What he said is really happened in China.I'm a Chinese studying abroad now ,born in 1999. I love China ,especial when I had experienced the western life.
make China and the world even better. not through conflicts and wars but through daily/cultural/educational/business/financial/arts communications. you and your ages are the builder and owner of the world/China's future.🙏👍👍
I was born in 1978, a centre-west province of China. I still remember clearly, when I was a little boy, my parents made around 100 RMB/month (15 USD)totally, and we do not have much meat to eat, at that time, almost everything can only be purchased by certain kind of ticket, without ticket, without purchasing. After not many years, I was able to study overseas, and I had lived in western world for few years. Our family can afford overseas holiday annually nowdays, we could do almost everything we want. This is what have happened on me during past 40 years. And if there is so-called brainwash you western people criticized, I thought its my personal experience has shown me the reality. China is not perfect, we still have so many problems to solve, but who doesn't. As human being as whole, I think we really need a better understanding between each other, never judge somebody base on your experience, since that is not your life.
Congrats to you and your family for achieving all your dreams. Bravo to China government for their determination and efficiency. Keep on going, China ! From: Malaysia
I’m glad that someone like you spend time in China, learn true China, speak out about China. People as well as countries or cultures can learn each other.
As a Chinese that born after 1990, I agree with many of the points in this video.He pointed out a lot of ideas that I think(I think it is most of us ).We know we have made a lot of great thing, huge economic growth, the huge infrastructure projects, the second GDP in the world, but also we have many shortcomings, such as technology, poverty gap, and so on.The same is true of Western countries, they also have their merits and demerits, we should learn from the strengths of the West.Although the western country always talk about our freedom, our democratic and the people of china has been brainwashed, But I want to say, I don't think I have been brainwashed, this is my choice, I love my country.
@@dans.7651 Patriotism is a permanent theme of the education of the whole nation，every country will do this for you. such as US, you should take an oath to the american flag that you will love this country and make contribution to this country. And do you think it is a brainwashing? If you think it is, I have nothing to say for you，but you should set up a country that you can brainwash others so that you can't be brainwashed.
US OFFICER:What's the purpose of your coming to the United States CHINA：Learn about American brainwashing US：We never brainwash CHINA：thats exactly what we want to learn.
On a positive note, it's only good for the rest of the world if they remain foolish and in delusion of their superiority over others. By the time they come to realisation, it will already be too late to catch up.
Well said my brother . ( From a Mexican American in Dallas. ) U gotta open mind. Accepting ND learning from all cultures is step towards making the world a better place. ' I love China !
This guy raised some really good points. As a Chinese I think the question he left at the end of his presentation was the most valuable one. He was right. To a large degree the globalization in China is westernization. What do Chinese young generations stand for, apart from being consumers? What can Chinese young generations contribute to the world?
Great speech! This young guy does seem to know a lot more than those so called "western scholars" who have been living in an studying China for decades. US and Europe NEED to think outside of their western box if they wanna truly understand China and what China wants to do and where China is heading to.
They look the same snobish way to every foreign culture. America is the perfection. Everybody should be like Americans. No1. They are too shortsighted to see they can learn a lot from the rest of us. Much more than we can learn from them. I see it as the main reason behind their downfall that is curently happening.
Deep understanding but he's utilimately not a Chinese. This is not Zak's destiny. The Chinese people in China will have to make Easternization comes true.
Good start to understand China. Finally someone who doesn’t claim to know everything about China and speak in a patronizing way. Hope you will continue to work in this way.
I suspect there are many of us who would surprise you? - think perhaps of the middle path of the Scandinavian countries; the UK New-Zealand and Australia , so very different to the medieval "Winner takes all" of American capitalism.
Shengji Gu what he wish to say is that you have alot of difrent people in the west with diferent views and values. Our media is the same it also is difrent depending wich country and company that publish the media.
@@limpelo79 Thanks for the kindly explanation. I understand now. There is a Chinese saying which expresses the same idea. 见人说人话，见鬼说鬼话 which is speaking human language when meeting the human and speaking ghost language when meeting the ghost. And I have also known from your words that some of the westerners do know deeper about China and its people. The reason why I got the opinion that most of the westerners were biased is that they need to stay with the main stream of their own country, right?
Shengji Gu well happy to give you a diferent view of us in west. Actully i would say that same thing you feel about us in west is biased we in west feel most chinese is to us in west is to. I meen how much do most Chinese people know about us in europé and US and know how difrent our difrent countrys and people is just here in Europé. I think why people fear each other is becouse people fear what they dont know and dont understand.
The simple answer is just to study hard and work hard. That's why china is today's china. Western governments spend a quantity of time talking and seeing China as a threat... when they do this, time passes.
What a thought provoking Talk, insightful, yet from such a unique Angle: both recognizing the good, and challenging Chinese youth to think for themselves how and who they want to be, and to contribute to the world. Thanks Zak! You are a role model for youth around the world. Yunxia NIU
This talk should take place in the west regularly. The rest of the world should know and update their knowlege. People in China already know that. Shame the western world is still stuck in the old mind set.
dancejiang888 , a lot of “Chinese “ doesn’t know this, including China, especially in Hong Kong and Taiwan, I am Not from China but I am of Chinese origin, I have been to China from late 90’s to 2018, you have to be there to experience the excitement of the growth and changes, how much different from what we get from the western media, the olympic was a great show, but what happened to China is really the greatest show, I used to use TAiwan as an example, in 90’s. PRC was 20 years behind Taiwan, today ROC is not only20 years behind, but is keeping in line by tagging to PRC
Mq Hu Fifty years ago most working class people - and most middle class people too - had at most one car per family; many of us had none. Now most working and middle class people have 2+ cars. Today nearly all people - not just working class - can afford a good smartphone and a decent service contract for it. And not just one per family - usually it’s one per person, even for the poorer people. I could go on and on about so many things that have raised the standard of living and the purchasing power of people in the last 50 years. It is huge. I lived through those times personally, so I know what I’m talking about.
