridges and highways are collapsing, doors are flying of airplanes and you can basically lean a whole in the wall of any modern McMansion home in the USA. China has the excuse of having to modernize a country of a billion people. Africa has a lot of excuses, but the real one is the human capital is not equal to the rest of the world . What's America's excuse for becoming a third-world country?
Lao Yang reminds of my Father. Honestly everyone who thinks Lao Yang is looking down on the natives or expressing racism simply doesn´t know about chinese culture. Lao Yang actually cares about the people there, he doesn´t simply want to do his job and be done.
He's probably not grumpy at home when people are actually doing the job right. He's grumpy because he has to deal with your lot and the nonsense that goes with it. This movie gets a bit tedious, but it's spot on. 56 years... And you can't even maintain a road...
OMG! I haven't laughed this hard in a while🤣 The fact that this is a documentary and you know they aren't joking, makes it even more hilarious🤣 You know it's all true, and it's just so hilarious that they finally said it to each other. They both seem so embarrassed🤣 I have no clue how this ended up in my suggestions, but thank you algorithm😂
I'd also recommend this, about certain demographics in USA, that had me not knowing if I should laugh or just gawk jaw open wide: th-cam.com/video/MDQUfr88ZG0/w-d-xo.html
I lived and worked in congo for 18 years and let me tell you this. Everything he's dealing and complaining about is all true. The Congolese have a mindset of laziness and short term thinking. If you construct a cable system to give their neighborhoods power, the first thing they'll do is destroy that new infrastructure to steal the copper in the cables to sell it, and use that money to spend it on church or drinking. Everything is made more difficult there because these guys do not care about long-term consequences. They just want instant gratification. The worst isn't the Congolese workers though. The ones in politics and in position of power are even more corrupt. If you send millions to build back roads, you can bet your ass someone is going to take that money and buid a mansion with it. These guys do not have a culture of long-term planning. Its all instant gratification and spending. This is why the only things that work over there are when foreign supervision is involved. I hate to say this, because the Congolese are very nice and friendly people. But laziness and quick profit is part of their culture. It would take generations to fix this.
@@Sarazoul It's almost like people who have never had to deal with winter in their evolutionary history lack the traits to deal with such event: delay gratification, work hard in the present for surviving a known challenge that comes every year. What kills you in Africa are random things (disease, animals, conflict), that you can not plan for. A better strategy in such climate is to maximize offspring, and have low investment in each.
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Correction, he says that the trucks in China last 30 years (not 4 years as stated in the videos subtitle) compared to the trucks that only last 2 to 3 years in the Congo because they are not maintained and driven badly...
@ 5:20 The shrugging of the shoulders, the resignation. All over the world there are those, "Like she'll be right mate, whatever, like, so what, like, he's Kenyan, like wasn't me, the other bloke did it like."
Never a truer word said, the countries that weren't like this have become this! Zimbabwe was such a great country destroyed by Mugabe & ZANU PF corruption!
Crazy. Just the other day i watched a documentary on the nilgiri mountain railway. All the infrastructure built by british and maintained by indians passing their engineering skills down. Here....nothing
Modern living only for the white. Every African country where education is mandatory which are not many, the people there are just as capable as Europeans if not more so seeing how they actually work instead of drinking soy milk and cry about first world problems in the internet.
I like how they need english subtitles even when theyre speaking english, because even their english has decayed. Its a microcosm of their civilization.
It's Pidgin. Africans are better at speaking English than many 'first world' countries. That is just the way it sounds when people can speak more than one language. Your English isn't exactly flattering either, big girl.
I'm in a former British colony inhabited mostly by Europeans, Indigenous, and Asians and our road, rail, and electrical infrastructure in the 1950s was way more backwards or nonexistent than this part of Africa at the time. Most of the Interior was living off subsistence farming and hunting, we had no fully paved highway, power outside the major cities was nonexistent and so by that time sick of living in the dark ages people just started taking matters in their own hands building their own electrical systems with no oversight and little knowledge of electrical theory (in a heavily forested place most of which couldnt be accessed by firefighters quicky enough due to the dogshit road situation). We didnt truly recover from The Depression until 1960. This backwards and impoverished situation ended up being a deep stinging embarrassment that led to us dedicating 20 years to building thousands of engineering marvels that still form the backbone of our modern civilization. Maintaining the vital infrastructure you already have so you can eat to live another day is the bare minimum.
I too come from a country with a history of "This backwards and impoverished situation ended up being a deep stinging embarrassment that led to us dedicating 20 years to building thousands of engineering marvels that still form the backbone of our modern civilization", fortunately it did pay off but to think things could have gone really really bad had it not worked out the way it did. I still have issues to resolve in 2024, but I would have probably been worn down proper and given up at some point had I been in as bad a situation.
Jag fick lära mig i Tintin att kineserna är ett ödmjukt folk, det verkar inte stämma längre. Älskar kinesens tålmodiga leende när de säger att chaffisen är kenyan, inte kongoles 🤣
Makes one think; that if it wasn’t for sports/entertainment ‘industry’ what would all the ‘athletes’ from NBA, NFL etc would be doing in America. Definitely, not very productive tasks.
This guy is so good wanting. He knows they are robbing the locals off their minerals but wants to pass on some of his enginerial knowledge . Wants good for the locals.
The same can be said across Africa, be it the Congo, South Africa or Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Everywhere Colonialism existed in Africa, improvements were made and the Africans benefited. I remember watching 'Farmlands' by Lauren Southern, and one of her crews guards was a black South African. He said that things were better under Apartheid than they are today.
you must be joking, since aid for africa started they pumped 1-2 trillion dollars into africa....africa cant be helped from the outside....it needs to be from the inside
We understand the environment in Africa is very tough to survive in and requires strength. However, this documentary shows them being lazy or stupid or having no sense of time and are more interested in drinking on payday. At least the Africans can attempt to complete small tasks (projects) everyday as a team instead of being lazy and chill
Northern nations lead the world while they're under ice and complete darkness for half the year and no darkness for the other half. It's because of cultural values not because the environment is difficult.
@@ilikethiskindatubeIt’s because northern nations have been in a constant state of survival. Hard life with low resources, compared to hot countries where food is growing everywhere and is easy to get. Not to mention no worries about surviving winter. These are all linked to the development of culture. Want for more resources caused European imperialism, similar to what the Vikings did on a much larger scale. But ultimately, the same reasons.
@@ilikethiskindatube things dont happen in a vacuum. You cannot will into existence a culture, its a byproducts of the whole civilization. Blaming it on culture is incredibly narrowminded and wrong. If you and me had to live in africa things would be the same for us, we would be the same as them, they are people just like as. Historical burden, lack of industry, inability for domestic industry to compete in global markets making it unable to ever grow, corruption, political instability and poverty makes incentives what they are so things are like this.
