China NEEDS an ENEMY to Survive!
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This tactic is from Sun Tze - 解内环，制外敌。meaning: to prevent domestic mutiny, the ruler must project an external enemy.
Delphinium Flower not with trump as president as his foreign policy to recall most of the US’s overseas troops back. With the the Clintons, Bushes, and Obama yes, as they were using wars to enrich the military industrial complex.
Delphinium Flower are you not aware that 90% of US foreign based troops have been recalled back? Are you also not aware that John Bolton is aggressively against Trump’s policy and he insisted that some troops has to remain in the Middle East?
Are you not aware that Obama initiated many open and covert wars and Trump has not started even a single war on other countries, with the exception of completely uprooting Isis, where Obama failed to accomplish?
Are you not aware that before Trump rocket man of North Korea was launching many rockets but Trump stopped him?
Are you not aware that Trump is the only US president who is welcomed to step foot in North Korea?
Delphinium Flower it was Obama and John McCain who had created Isis. That’s why the administration of Obama kept (fighting them as visual stunt ) but never really destroy them. Trump administration has uprooted Asia in recent months, but the fake mainstream media played it down.
@@alvinkoh5556 Hi Alvin, you really think Trump is able to withstand such strong forces in the background ... you are a funny guy :-D
Alvin, sometimes the external threat is real. We joke about who is, only when we have control. We do not.
It took me almost 2 years to subscribe to your channel, I thought you were too hard against China, but now I understand your RESPECTFUL and directly criticism towards China.
Yeah! I remember that Olympic Torch thing. I remember seeing a French family get totally screamed at in the PSB. Their young kids were just standing there in shock/ crying.
Yes, there is no place in this world for that kind of hate.
What's a PSB?
A french has been stabbed while in China before.
@@vhvvcvbbdfgacaffa1304 yeah, but that was an isolated incident
Public Security Bureau
I agree with an earlier comment. super professional. You are a better presenter than many on mainstream tv. Well done sir
We have exactly same things happening in Russia. Government controls everything and tells everybody that other countries are bad and not us. Thanks for sharing some facts from the history, Winston. You really helped me to understand China better!
@Birdy Flying you mean like the UK blaming the EU? 😂
Not just Russia, it's almost every government 😊 And US is the biggest bully as it needs global conflicts, illegal invasions for perennial wars and stealing resources, continuation of petro dollars and the list goes on. The major difference is that US and other Western powers cause more deaths and destruction in other countries , not their own. 😊 It's very apparent, isn't it?
It happens everywhere, the only way to get out of this cycle is by following ethics and spreading it to other people.
Anarcho-capitalism follows ethics and thats why i believe it would work everywhere.
Nowadays we don't have any choice but to be slaves, but that will change soon, we have ideas and technologies to help spread it such as cryptocurrencies and the internet by our side.
@@shishirsubba713 It is everywhere, thats the way governments can survive nowadays.
How can you enslave people without being confronted? Make the slaves think about something else to worry about, wars are really great at that.
@@Lue1337 anarcho capitalism would work only if the capitalists have lesser greed and more ethics in order to Not Exploit the people.
my parents always watch that horrible lie TV serial， that totally as you say. I try to tell the truth about it but you know that's unbelievably hard.
Charlie you do realise Chinese people are capable of recognising those aren’t historical documentaries yet still are able to enjoy them right?
Ask any one who watches those shows, if they believe Chinese farmers actually used steamed bun grenades or torn a Japanese in half with bare hands. They would look at you like you are crazy.
@@bowmanc.7439 They're basically revenge porn, made to cool the wounds of the Chinese national psyche. I call them revenge porn, because in reality, the victims did not get their vengeance, and the villains returned safely to Japan, felt no remorse and suffered no consequences.
@@bowmanc.7439 yeah,but the point is ccp cant through those tv show lie to people， let people believe ccp is great, ccp save china from Japan army，so ccp can salve us easily
@@blackboxsda7853 I disagree，those shows point is tell people something like ccp is god of china
but actually they more like criminal group
As a translator who often thinks about cross-cultural dynamics, I'm so happy that you're speaking openly about your experiences in China and that your content is reaching a wider audience thanks to the translated subtitles. I've learned a lot from your channel and continue to find it fascinating. Keep it up!
Martha Oschwald if you learned anything about China from this guys China’s story from his level of knowledge then you’ve brainwashed by his negative thoughts, I suggest you to go for travel to find out by your own eyes and then make judgement by yourself, by that time I’m sure you have your own vision of China. From his story I only see the negative ... if we talk about negative things about whole wide world, I think we could use our whole life to talk about it because there is no preface world for everyone... but only positive thinking can makes everyone happy and peace ....