John Lacey more than 2 cars? I think it mostly depends on where you live. People in the Bay Area probably won’t be living by those standards. The gap is getting greater. The buying power of someone with a working class wage is certainly shrinking compared to years
John Lacey maybe the fact that the US is the only OECD country who for the last three years has had falling life expectancy. Not since the combination of the First World War and the Spanish flue IN 1918 has this happened. How’s that for inequality.
You left the "Chinese Values" an open question, one that many in the west are scared of because of the unkown, it would help to give your perspective of it! For those already know, we know it would be a much better world!
2000+ yeas ago Roman Empire never CROSS with the Han Empire because of poor infrastructure then. Today we at a bipolar world eg many QuaiLou, etc speak perfect Chinese We have to thank Western cauised China's 100 years of humiliation that creates this glaring polarity from 1978. Optimistically this is our exciting times if we can hybridize and not isolate, can we all do so calmly?
Yes there is “cultural gravity” for “easternization”. But it’s another question as to whether people prefer chinas values vs other more western values. Seems that most people around the world and even in developing countries still prefer the west’s model and its freedoms over chinas system of state surveillance, top-down economy and totalitarianism.
if this man becomes the president of the USA, the world will be very prosperous and peaceful. We have a man here who thinks critically and is open minded. Well done!
I suspect there are many in the west who would surprise many in China? - Many countries have chosen the middle path of the Scandinavian countries; the UK New-Zealand and Australia, so very different to the medieval "Winner takes all" of American capitalism.
Hong kong's version of China is from the 60's and the 70's. It's what they learn from their teachers and parents. It's actually same with majority of the western world. I live in Canada and the day I visited China three years ago was when I realize that the media has been lying to me my entire life.
Almost everyone in Hong Kong deals with China on a daily basis and mostly from work. It is pure arrogant if you think they know nothing about how it is today. Their discomfort do not come from the media as it is also mostly controlled by china nowadays but rather from the reality of how they are being treated by the Chinese government. The party always brain wash their people that HK people are disillusion seperationist and hate China. But the truth is HK people just want to be left alone instead of all these parental control and censorship being imposed by China. The party hates HK people because they can still tell the difference between the country and the party!
@@WayneHuo I work with people all over the world....Hate to think how many foreigners i brough to China told me the same thing in the last 20 years, despite we keep believing it is a small world because of the media
@@SportNut1 please explain how China controls hk anymore than the British did. Did you really think the rule of law applied during the British rule? Have you studied how the British dealt with dissidents and activists in hk? Most hkers view of China and its government is from media.
@@WayneHuo There are lots of things that are controlled more tightly and it's hard to list out all of them. And you can tell by the brutality of the police nowadays. You mention how the British deal with it but that is in the 60s. Nobody think that is right and they did improved a lot and never happened again. You can't tell me China is at British 60s level. One of the biggest reason of the recent protest is from how the hk people are frustrated the hk gov only care about serving China instead of hk people and want to be able to elect its own governor, which China promised. Honestly I don't understand why people in China are so mad that hk is fighting for democracy. Every time I ask someone they tell me "one china" and I am like har??? Who said hk want to separate? Do the people in China knows those separationist are a tiny portion like a 100 people? Hk people get their perception of China's respect on the law from incidents like "My dad is Lee Gon" or Poisonous Baby formula. I know China is improving but the new leader seems to like tighter centralised control more than the last one. So it is hard for the hk people to trust China's law just now. Honestly I didn't want to talk too much about politics online and don't want to offend anyone, but I want to tell you a little about hk if you are one of the people who hate hk's recent movement
He is totally right about everything. Having lived in China for many years I know this. In the end he poses certain questions with a positive attitude. I think there is a darker side to this "easternisation" though. The difficulties China went through "held it back". There are many similar examples of smaller countries who first went through civil wars and then had a dictatorship. Even though they experienced unprecedented progress during the dictatorship they were held back culturally and their systems were so outdated and incompatible with the rest of the world that when the dictatorship came to an end and they had to catch up they paid for it dearly. China has a unique culture but Its values and systems are not as special and unique as one might think. They are very similar to those everywhere in the world 1000 years ago. The whole world is moving towards a certain direction (and yes sometimes led by the usa). That is the only reason we are living in the most peaceful humane era of human history. China with its power threatens to bring a change that will take the world back to a society much more brutal than western millennials and especially Americans can imagine.
China favours an orderly society whereas the US favours the keeping the status quo and maintaining the profits and power of the elite. The only threat China poses is its own autonomy and power to reject the American doctrine.
@George, you are wrong. China's system, culture and values are 5000 years old and very different from the rest of the world. It is rooted in the true science of quantum mechanics, graphically represented in the taiqi and pakua.