@@BridgeTROLL777 I can't make sense of your rambling when you say you disagree with me and that i'm narrowminded and then list aspects of culture that you yourself say is an important factor. if we lived in Africa we would be the same - yes, because we would live under the same culture... historical reasons - it's impact on culture. corruption - is part of culture. political stability - culture. You cannot will a culture into existence, yes and? how does that invalidate my point. You can't tell me that Africa is poor because it's poor because it's poor because it's poor. That's your logic when you say it's unsuccessful because it doesn't have industry or it can't compete and that it's poor. Africa has all sorts of resources and the whole world has tried since the 19th century to get it working and build its industries for it.
The African was as smart as the Chinese guy. In this short video I heard him speak Chinese, French, a bit of local language and Swahili with a few English words mixed in. He also had great sharp humour. "This tape is rubbish it stops at one metre." "That is because it is Chinese." "Why do you have to say that?" "Because it has Made in China written on the side!"
Some Africans are very good at speaking languages. The husband of my wifes sister is from congo he's highly intelligent speaks french, African as his mother tongue he uses English in his university and he speaks perfect português cause he lives in Brasil
The Chinese guy is an engineer helping to develop a nation. The African guy is a translator. Folks are setting standards way way low for measuring intelligence.
Learning a language does not make one intelligent. Africans have had a wide range of different languages within the continent. On top of this, they had to learn a second language from Europeans which includes Dutch, French, English, etc. It's something they had to do and do well by it. But being a polyglot doesn't give a person the raw intelligence since mnemonics are a knowledge base, not an intelligence base. It's why they can't as a people, critically think their way out of a paper bag. What would be intelligent is deciding to adopt a universal language for the entire world, in this case, one with a small set character syntax (that leaves out Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean) and is already widely spoken in the world. Basically put, the language we are speaking right now.
My home city was the most prosperous city in the USA at one point very recently they took it over and it’s one of the worst cities in the USA an absolute nightmare. Yet we move and they eventually move where we are again and again destruction follows
They’ve completely destroyed Philadelphia. When my man said, “It’s all so tiresome”, I felt that. I have to go grocery shopping at 6 am just to avoid their loud and obnoxious behavior. I can only stand getting physically pushed out of the way so many times. Zero respect for themselves or anyone around them.
@@smelltheglove2038Im right down the street In Wilmington. It’s exactly the same. They destroy everything they touch. Then cry it’s broken and beg for $. Such a regressive people!
@@CoreyT127 I think the area we are in and then up to north Jersey and NYC are the worst for these behaviors. I grew up in Va. Beach and they didn’t act like they do here.
people say the chinese guy is grumpy but the man has the patience of a saint. i’m chinese and i can’t think of a single guy in my family who wouldn’t absolutely flip their shit seeing stolen resources and trashed equipment, and most of them are pretty chill dudes too
"...stolen..." I would probably leave that word out given China for the last 70 years to include intellectual property. I lived in Suzhou for two years and spent a lot of time away from Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou etc. You see a lot of this throughout the country to include abandoned construction, roads, etc. And I don't just mean the tofu dreg construction and ghost towns. Broken down or unused construction equipment unmaintained. Not quite the same thing but analogous to it is their mass manufacturing of EVs that are now sitting in thousands of square miles of lots, untouched for years. They simply produce because a workforce must be paid. It's in part why you have ghost towns. 25-30% of the workforce is in construction and must be paid. The problem is who pays them? It's through government subsidies. This is one of the reasons the Yuan/RMB is manipulated so heavily and why it can never be a reliable international security or reserve currency. It's also one of the factors as to why they hit a deflationary spiral in April of this year. Deflation is slightly worse (depends on circumstances, generally) than inflation but it is more difficult to correct. Supply with lower demand (Tariffs against China and banning of their exports only makes this worse) leads to it. China will likely start to recede here in a decade, but will never fall to the level that most of Sub-Saharan Africa is. That's also in part due to the environmental issues of the region. China has similar considerations but they learned not to live in that area of the country (Western half).
There is a book that analyzes why some countries are rich and prosperous while others are poor: "IQ and the Wealth of Nations". In a nutshell, a country needs a minimum average IQ of 80 to maintain machinery and infrastructure. Or you can import Chinese engineers to rebuild and oversee machinery and infrastructure if the average IQ in a country is well below 80.
There’s something oddly fascinating about the Chinese boss. He’s so committed to his own misery. So committed to seeing Africans in the worst light possible, all while wearing a big smile and looking amused. I think the Congolese man somewhat enjoys the banter and the piss taking as well sometimes. To his credit, the Chinese boss didn’t lash out or get defensive about the ‘made in China’ tape measure comment. It’s like they both see a part of themselves in each other or something. There’s a lot to this.
Hes not committed, to his own misery, or committed seeing Africans in worst light. Hes frustrated at how inefficient the job is being done, and experiencing culture shock, compared to his previous work environments. This doesn't require commitment, it's just a natural reaction.
@@irm613 he has a choice about how he views it. Nobody is forcing him to be there. He can leave at any time. He not a victim of anyone or anything but himself.
@@Cfb2987 Once you take a job, you can't just quit without massive damage to your reputation, so he can't leave easily. Have you seen this full documentary? The amounts of frustrations he has to deal with are beyond reason. I have worked in construction and seen fists fly over way smaller issues than hes dealing with, every construction project has problems but not like this. Reason hes sometimes smiling is because the work environment and culture at this point is beyond bad, but reach comical absurdity level.
@@irm613 I believe you have the experience you say you do, but the first thing I wrote was “he has a choice about how he views it.” Whatever happens, he has a choice about what he thinks about what he’s seeing. When he or anyone thinks thoughts like “they should be different” and “this should be easy” or “this shouldn’t take so long”, the result is always frustration, but the frustration comes from the thoughts he’s thinking about what he’s seeing. He has a choice about what he chooses to think, whether he stays there or not and many other th. He also has the choice to stay where he is, keep thinking the same thoughts, and keep being miserable. It’s all up to him. That’s the point of what I’m saying.
@@Cfb2987 Well that's just some Buddhist philosophy shit, it does make sense in theory, you can apply this detachment from outcome and wise observer in lower stress situations well, but considering dealing with the things this work organiser is dealing, its not so easy, and hes handling it relatively well.
Poor Chinese guy was adapted to a life where everything was very much (micro)managed. ALL he know went AWOL once he set foor on African soil and the 'we don't care, hakuna matata' lifestyle. They don't care much for progress when it means they have to put in an effort
Full documentary here:
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www.bitchute.com/video/Fn5x8ukPHZAu/
thank you, that was an interesting watch
-So the belgians built this road 50 years ago and you did nothing to mantain
-Yes
What do you want him to say to that ?
He probs wasnt even born back then .
And then they'll turn around and blame the Belgians for why their country is in the state it's in
@@TomorrowWeLiveexactly 🤦🏽♀️😑🤣
@@TomorrowWeLiveit’s no a one phased problem.
Whatever you say pig. Fascist goes oink oink.
He did get him on the measuring tape part haha
I got a good chuckle out of that one. lmao.
