I loved that part with "It's so cool!" It's from China "I like it 40% less..." I can see the Chinese community getting frustrated that Japanese and Korean soft power is much higher. As a Korean American growing up during 90's before we became cool, I felt the same way about Japanese soft power being so much more prevalent.
@@PaulVonLoren I'm just gonna assume you mostly eat sandwiches by your answer and that your country of origin lacks using spice in its food or at least your household did. From which food culture do you hail?
@@PaulVonLoren bro, are you really eating chemically treated fish? Dry fermented fish or like the surstrong or whatever it's called one. If the later then I see where your tastebuds went.
The thing is having pride in being Chinese is link closely with being nationally Chinese as well. So thanks to that because of the actions of the CCP the world views those proud of being chinese as a problem considering again the actions of the CCP. Also Chinese voice acting sucks and this is from a guy who grew up watching chinese dramas with his grandma (the live actions are great but the voce acting in animation is so bad)
@@aaronmontgomery2055how do I become attracted to black or mexican women? I tried watching chubby latina or black porn as recommended to me, but it doesnt seem to be working.
As long as China stay strong and doesn't bow to the West. Being a cool Chinese will never be pushed or promoted in the West. But that shouldn't stop one from being proud if they truly know who they are.
Funny thing is, when I first came to the US as a Korean, Americans only asked if I was Japanese...? Chinese..? And majority barely knew what Korea even was, by the Korean war... LOL. But now I sometimes get these kids asking me all excited... ARE YOU KOREAN..? And I say Yes... and they giggle excitedly and want to talk about Kpop.
I have Korean parents, we were all born Korea. Growing up in America I identified as Korean American. I took the dna test as an adult. Turns out I’m only 52% Korean, 26% Japanese and 12% Chinese. I thought it was so cool. I like to share that story when I meet Chinese people or talk to other people about background. I feel a sense of unity. I may not be culturally Chinese, Japanese and even Korean in some ways but it feels good to know that I am still connected.
My mum is Burmese but recently she found out that her grandmother was Chinese, so I'm an 1\8, I thought that was cool. Korea and Japan have many cool things but they don't have Bruce Lee - the coolest Asian !
And bruce lee was the first international asian artist to really bring the east to the west.. hongkong movies music massively influenced Korea and japan. Music as well.. At the end of the day.. everyone has their era.. even korea wave is slowing down. Japan is on a high but it is going down as well and next Vietnamese is next. Jsut liek everyone have their time to shine
As a 58-year-old Chinese-American, I grew up in a city with a majority of Japanese-Americans and was always made to feel less than because I’m Chinese. So sad that this still happens 58 years later.
This is very unfortunate and sad since the entire Asian community should remain in solidarity. For your case, have you considered moving to a city with more Chinese presence?
As a Asian who just came to US 5yrs ago, I extremly recommend Asian Americans that you should stop dividing yourself by ethnicity. Entertainment is just entertainment. I don't understand why you guys always compare each other for useless things and wasting your energy.
This. Thes are just trends.. in like 10 maybe less it will be indian will be the new anime/ kdrama. These are just trends. Be happy with who you are.. and low key shes american.. she is the coolest person Americans are literally the center of every pop culture and entertainment and always will.. the mass influence and creativity from america will always be the strength
A lot of people already commented about kung fu movies, and I think that's a huge Chinese export that maybe isn't as big as it once was. For my dads generation, Bruce Lee was the biggest star in the world, and I grew up watching things like Enter the Dragon or Jackie Chans Drunken Master. Kung Fu Hustle was MY favorite movie growing up, and it still holds up! For food, Cantonese food and Sichuan food are as good as any Korean or Japanese foods. On the flip side, growing up Japanese, I really shied away from things like Manga and anime because they felt too nerdy or fobby. So the grass is always greener...
Bruce Li wasn't even our biggest star. Kung fu was loved before that already. Cantonese movies were insanely popular. Chow Yun Fat I would say made the most noise across the globe.
Not going to lie. Martial arts films (especially of the Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan stripe) did show the potential of modern Chinese soft power; TikTok/Douyin and prominent Hollywood actors of Chinese descent are currently at the forefront.
Always remember, the UFC was created off of the inspirational of Bruce Lee and wanting to make kung fu and other styles more mixed. He was definitely one of the people in such groups who promoted such.