China was built by the global outsourcing phenomenon, tech transfers and the hard work of the Chinese people. The young American failed to mention that globalism and the U.S. as its main engine are in a freefall and are currently in the process of collapsing. The U.S. has become a nation built on debt and it's running out of time. Current asset valuations across all asset classes are being artificially inflated through debt by a financial instrument know as debt margin equity. The US has unfunded liabilities over 10 times the current size of its economy with a dying middle-class tax base. It's not a matter of if it will collapse but when? This will be China's real test as export markets collapse.
you're right. The US stock market was 14,000 points in 2007. Explosive economic crisis. This year is 28,000 points. Among them, junk bonds and stocks reached tens of thousands of dollars. Bubble crisis breaks out at any time
Just leave China alone, if you don't bother China. The world will be in peace. China never want to impact others. If you know China's history you will know that.
Michael Ming is correct... China is not being peaceful at all... they are being very aggressive and threatening most countries around them (this is not even mentioning the extremely horribly brutal, violent, and shameful way they continue to treat Tibetans). China seems to want to impact others quite greatly...
@@josephaether377 threatening with what? overthrow the government? starting a war? interfering internal affairs? haters gonna hate no matter what truth is.
They will never leave you alone. USA will not allow another country to become the leading superpower, without a major nuclear war. This is how the imperialists in the west think, this is in the basis of their mindset. They project their own colonial asspirations to others. This is why they are afraid of Russia and China, because they think that they would do them everything they were doing to other people on the planet. I am from Serbia. USA bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade 20 years ago. Do you think it was a mistake? I think it was a message. It is time to wake up! Big war is coming. You need to understand who your friends are, and keep them close. I can tell you that Serbia will always be your friend. We will never forget the support of your people. We might be small with a weak army, but we are very well positioned in Europe.
@@wudzah nah. that is not a smart comment. i am not a fan of USA. but there is no reason they will attack China if China doesn't antagonize them. there is no evidence that they attack another nation out of jealousy of their power...
It’s sad that in this century China is being stereotyped as copycat / lack of innovation/creativity yet the truth is China had been the world greatest innovator in ancient times. They’ve invented many sophisticated things that we still use today like first seismometer (2nd Century while the first western description of the device was in 1703), mechanical clock (200 years earlier than the one in Europe), rocket (228AD) compass, movable type printing, textile, paper (it was Chinese who first use toilet paper & create paper money), Go Game (which much more complicated than Chess).....even football n golf games were first recorded in China. PS : Su Song (1020-1101 AD) was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesmen, many historians think that Leonardo Da Vinci was actually the western version of Su Song......
I do not know the situation in US. I currently live in NZ. The sports personnel in NZ are self employed. THey have to look after by themselves. In China, the sports personnel have been looked after by the state government by using all of the national resources. It is state sponsored sports. Therefore, they should get the most gold medals.
you are right, no world is perfect! west has it's own way, and China has it's own way . as long as we are happy and enjoy the life. why do we need to follow the west way to rule the country? are there any country can make such a huge progress in this short time in the histroy of the world? no no no, only China make it! so sucessfule! then how come the other country to question Chinese way ? how dare you?
I agreed 80% of what you say. "Easternization" is a very far dream as with the 中国梦。 As dreams are only possible when you sleep, i hope your speeches and sharing will wake them up to reality !
The point about GDP growth in the west since 1990 allowing for bigger homes, longer vacations, bigger cars, better tutors is nonsense, average purchasing power has not gone up much let alone 2.5 times more
JUST A SMALL POINT-DON'T GET BENT OUT OF SHAPE: I'm sure it's different in some places, maybe on some campuses, certain companies, whatnot, but the young people on Beijing's Third Ring Road-a very average place, full of university graduates; I've met young professional artists, bankers, and tea wholesalers-they can't speak English at all. That is, there's some remembered vocab from school, but not nearly enough to...say, watch a movie, or answer a fluent "How are you doing today?"
@@michaelbiedassek7136 But the typologies of government were also made by the west, for example, we think MIC of America is the most dangerous political creature in the world, it's nothing about freedom if you can't defend yourself. Just look at what France has been doing in Mali, the US just did the similar to the rest of the world.
1、Church teachers and media keep telling teenagers in HK how bad China is every day, they were scared. 2、Sure. China is far from perfect. 3、Not everyone in HK does not want to be part of China, but your MSM told you that way, did you hear about Great Bay Area plan? HK is a part of it, great opportunities there and we invested a lot. 4、Some HKers do not want to be Chinese for different reasons. For HK youth without a bachelor degree, it's too hard to compete with youth from the mainland. They want to keep mainlanders out. 5、So how about let HKers move to China? Not easy, some of HKers' mind still left in the 1980s, some of them may not be able to find a good job.
i don't know i dont like his way of saying things like china and the chinese poeple , his logical is full of self- presenting and HE is a good modle for his emotions to be described above , and I think he is coming here just to present some informations; full of sth
Speaks from a privileged American and Chinese perspective. White upper-middle-class Americans may not notice a difference between Woodstock and Coachella, but for many other groups, there has been a world of difference. By the same token, there is a world of difference between the center and the periphery in China today. What are our metrics for success? How well we exploit and harm? How well we achieve within global capitalism? Do we think about our ethics as often as we think about our economics?
Actually the east in the west not a whole Lotta difference eating morality standard for example in China read it good portion of the east anyway it’s Confucianism and the west just based on Christianity and both philosophy is to set a morality standard for the society and humankind humankind they both have a Lotta similarities
You have no right to talk about 1969 in China. Do you know how many people died in the Cultural Revolution? How many disasters did it bring to China? How much does it impact to the people in China till today? Be respect! You can talk about it when you are 50.
come on, Cultural Revolution is few decades ago... I agree with that, this revolution brought many disasters. However, it was end, now there is not such a cultural revolution.