Other then that man got destroyed by facts throughout the time 😂😂
Eddy with the zinger 😂
in principle, the irony is that the Chinese guy would have never bought this kind of tape in China. He'd buy a good one "made in China". Only not so smart foreigners buy this kind stuff from Chinese, thinking that they are saving money. It kind of shows how lazy and irresponsible these Congolese folks are: they buy crap from China, then do shoddy non-work with it, then push it as a zinger onto a Chinese boss who's building an infrastructure project, instead of sucking it up and doing something for real.
He caught the guy from China bitching about a Chinese made good....
The problem is that the guy from China does too much bitching, not enough thinking.
I said it elsewhere here.... teach the workers basic arithmetic. A lot of Americans are innumerate, why would Congoese be any different?
Once the workers can reliably measure, now you have a basis for good data. Now you can tell where the losses are occurring.
Those trucks don't seen to be made for offroad work. They have street tires. China can make or copy good offroad equipment. Limit the speeds that drivers can go using speed governors. Put fans in the trucks so that drivers have a breeze blowing onto them. They won't need to go flying down the road to stay cool.
Start there....
Its sad to say, but this is even washed down. I did some contractor work over there and it was absolutley the worst experence ever. They get outfitted with electricity, water pipes which delivers fresh drinking water, get machinery to farm on the most fertile ground plus get taught (to no avail, the stupidity was jaw dropping) how to use the machinery for farming etc. You come back a few month later. The machinery is completely dismantled and everything sold for scrap. Same with the waterpipes and electrical wire. Everything was even worse afterwards. Then they complain and demand more handouts. Its all so tiresome. I will never ever step a foot on that continent ever.
Then they blame colonisation for their situation
@@rolandcolavizza5368you seem to have missed the point
@@deanasaursWhat was the point thats being missed? My family have stories from their time in Kenya in the 1980's/1990's where Europeans built schools only for the locals to strip anything from the buildings that can be sold for quick cash. If you're hinting at colonialism as the cause of these peoples woes then you've fallen for a false narrative.
Median IQ of below 80 does that
@@josephmarkham so u people established slavery for the Africans own good is ur narrative I guess.
If a Belgian were to say 10% of this, it would be considered racist.
But when a Chinese guy says it with a smile it's constructive criticism.
The Chinese haven't massacred millions of Africans, though. The Belgians did. Might be a good thing to just stfu then.
thats because the chinese guy is not racist to began with
@@spike378 So belonging to a race makes diffrence? If he was a belgian,he's hateful,if he's chinese,it's constructive criticism.
@@spike378the Belgians gave all that stuff to the blacks ages ago. They obviously tried to help them.
@lionheart2982 that's because white people has a long history of racism around the world.
Most of you are missing a point, the Chinese guy saw his own country come from a worse place than this 50-60 years ago and saw a lot of people die to make China is what it is today. His his contempt comes from the fact Africa gave up on it's self.
To be fair, most of the Chinese people that died were killed by other Chinese.
Gave up? They were always like that 😂
@@shaftlamer Yes, I think the Chinese man is referring to how the Europeans left a lot of technology, but things got arguably worse. The Africans did not build on it. They went backwards.
@@lukek1949 I was saying that africa never "gave up on itself" africa was always the shithole that it is
China is one country. Africa is many countries.
Good to see people from different cultures getting along so well.
😂
Yes our diversity is our strength (funny you more you say it the less true it becomes.
This measure is crap! It's only 1 metre! "Of course, it's made in China!"😅😂
Lmao
😂🎉
This is why chinese was employing only chinese people to do the work.
It also reveals a lot that since the Belgians constructed the road in 1954 none of the locals ever considered to maintain it.
Foreigners build and develop infrastructure and many great things in african countries but the africans themselves cant take care of it or just doesnt care.
Initially they werent on the project in the documentary, it didnt work out as can be glimpsed from just these selected clips, so iirc they switched over to flying in chinese experts to be the bosses and chinese convicts for the manual labor.
We indians were in similar situation, but we had education even before independence some of our scientist had won noble prize, so we built on what British left not so well, but its work in progress, we managed to send probe on moon. Africans were introduced to western education or educational institutes very late, it will take them a lot of years and add to it foreign interventions, foreign funded military coups civil war situation is hopeless
@@aakarshchaudhary7359India hasn't put a man on the moon . What on earth are you talking about ?
A probe , yes . A man , no
@@christopherh2336 yes probe sorry
Learn africa before talking and writing rubbish.
Classic, it's all so tiresome...
He can return to china then ;)
@@dociekania and then they can cry about China instead of anyone else they depend on handouts from
We found the infamous image
Yes, he is wearied by it all.
@@dociekania From one dump to another.
anyone worked in Africa knows why Africa is poor and it is not the colonization
Very true
Hundreds of years of Colonization and slavery ravaged their resources, destroyed their culture and society beyond repair, yet somehow it is not the reason? Ok, armchair expert lol
@@sepg5084 europe colonized and enslaved each others for hundreds of years, as a matter of fact, most human civilizations did
And we all know the reason but canf say it
@@alexnick4996 i will say it tho. N. N's are the reason Africa is a sheethowle.
The yellow man's burden.
The white man got burnt, now the yellow man will to
@@FHARTZENGIGGLESwhite man got off Scott free. The black man got burned. The yellow are at least trying to uplift the black. At one point in history the black was advanced.
White people: "Let's see you f"ckers do any better!"
I too wonder why my country wastes millions of dollars annually on aid to African countries
When corrupt African leaders will always be loyal to china
Instead we should give that to countries like Armenia, vietnam, Afghanistan or Philippines
@@Darkest_matter When you wuz kangz n shieeet? Whites are pathologically empathetic, they tried to help you, failed, and then got spiteful before feeling guilty about it. The Chinese only deal with you because they know you're most gullible, short sighted people on earth and will cheer them on as they enrich your leaders and ransack your country because they said a few words to make it "anticolonial"
The Chinese are not shackled by western moralism / political correctness and just tell it like it is
the chinese man is also incredibly narrowminded in his "analysis" because he selfishly is only interested in this phenomena only as far as it relates to his tasks.
While he might describe how things are he doesnt explain why things are how they are, how very understandable it is that things ended up like this, and how to solve it.
He is merely satisfied being condescending.
@@BridgeTROLL777 like I said, calls it like it is, no sugarcoating or nothing. Besides that, what good reason could there be for neglect, misuse, corruption and nepotism? Latest example: South Africa
@@BridgeTROLL777 The other guy explains why things are - stuff wasn't maintained. The chinese guy isn't there to solve the dysfunction within their society, he's not there to fix the road, he's there to do a job and the dysfunction is making that job diffifcult. Truth hurts.
@@MexxProtectOh I don’t know decades of apartheid which allowed westerners to rob South Africans of their businesses by taking away their rights their freedom education land and pretending that what followed is of their own doing.
The word you're looking for is racist, amigo
The only infrastructure ever built in Africa was by OUTSIDE nations... They've never learned how to build or maintain a single thing, technically. That's why all vehicles are imported.
*Sub-Sahara Africa, Egypt and North Africa don't count.
Yeah, it is sad they cannot get their shit together. They could be a power-house with all those resources. PLUS, they receive so much aid. No other country is even close.