0:47 This might actually turn out to be an interesting discussion. Depending on the points she brings up. Chinese have a very rich culture. The girl should not be embarrassed. Chinese culture is very vast and very old. That is something to be proud of in any culture. As an african i'm saying that. We have empires as well. She may be looking at too much Popular social media She may need to focus on historical accounts Instead which you can actually also find online but as facts.
The real problem is that the stuff that's inside China isn't readily available to people in the west. The Chinese government made it a thing to separate their internet from the rest of the world. There's probably a shit tons of things that might be poppin' on douyin that would translate well over to the west but because they have separate internets it's really hard to have that exposure to Chinese trends and whatnot.
We can access the stuff you know? Its not even hard. What are you even on about. You can get a verified account and everything on douyin. The "good" stuff we get here and everything. Remember "Xue Hua Piao Piao" meme? The issue is that a lot of it is toxic like the A4 challenge (not to say the western trends are not toxic but it is a difference of what is acceptable).
@@aaronmontgomery2055 Exposure is the keyword. Nowhere did I say we didn't have access to it. We lacked the exposure to it because all the Chinese creators are on their own platforms. You said it yourself that you actively went to search it out whereas if Chinese people were on the same platform as people in the west they'd be more exposed to it. Your normal everyday American isn't going to find out how to get on douyin. Exposure leads to random things catching on. If you're never exposed to something you never know what'll catch on. I'm also not aware of both of things you cited which probably proves my point. You're exposed to it because you actively seek it out or it's something people in your circle take interest it. It wasn't something totally random that you happen to have come across.
@@ponuni Then why does American, Korean, and Japanese media go into the Chinese internet when it is heavily stopped by the chinese government? You can easily access chinese internet but they can not easily access ours. So where is she getting this info from said "media" when it is even less readily available.
@@aaronmontgomery2055 Because the soft power of these countries are already established. You can't just block it out. There will be people in China that will actively seek it out. Whereas Chinese soft power is non existent! So the Chinese have to put themselves out there more and it doesn't help that they can't do that because their government wants to keep them on their own platforms. Assuming this "she" is the reddit poster in this video? She is Chinese American so she's exposed to this "media" maybe through friends or family. If she wasn't Chinese you can bet her exposure to any of this is 0.
But thats why the can keep theirs culture. Look at Korea, nothing Korean in kpop, just a America Pop copy sometime the sing koreans, but 90 per cent of the time they sing english....not a show wearing autentic korean styles...only provocative western outfit..
Even though I watch anime a lot and greatly admired Japanese culture. But I’m always well aware of the fact that some Japanese culture were also in ways greatly and heavily influenced by the Chinese culture, and so are some of the Korean culture. And in turn I also learn to greatly love and respect my own Chinese cultural heritage.
Chinese culture has kung fu, the old traditional stuff looks beautiful, the food is fire 🔥, and the movie stars are popular, we would not have had the Bruce Lee movies, Rush Hour, Romeo Must Die, and others had it not been from Chinese culture.
Cantonese people litealrly made chiense food number 1 in america. Next to Mexican food. Peopel say greasy .. sure.. and yet.. it is the number 1 food in america.. and it’s actaully number 1 in majority places in the world western.. japanese kroean aren’t at the top.. so taht is intersting as well
I always felt that wherever Chinese settled they added value to the area such as San Francisco and Southern California and Vancouver, by building businesses or just wanting their kids to get into good schools. There were even Chinese that moved into black neighborhoods to build grocery stores. Chinese work hard keep their head down and want to progress. But if you look at the history everyone has been trying to push down Chinese people for ages it’s just history repeating itself look at the history thr 8 nation alliance. Chinese people got invaded and were forced to pay white countries money after the invasion.