SERPENT ZA SAID HOW GRATEFUL HE IS FOR CHINA TO GIVE HIM A CHANCE WHEN HE ESCAPE FROM AFRICA. BUT END UP BASHING CHINA IN HIS TH-cam CHANNEL TO GAIN VIEWERS FOR PROFIT. HOPE YOU ARE NOT LIKE HIM.
Middle class there see the real estate as the best investment available to them. They would buy an apartment on the edge of the city, wait 5-10 years for it to be worth 3 or 5 times more and spend that money on 3 or 5 apartments on the new edge of the city. As long as a lot of people keep comming to live there it is a good investment. When they stop there will be a lot of people with apartments they can't sell. Those ghost cities are usually satelite cities. They know that in ten years or so it would be faster for the people to come to the center of the city by train from another city than by car or public transport from its edge. Chinese have even started building those ghost cities in Africa. Just like in China, they are building a lot at the time and then wait for years for people to move in. Those are the long time investments.
I don't know how to make sense of this talk, he just throws questions at the audience, reinforced several steriotypes he said he is trying to break of the Chinese youth, and showed a bunch of economic achievements of China that everybody already knew. What is he trying to present ? I will say that he did think about the great changes witnessed and lived by Chinese Millennials, but he did'nt come to a conclusion of what impact does this had on Chinese Millennials and made them into what kind of person, instead, he throws the question back to the audience. Is he trying to inspire the audience to do the research that he is doing? I think he is . I don't want to think it this way, but if I didn't know better (that this guy is really nervous and didn't deliver what he wanted to), I would presume that he is trying to imply that Chinese Millenials is a group of spoiled, pressured to the verge of collapse, complacent jerks who know you(the west) better than you know them.
I love how this American guy says "West" instead of "USA". Yes, China's transformation has been incredible, but please stop showing off your Chinese and make a point.. if you ever had one.
If you think this speech is tailored for Chinese audiences, that means you are still trapped in the typical western thinking pattern stereotype with biased views because you observe China with colored glasses.
Chinese schools force their students to memorize, whereas western schools encourage students to ask why because innovation begins by asking the right questions. In the 2008 Olympics, China (population of 1.3B) defeated the US (population 300M). In the 2016 Olympics, UK (population of 65M) defeated China (population 1.4B). Kids grew up under the pressure of the full focus of 4 grandparents and 2 parents are bound to have issues. That's why mental health is an increasing problem in China today. I'm Chinese and I used to teach in China. Kids there spend way too much time learning about patriotic BS and fake history. The line between real and fake is so blurred the kids don't see it as irrelevant. How is that not brainwash?
What he said is really happened in China.I'm a Chinese studying abroad now ,born in 1999. I love China ,especial when I had experienced the western life.
make China and the world even better. not through conflicts and wars but through daily/cultural/educational/business/financial/arts communications. you and your ages are the builder and owner of the world/China's future.🙏👍👍
I was born in 1978, a centre-west province of China. I still remember clearly, when I was a little boy, my parents made around 100 RMB/month (15 USD)totally, and we do not have much meat to eat, at that time, almost everything can only be purchased by certain kind of ticket, without ticket, without purchasing. After not many years, I was able to study overseas, and I had lived in western world for few years. Our family can afford overseas holiday annually nowdays, we could do almost everything we want. This is what have happened on me during past 40 years. And if there is so-called brainwash you western people criticized, I thought its my personal experience has shown me the reality. China is not perfect, we still have so many problems to solve, but who doesn't. As human being as whole, I think we really need a better understanding between each other, never judge somebody base on your experience, since that is not your life.
Congrats to you and your family for achieving all your dreams. Bravo to China government for their determination and efficiency. Keep on going, China !
From: Malaysia
Spoken like a true and knowledgeable teacher. If more people in the US understand half as much as this young man, the world could be a better one.
I’m glad that someone like you spend time in China, learn true China, speak out about China. People as well as countries or cultures can learn each other.
As a Chinese that born after 1990, I agree with many of the points in this video.He pointed out a lot of ideas that I think(I think it is most of us ).We know we have made a lot of great thing, huge economic growth, the huge infrastructure projects, the second GDP in the world, but also we have many shortcomings, such as technology, poverty gap, and so on.The same is true of Western countries, they also have their merits and demerits, we should learn from the strengths of the West.Although the western country always talk about our freedom, our democratic and the people of china has been brainwashed, But I want to say, I don't think I have been brainwashed, this is my choice, I love my country.
Do you admit if you are crazy 😝? I am not brain washed.
But do you think your government's very long propaganda arm has tried to brainwash you?
@@dans.7651 Patriotism is a permanent theme of the education of the whole nation，every country will do this for you. such as US, you should take an oath to the american flag that you will love this country and make contribution to this country. And do you think it is a brainwashing? If you think it is, I have nothing to say for you，but you should set up a country that you can brainwash others so that you can't be brainwashed.
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US OFFICER:What's the purpose of your coming to the United States
CHINA：Learn about American brainwashing
US：We never brainwash
CHINA：thats exactly what we want to learn.
Here is a young American who who thinks critically, is adventurous, and is willing to articulate. Wish there were more of them.
On a positive note, it's only good for the rest of the world if they remain foolish and in delusion of their superiority over others. By the time they come to realisation, it will already be too late to catch up.
Can say the same thing about every country.
Yes, he is a refreshingly articulate young man, and that’s so rare among those of his… um, age.
@@evin98 travel made him critical thinking and high vision
Well said my brother . ( From a Mexican American in Dallas. ) U gotta open mind. Accepting ND learning from all cultures is step towards making the world a better place. ' I love China !
he's quite accurate ... unfortunately nobody listens in the west.