Sub 80 . That's why
@@christopherh2336And it completely shines through in this documentary. Its like an adult supervising a bunch of children! Also shows that laziness isn’t a culture thing. But a genetic thing! I’ve seen prison road crews that work harder!😂
Africans invented steel. Who knows what else Africans created, including trade and capitalism. Africa had trade for generations.
Africa, being so wealthy in plant and animal life, and most often not needing fire except to cook, did not require industrialization. Humans are best adapted to Africa because we spent the bulk of our existence as human beings there.
When you have it good most of the time, you do not evolve. Every organism wants to conserve energy.
Europe and parts of Asia were arctic cold part of the year. We had to change the world around us just to survive. We need special food treatment to keep the vitamins in the food. We needed to be forward thinking because we only had one or two growing seasons.
Europe and Asia had incessant wars. War drives technical growth because technical growth helps win wars. We evolved
organizational strategies to win war.
Our habits to survive changed us.
most real documentary ever
Also the documentary "Hotel Paradise", about a certain demographic in Bulgaria, that not even communist government could get into line: th-cam.com/video/yTQu41ffoSs/w-d-xo.html
@@detpekandefingretI'm romanian and I deal with this kind of problem everyday so I know what you are talking about.
Any more recommendations?
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@Anton43218 If this video about a certain demographic in US doesn't blow your mind, I don't know what will (also, search my channel for "Jarred"): th-cam.com/video/MDQUfr88ZG0/w-d-xo.html
@@Anton43218 Why don't they assimilate and change their behavior? Are they cursed by God or something? I can't fathom their mindset, are they pagans?
"This measure sucks. It stops at 1 meter!"
"Of course, it's made in China" 😂
shows that Congolese are so dumb that they even get fooled to buy some fake crap from Chinese no-name scammers
They all are, some of their good ones cost just a bit more. I use measuring tapes every time and they all flex at shorter lengths eventually through use but quicker with weathering and misuse which might be what the boss pondered.
another dumb ass who don't know anything..china products have grades..If u r a cheapskate..u get what you pay for..good stuff from china are not cheap..understand that before you comment
The goods made in China only as good as how much you are willing to pay for them. Pay more - get a better quality product, pay less - get a worse quality one.
@@serhiyranush4420 lol no you've clearly never traded with them, they use identical stems to international yet theirs are 'rated' as higher standard that is what you could classify as say a C they would claim was actually an A grade when they sell it to you
The moment where the Congolese dude pointed out the tape measure was made in China and the Chinese boss said nothing was great. To me, that could have been ordinary men from anywhere in the world taking the piss out of each other. 😂 Gotta give the Chinese boss props for not getting defensive or lashing out about it. He agreed without agreeing. 😂
Yeah I thought that was pretty funny as well, and he didn't retort back cause he knew where the African dude was coming from. Anyway the two of them give jibes at each other without retorting back
Chinese dude could at least laughed a bit to show he had a sense of humor.
@@mardouqhouseofe3962 Stoic faces is how we project our sense of humor lol
@@mardouqhouseofe3962What are you the laugh police?
I think he didn't react just because he wanted to do the work instead of losing time with jokes.
Lao Yang comes off as strict, demeaning but somehow still likeable while Eddy comes off as lazy and incompetent while still being likeable. Im sure they ended up getting along.
Nah man he doesn't come off as lazy tho and not inconpetent
Lao Yang comes off as narrow minded, uneducated, racist and full of Chinese propaganda to spread the belief that Africans need colonisers. But I guess it's just your perspective
As weird as it may sound, I think they’re actually getting along just fine in all of these outtakes, and I’m not being sarcastic. - I haven’t seen the full documentary, so my apologies if there are scenes where they’re yelling and swearing at each other / threatening each other in the larger documentary.
@@Cfb2987 There are scenes of the blacks and Chinese in their respective quarters, talking amongst themselves about the other group with complete contempt. You are getting the wrong impression from these scenes. The frustration and blaming becoming increasingly blatant towards the end.
@@technologicalwaste7612 sad to hear that, but thanks for letting me know. It felt better to believe that it was just extra harsh ribbing and piss taking with goodwill underneath it. 😕
Should have been a series production following them until the road is finished (if it ever got finished).
Kinda have to give respect to the chinese master's right hand man: the dude speaks his ethnic language, french (lingua franca in his country), english and mandarin.
So he can spout excuses in three different languages? Too bad that doesn’t actually translate into anything meaningful. He is completely incompetent in every other aspect.
@@smelltheglove2038Dude its like watching a adult supervise children!
Nah.
It’s like a manager teaching people that have never had this task before.
@@smelltheglove2038 did you worked anywhere else but in guitar store or any other ordinary routine job?
@@smelltheglove2038he's just the messenger, his job is to follow the cranky Chinese man around and try to make deals while explaining details, give him a break.
'This Measure Tape sucks'
"Ofcourse, its made in China"
'How do You Know?'
"Because it says 'Made in China'"
...
...
'Let's Measure it'
Its hilarious how passive aggressive the Chinese and Congolese are to eachother.
the entire exchange was comedy gold
😂
The fact that measuring tape goes to 1 meter has nothing to do with made in China. When you buy measuring tapes, there are different types, so 1 meter tape is cheaper than 3 or 5 meter tape, no matter where its made, so worker was assigned to buy measuring tape and he just bought cheapest one, without thinking that it is insufficient for the job.
nah. the Harbor Freight tapes are different then a classic Stanley. They do just buckle like that from the slightest mis-handling. lol. I've got a HF tape that does just that, real delicate. You either cope or go buy a better quality one at 3x the price.
My uncle directed a mine in Zambia, much the same job as this guy.
He told me that the first 3 days after payday, none of the workers show up for work. They're busy drinking, gambling and whoring away their paycheck. And when they have nothing left, they come back to work... and then promptly ask for an advance on their next paycheck while making up fake excuses for why they need the money, it's always some sick relative.
They're just like this, and it's why everywhere they live is shit, whether it's Detroit or Mombasa.
lol i have been in south africa , its so true bro... our forklift driver used to skip almost every monday because he was so drunk on sunday
agreed.
Possible solution: pay them daily(?) Probably not possible though as long as there is no working insurance companies and executive there and the employers have to use the monthly salaries as insurance funds to deduct stolen goods from...
@@polaki18they also don’t pay them daily because they will gamble with other workers and get into fights on company property. Better for them to 🐒 out in some mud hut “casino”
Those of signs of depression, Chinese were no different under Japanese and British colonialism. Opioid use for Chinese, alcohol for the Africans
We are all this beleaguered Chinese man
This is what happens when you put people who've been living in tribes, immediately into society.
The Chinese have had large societies for thousands of years.
Latin Americas had Inca, Aztec, and Maya. India has also been large & affluent. And all are currently at least having partially functioning societies.
But Africa, similar to North American indigenous who were also living in tribes when colonized, and look at the issues.
@@jake.presents Wealthiest continent on earth and in the 6000 years of the existence of civilization they didn't manage to form any coherent type of society south of the desert save for briefly Mali. They are incapable.