You must not be listening to his story then because his channel is very comprehensive and covers a wide range of topics including his opinion on positive and negative aspects of Chinese culture. I suggest you learn how to write with accurate grammar if you'd like for people to take you seriously.
cultural devolution, great leap backwards
me: dead
its not a joking matter
@@henryreinhart5912 We shouldn't be forced to adapt to these silver tongued cunts. Americans, British, and the EU are falling for the fucking bait.
it's not something we should joke about, but the way we make fun of what they actually are makes them funny like the Cultural Evolution (cultural devolution because it was just a big disaster of the deletion of chinese culture) and the Great Leap Forward (great leap backwards because it was just a massacre of people from powerful people who didn't understand the population of China and their agricultural centered lifestyle). We make fun of it because it allows us to ignore all the death and just look at its absurdity for what it was supposed to be and what it actually became.
This is so true. I worked in Nanjing, teaching English to small kids. One particular reader we used described foods from around the world, sushi being one such food. All of my children thought sushi was from China, and when I told them it's actually Japanese, the whole classroom, including some kids as young as four, would growl and say how much they hate Japan. It's a perfect illustration of cultural brainwashing and an inherent aversion to independent thinking.
you know what happened in nanjing did by jp
You will never know what japan did to SEA, you will never understand how the elders gone through this. My aunt gone through this had trauma. It can be forgive, but never forget.
My Grandfather fought in WW2 and had his leg partially blown off by Nazi forces. Tonight, I had beers and an awesome night with a group of Germans. So yeah, I understand. You guys aren't the only ones ...
Anthony Abroad the thing is , Anthony, Germans at least have kneed and pray for forgiveness. They tried to show some regret on medias. Look at Japan? They revised their history book just to erase the part THEY INVADE CHINA AND SLAUGHTER 300 THOUSAND OF PEOPLE( JUST IN NANJING). if you are still in NanJing, there is a WW2 museum about the slaughtering for you.
Yes, I've been there. And the museum was deeply moving and emotional to experience. What happened in China during the Japanese occupation was terrible and horrifying. But maintaining blind hatred towards the second or third generation of an enemy that was destroyed some 60 odd years ago is not only foolish and counterproductive, but is the type of attitude that will lead to violence cause history to repeat itself.
That was hard to watch that old footage at the beginning. So sad.
the war machine
@Delphinium Flower A whataboutism won't change China's tribalistic direction of its citizens to hate the outside world.
My wife's grandfather got that treatment because he was a school teacher. Apparently he never really recovered from it.
@@herewardthewake3185 He was literally spamming
Delphinium Flower LOL. You misunderstand the USA. Nobody (hardly anybody) in the USA cares about anyone in the countries we bomb. They aren’t our enemies because we honestly don’t believe they offer any threat to us. The opposite of love isn’t hate, its indifference. We are, as a society, apathetic and indifferent to the people we bomb overseas. If we hated them we would actually care what goes on and desire to win the wars we are in which would be counter productive to companies that just want to continue selling arms ceaselessly.
I think that the most significant point made here is in the title "China NEEDS an ENEMY to Survive!" That statement applies to all countries led by communist or dictators. Keep the populace uninformed about reality, push "your truth", and finally give the people something, other than their leaders, to focus their aggression on. It is a proven method of governance.
Keep saying what needs to be said.
this explains so much why they behave the way they do, thank you
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
Thanks mate
you are here!!!
Does India too suffer from such a problem Karl?
@@Rusikulya No
@@Rusikulya prob Pakistan.
I like that you use the correct terms "devolution" and "backwards"
Yeah me too, seems correct for that time.
It's beautiful
People need to wake up from the spiritual confusion of what is usually called "progress". If you apply a wider view, observe a longer time frame, there is no progress if we do not evolve as human beings. (And I don't mean cybernetics, hah. Transhumanism is another such spiritual confusion.) To this day the human world is still as it was thousands of years ago. A different wallpaper makes people think they're in another room. - Wise leadership is still very much shunned. The vast majority have other priorities - pragmatic selfishness - which they then of course will find represented in the government. - Merely being reactive can never add anything new, different, anything that isn't already there. That requires acting based on a better world not yet manifest.
@Juke What's wrong with that ?
When China and Chinese people say they have 5000 years of history, what they meant, with or without communist destroying their history, Chinese history and culture are well documented and linear to their origin. Egyptians don't really know who build the pyramids and their culture, language and writings are now different from past Egyptians. Also, I agree with you to a certain extent that China uses outside enemies to promote unity. Who doesn't? The US always use flag burning Muslims to give a reason to hate them. Furthermore, the world has always looked at China as the outsider with fear. As to the Hauwei case. The endstate is that the US knows there is no way that we will beat China with 5G so we pulled a Tanya Harding on China. Simple as that.
Dude, you rock that suit. I saw you recently in San Deigo near La Jolla. Between your suit and wife....I mistook you for a movie star.
Oskar Potter 🤣
Don’t be telling the Commies where he lives, they are tracking him
cant wait to see more, who agrees ?
Ignorance is strength. That reminds me so much of the 2 minutes of hate in 1984, the way you described how it can be switched on and off at will.
Exactly!