That is quite sad that someone would feel that way. I’ve had some issues with confidence in my past, but even during my darkest days, I never blamed being Chinese for my own ineptitude. Like you guys said, Chinese are everywhere! We are highly powerful and influential in many of the countries where we have set up operations. They don’t call us the Asian J**s For nothing! Come to think of it… perhaps that is why they hate us! 🤔
The thing is, the formation and the spread of Korea and Japan’s pop culture is vastly different from each other. When postwar Japan started to become somewhat popular in the 1970s and 1980s, Japanese pop culture in general was extremely inward looking. The only thing Japan was interested in exporting was their automobiles and electronics and its own pop culture such as anime and music was only catered towards Japanese audiences. It was in the mid 1980s during the bubble economy when westerners started to become more interested in the hobbys of the average Japanese people and started adopting them by taking them home to their countries. Japan didn’t initially try to export them, foreigners came to Japan with interest and took them back to spread Japanese pop culture. This is why alot of Japanese pop culture in general has its own aesthetic/flavor because its main target are the native Japanese people and not foreigners. This is also why Japanese media even today don’t care for any social trends and political correctness thats happening in the west. Korea on the other hand is different. When Korea started to build up their entertainment industry, its initial goal was to spread them overseas. It didn’t bother to cater towards the native Korean people because its main target were overseas. This is why the Korean government invested tons to support Korean Wave in order to spread its influence throughout the world. And in the end, it was a huge success as you could see. Now with China, which one of these examples are they going to follow? Are they going to go with the Japanese model where it starts off inwards by building up authentic pop culture within China and wait until foreigners picks up on it and eventually let it spread? Or are they going to try the Korean model, where the government purposely “creates” a pop culture on their own and tries to sell them overseas? Honestly, China has the ability to do both. They have a huge domestic population, vast amount of ethnic Chinese living overseas that can act as a “bridge”among countries and also a powerful government enough to promote them overseas by investing tons of money. But you know whats truly holding China back? The lack of freedom among the general population and consumerism of foreign goods. You CAN’T expect to develop a sub culture or a pop culture without the people expressing themselves freely. Sub cultures are born by letting the younger people express themselves to the specific social environment they are in. You have to let those people naturally form their own “clique” or groups to let their expression and aesthetics shape itself. Whenever that stage is cleared without any government involvement to crack them down, let it naturally spread even more throughout the country and wait until you can make profit out of it. China can do this with the enormous amount of population they have. The problem is that the Chinese government is extremely sensitive to any type of social groups forming within the population and will do anything to suppress them if they feel threatened. Hence why the Chinese population has the tendency to depend on foreign pop culture if their own domestic entertainment is not their taste. Honestly if you are a Chinese American, don’t depend on China to form its own “cool” pop culture. It probably wont happen with how the country operates. Its political structure is not suitable for any type of authentic sub cultures to be born. Even if there would to be with the “guidance” of the Chinese government, it most likely wont be authentic to the general Chinese population. Sub cultures has to resonate with the general population, especially the youth. Chinese Americans(or any other Asian Americans) has to form their own identity and sub culture that can be resonated and spread among other Asian Americans.
I both agree and disagree. Chinese soft power does have the potential to follow the Japanese and Korean models, but maybe it’s not needed. Probably already been done with martial arts films (especially of the Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan stripe) whereas today, TikTok/Douyin and prominent Hollywood actors of Chinese descent are arguably at the forefront of modern Chinese soft power.
That’s gotta be the most desperate reason I’ve heard on kpop not being for Koreans. Kpop was for the Korean people, south East Asian started liking it first then it got mainstream. It was then adapted into western cultures for more revenue.
I’m a 50 yo Korean American and it wasn’t long ago that nobody thought Kculture was cool. Those of us who are more aware and educated appreciate so many aspects of Chinese culture. I hope the younger generation of Asian Americans can grow up with confidence and pride. Our family is multicultural, a mix of different Asians backgrounds and I’m big on solidarity among Asians Americans!
I am a Viet-Chinese…and I am PROUD of my Chinese ancestry. I think many Chinese diaspora in Western Countries, they don’t know their own culture. Most SE Asian Chinese are a lot more proud.
the Martial Arts boom caused by Bruce Lee in the late 60s and early 70s. China absolutely had a massive era where it was at the forefront and super popular. During those days other ethnic groups and races all wanted to become Chinese. Then it shifted to Japan, now it's Korea. Chinese were the first Asians in America and helped build the country, it's only natural that Chinese become more "boring" and less "exotic" as most other Americans just take Chinese for granted after a few generations. In the 80s, there was a massive Japan/Ninja boom followed by the Anime boom of the 90s and also video games, etc. It's just taking turns.. and like fashion, old fashion becomes new fashion. Maybe that girl wont get to benefit from a cool perception of Chinese, but her kids might
15:31, I can answer that from personal experience. Yes, the individual can transcend, especially growing up upper class (not new money). This can keep you inside a bubble of other cultured and upper-class people, and you'd have a lot more common shared experiences with them (you both went to private boarding school, went to euro family skii trip when you were young etc).