@@metalltitan kush for a for time - albeit for raiding Egypt 😂
@@jake.presentsthey never had a chance, the world outpaced them fast enough to spoil them with things they never learned to make for themselves. It's sad, really. They got boned, just not in the way they complain about.
@@metalltitanMali wealth was built on their king trading slaves to Arabs 😂
He didn't actually say "it's so tiresome" -- a literal translation is "this is so hard to accomplish"...it can certainly be construed as meaning "this is so tiring" (because something hard to do is often tiresome) but I think the connotation is more along the lines of "sigh this shouldn't be so difficult" rather than "this is so tiring."
But yeah, it's incredible how Africa is basically stuck in neolithic times!!
Yeah but his point stands.
To most Americans, "tiresome" pretty much means something is difficult, annoying, pain in the ass, frustrating etc. So if this was originally subtitled for an American audience... It's probably fairly accurate to the emotions he was feeling in that situation.
I'd argue that in English Tiresome isn't really the same as tiring. Tiresome is more akin to boring and something to be "fed up with".
He says "Aiya, it's really difficult dealing with these matters/this situation", which does carry the implication that it's a troublesome and tiresome matter. I guess a closer translation would be "It's so tiresome, dealing with all this."
真的是很難搞啊 'it's all so tiresome' isn't a bad translation at all
Now he knows why the Europeans left.
There was no money to be made of there anymore.
@@GansHanders Nonsense, the Africans in charge of these countries are making boat loads of money, while the people are starving. The cost of maintaining an African empire for a European nation is not worth dealing with Africans and Africa. Besides, most European countries would rather just import the cheap foreign labor and replace their own native citizens, instead of expending treasure, sweat, and blood to maintain these failed nations any more than is profitable.
@@GansHanders Theres no money in the congos lmao. They are the cobalt and copper capital of the bloody world
@@justingreaves6769 Slave labour was outlawed in Belgium but not in the Congo.
@@GansHanders you said there was no money to be made, I didnt say anything about slaves. If you watched the video they are paying the Chinese in minerals to build the infrastructure. So there is money to be made and plenty of it
I visited Africa only once. But it was astonishing to me to the point I thought "This is gonna be IMPOSSIBLE to fix, not in a 1000 years", and the other bad thought I had was "It seems like they want (or are ok at least) to live surrounded by sheit". We were visiting a small city. Only to stay there one night. Only one decent place to stay. At night we went for a walk. We saw a building with one hole (less than a meter) on the bottom corner of one former nice building. Clay. Solid. The guide told us a non profit organization built it with european funds not that long ago as a multitask building (sports, meetings, medical attention if needed...) but it was being used by people to sleep there since it was nicer than their homes, but the rats were a problem. Big problem. They entered through the hole.
He told us that the same non profit org that built it, sent funds to repair the hole a lot of times and the money disappeared. So, instead, they decided to send the materials needed to fix it. A LOT of them. More than necessary to fix that hole. Brand new tools better than the ones I use in my house in Europe.
Well... the materials, the bricks, the tools... everything was there alongside the building. Few meters away to the hole.
I asked the guide... since you now have everything you need to fix it, why don't you (or they) fix it??
He smiled with not that much frustration and said; "C'est comme ça"
It is what it is. That experience summarizes Africa.
As another comment said, they would sell a tractor by pieces that can make them earn 3000/year wrking, for 50 bucks but NOW and without working.
What does it mean? what he said to you?
It means "thats how it is"
Time preference
How is it possible to be so lazy while at the same time producing some of the worlds greatest athletes...
"It wears you down"
I live and work in Africa and this is so true. The daily dose of frustration just leaves you depleted.
Why don't you resign !😂?
@@buravan1512because then that would be one more to the one gorillionth African famines and “why isn’t the rest the world doing anything to help them?”
the more successful cultures in modern times, see themselves as beneficiaries of society NOT as victims of society
and yet in the west today the natives are the victims
Exactly. The victim mentality leads to nothing except ruin
They are friends but the chinese guy is extremely candid when the measuring tape was wrong the guy said the tape was made in china as a joke and the guy took it
I don't think it was actually a joke; he pointed out where it said Made in China
@@bazimyanI do think it's a joke, as in poorly constructed which is certainly what a lot of Chinese goods are notorious for. However, the comment misses the point entirely: the tape measure works fine, it's just not long enough. Which in reality makes it a self own, since it's his home turf and he should have the proper tools available...
I think calling them friends is generous at best. Seems more like colleagues on a project which isn't going well, since the inherent tension is always there ready to burst at any moment. The Chinese guy is there to get a job done, and this sole Congolese he can communicate with fluently is the outlet for the frustration he's constantly feeling. The man doesn't agree with him at all, hence the "it's only been 50 years" comment and makes excuses for his people. They're work mates, and not great ones at that...
@@randylahey8207 It's a crap measuring tape because it was made in China and not in the Congo.
@@secondchance6603 Congo will take another 2.000 years to be able to make such a crap tape, lol
I like the chinese dude railing about the measuring tape and the black guy says "made in china" lmao
lol only idiots buy bad tapes from Chinese no-name "manufacturers". There are plenty of good tools made in China. You just need to have the brains to value good tools, and you'll pick the right stuff.
🤣🤣🤣
Thats the typical african way, blame others
Surprising you can still watch it on yt.
Specifically in the Congo, the indigenous population have been picking low hanging fruit and eating bushmeat for all of history. Culturally and biologically they are not cut out for collaborative work and creating/maintaining a large well organised society. Asians, westerners, Arabs, native Americans and even Polynesians have all overcame difficult circumstances to prosper. A lot of the Congolese people don't even want to progress because they are scared about losing their way of life, traditions etc.
It isn't fear of losing their tradition.
It's being lazy and pathetic.
Proof is the fact that they're getting bullied by a nation the size of New York.
Snacka om kulturkrock - världens flitigaste folk möter världens lataste
Diligent? I would say the Japanese or Germans. Chinese can be quite slack and cut corners, although of course they are fantastic compared to Africans.
Chinese were pretty lazy 100 years ago too
@@xealit Dude, 1924 was the Warlord era. The country was broken into many states. If you're gonna generalize and simplify the traits of an entire ethnic group, at least pick a better example.
Chinese are too clever for their own good. 100 years ago all they did was copy everything. Same like today
@@xealit yes it all started with deng xiaoping, and he was one of the few who kept his promise, to improve life by hard work
The bible says, speak truth in love. I love the way this chinese guy speaks a bitter truth with smile on his face.
I doubt love is on his mind atm
the Chinese man asks why didnt Africans learn anything if they were colonised by the Europeans. Well, the same thing can be asked about China: why didnt the Chinese learn anything after being colonised by the Japanese? The Japanese are generally polite, disciplined, clean, have good hygiene, and live alongside robots. China? They spread Covid19 across the planet because of their poor sanitation standards in their wet markets. Parents let their kids crap in the streets in Beijing, and mainland Chinese tourists are notoriously rude and crass whenever they travel abroad. Again, why didnt they learn good manners and discipline from the Japanese? Truth hurts.