Thats the exact process - Two Minutes of Hate - in the novel with the screaming and yelling and vacant eyes. Orwelll described it so well (I need to go an find quotes now!). I live in China, and it is indeed amazing to see how children and adults change their attitudes so quickly in lieu of media and news. Experienced it first-hand myself. Like a faucet, yeah... scary, given this is 2019.
GumRamm in 1984,big brother edit the dictionary, and now the CCP edit the dictionary too.because Xin make a mistake on a word “譫养” which should be "赡养",what a big mistake in Chinese.
@Chris Ward damn are u a bot
Perfect literary reference.
Brilliantly explained! I have a Chinese wife (from the Philippines - been married for more than 40 fun years!), and you are so spot on on what you offer in your videos (and so is Laowhy86!). Never stop!
it took me a moment to realize you weren't just describing 1984
Xielle Zhang That's a scary thought.
the thing with 198-4 is that the film itself is propaganda, more so than its a warning. the way the director of that movie filmed the whole thing, is only through the eyes of the protagonist, you (the viewer) are left in the dark about what anyone else is doing. This is done so when the main (only-)character gets caught and demoralized through torture, you the viewer feel the exact same feelings, demoralization, I dont want that to happend to me. You have been blindly put in his shoes. If you are familiar with how propaganda works, demoralization is the main weapon used to dismay, control people into inaction, the other one, ironically, being familiarization itself, als known as normalization.
Khajiit Hadwares
its not film, but Orwell book. Its hard toread it and not be depressed. I think Animal Farm from this author is better. It shoud be in every scool
Orwell was his fictional pen name, his real name was Eric Blair, and he was politically involved with the war and regime propaganda.
'At the outbreak of the Second WW, Orwell's wife Eileen started working in the Censorship Department of the Minstry of Information in central London, staying during the week with her family in Greenwch.
Orwell also submitted his name to the Central Register for war work,
but nothing transpired. "They won't have me in the army, at any rate at
present, because of my lungs"
In August 1941, Orwell finally obtained "war work" when he was taken on full-time by the B.B C's Eastern Service. He supervised cultural broadcasts to India to counter propaganda from Nazi Germany designed to undermine Imperial links. This was Orwell's first experience of the rigid conformity of life in an office, and it gave him an opportunity to create cultural programmes.
"Eric Blair (Orwell) became instrumental in organising the Maximist's propaganda campaigns, helping to turn the Maximists into a major party in Britain with his popular short novels which encorporated totalist themes."
In September 1943, Orwell resigned from the BBC post that he had occupied for two years.
As a chinese american not only do I agree with you, but am also shocked at the similarities this has with the US as well. The only difference is that in the US the aggression has been turned inwards
edit: it seems like leftist regimes have a lot in common
Could you clarify?
@@Dionaea_floridensis I guess he couldn't lol
I'm Chinese by blood but born in the Philippines. I grew up in a family that migrated here pre-devolution and I gotta say there's a world of difference between us and mainlanders. There's clearly a big cultural gap between the (I'm coining these terms on the fly) "New Chinese" and us "Colonials". Everything you've been saying in all of your videos are right on the money, Winston. Keep up the good work!
what do you think of your new president Duterte pivot to China
almost all chinese outside mainland. specifically younger and christian. eat western propaganda since child, so they are different
@@CreepyDumpling doesnt matter, we are all humans, we should fight for human peace, not authoritarian governments peace.
Just because you have chinese blood doesn’t make u Chinese. Obviously you don’t have the Chinese root! I’m a Chinese born outside China yet the understanding and practice of our values remains. My father left China in the 30s to find greener pastures yet his heart always back home. I remembered how he saved up monies that he earned and send most back to China for his parent and sibling. To built house, to support his nephews’ education and etc etc. this is the values of Chinese. I can’t blame Chris for his videos made become he stand for what he believes and his race. Vice Versa for me. God bless you all.
@@astroboyzwood8720 He is still Chinese, its the same reason that I am Italian despite being born in America.
Here's an ancient Chinese wisdom:
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Where are your 5k likes ????
You are genius
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@Masked Singer not really. He just described how the system works. And it is nothing new, as same methods are used in some western countries as well.
This is the psychology of group identity politics 101.
History is meant to be learnt from，not to fuel hatred and division.
Some people are just dumb. Some people just want War.
There is a term for what the CCP is doing. Revanchism.
@stefan matvei swietoniowski short term profits will be their long term loss
I used to think like that before. But so many people still hate from what was done to them in the past. Native Indians are still angry, African Americans still angry, hawaiins still angry.. Muslims, Jews, Palestinians are still angry.. I’m starting to change my mindset. History teaches us what we can expect from others. We must never forget.. because sometimes history is all we have.
@@Jimmy-er2mc but all of them are missing the important part of history. To move forward, be the change you want in the world. YES some assholes can still choose live in the past, I wouldn't blame them history is made of prejudices, war, deceit, corrupted politics and suffering. But, to not move forward, to not see what's for the future, is to live an empty life as only a vessel to repeat things that are really petty and pointless in the first place. I wouldn't want to change your opinion, humans are different and I want to be kept that way. Because allowing people think differently is what makes us human.