The only way to claim coolness from ancient China perspective is that they originated the first comic book with Journey to the West and the associated adventure for grandiose 😉
I really appreciate that you guys grew up in the US but still have such appreciation of your culture. Yes it’s super deep (in an Indiana Jones way) and beautiful, but seems like only our own kind are able to understand.
My takeaway learning about China's culture: unfortunately due to CCP getting a lot of press & how Mao changed most of that generations thinking about mostly thinking about money & taking whatever they can has outshined China's good culture This is similar to Africans where theyre vew as poor people yet theyre culturally rich. A good thing I found interesting was how gymnastic moves orginated from Chinese folk dance
Lui bei, Guan yu, Zang fei. What do you call that novel in English. I used to read that novel, palyed a game based on it a lot. The game was made by Japanese cooperation btw, and I am Korean. I wish you forgot martial arts ㅠㅠ It makes asians look goofy
In my opinion, many Chinese girls are beautiful, but I know many Chinese guys in mainland are having a hard time dating Chinese girls. They lack girls in main land China, so girls got a boost in ego. That is a turn off for me😮
@@user-bn3cn1xb4b Martial arts brings respect to Asians. Bruce Lee invented mixed martial art a.k.a. MMA. Very popular! I don't know how you think that martial arts make Asians look goofy. That's absolutely ridiculous!
Very cool conversation. I became a fan of Chinese dramas, and thus became much more interested in all the recent China news, culture, state of religious freedom, etc. I pray for the Chinese people, and it's hard to get a full picture of life within the nation's borders due to the language barrier. But, Chinese dramas have a lot of creative and unique perspectives, and through them I see the creativity, intelligence, and artistry of the people behind them. It's just one tiny sliver of China, and not any more real than Hollywood, but when I pray for the people in China I can appreciate the stories they've brought to life and all the people behind the scenes who made them possible.
I feel terrible for this girl….how can you be insecure with your own race? No race is perfect, that includes your idols Koreans and Japanese. Have a backbone, and stand up for it.
As an Asian American more specifically Korean American I can say that we're all East Asians no matter where you go in America. During the covid we all were targeted for being Asian. We as Asians don't see Europeans, Latinos, or Arabs and differentiate them based on what countries they're from. What I am trying to say is that it's one of those teenagers' things and she'll get over it when she gets older.
I read in an old Chinese proverb, to beat the teen, u must become the teen. Tell her kung fu panda was my ish!!! Girrrrll. Girl! Tell u what, bobby. No sh that's what it really said
One more thing to add, I think Italians have somewhat similar issue with French brands being more cool but Italian products are better. I think a lot of soft power is how to market what you got.
It's not that China isn't good with soft power, think about Tiktok and Temu and city infrastructure, no poo on streets and safe, and that majority of Chinese are hospitable to white people. It's just that countries that are jealous are doing their very best to make sure people don't know about it through their media channel. Just for instance why is Fungbro not getting more views because their contents are great. This is meant to be the anti Chinese decade if not century. It's a strategy is what I am saying. Some people believe the rise in popularity of K-pop was to offset Asian hate in certain parts of the world. DBSK was probably a cooler group compare to current K-pop groups but they were not popular in the world. So if someone is jealous of you, then you should be proud that you are doing something right.
If you don’t respect yourself or your culture then how do you expect others to respect you? Chinese has its own merit. Be proud of who you are. Here’s my hot take. China is cool because we are the scapegoat for everything negative about asia. - horrible working hours, Japan and Korea aren’t different. - dirty street food, I’m sure a lot of Asian countries all have this issue. - slanted eyes, that’s common among Asian countries. - genital size joke, it’s an Asian thing but China will always take the hit. So yeah, China is cool for taking all the negative stereotypes so other Asian countries don’t have to.
I suppose, it's a given, considering China is the largest Asian nation, not to mention the one with the longest recorded history. Also, the most widely known. Logically speaking, yes it probably makes the most sense to learn Mandarin, than any other Asian language, for worldly utility. So, it makes sense, China is the first & typically the only Asian country that is well known. No one mentioned China's big knock-off market. Every time I go online looking for an item. If the listing states the "China" version, I know it's a fake.