Scared
we are brain washed!
unfortunately i did..
In the West. Listening.
they will, but in 5-10 years later
This guy raised some really good points. As a Chinese I think the question he left at the end of his presentation was the most valuable one. He was right. To a large degree the globalization in China is westernization. What do Chinese young generations stand for, apart from being consumers? What can Chinese young generations contribute to the world?
Great speech! This young guy does seem to know a lot more than those so called "western scholars" who have been living in an studying China for decades. US and Europe NEED to think outside of their western box if they wanna truly understand China and what China wants to do and where China is heading to.
KoolKid_J they need to cross the river by feeling the stones.
They look the same snobish way to every foreign culture. America is the perfection. Everybody should be like Americans. No1. They are too shortsighted to see they can learn a lot from the rest of us. Much more than we can learn from them. I see it as the main reason behind their downfall that is curently happening.
this guy really understands Chinese, what a great speech.
Such a good talk! I'm so impressed by your deep thinking and good Chinese! Thanks!!!
Another Great informative talk by Zak-- Amazing information about the size and direction of China- totally worth the 18 minutes--
Zak Dychtwald has a deep understanding of China. What he said is correct.
Deep understanding but he's utilimately not a Chinese. This is not Zak's destiny. The Chinese people in China will have to make Easternization comes true.
Thanks for great video TED. I am Guyanese Canadian. Visiting in Philippines during Lockdown. Now learning about China. Thank to you China Bloggers.
Another insightful TED talk. Very interesting things to think about and explore further.
This is not a Ted Talk.
Good start to understand China. Finally someone who doesn’t claim to know everything about China and speak in a patronizing way. Hope you will continue to work in this way.
A big surprise to me. This kind of westerner does exist in the western media.
I suspect there are many of us who would surprise you? - think perhaps of the middle path of the Scandinavian countries; the UK New-Zealand and Australia , so very different to the medieval "Winner takes all" of American capitalism.
@@beachbum4691 my English is bad. Cant follow you... What do you want to express?
Shengji Gu what he wish to say is that you have alot of difrent people in the west with diferent views and values. Our media is the same it also is difrent depending wich country and company that publish the media.
@@limpelo79 Thanks for the kindly explanation. I understand now. There is a Chinese saying which expresses the same idea. 见人说人话，见鬼说鬼话 which is speaking human language when meeting the human and speaking ghost language when meeting the ghost. And I have also known from your words that some of the westerners do know deeper about China and its people. The reason why I got the opinion that most of the westerners were biased is that they need to stay with the main stream of their own country, right?
Shengji Gu well happy to give you a diferent view of us in west. Actully i would say that same thing you feel about us in west is biased we in west feel most chinese is to us in west is to. I meen how much do most Chinese people know about us in europé and US and know how difrent our difrent countrys and people is just here in Europé. I think why people fear each other is becouse people fear what they dont know and dont understand.
The simple answer is just to study hard and work hard. That's why china is today's china. Western governments spend a quantity of time talking and seeing China as a threat... when they do this, time passes.
It's more supply and demand unfortunately.
@@seansarto keep thinking in that way, do not change please
Excellent presentation!
Great speech. Thank you very much for your presentation.
相信我，没几个老外会看的，看到的也不会信的。
这讲着中文，连英文字幕都没有，他们咋看啊
我希望看的 懂的 人越少越好
@@stephenchao997 一些外国人很聪明，可以向中国学习
@@jingyuzheng6985 他中文口语开场之后不是在一直讲英文吗？
I think the diplay and the distribution of this video has been limited by youtube.
Dang his Chinese is fantastic.
What a thought provoking Talk, insightful, yet from such a unique Angle: both recognizing the good, and challenging Chinese youth to think for themselves how and who they want to be, and to contribute to the world. Thanks Zak! You are a role model for youth around the world. Yunxia NIU
This talk should take place in the west regularly. The rest of the world should know and update their knowlege. People in China already know that. Shame the western world is still stuck in the old mind set.
dancejiang888 , a lot of “Chinese “ doesn’t know this, including China, especially in Hong Kong and Taiwan, I am Not from China but I am of Chinese origin, I have been to China from late 90’s to 2018, you have to be there to experience the excitement of the growth and changes, how much different from what we get from the western media, the olympic was a great show, but what happened to China is really the greatest show, I used to use TAiwan as an example, in 90’s. PRC was 20 years behind Taiwan, today ROC is not only20 years behind, but is keeping in line by tagging to PRC
first educate those in HK and Taiwan.
Good talk, well-articulated with a lot of appeal.
No, American working class make even less than 50 years ago, all money went to super rich.
kyle mao Just curious, what data do you have to support this claim?
@@johnlacey3857 Maybe by some statistics showing the median of the middle class income is shrinking?
Mq Hu Fifty years ago most working class people - and most middle class people too - had at most one car per family; many of us had none. Now most working and middle class people have 2+ cars. Today nearly all people - not just working class - can afford a good smartphone and a decent service contract for it. And not just one per family - usually it’s one per person, even for the poorer people. I could go on and on about so many things that have raised the standard of living and the purchasing power of people in the last 50 years. It is huge.
I lived through those times personally, so I know what I’m talking about.
John Lacey more than 2 cars? I think it mostly depends on where you live. People in the Bay Area probably won’t be living by those standards. The gap is getting greater. The buying power of someone with a working class wage is certainly shrinking compared to years
John Lacey maybe the fact that the US is the only OECD country who for the last three years has had falling life expectancy. Not since the combination of the First World War and the Spanish flue IN 1918 has this happened. How’s that for inequality.