I am someone who has a extreme passion for discovering history and the beauty of other cultures. Looking at history, I have to say that the loss of true chinese culture is one of the greatest injustices of the word, culture wise.
Yes, but as much as it is injustice, it is more of unfortunate mistake, that is why China absorb so much Japan/korean culture these days, but in the end it is all an cause/effect, Anime/Kpop might not be as popular as today if China had their own traditional culture preserved and spread across the globe.
@JT Yang pretty much all of the above, IMO anything before the last dynasty fell.
Your scripting just continues to improve, Winston. Great subject choices and well-illustrated stories that are well-told. Without your channel, ADV China and Laowhy86's videos, I really don't believe I'd have the clearer vision of what China is today. Thank you.
Chris Ward Hi there Chris! I know you!
@Chris Ward
If you disagree with a particular news source, does that make it "fake news?" That is certainly Trump's rather obvious ploy. If he doesn't like what he hears from a news organization or individual, he calls it "fake news" or ridicules the person making the statement he disapproves of. Tactics like these and calling people you disagree with schoolyard taunts, should be the province of children, not the so-called leader of the West. I avail myself of many news sources and opinions before I form a firm opinion of my own. In light of new evidence, I may have to change that opinion. What I make certain I always do, is not issue sweeping declarations of who is false and who is not. Reason needs to prevail, not emotion.
You make some points, it is rarely to see some one learning so deep about China, but still it's sort of scratching from the surface.
Hi Winston,
This type of behavior has been used from way back in time, truth is the only remeady, respect for each other and love of neighbor, this has to be taught.
People have been trying for last 300 years, very little success.
@@profearoum Don't LIE, your religion teaches VIOLENCE & DECEPTION. And regarding RACISM and SLAVERY, actually you guys deserve the GOLD MEDAL.
Love thy neighbor teaches love thy neighbor
The Great Leap Backward. LOL. Good on e, it's true.
Haha
Joe c ... He left China ages ago!
@@prastagus3 It's crazy just how fast Chinese universities have rocketed up world rankings for both academics and research. The sheer number of talents they sponsor for scholarships to the best foreign schools is proving to be quite effective.
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@@prastagus3 yes, impressively. But the government makes me anxious. China can be much more with some serious government reform. And I'm not talking about Pooh thought.
Another interesting video Winston. Thanks again and greetings from Ireland!
I have been in China during the anti Japenese rallys and demonstrations (2010). I studied at a university. Every student was forbidden to leave the campus for half a week because of these protests. Even foreigner students (including me) were only allowed to shop at walmart and go directly back to campus... The government / university council were baning any participation of students in this protests and locking up a full campus of 20.000 students. I have made a totally different experience than you. (?)
HAHA I laughed my ass off when there's talk about TV war fantasy drama's playing all day every day and there's a bunch of old timers watching it so intensely.
"Better than 60-Minutes".
Seriously
As a German: that was all to familiar .. Serpentza puts my thoughts on tape.
That's how nationalism works. In order to survive, it needs a constant enemy, and the enemy must be inferior to the population/dehumanized in some way.
1984 covered this in depth.
No, it's the same way every ideology and social group - from classical liberalism (vs state regulation) to socialism (vs the bourgeoise) to football hooliganism (vs rival teams) to religion (vs heretics) to business (vs competitors) - works
It's always in-group vs out-group.
Anyone pretending to love everyone equally, without prejudice and preference, is a hypocrite and a liar.
-nationalism- socialism
So thats why u.s.a Always save the world from Aliens??
Ikr, this seems obvious. US has been in perpetual war for this same reason.
That's not nationalism bro, that's authoritarianism, get it right. Nationalism is natural if you have some testosterone, you think Winston doesn't love south Africa?
Excellent presentation. Very well enunciated and clarifies so well the "methodology" and achieved intent of communism, the absolute dominance and control of it's people.
I remember when Serpentza would open his videos with, “if you’ve come to talk politics, you’ve come to the wrong place”.
stefan matvei swietoniowski Yes, I’m aware
One of the best ones yet.
1984 - We've always been at war with Eastasia :-)
Have you ever heard of anarcho-capitalism?
I think you would like it.
Erusia has been invaded by the Osean Federation.
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. ... The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” George orwell
The average Egyptian on the street analogy was perfect! Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Modern Egyptian has nothing to do with Ancient Egypt.
Absolutely not considering the Egyptians were conquered and replaced by many people such as the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Turks. Unlike Egypt, China still possess their blood of their ancestors, use the same writing script as their ancestors, and speak a language which is descended of their ancestors.
Comparing a people, the ancient egyptians to modern egyptians who are now Muslims, Arabs, and speak Arabs to Ancient chinese and modern chinese is idiotic.