Im just…speaking the truth in love ;)
@@chrisjackson8151I don't think you know anything about Japanese colonization.
Reminds me of the story about when we did send them a ship full of farm animals, (cows chicken sheep pigs) they slaughterd all and ate them.
On the question why they said they were hungry..
We then again explained animal products and breeding and send a new ship..
They also got slaughterd..
Hopeless..
Till the day of now they are stil hungry 😂
they are low iq n's my dude, the joke is on us who are feeding them and letting them multiply.
"So the Belgian built it and then it was neglected". Man that hurts
This Chinese guy is so nice. Very sincere, concerned, with tough love.
3:51 - As a white South African, I felt that.
as a chinese man living in south africa for nearly 21 yrs, i couldnt agree more
The "bridge" discourse over st twitter brought me here.
It's honestly a tragedy what the Africans do or fail to do for themselves, you cannot blame colonialism for this, not anymore. They have had enough chances to build back but simply do not do it.
I will admit where I live in southeast Asia has issues like these but, damn, its just something else over there.
what do you mean by "to build back"? Build back to the _pre-colonial_ times? then that's kind of exactly what they are doing, isn't it? They did not have railroads before the colonialism - no railroads now. The drive road is also messed up. If these Chinese ever get something done there, who is going to maintain it?
these apes don't get that unlike them Europeans didn't get a leg up we literally had to do the farming and industrial revolutions off our own backs
Have you considered looking at the leaders of these countries? It feels like every leader and government is more corrupt and vain than the last, nothing ever gets done and over time the small folk only end up looking at what's right beneath their feet, never thinking forwards. The longer it goes on, the deeper a hole is dug and the more likely the next leaders are just as bad or worse, giving the corruption more time to plant its roots and further ruin any well-meaning person's ability to make amends.
It's a vicious cycle that needs intervention, but more often than not, what comes next only worsens everything.
Some just don't belong in civilization and it's useless to try and bring civilization to them. Just leave them to their ancient ways and keep them separate from the civilized world.
You cannot have pretty things in the hood. Now you see why America?
Nice mental gymnastics
@@moravianlion3108 Hopping has become gymnastics.
@@moravianlion3108what’s the mental gymnastics here with his comment? Do you know what mental gymnastics means?
Ok, but the Congolese guy at 4:50 had a sick burn.
I bet thats how they keep score. By giving sick burns.
Misused and full of dirt… like everything else they touch.
I have a tape measure made in China been working like a charm for ten years.
It takes a Chinese man to spit the truth.
he's a tapeworm too. so.
Det er oppfriskende å se fullengde-media uten spor av politisk korrekthet eller påtatt høflighet. Bare direkte og ærlig, uten å pakke inn ordene.
The original is much longer.
So kind hearted man actually. Real man.
Woke people need to go here for a few weeks to learn about reality
😂
They should send 50% of woke white people to Africa. For diversity
So true! 🤣🤣 actually legit good eye opener
We should deport the n's their j masters AND white leftists and force them to live together there.
As a resident and teacher in Oakland CA, it's scary how similar this is to oakland
I’m from Sacramento and I completely agree.
be proud of your ghetto
Places in China are as bad if not worse as well. Lived in Suzhou for two years but spent a lot of time away from Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou etc. And these are newly constructed places. It goes well beyond the Tufo Dreg construction and ghost towns.
I did some humanitarian aid work in Africa on assignment for two of my 22 years in the USAF and both Africa and China have similar conditions. Far worse than Oakland, although this is California we're talking about. That's due to policy and demographics.
@@janus3555 The tofu dreg stuff was funny when the US were putting people on the moon. These days bridges and highways are collapsing, doors are flying of airplanes and you can basically lean a whole in the wall of any modern McMansion home in the USA.
China has the excuse of having to modernize a country of a billion people. Africa has a lot of excuses, but the real one is the human capital is not equal to the rest of the world . What's America's excuse for becoming a third-world country?
And , me , as a teacher in London of the same minority-group
This man is the embodiment of a long and tired * sigh *
Lao Yang reminds of my Father. Honestly everyone who thinks Lao Yang is looking down on the natives or expressing racism simply doesn´t know about chinese culture. Lao Yang actually cares about the people there, he doesn´t simply want to do his job and be done.
Gotta love Chinese. No BS.
No BS? Go to any large Chinese city, then tell us.
He's probably not grumpy at home when people are actually doing the job right. He's grumpy because he has to deal with your lot and the nonsense that goes with it. This movie gets a bit tedious, but it's spot on. 56 years... And you can't even maintain a road...
OMG! I haven't laughed this hard in a while🤣 The fact that this is a documentary and you know they aren't joking, makes it even more hilarious🤣 You know it's all true, and it's just so hilarious that they finally said it to each other. They both seem so embarrassed🤣
I have no clue how this ended up in my suggestions, but thank you algorithm😂
I'd also recommend this, about certain demographics in USA, that had me not knowing if I should laugh or just gawk jaw open wide: th-cam.com/video/MDQUfr88ZG0/w-d-xo.html
I lived and worked in congo for 18 years and let me tell you this. Everything he's dealing and complaining about is all true.
The Congolese have a mindset of laziness and short term thinking.
If you construct a cable system to give their neighborhoods power, the first thing they'll do is destroy that new infrastructure to steal the copper in the cables to sell it, and use that money to spend it on church or drinking.
Everything is made more difficult there because these guys do not care about long-term consequences. They just want instant gratification.
The worst isn't the Congolese workers though. The ones in politics and in position of power are even more corrupt.
If you send millions to build back roads, you can bet your ass someone is going to take that money and buid a mansion with it.
These guys do not have a culture of long-term planning. Its all instant gratification and spending.
This is why the only things that work over there are when foreign supervision is involved.
I hate to say this, because the Congolese are very nice and friendly people. But laziness and quick profit is part of their culture.
It would take generations to fix this.
@@Sarazoul It's almost like people who have never had to deal with winter in their evolutionary history lack the traits to deal with such event: delay gratification, work hard in the present for surviving a known challenge that comes every year. What kills you in Africa are random things (disease, animals, conflict), that you can not plan for. A better strategy in such climate is to maximize offspring, and have low investment in each.
@@Sarazoul Let's see if this comment, on my own video, is allowed by the mighty content filter. If it does, I'd advice you to see: odysee.com/Rushton:b
No need to use God's name as a profanity. Please remove it and repent.
Is this Rush hour part 5?? Cause it was hilarious!
Rush hour Nollywood edition.
Correction, he says that the trucks in China last 30 years (not 4 years as stated in the videos subtitle) compared to the trucks that only last 2 to 3 years in the Congo because they are not maintained and driven badly...
Interesting, thanks!
This is the equivalent of a returning Primarch and seeing the state of the Imperium in Warhammer 40k.
Och dessa är ingen minoritet i världen direkt... 😟
@ 5:20 The shrugging of the shoulders, the resignation. All over the world there are those, "Like she'll be right mate, whatever, like, so what, like, he's Kenyan, like wasn't me, the other bloke did it like."