This is a great analysis keep up with the good work
Excellent talk, articulate and more important HONEST
I'm with James Franco! He is right!
You left the "Chinese Values" an open question, one that many in the west are scared of because of the unkown, it would help to give your perspective of it! For those already know, we know it would be a much better world!
Well Spoken... Great work
Excellent speech. Bravo!
Mandarin is legit, respect
2000+ yeas ago Roman Empire never CROSS with the Han Empire because of poor infrastructure then.
Today we at a bipolar world eg many QuaiLou, etc speak perfect Chinese
We have to thank Western cauised China's 100 years of humiliation that creates this glaring polarity from 1978.
Optimistically this is our exciting times if we can hybridize and not isolate, can we all do so calmly?
What?
Great job!
Super interesting!
Yes there is “cultural gravity” for “easternization”. But it’s another question as to whether people prefer chinas values vs other more western values. Seems that most people around the world and even in developing countries still prefer the west’s model and its freedoms over chinas system of state surveillance, top-down economy and totalitarianism.
Great thinker. Very throughly thought striking questions. Very inspirational!!
if this man becomes the president of the USA, the world will be very prosperous and peaceful. We have a man here who thinks critically and is open minded. Well done!
Interesting perspective. Never thought of it this way
very insightful. thank you
I suspect there are many in the west who would surprise many in China? - Many countries have chosen the middle path of the Scandinavian countries; the UK New-Zealand and Australia, so very different to the medieval "Winner takes all" of American capitalism.
He certainly knows more about China than the majority of the people in Hong Kong, which is such an irony.
Hong kong's version of China is from the 60's and the 70's. It's what they learn from their teachers and parents. It's actually same with majority of the western world. I live in Canada and the day I visited China three years ago was when I realize that the media has been lying to me my entire life.
Almost everyone in Hong Kong deals with China on a daily basis and mostly from work. It is pure arrogant if you think they know nothing about how it is today. Their discomfort do not come from the media as it is also mostly controlled by china nowadays but rather from the reality of how they are being treated by the Chinese government. The party always brain wash their people that HK people are disillusion seperationist and hate China. But the truth is HK people just want to be left alone instead of all these parental control and censorship being imposed by China. The party hates HK people because they can still tell the difference between the country and the party!
@@WayneHuo I work with people all over the world....Hate to think how many foreigners i brough to China told me the same thing in the last 20 years, despite we keep believing it is a small world because of the media
@@SportNut1 please explain how China controls hk anymore than the British did. Did you really think the rule of law applied during the British rule? Have you studied how the British dealt with dissidents and activists in hk? Most hkers view of China and its government is from media.
@@WayneHuo There are lots of things that are controlled more tightly and it's hard to list out all of them. And you can tell by the brutality of the police nowadays. You mention how the British deal with it but that is in the 60s. Nobody think that is right and they did improved a lot and never happened again. You can't tell me China is at British 60s level. One of the biggest reason of the recent protest is from how the hk people are frustrated the hk gov only care about serving China instead of hk people and want to be able to elect its own governor, which China promised. Honestly I don't understand why people in China are so mad that hk is fighting for democracy. Every time I ask someone they tell me "one china" and I am like har??? Who said hk want to separate? Do the people in China knows those separationist are a tiny portion like a 100 people? Hk people get their perception of China's respect on the law from incidents like "My dad is Lee Gon" or Poisonous Baby formula. I know China is improving but the new leader seems to like tighter centralised control more than the last one. So it is hard for the hk people to trust China's law just now. Honestly I didn't want to talk too much about politics online and don't want to offend anyone, but I want to tell you a little about hk if you are one of the people who hate hk's recent movement
Starts at about 0:55 in English.
He is totally right about everything. Having lived in China for many years I know this. In the end he poses certain questions with a positive attitude. I think there is a darker side to this "easternisation" though. The difficulties China went through "held it back". There are many similar examples of smaller countries who first went through civil wars and then had a dictatorship. Even though they experienced unprecedented progress during the dictatorship they were held back culturally and their systems were so outdated and incompatible with the rest of the world that when the dictatorship came to an end and they had to catch up they paid for it dearly. China has a unique culture but Its values and systems are not as special and unique as one might think. They are very similar to those everywhere in the world 1000 years ago. The whole world is moving towards a certain direction (and yes sometimes led by the usa). That is the only reason we are living in the most peaceful humane era of human history. China with its power threatens to bring a change that will take the world back to a society much more brutal than western millennials and especially Americans can imagine.
China favours an orderly society whereas the US favours the keeping the status quo and maintaining the profits and power of the elite. The only threat China poses is its own autonomy and power to reject the American doctrine.
@George, you are wrong. China's system, culture and values are 5000 years old and very different from the rest of the world. It is rooted in the true science of quantum mechanics, graphically represented in the taiqi and pakua.
China was built by the global outsourcing phenomenon, tech transfers and the hard work of the Chinese people. The young American failed to mention that globalism and the U.S. as its main engine are in a freefall and are currently in the process of collapsing. The U.S. has become a nation built on debt and it's running out of time. Current asset valuations across all asset classes are being artificially inflated through debt by a financial instrument know as debt margin equity. The US has unfunded liabilities over 10 times the current size of its economy with a dying middle-class tax base. It's not a matter of if it will collapse but when? This will be China's real test as export markets collapse.
you're right. The US stock market was 14,000 points in 2007. Explosive economic crisis. This year is 28,000 points. Among them, junk bonds and stocks reached tens of thousands of dollars. Bubble crisis breaks out at any time
Brilliant, simply👍
Just leave China alone, if you don't bother China. The world will be in peace. China never want to impact others. If you know China's history you will know that.