@@metal87power A fact that they deny of cause, claim they are direct descendants of the ancients. Greeks too.
@@XtoCee Good point thats what i was thinking im from the horn of africa there were great empires during the time of china being a world power. The port of adulis from the axum empire used to trade with china. So we also like to say we have 4k history etc. This guy is just trying to put doubt in ppls heads. He forgot to mention alot of people actually go to china from Korea and japan to learn traditional medicine he forgot to mention that bit. But we are still the same people from that time so its diff from egypt of course.
@@XtoCee So by your logic, the US is as old as England? And since English is a derivative of Latin, spread by the Romans, and its laws a descended from the Romans, I guess the US is a few millennia old as well.
Of course not.
China today is as related to its history as the CPC is religious. The minority of Chinese who are free to practice their customs and beliefs are the true inheritors of the Chinese culture, and every year, those numbers dwindle.
One of the best videos you've ever done. I've been to China multiple times, have good friends there and a mainland born GF here in the west now. You are 100% on the mark.
You have been speaking so much truth that I have always wanted to say. Be careful. Keep going. Amazing channel.
@The Bee Guy
Hes not living in China anymore if you haven't noticed.
@Chris Ward celebrates the death machine.
76,702,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese.
Death by Government, political scientist R. J. Rummel, University of Hawaii.
@Chris Ward supported by the god of truth perhaps, ya dam ingrate
@Chris Ward yeeeeee? do you mean REEEE or do you mean YEET?
@Chris Ward "You morons think Mao Zedong is still in power?"
Same system is in power, numbnutz. China is using Falun Gong practitioners, Uighurs, Tibetans, and Christians as forced organ donors $$$. At least 10,000 people died in Tiananmen Square massacre.
Capitalists walk their dogs, Socialists eat their dogs.
Socialism is a belief system where most followers deny reality and the leaders feed on the believers.
wow this was really good cheers from Osaka
Love your video's man. Great content. It's so good to get an explanation of China from someone who's lived in China and understands it as an outsider.
For the olympic thing, it was in the UK
I'm from mainland and I've been living overseas for several years, and now I think the discrimination is actually happening the most among Chinese people.
I agree with you 1000% Chinese are the most racist people. See how they treat non white people and south Asian people.
That I can agree to after studying with PRC students (not all of them are bad btw; the best litmus test is to mention Taiwan). PRC Chinese are hostile towards ethnic Chinese outside China as well.
4starKT Nah, they mainly murder Uyghurs and Falun Gong members (estimates range into the millions). And btw, cops don’t run around murdering indiscriminately, 99% of cases were self defense or covered under good faith at worst
This is true, if you read China's history, you will learn the one that killed the most Chinese are not foreigners or outside invasion (although lots of them are dead). The one that killed the most Chinese in every dynasties are CHINESE from Power Struggle, Corrupted Official and more.
Just look at Communist and Nationalist, Mao Zedong who lead Communist killed lots of Nationalist for power after Nationalist drove away Japan. Then Mao Zedong killed more Chinese to make Hitler look like a Saint in comparison.
@4starKT you don't have to be in a kkk or Nazi to be racist.
Remember that time CNN did a story like this? ... yeah neither do I.
Not sure what CNN said, but in China, this is true. Chinese hate Hongkongers, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, American, British, the West with democracy and Muslims. It is mainly due to all medias in China is state controlled. Their rhetoric are always about how China was shamed for years and now is the time to hit everyone back. Any critics against China is being treated as attack to all Chinese.
If you're ever in Denver, I'll buy the first round.
Thanks for being the positive light you are.
10:20 I've lived in Shenzhen for 4 years. I have seen that look. I get it on the subway sometimes. It's unsettling. Glad to be leaving this place and never coming back really soon.
You'll probably see this a lot more often now that China has plateaued.
Winston, i like your contend, but im especially impressed by your last 2 videos. Really good presentation , eloquent, professional and far above youtube standarts. Great to see the evolution of your channel!
This is the most relevant video on youtube right now. Great work.
Excellent insights! I was bitterly disappointed when you cats bailed on being located here, but it seems that broadcasting from the free world has really enabled you to take your channel up a notch. Thank you as always for your solid analyses and interesting perspectives.
Thank you Winston for all the work that you've put in over the years. I'm wondering, do you think that going into the Peace Corps for an American able to do so, with a post in China, would be a worthwhile experience these days given the climate on the ground?
Yes I do, you will learn a lot
@@serpentza. I've watched your content for about 7 years, since I was in high school. Through your content and some exposure from friends I grew to appreciate China, but the situation on the ground does worry me a bit. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond.
Hey Winston, in a small way, I think you are changing the world. Keep it up, buddy!
I think US congressmen are watching his videos
dude, the difference is Germen polititians apologized for their crime but Japanese govmt never did
war is dirty, no reason to apologize for it. Chinese themselves still behave the way they blame the japanese for doing 80 years ago.