If you have spent any time, anywhere in Africa, it's the same.
Never a truer word said, the countries that weren't like this have become this! Zimbabwe was such a great country destroyed by Mugabe & ZANU PF corruption!
Even north Africa?
Even East Africa? Ethiopia was never colonized
@@bobbiusshadow6985 north Africa once had high IQ phoenician blood. They are not so low IQ browns now. Subsaharans is a whole different beast.
Crazy. Just the other day i watched a documentary on the nilgiri mountain railway. All the infrastructure built by british and maintained by indians passing their engineering skills down. Here....nothing
I bet the Chinese guy would've loved Rhodesia back when the government actually maintained a modern level of living.
Modern living only for the white.
Every African country where education is mandatory which are not many, the people there are just as capable as Europeans if not more so seeing how they actually work instead of drinking soy milk and cry about first world problems in the internet.
6 minutes and 36 seconds of pure based.
I like how they need english subtitles even when theyre speaking english, because even their english has decayed. Its a microcosm of their civilization.
It's Pidgin. Africans are better at speaking English than many 'first world' countries. That is just the way it sounds when people can speak more than one language. Your English isn't exactly flattering either, big girl.
The DRC is a French speaking state.
Them knowing English is not supposed to be guaranteed.
I'm in a former British colony inhabited mostly by Europeans, Indigenous, and Asians and our road, rail, and electrical infrastructure in the 1950s was way more backwards or nonexistent than this part of Africa at the time. Most of the Interior was living off subsistence farming and hunting, we had no fully paved highway, power outside the major cities was nonexistent and so by that time sick of living in the dark ages people just started taking matters in their own hands building their own electrical systems with no oversight and little knowledge of electrical theory (in a heavily forested place most of which couldnt be accessed by firefighters quicky enough due to the dogshit road situation). We didnt truly recover from The Depression until 1960. This backwards and impoverished situation ended up being a deep stinging embarrassment that led to us dedicating 20 years to building thousands of engineering marvels that still form the backbone of our modern civilization. Maintaining the vital infrastructure you already have so you can eat to live another day is the bare minimum.
I too come from a country with a history of
"This backwards and impoverished situation ended up being a deep stinging embarrassment that led to us dedicating 20 years to building thousands of engineering marvels that still form the backbone of our modern civilization",
fortunately it did pay off but to think things could have gone really really bad had it not worked out the way it did.
I still have issues to resolve in 2024, but I would have probably been worn down proper and given up at some point had I been in as bad a situation.
Just say Singapore.
Jag fick lära mig i Tintin att kineserna är ett ödmjukt folk, det verkar inte stämma längre. Älskar kinesens tålmodiga leende när de säger att chaffisen är kenyan, inte kongoles 🤣
My heart goes out to that poor Chinese dude. Must be very tiring having to deal with so many idiots and thieves on a daily basis.
That made it china measuring tape really had me lmao
The Chinese is not getting paid enough for this
Yeah he sure looks like it. Like he'd rather be anywhere else but there dealing with these incompetent people.
Third world gonna third world.
n's gonna neeg.
Samma problem vart dom än bor.
I’m beginning to recognize a pattern here!😂😂
@@CoreyT127lol you seem to be in everyone’s comments, this pleases you doesn’t it??
A cultural shock, productivity and effectiveness Vs. we just don't care....
Makes one think; that if it wasn’t for sports/entertainment ‘industry’ what would all the ‘athletes’ from NBA, NFL etc would be doing in America. Definitely, not very productive tasks.
Lying is their trademark. Those are just facts.
Sub 80 crew
A Chinese man giving driving tips... now I've seen it all.
I feel his pain.
This guy is so good wanting. He knows they are robbing the locals off their minerals but wants to pass on some of his enginerial knowledge . Wants good for the locals.
so this is where that screenshot that the funny men on 4chan keep posting came from
The same can be said across Africa, be it the Congo, South Africa or Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Everywhere Colonialism existed in Africa, improvements were made and the Africans benefited. I remember watching 'Farmlands' by Lauren Southern, and one of her crews guards was a black South African. He said that things were better under Apartheid than they are today.
Been there,can confirm
The Western World has sent millions and millions of pounds, euros, dollars to different African states. Where has it gone, where has it been used?
Mostly on weapons and Swiss banks.
you must be joking, since aid for africa started they pumped 1-2 trillion dollars into africa....africa cant be helped from the outside....it needs to be from the inside
Corrupt leadership, same as Western countries
Weapons and politicians sports cars.
they were millions. now they are billions. And it is OUR fault.
We understand the environment in Africa is very tough to survive in and requires strength. However, this documentary shows them being lazy or stupid or having no sense of time and are more interested in drinking on payday. At least the Africans can attempt to complete small tasks (projects) everyday as a team instead of being lazy and chill
Africa wouldn't be so tough to live in had its people actually cared.
Northern nations lead the world while they're under ice and complete darkness for half the year and no darkness for the other half.
It's because of cultural values not because the environment is difficult.
@@ilikethiskindatubeIt’s because northern nations have been in a constant state of survival. Hard life with low resources, compared to hot countries where food is growing everywhere and is easy to get. Not to mention no worries about surviving winter. These are all linked to the development of culture. Want for more resources caused European imperialism, similar to what the Vikings did on a much larger scale. But ultimately, the same reasons.
@@ilikethiskindatube things dont happen in a vacuum. You cannot will into existence a culture, its a byproducts of the whole civilization. Blaming it on culture is incredibly narrowminded and wrong.
If you and me had to live in africa things would be the same for us, we would be the same as them, they are people just like as.
Historical burden, lack of industry, inability for domestic industry to compete in global markets making it unable to ever grow, corruption, political instability and poverty makes incentives what they are so things are like this.
@@BridgeTROLL777 I can't make sense of your rambling when you say you disagree with me and that i'm narrowminded and then list aspects of culture that you yourself say is an important factor.
if we lived in Africa we would be the same - yes, because we would live under the same culture...
historical reasons - it's impact on culture.
corruption - is part of culture.
political stability - culture.
You cannot will a culture into existence, yes and? how does that invalidate my point.
You can't tell me that Africa is poor because it's poor because it's poor because it's poor. That's your logic when you say it's unsuccessful because it doesn't have industry or it can't compete and that it's poor. Africa has all sorts of resources and the whole world has tried since the 19th century to get it working and build its industries for it.
The African was as smart as the Chinese guy.
In this short video I heard him speak Chinese, French, a bit of local language and Swahili with a few English words mixed in.
He also had great sharp humour.
"This tape is rubbish it stops at one metre."
"That is because it is Chinese."
"Why do you have to say that?"
"Because it has Made in China written on the side!"
Some Africans are very good at speaking languages. The husband of my wifes sister is from congo he's highly intelligent speaks french, African as his mother tongue he uses English in his university and he speaks perfect português cause he lives in Brasil
@harveysmith100 I’ll bet he is as disgusted as the Chinese guy.