The only reason you guys get a bad rep is because of the brainwashing your gov does to your people. Those people in turn travel outside of the US and start heckling people, littering, and portray bad manners etc... its the product of YOUR government. That is why Chinese Americans or Chinese Europeans hate the CCP.
Korea and Japan don't have citizenship by birth right like US or UK. Even if someone is born in those countries, does not grant citizenship. Even 4th gen koreans in japan still have korean citizenship, some even never been to korea and hold korean citizenship. It seems however that korean citizenship (south korea) grants naturalization citizenship easier than Japan.
Btw this girl is immature. No one will love you just because you’re specific race.It’s all about yourself. So if someone dislike u just because you’re Chinese American,then even if you’re a Korean American or Japanese American,you won’t build up a genuine relationship
Indian has it, Cambodian has it, Nepalese has it, heck I would say 80% has what you called "totally free creative environment" so where are their "cool" movies, games or anything creative?
I love Chinese and admire their beauties and cultural arts . I didn't see the Chinese jealous of another Asian. To be honest in truth they are the least jealous group I've encountered among the three from from my decades years of experience with living closely with the Korean, Chinese and Japanese. These two guys seems off.Speaking out of an agenda.
China has 8X the population of Korean and Japan Combined.. The Chinese entertainment industry doesn’t cater to them or the west that much because the potential to sell is higher in China, they got near 1.4 billion potential purchasers there. Where as Japan and Korea have relatively low population.. therefore in order to be a millionaire in entertainment Koreans and Japanese people (more so Koreans) almost have to source fans and purchases of merch from outside Korea/Japan…. Fan Bing Bing as a Chinese actress has the same net worth as Angelina Jolie which both are beyond the scale of any Korean or Japanese actress. Just as Americans don’t cater to other countries that much China does the same. This is why KPop tries really hard to sell to China and America but China see’s no need to even target Korea and might think about America but I haven’t seen them try yet.
Wrong, China is notorious for trying to manipulate, bully, coerce and down right lie, steal, cheat to gain recognition, power and praise. They have changed Hollywood scripts for decades now. Always trying stir animosity towards Koreans and Japanese. Don’t believe me look it up. Fck China
The entertaintment industry in Japan is huge and it sustains on its own. It doesn't really need the rest of the world. It was the outside world that demanded Japanese entertaintment, not the other way round.
@@ijansk Dragon Ball manga has sold over 160 million copies in Japan, while globally it has sold over 260 million copies. 40% of Dragonball Z success comes from OUTSIDE of Japan. Pokemon 36.6% percent of total revenue comes from America. 32.6% of the revenue from Japan. The rest of the world contributes 30.8% of Pokemon revenue comes from the rest of the world. Clearly the two biggest franchises in Japan need outside help for it's current level of success.
One question. Definitely the Kung fu movies by Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan were popular and Japanese Manga and Anime were popular in the West before. But at that time as an Asian man I never felt any advantage from them in the dating market with western girls. But the recent success of K-pop and K-Drama actually start to influence positively on Asian males in the western dating market. Why do you think K-pop and K-Drama are more influential for Asian men's Dating Market Value than the former? (I think Bruce Lee was quite sexy but he didn't seem to arouse any advantage for Asian males....)
A Chinese who has a strong emotional bond to her roots and her motherland would never write something like that. Actually China is the mother of all of East Asian nations. So as a Chinese, what is there to be jealous of? Koreans are our closest blood brothers/sisters. Their win is our win. Just enjoy it. And I'm sure many of them deep down know, that our win is also their win. (I have several Korean friends, so I can feel this sentiment, despite the current geopolitical situation, they are aware that the Chinese are like their distant cousins.)
We are nothing close to being your brothers. You are delusional. Mongolia, Japan, Korea we hate and reject China and have been enemies for thousand of years. We are different, we even hate the sound of chinese spoken language.
Please don't put hapas on a pedestal. I am one. Our families put us on pedestal at home and then we go out into the world and get rejected by both sides of our culture. Your daughter isn't better than other Koreans simply for being part white.
@@ElizabethChee-rj7bnI’m full Asian. But half Asian of one kind and half Asian of another. Get rejected by both. This is not a hapa specific problem Asians just tribal af
the funny thing is that in korea, there are lots of chinese foods that are on trend(Tanghulu, Spicy Hot Pot, Hot Pot etc. ) ,even though china- korea nation relationship is the worst than ever. So imo I think it is just promotion issue.