China definitely has long history. I can still read the text written on bamboo scripts written 2000 years ago. The Chinese writing characters hasn't change too much.
Brandy Wasay 😂
@Brandy Wasay he is saying the truth, I can read it as well, I can't figure out why a foreigner like you so confident about you know China better than us, at least we can read your language(but I never said I know west) I bet you can't type a single Chinese character to commuicate with us
this is so true, my family left China when i was 9 and even after that it took me years to drop my resentment of Japan and Japanese students. It was conditioned into myself and my classmates in China to associate merely the word "japan" with horriblness, the way you would with the word "nazi". The whole gluing people together like this was evident even when i was in grade school. I was in China during the Diaoyudao island protests and stuff and even my classmates were furious and angry at Japan. To the point where i was legitimately surprised that, after i arrived in Canada, nobody seemed to even know about the atrocities Japan had done. they give you something to be mad at, and that's ALL you can be mad at.
It's not just with the war fantasy dramas either, it's with all of education. In school, everywhere you see is about the war and the horrible japanese. in all the classes, Chinese, English, Music, Science, even Math, is filled with propaganda that Japan is Bad and the Communist party (frankly, they never taught any of us what communism *means*) is Good. When a child grows up in that environment, it's hard not to think everything they want you to. To them, the rape of nanjing didn't happen in ww2, it happened yesterday. And if the people of China didn't stick together and be strong, they'd do it again tomorrow. (That's not something i made up, a teacher of mine actually said this to the class)
Thank you so much for sharing this with everyone. And please, be careful. I would advise you to never go back to China again as long as it's still under the Communist party's rule. They have made more important and visible people disappear before. I'd hate for that to happen to you.
Megan is so right. Get the hell out of Dodge and ASAP. I am amazed that you are still alive, seriously.
thank you for sharing your experience, I have had so many bad experience with other chinese people from china, I hate to think they're bad people, I like to blame the people who are running the conuntry and not the people themselves
Asking Chinese not to resent Japanese atrocities in China is like asking a Jewish person not to resent Nazi atrocities. It's simply unreasonable.
Same thing is constantly happening in the Balkans. And let's not forget that former Yugoslavia was once a communist country. The same patterns , same fears ,beliefs can be evoken whenever those in charge have a need to do it. And people? They do grab the "story"immediately ,but in years passing by, they're somehow getting tired of it. They don't fight the governmnet ,cause they are still afraid opposing the leader ,but somehow they don't really care about the war or "enemies" anymore , they re passive and certainly having bigger life problems then fighting they're neighbours.
So well said. Like!
serpentza you came long way from your first video from Shenzhen. I appreciate it and support your family :)
Cultural devolution and great leap backward, so true
Damn dude hit the nail on the head with the IRL examples. Totally saw this myself during my time there.
I spent about a week in Shanghai and Nanjing in 2014, when the dispute about the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands was very heated. Every CCTV news channel had anti-Japanese stories and commentary running continuously. You could tell it was coordinated by the government and was meant to manipulate Chinese viewers. I went to Japan directly after that, and there was nothing negative at all being said about the Chinese.
Of course, the US has needed the threat of outside enemies to band Americans together, too. The Soviet Union in the past, Iran and China increasingly these days.
thank you for speaking the truth as you see and experience it. Its very helpful for people dealing with social issues everywhere to pause and take perspective of events elsewhere. stay well, stay honest, stay classy!
2K Chinese 50 cent propaganda army members have disliked this video.
I was gonna say. Who the freak is disliking these videos so much?? Must be all the brainwashed people, haha!
Not brainwashed people, but actual paid government internet trolls working for the CCP.
Brainwashed commies.
I saw Huawei in your thumbnail!! 🤣🤣
I its funny how almost every time i see someone with a japanese in their name its almost never a japanese and when its an actual japanese they never use their name for the account. Kind of an interesting fact about weeb culture.
Really informative video. Everything you say makes sense.
It's also biased video. For example, the huawei song is not even made by huawei.
peace is anybody mad at a Huawei song?
what is the bias? Winston is very genuine and honest
yolo swag the bias is he’s anti China bcuz he *allegedly* used a fake Huawei song like anybody even cares about if it’s real or not
@@whoizrez No one heard of this song in China (I asked my Chinese friends)
only seen a couple of your videos, but your views are consistent with other westerners that have worked in China. You make a lot of sense. Enjoy your vids.
@Chris Ward no, i know economists and businessmen.
As a Chinese, i want to say old Chinese culture does't disappeared. Many values or art forms are still learned by us. the culture revolution in 1960s did not destroy the whole traditional chinese culture system. Besides chinese people realized that culture revolution was a total miatake!
I am 100% in agreement with you. The Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing are approximately 600 years old, I had visited it, absolutely fantastic. The Ancient City in Guiyang. The Emperors Palace in Shenyang. The Chongqing museum. In the Theatre in Guiyang you can still watch performances by Minority Groups about ancient traditions. etc. I can go on and on. A lot of Chinese Culture from thousands of years back still exist and it was a privilege to visit that places.