Wahahaaa... take a good look at what China is doing with the Philippines and Africa!
Michael Ming is correct... China is not being peaceful at all... they are being very aggressive and threatening most countries around them (this is not even mentioning the extremely horribly brutal, violent, and shameful way they continue to treat Tibetans).
China seems to want to impact others quite greatly...
@@josephaether377 threatening with what? overthrow the government? starting a war? interfering internal affairs? haters gonna hate no matter what truth is.
They will never leave you alone. USA will not allow another country to become the leading superpower, without a major nuclear war. This is how the imperialists in the west think, this is in the basis of their mindset. They project their own colonial asspirations to others. This is why they are afraid of Russia and China, because they think that they would do them everything they were doing to other people on the planet.
I am from Serbia. USA bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade 20 years ago. Do you think it was a mistake? I think it was a message.
It is time to wake up! Big war is coming. You need to understand who your friends are, and keep them close. I can tell you that Serbia will always be your friend. We will never forget the support of your people. We might be small with a weak army, but we are very well positioned in Europe.
@@wudzah nah. that is not a smart comment. i am not a fan of USA. but there is no reason they will attack China if China doesn't antagonize them. there is no evidence that they attack another nation out of jealousy of their power...
It’s sad that in this century China is being stereotyped as copycat / lack of innovation/creativity yet the truth is China had been the world greatest innovator in ancient times. They’ve invented many sophisticated things that we still use today like first seismometer (2nd Century while the first western description of the device was in 1703), mechanical clock (200 years earlier than the one in Europe), rocket (228AD) compass, movable type printing, textile, paper (it was Chinese who first use toilet paper & create paper money), Go Game (which much more complicated than Chess).....even football n golf games were first recorded in China.
PS : Su Song (1020-1101 AD) was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesmen, many historians think that Leonardo Da Vinci was actually the western version of Su Song......
Thank you for the info about China. I thought the opposite situation: based on the social media and news about China presented to us.
I do not know the situation in US. I currently live in NZ. The sports personnel in NZ are self employed. THey have to look after by themselves. In China, the sports personnel have been looked after by the state government by using all of the national resources. It is state sponsored sports. Therefore, they should get the most gold medals.
Michael Franklin Will, that's truth.
Chinese sports personnel, they are trained from very young age.
You slide at 7:20 much more effective if the word "Vietnam" on the far right.
That thing was literally Money, Money and Money.
I would like to request TEDx Talk invite a Chinese to speak on the same topic. Thank you.
Best tedtalk since Paul stamets
you are right, no world is perfect! west has it's own way, and China has it's own way . as long as we are happy and enjoy the life. why do we need to follow the west way to rule the country? are there any country can make such a huge progress in this short time in the histroy of the world? no no no, only China make it! so sucessfule! then how come the other country to question Chinese way ? how dare you?
The part about subways packed with people shoving each other is actually very common; that's part of daily life in cities like Beijing and Shanghai
This guy has a really novel perspective on young generation of China
Incredible
I agree with many of the points in this video
Good question but nobody knows
I agreed 80% of what you say. "Easternization" is a very far dream as with the 中国梦。 As dreams are only possible when you sleep, i hope your speeches and sharing will wake them up to reality !
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Lol, I’m sure if he showed a photo of Baltimore, it would be a major difference between 90’s and 2016.
Glad to see my fellow CU Lion can see it pretty clearly. Props.
The point about GDP growth in the west since 1990 allowing for bigger homes, longer vacations, bigger cars, better tutors is nonsense, average purchasing power has not gone up much let alone 2.5 times more
Be yourself, lest you become redundant.
What is the West? There are so many cultures? What is China? There are so many cultures?
这小伙中文吓到我了，开头我还以为配音的呢……
JUST A SMALL POINT-DON'T GET BENT OUT OF SHAPE: I'm sure it's different in some places, maybe on some campuses, certain companies, whatnot, but the young people on Beijing's Third Ring Road-a very average place, full of university graduates; I've met young professional artists, bankers, and tea wholesalers-they can't speak English at all. That is, there's some remembered vocab from school, but not nearly enough to...say, watch a movie, or answer a fluent "How are you doing today?"
Per ca-pita GDP tells you f-all.
Wow, very exciting, I wonder why Hong Kong doesn’t want to be a part of it?
P1A2T34 brainwashed by fake news western media
@@michaelbiedassek7136 But the typologies of government were also made by the west, for example, we think MIC of America is the most dangerous political creature in the world, it's nothing about freedom if you can't defend yourself. Just look at what France has been doing in Mali, the US just did the similar to the rest of the world.
1、Church teachers and media keep telling teenagers in HK how bad China is every day, they were scared.
2、Sure. China is far from perfect.
3、Not everyone in HK does not want to be part of China, but your MSM told you that way, did you hear about Great Bay Area plan? HK is a part of it, great opportunities there and we invested a lot.
4、Some HKers do not want to be Chinese for different reasons. For HK youth without a bachelor degree, it's too hard to compete with youth from the mainland. They want to keep mainlanders out.
5、So how about let HKers move to China? Not easy, some of HKers' mind still left in the 1980s, some of them may not be able to find a good job.
Because the young Hong Kong never study about China history, they don't know their own ancestors.