What makes me very sad is that China has the potential to create soft power that would leave Japan and Korea in the dust. I was exposed to a lot of Chinese pop culture from a young age and I've always believed that China does the best fantasy stories in comparison to the rest of Asia. Not to mention classic stories like The Water Margin which could be as huge as Game of Thrones if it was made accessible to a wider audience.
That is great but as a mixed person myself, someone shouldn't be the pride and joy of their family simply for being mixed with European blood. A very damaging mentality both for the mixed person and for the Asian community. I have lived experience to go off as a Eurasian..
Chinese people have made significant historical and cultural achievements in the past. but I think It seems that their cultural development is being hindered by the CCP and its supporters today. (I am not chine so can I say this?? right?)
China is the only super power in the world that's able to compete with the US now. I don't get why Chinese Americans don't feel proud and confident as being Chinese ... For a Chinese girl from China like me, Chinese culture is really cool. Thousands of years of history, all the classic literatures, the architectures, movies, different types of local music, the Chinese mythologies, Wuxia novels, and the recent game black myth wukong, aren't they not cool?? I think the biggest issue to cause this is that Chinese culture is way more difficult for the westerners to understand due to the huge language barrier and lack of background knowledge. For instance, Black Myth Wukong might be popular now globally but I bet a non native Chinese player would not understand the meanings behind each story, and why the Characters and lines were designed that way... For Korean and Japanese culture, I might be wrong but i feel like they are quite whitewashed and Westernized and have been losing their own stuff. I'm happy that Chinese culture is able to maintain its own uniqueness considering how popular and strong Hollywood is in Asia. American culture is cool. I love Taylor swift, Ariana Grande, and Demi Lovato. I love American musicals such as Chicago and Hamilton. But these don't make Chinese Culture less cooler. They are just different.
being a Middle Eastern from the Gulf GCC I do feel that Japan is high in terms of creativity and soft power but in terms of political power and world-wide weight CHINA has more dominance in politics and economy --
Been there, big cities are good and nice, but if you go outside basically nothing, just tiny villages where people are starving and struggling for jobs....
@@davidkusanagi589 what are you talking about? Fewer and less paid jobs? sure. Starving? No. In the village, people grow their own food, and they don't have to pay property tax, property insurance, income tax, land tax, utility cost is low, can you do that in your country?
China has a great transit system. Their railroads are great. China has some great movies and dramas. China has a great culture. She should be Chinese and proud and hold her head up.
people always say the best way to introduce someone into a culture is their food, but chinese food outside of well established chinatowns are pretty ass there are always gems, but most of them are not
I think we got a give China the benefit of the doubt because during the early 20th century China was in so much turmoil it was not in a position to promote its culture while Japan was already making moves to spread its culture around the world. At the same time, and I am not saying this to diss Japan, but there is some stuff that is thought of as Japanese that has its origins in China. From a popular media standpoint, the inspiration for Dragon ball is one of the obvious ones. Another lesser known one is the Kitsune anime trope. China has stories about Kitsune dating back 2000 years and the nine tailed fox originated in China(look up Classic of Mountains and Seas - Jiu Wei hu)
Literally the culture of East and parts of Southeast Asia has its origin in China. I feel like this is more of geopolitic thing. Japan and SKorea are West friendly. So they get the cool push in the West. China is deemed an adversary to the West by the West. So they don't get the push. And the low self esteem Chinese feels ashamed of themselves. Look at the comments, literally anything China is correlate to "ccp." That's quite ignorant on their part though.
How exactly are Japan and Korea bossed around by the US? They are free democracies and choose to align themselves with other democracies. China is a corrupt dictatorship. Chinese people get bossed around and fucked over by their own government. What population do you think has a better deal?
Jerry Yang (Yahoo founder) , Jensen Huang(NVidia founder), TH-cam founder - Steve Chen, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Wu Chien Shiong, AMD CEO - Lisa Su are all ethnic Chinese. Without them, what would USA be like???
Perhaps I'm biased, because of anime, but Japanese is the best sounding Asian language, of all the ones I've heard. Well, I did really enjoy the Dynasty Warriors games. Don't know what the real counter parts looked like, but I liked the character designs from the series.