👏🏻🔥 watching !
Only commentating on the the title of the video, will watch it later. China do t need an enemy, the CCP do!
Yes, very important to be aware of that.
Very happy to see a fellow South African changing the world with your videos. Truly inspiring, I love your perspective and the manner in which you deliver, very informative and real life issues that we can all relate. Big ups to you bru. I would be honoured to meet you one day.
LOVE you man for sharing your experiences. GREAT video.
thank you for keeping it real Serpentza, that is why you are as successful as you are now, because you keep it HONEST which is VERY appreciated
maria jesus montenegro he is not honest at all about China, he is just trying to make money on his videos by trying to talk what you want to listen
It is Machiavellian thought: If you do not have an enemy, you must create one. This unites your people and helps calm unrest against the government. Kind of like that silly Independence Day movie where militant aliens invade Earth and all countries come together to combat a common enemy. Fictional show, real life phenomenon.
BTW, that corvette in the background of this video is _so_ beautiful. That Stingray is one of my favorite generations of Corvette. I had a C4.
I made a similar comment above, Mencius has a similar idea
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. ... The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
George Orwell
People don't look at the cracks in their own system when they're too busy being told to look at everybody else
Love your stuff man!
I thought this was comedy when I saw the title....it's the US who needs an enemy to survive :DDD
After seeing all the chinese documentary, it's kinda amazing that I, a Vietnamese, have 2 close chinese friends here in the U.S, one of my chinese friends has a Taiwanese girlfriend and we all have a japanese friend :D
Your insight about your Chinese experience also seem well thought out and thorough. Thank you and keep it up.
totally agree with you, why hate a people because of what their ancestors did,,, so stupid
Spot on ... And no country in the world is squeaky clean!
yup yup yup.
Idiot. Grudges and hate are essential for tribal,ethnic, and national survival. Life is a competition, a great competition for resources and survival. And hatred puts you in a perfect mindstate for that situation.
i can understand what exactly you say
i am iranian and my governors do the same tactic in my country over 40 years
and it is working nicely for 40 years in my country and ppl getting poorer and poorer every day and they don't understand why this happening to them
What kind of enemy is portrayed by the iranian government?
The difference is China is getting richer, not poorer.
@@oscarchute5702 ppl or goveners?
this is really informative and interesting to listen. thank you. keep up the good work!
True, Serpantza....BUT please don't go back to China! Stay safe my friend!
That's exactly what I was thinking. He shouldn't go back unless the place has a regime change or something because if they seen his videos here that seems like it could be a problem.
Yeah but his wife is Chinese.
@@n3gi_ yes, his wife. So he should be able to take her from there
@@matthewstephens6502 To where? South Africa?
@@Dthenn to anywhere he wants to go
Marriage is sacred
说得过于真实，这是我觉得你做的最好的一个视频！
Thanks to Google translate - Thumbs up!
@l P "Too much to say, this is the best video I think you have done!"
Swipe / copy / paste in the translator
别吧 他完全不懂中国 只能看到表象 根本不能理解那个时代人们的思想
@@mingxuanchen4658 沒人能完全理解另一個人。 我們應用邏輯並儘力而為，等待反饋來調整我們的看法。 不尊重的高度是無視我們的同胞，什麼都不說。
@@maritimedragon 不需要他完全理解，然而在视屏里他一点同理心都没有。但凡有一些历史学术素养，都应该去尝试理解当时那些人的想法 客观的从根本去分析（当时的政治背景 普通百姓的家庭生活）。 而不是高高在上的分析表面， 这样biased 的论述 看看wiki就够了 为什么要看他
these new videos are good..
combined they show a good body of work
wow 1.7k dislikes!??!? why? don't tell me, I pretty much know. smh
I dislike because this man is so biased and criticizing China just to get the attention of ppl who want to listen to this kinda thing
@@DiosOrz He is apointing at problems which china should solve to be better place ... whats wrong with that? Money is not everything and if china doesnt want to loose face, they should crack-down on smugglers gangs and other shit that it could be the place everyone wants....
@@RS-pe5hp nothing wrong with pointing at problems that better to be resolved. What I dislike about is this guy is exaggerating bad issues with intentionally selected video clips while ignoring all good aspects of China. That's why I said it's biased and I gave dislikes.
@@DiosOrz Every problem can and should be talked about!
@mastersleib Maybe this man is less biased but I just disliked this video. I even liked some of his other videos.
One of the best things about Taiwan's status (separate but not independent or something like that), is that when the Kuomintang fled the mainland, they took hundreds of thousands of artifacts with them and they still survive in museums and shrines there. The National Palace Museum in Taipei is a fantastic place to visit if you have the time the next time you go to Taiwan.
FTR, China is not the first nation (nor the last) to use the us versus them mentality to maintain stability at home.
Goldenboy if KMT did move them to taiwan, all will be lost!