@@Psalm51-ql2cn Most Africans I have met are bi-lingual, minimum, four of five languages is not uncommon.
The Chinese guy is an engineer helping to develop a nation. The African guy is a translator. Folks are setting standards way way low for measuring intelligence.
Learning a language does not make one intelligent. Africans have had a wide range of different languages within the continent. On top of this, they had to learn a second language from Europeans which includes Dutch, French, English, etc. It's something they had to do and do well by it. But being a polyglot doesn't give a person the raw intelligence since mnemonics are a knowledge base, not an intelligence base.
It's why they can't as a people, critically think their way out of a paper bag.
What would be intelligent is deciding to adopt a universal language for the entire world, in this case, one with a small set character syntax (that leaves out Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean) and is already widely spoken in the world. Basically put, the language we are speaking right now.
They're stuck at mindset of minion
You can hear it in the Chinese guys voice, slowly dying inside…
I love how the Chinese have a word for knobhead
My home city was the most prosperous city in the USA at one point very recently they took it over and it’s one of the worst cities in the USA an absolute nightmare. Yet we move and they eventually move where we are again and again destruction follows
They’ve completely destroyed Philadelphia. When my man said, “It’s all so tiresome”, I felt that. I have to go grocery shopping at 6 am just to avoid their loud and obnoxious behavior. I can only stand getting physically pushed out of the way so many times. Zero respect for themselves or anyone around them.
@@smelltheglove2038Im right down the street In Wilmington. It’s exactly the same. They destroy everything they touch. Then cry it’s broken and beg for $. Such a regressive people!
@@CoreyT127 I think the area we are in and then up to north Jersey and NYC are the worst for these behaviors. I grew up in Va. Beach and they didn’t act like they do here.
Diversity is the white child's burden
Do something about it, otherwise you are throwing your kids to the wolves.
This is happening now in CA.
But, dey wuz kangz !! Now they are taking orders from "Kang".
they wuz pharaos and sheeeeei
4:44 "Of course, it's made in China" 😂
We're not all the same.
Of course, it's made in china. Bright comment lights up my day.
Love how eddy speaks in 3 completely different languages but manages to not translate anything useful whatsoever lol
people say the chinese guy is grumpy but the man has the patience of a saint. i’m chinese and i can’t think of a single guy in my family who wouldn’t absolutely flip their shit seeing stolen resources and trashed equipment, and most of them are pretty chill dudes too
"...stolen..."
I would probably leave that word out given China for the last 70 years to include intellectual property. I lived in Suzhou for two years and spent a lot of time away from Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou etc. You see a lot of this throughout the country to include abandoned construction, roads, etc.
And I don't just mean the tofu dreg construction and ghost towns. Broken down or unused construction equipment unmaintained. Not quite the same thing but analogous to it is their mass manufacturing of EVs that are now sitting in thousands of square miles of lots, untouched for years. They simply produce because a workforce must be paid. It's in part why you have ghost towns. 25-30% of the workforce is in construction and must be paid. The problem is who pays them? It's through government subsidies. This is one of the reasons the Yuan/RMB is manipulated so heavily and why it can never be a reliable international security or reserve currency.
It's also one of the factors as to why they hit a deflationary spiral in April of this year. Deflation is slightly worse (depends on circumstances, generally) than inflation but it is more difficult to correct. Supply with lower demand (Tariffs against China and banning of their exports only makes this worse) leads to it.
China will likely start to recede here in a decade, but will never fall to the level that most of Sub-Saharan Africa is. That's also in part due to the environmental issues of the region. China has similar considerations but they learned not to live in that area of the country (Western half).
There is a book that analyzes why some countries are rich and prosperous while others are poor: "IQ and the Wealth of Nations". In a nutshell, a country needs a minimum average IQ of 80 to maintain machinery and infrastructure. Or you can import Chinese engineers to rebuild and oversee machinery and infrastructure if the average IQ in a country is well below 80.
There’s something oddly fascinating about the Chinese boss. He’s so committed to his own misery. So committed to seeing Africans in the worst light possible, all while wearing a big smile and looking amused. I think the Congolese man somewhat enjoys the banter and the piss taking as well sometimes. To his credit, the Chinese boss didn’t lash out or get defensive about the ‘made in China’ tape measure comment. It’s like they both see a part of themselves in each other or something. There’s a lot to this.
Hes not committed, to his own misery, or committed seeing Africans in worst light. Hes frustrated at how inefficient the job is being done, and experiencing culture shock, compared to his previous work environments. This doesn't require commitment, it's just a natural reaction.
@@irm613 he has a choice about how he views it. Nobody is forcing him to be there. He can leave at any time. He not a victim of anyone or anything but himself.
@@Cfb2987 Once you take a job, you can't just quit without massive damage to your reputation, so he can't leave easily. Have you seen this full documentary? The amounts of frustrations he has to deal with are beyond reason. I have worked in construction and seen fists fly over way smaller issues than hes dealing with, every construction project has problems but not like this. Reason hes sometimes smiling is because the work environment and culture at this point is beyond bad, but reach comical absurdity level.
@@irm613 I believe you have the experience you say you do, but the first thing I wrote was “he has a choice about how he views it.” Whatever happens, he has a choice about what he thinks about what he’s seeing. When he or anyone thinks thoughts like “they should be different” and “this should be easy” or “this shouldn’t take so long”, the result is always frustration, but the frustration comes from the thoughts he’s thinking about what he’s seeing. He has a choice about what he chooses to think, whether he stays there or not and many other th. He also has the choice to stay where he is, keep thinking the same thoughts, and keep being miserable. It’s all up to him. That’s the point of what I’m saying.
@@Cfb2987 Well that's just some Buddhist philosophy shit, it does make sense in theory, you can apply this detachment from outcome and wise observer in lower stress situations well, but considering dealing with the things this work organiser is dealing, its not so easy, and hes handling it relatively well.
Poor Chinese guy was adapted to a life where everything was very much (micro)managed. ALL he know went AWOL once he set foor on African soil and the 'we don't care, hakuna matata' lifestyle. They don't care much for progress when it means they have to put in an effort
If you've been put of the big cities in China, all of his complaints are valid in China also. There standards are only slightly higher.
"Slightly higher"
> World's largest economy by GDP PPP
What is blud smoking
black fatigue
Well that's what not having Neanderthal DNA does. Different species
You don't survive 6 months of night and freezing winter that's for sure.
Look at that, we finally have positive words about neanderthals.
@@elijahsokoni7997 😂
@@elijahsokoni7997 Neanderthals were stronger, created higher quality cutting stones and domesticated fire for cooking before humans ever did.
There is some point to it. Caucasians and Asians have Neanderthal DNA.
My previous boss was just like this Chinese guy, ex-military, they all have similar attitude.
The black guy got him with a good one. “ the tape measure doesn’t work cause it’s from china” 😂
Yeah, shame all the other points the Chinese guy made to him didn't seem to bother him too much, someone else's fault huh.
And yet, China still has a much more advanced society than any african country by several orders of magnitude.
Let this be a lesson