You may think the Chinese economy will be bigger than the US. But the Chinese economy's fast growth era is over. The Chinese economy is in serious trouble now that the debt crisis is blooming and the population is decreasing. At this rate, the Chinese economy will never become the world's biggest, and it may enter a long period of slow or no real growth. Just like the other Asia economies did. This girl is too young to understand the bad parts of Korean and Japanese culture. She is way too focused on the shining aspects. Hopefully, she grow out of it.
At the end of the day it’s about tryign to find a place you belong. And sometimes not belonging might be the greatest gift you got being born in america.. you were born in a place that allowed you to celebrate your individuality and you collectives at the same time.. and this is something modern japan, korea, china have wanted to adopt. That spirit of individuality that the east doesn’t’ really have.. it’s a contrived.. but it’s something america more than anywhere else gets. Canada , uk Aussie are after but america.. that is your greatest pride. And if you understand that.. you will understand why everyone wants to copy america. Rap was made in america by a poor class.. and now it’s the most renown style of music everyone wants.But it will never be the same as american r
What can she do? Easy. She can hit the gym daily & develop a "knockout body". She can improve her makeup & have amazing hair. In other words she needs to become an ABG. ABG.
I was born into a poor family and came to Seoul to study. I studied hard because I thought I had to lead my family. And with some small success, I helped my hometown. But my parents were already working hard so they didn't need my help and instead helped me. I was grateful to my parents. And I felt proud of my parents' hard work. But my parents were grateful to me for going out and working hard. This story is a story between Koreans and Korean-Americans. I hope this comment will be a reference to someone.
First, I wanna give credit to the Fung bros for their great insight and analysis. I think the big elephant in the room needs to be talked about. With the great potential that China has, the CCP has killed all creativity, innovation, history, culture etc. It is difficult to detach oneself from his/her government. Even as Asians, when we go abroad and people ask us where we are from, we mention USA or Canada on top of our ethnicity. Then those people assume we would act/behave a certain way because we are from Canada or the US.
@@PaulVonLoren Uhhh. okayyy? Wumao has officially entered the comment section, I guess. Hope you are comfortable around Democratic and free people? that’s what most of us here are , fyi. (BTW, if you mean, bastardized CCP-ized dime store mandarin, then I have even more comments to share with you later: that is NOT standard, nor classic, nor culturally rich & authentic Chinese )
That's like the dumbest most brainless propaganda regurgitation I have ever heard. This is what happens when you are so propagandised but don't know jack. You are so confident with your view you have no idea how far fetched it is from reality. Lmao.
@@pushslice lol 'zombify mandarin' and 'try to kill Cantonese'. Explain how. Listen to yourself. You legit don't know anything about Chinese policy and efforts, or even understand a modicum of Chinese history to be spewing this stuff.
Lets get this straight... Bruce Lee, Awkwafina, Simu and Lucy Liu are Americans... Michelle Yeoh is Malaysian. Heck Awkwafina is also half blood Korean.
Dam my mom is kinda like her. Mom is indifferent to being Viet but loves Korean culture. I grew up watching shows like Running Man with her but never watched Viet shows.
No need to feel bad about being Chinese. People just don't like Chinese government not Chinese people. If one day Chinese got to vote for the leader you want, things will turn around 😊
12:36 stop you righ tthere.. cantonese is by far the best language.. why the cussing is magical 😂its so good china who hates hongkong so much adapted cantonese cuss words.. cantonese is god tier when it comes to swearing:) and to me is the funniest more fun language.. Of course I love japanese.. it melts my soul.. but cantonese .. oh man.. visceral i love it. Let’s make swearing in canatonese a trendy thing😂😂
softpower is a much harder bubble to grow and maintain than hardpower and can collapse or burst much easier and faster. only a few countries have achieved to establish but even the majority of the 1st world countries don't have this honor. germany for example is the largest economy in europe. but if you ask people around the world about germany typical answers will likely be luxury cars, beer, sausage, oktober fest and nazis. not really softpower. in the 80s western germany had more softpower than today. "neue deutsche welle" which was similar to korean hallyu wave. but that was a different time and only memories are left
China has always had a negative PR image on the world stage for a multitude of obvious reasons. Economic prosperity is only one half of the equation. It's a hard sell when the country is widely perceived to be a quasi-dictatorship. It's like how oil rich Middle Eastern nations are considered pariahs in the West despite their industrial boom. If democratic and socially liberal attitudes don't follow, it won't matter how wealthy a country becomes. Any civilization that wishes to achieve sustained longevity must not actively repress its own populace. Tyrannies always reach a tipping point before they devolve, it's inevitable.