LOL majority of Taiwanese prefer to be labeled as Japanese. (I do not hate japan, but it's weird)
@@mingxuanchen4658
I heard that genetically, native Taiwanese are much more related to the Japanese than the Han Chinese.
@@4G12 any evidence ? or you mean mentally ?
Tbh, obviously USA is the one need enemies, look what happened in the Middle East
That was about the most enlightening 15 minutes on China I have ever seen. Well done.
The irony of you name is not lost on me. 1984
Churchill was waaaaay before the 80S dude. Congratulations you just played yourself
@@johnsmith-wx5fb Winston Smith, 1984, George Orwell? Oh never mind.
@@harveysmith100 dont try and wriggle out of it now .mistakes were made. Own em
@@johnsmith-wx5fb John, have you been on the beer because you off tomorrow?
@@harveysmith100 hi just read 1984 damn! What was i thinking? Duh! My apologies
Thank you for exposing mindset of Communist warlords.
Also, western education more and more encourages us to think the abstract, ie putting ourselves in the shoes of others, questioning the status quo. In the US the only way ( and to a point in the UK) to get a top Degree grade is to challenge your teacher, might be wrong, but that's not the issue its the curiosity and challenge to keep all of us from falling into ignorance and thus easily manipulated.
Just like the Catholic Church of the past, the dominant power prefers an ignorant people, thus the church was against the masses reading, in particular, the bible.
So the unchallenged ruling power that controls the narrative, controls the people, as so well explained in your video piece.
Recently in Dubai I spoke to a Filipino says girl in an Apple store who had been raised in Dubai ( whilst waiting for an order), Filipino's are great people, very subservient, and think as a collective. This young girl obviously had talent, but struggled with direction and the usual family pressures. I found myself saying to her remember these two things,
1) Always be curious, never accept an answer unless there is some fact to back it up
2) Don't worry about being annoying, be a pain, rattle the cage.
Equally in the West we need to remember
1) The collective works for large scale projects, ie NHS, Infrastructure,
2) The individual is not God, as the Norwegians believe, 'I am not better than anybody else', Jante Law, ie humility
So as usual its a messy mix of the two, flux and flow. To me the most successful type of governance is practiced by the Nordic form of Democratic Socialism, but always evolving, through fair and free elections, Government transparency and a narrow wage gap.
"Just like the Catholic Church of the past, the dominant power prefers an ignorant people". That's complete bullsh*t. Where did you learn this kind of "fact"? That's a shocking prejudice.
Be careful friend I am old enough to remember Mao. Best of luck to you and your family in what has become a very dangerous place for no communists people.
Sounds a lot like the dystopia novel "1984".
Weirdly, that novel was published in 1949, the same year as the founding of the People's Republic of China (it's the same oxymoronic title as the Holy Roman Empire). George Orwell wrote "Nineteen Eighty Four" on reflection to the Hitler and Stalin dictatorships, but it could even more be applied (in reality rather than fiction) to the Chinese Communist Party. What irony!
@@Lawliet734 sorry autocorrect ^^
@@Lawliet734 I have dyslexia and English is my second language so yea I might've miss typed it which caused my auto correct to incorrectly change it to dystonia. Doesn't help that I have big hands as well. Also please chill. no need to get all up in arms about him calling out the usage of the wrong word (even if it wasn't my intent) lol
Wow, I love the way u articulate . I wish u wouldv been my teacher. Stay safe and Blessed
he is a english teacher lol
Hostly, this could be said for any group that is authoritarian. They need something for the larger population to be against or else they have no justification for their authoritarian methods that the larger population would find acceptable. I mean look at feminism in the west, their goal has been largely accomplished and all that is left are the prudish man haters that still believe that the west is still run by the "Patriarchy" keeping women down while ignoring places like the middle east because "cultural relativism".
In china's case, they still have anti japan propaganda till this day. WW2 is called "War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" by the CCP, even though the Red army did nothing in the war and took advantage of the depleted nationalists army to beat them after the war.
Pakorn Wattanavrangkul I think feminism should continue but just move to places where equality doesn’t already exist.
People are hyper critical of others for the same reason, "Don't look inwards, look outwards".
POWERFUL STUFF!! MAN YOU ARE THE CHAMPION OF AWESOMENESS!!
Great video as usual what do the Chinese people make of flight MH 370 mystery pleas make video of it. Keep up your great work. Paul😀
Great video Winston! I just returned from China, and what you said here is very accurate. I've been observing the symptoms of control you described for some time. I believe that change is inevitable at this point, because people will only tolerate things for so long before the tipping point is reached.
All the best!
Love ya and Laowhy86, Thanks for the time you spend educating us!!!
I do agree with you on this. We need a push to innovate further.
Your videos are some of the most important on TH-cam
How do you keep your passion and love for China when you understand so much about the country? What do you love about China? I know you have a Chinese wife, but that doesn't make it an obligation. Just curious, since I find you very analytical.