@@michaelbiedassek7136 The Chinese government make China so strong. China is doing great without democrazy.
i don't know i dont like his way of saying things like china and the chinese poeple , his logical is full of self- presenting and HE is a good modle for his emotions to be described above , and I think he is coming here just to present some informations; full of sth
i believe in chinese governance, results speak for themselves
Congratulations, you have found China’s Achilles’ heels.....
Speaks from a privileged American and Chinese perspective. White upper-middle-class Americans may not notice a difference between Woodstock and Coachella, but for many other groups, there has been a world of difference. By the same token, there is a world of difference between the center and the periphery in China today. What are our metrics for success? How well we exploit and harm? How well we achieve within global capitalism? Do we think about our ethics as often as we think about our economics?
Actually the east in the west not a whole Lotta difference eating morality standard for example in China read it good portion of the east anyway it’s Confucianism and the west just based on Christianity and both philosophy is to set a morality standard for the society and humankind humankind they both have a Lotta similarities
We are having a very atitudy
Hear that American millennials. Time to bulk up
really？
11:55 摸着石头过河 Crossing the river by feeling the stones
===>摸着美帝的头过河 Crossing the river by feeling America's heads
Whoever says Beijing Olympics was the best show in history never saw Frank Ocean perform.
Audio sucks
You have no right to talk about 1969 in China. Do you know how many people died in the Cultural Revolution? How many disasters did it bring to China? How much does it impact to the people in China till today? Be respect! You can talk about it when you are 50.
What does age play in this part?
come on, Cultural Revolution is few decades ago... I agree with that, this revolution brought many disasters. However, it was end, now there is not such a cultural revolution.
Then best yet , News Reporting Method and Model for True Truth Seekers ❤John Barnett October 2023
Which Chinese millennials? Mainland China? Taiwan? Hong Kong? US? Southeast Asia?
Those r not Chinese. He obviously meant mainland. The only Chinese that are relevant to the debate (about Chinese impact).
China mainland of course, duh!
SERPENT ZA SAID HOW GRATEFUL HE IS FOR CHINA TO GIVE HIM A CHANCE WHEN HE ESCAPE FROM AFRICA. BUT END UP BASHING CHINA IN HIS TH-cam CHANNEL TO GAIN VIEWERS FOR PROFIT. HOPE YOU ARE NOT LIKE HIM.
Yeah that serpentza guy really hates china he doesn't just criticize the Chinese govt but also their culture
@@maheshrathod5593 He speaks the truth.
Chinese people know he is speaking the truth
.........Woodstock is best known for 3 things, first xxx, second drugs n third Rock & Roll.........so typical of western festival 🤣
Maybe they r not ŕeally ghost town. These town r prepare to ready for next generations.
Middle class there see the real estate as the best investment available to them. They would buy an apartment on the edge of the city, wait 5-10 years for it to be worth 3 or 5 times more and spend that money on 3 or 5 apartments on the new edge of the city. As long as a lot of people keep comming to live there it is a good investment. When they stop there will be a lot of people with apartments they can't sell. Those ghost cities are usually satelite cities. They know that in ten years or so it would be faster for the people to come to the center of the city by train from another city than by car or public transport from its edge. Chinese have even started building those ghost cities in Africa. Just like in China, they are building a lot at the time and then wait for years for people to move in. Those are the long time investments.
What version of Chinese is he speaking in ?
Mandarin or Cantonese ?
mandarin
@@sarahlin1591 Thanks.
Hey, Im supposed to write a summary on this . Could someone help me with stating his main points.
goverment Scary :)
I don't know how to make sense of this talk, he just throws questions at the audience, reinforced several steriotypes he said he is trying to break of the Chinese youth, and showed a bunch of economic achievements of China that everybody already knew. What is he trying to present ? I will say that he did think about the great changes witnessed and lived by Chinese Millennials, but he did'nt come to a conclusion of what impact does this had on Chinese Millennials and made them into what kind of person, instead, he throws the question back to the audience. Is he trying to inspire the audience to do the research that he is doing? I think he is . I don't want to think it this way, but if I didn't know better (that this guy is really nervous and didn't deliver what he wanted to), I would presume that he is trying to imply that Chinese Millenials is a group of spoiled, pressured to the verge of collapse, complacent jerks who know you(the west) better than you know them.
Apparently the microphone, made in China
Good one!
You are wrong, the microphone made in USA, since USA is collapsing.
lol.
My chains, new gold watch, made in China
I love how this American guy says "West" instead of "USA". Yes, China's transformation has been incredible, but please stop showing off your Chinese and make a point.. if you ever had one.
If this speech was his final paper, I would give him a B.
Nice speech, but obviously one tailored for the Chinese audience.
If you think this speech is tailored for Chinese audiences, that means you are still trapped in the typical western thinking pattern stereotype with biased views because you observe China with colored glasses.
傻叼
Chinese schools force their students to memorize, whereas western schools encourage students to ask why because innovation begins by asking the right questions.
In the 2008 Olympics, China (population of 1.3B) defeated the US (population 300M).
In the 2016 Olympics, UK (population of 65M) defeated China (population 1.4B).
Kids grew up under the pressure of the full focus of 4 grandparents and 2 parents are bound to have issues. That's why mental health is an increasing problem in China today.
I'm Chinese and I used to teach in China. Kids there spend way too much time learning about patriotic BS and fake history. The line between real and fake is so blurred the kids don't see it as irrelevant. How is that not brainwash?
Ben Cheung Pathic. I am sorry to hear your voice.
Yes, China has changed rapidly. And the point of this speech is...?
USA is still walking at the same spot, or maybe collapsing?
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