That's not what is happening. The thing that will ruin China is the population is declining, just like the other countries in the world. Majority of Chinese accept the rules willingly. They all have the choice to leave. People like Jackie Chan would rather have safety than freedom. They think America has too many people dying for no good reason. They think America is not a first world country because your kids are in danger when they go to school. Mass shootings every month and all the drug abuse from the poor to the rich. America isn't even true freedom, it's a false freedom. You guys are spied on by NSA and all the CCTV's. America doesn't allow you to say certain things like yelling fire in a theatre or yelling you have a bomb. You can't carry bombs. True freedom means all of that included. China is fucked up but so is America. America is run by companies and war. China is run by an ego driven lunatic.
12:50 its always the grass is always greener.. you dn’t like cantonese.. japanese person hates japanese ‘ which is why they want to learn kroean or english.. I’ve met these peopel .. korean have korean want to learn mandarins.. Grass is always greener.
There's been a remarkable improvement in Chinese soft power lately from its nadir ~2 years ago. Chinese web novels are huge internationally. Chinese video games and films and tv series are also becoming popular and mainstream. Chinese Tiktok and Temu/Aliexpress and Shein are dominant. Chinese hanfu and traditional practices are returning to prominence. And Chinese electric cars and smartphones will soon be as ubiquitous as all the other 'Made in China' products. And Chinese culture has always had broad appeal, be it martial arts or food or philosophy or festivities, though not to the same intensity among youths as Japanese anime and Korean kpop. Chinese soft power will continue to grow, even with all the baggage and headwinds, because such things grow with hard power.
Korean food light and nutritious? Personally, I like Korean food, but it is the least of the major Asian cuisine. Korean food always have this chili flavour in everything. It becomes boring after awhile.
my theory. it'll come one day, but maybe it'll take 20-30 years. The good thing they have going, is their internet not being connected to the rest of the world. Therefore It'll be the only place in the world where undiscovered modern arts and subcultures will exist one day.
I loved that part with "It's so cool!" It's from China "I like it 40% less..." I can see the Chinese community getting frustrated that Japanese and Korean soft power is much higher. As a Korean American growing up during 90's before we became cool, I felt the same way about Japanese soft power being so much more prevalent.
It's a kind of winner's leisure
@@PaulVonLoren Where are your taste buds?
@@PaulVonLoren I'm just gonna assume you mostly eat sandwiches by your answer and that your country of origin lacks using spice in its food or at least your household did.
From which food culture do you hail?
@@PaulVonLoren bro, are you really eating chemically treated fish? Dry fermented fish or like the surstrong or whatever it's called one. If the later then I see where your tastebuds went.
@Buxthehude your tastebuds sound shot or you haven't had korean or chinese food. Perhaps a changed version.
I'd tell her that while appreciating other cultures is great, don't let the media create a sense of embarrassment or lack of pride for being Chinese.
Excellent answer that's probably the best answer on here
The thing is having pride in being Chinese is link closely with being nationally Chinese as well. So thanks to that because of the actions of the CCP the world views those proud of being chinese as a problem considering again the actions of the CCP. Also Chinese voice acting sucks and this is from a guy who grew up watching chinese dramas with his grandma (the live actions are great but the voce acting in animation is so bad)
@@aaronmontgomery2055how do I become attracted to black or mexican women? I tried watching chubby latina or black porn as recommended to me, but it doesnt seem to be working.
As long as China stay strong and doesn't bow to the West.
Being a cool Chinese will never be pushed or promoted in the West.
But that shouldn't stop one from being proud if they truly know who they are.
@@nightowl7261Then ABC’s Will Have To Be Loyal To The CCP If That’s How It’s Gonna Be
Funny thing is, when I first came to the US as a Korean, Americans only asked if I was Japanese...? Chinese..? And majority barely knew what Korea even was, by the Korean war... LOL.
But now I sometimes get these kids asking me all excited... ARE YOU KOREAN..? And I say Yes... and they giggle excitedly and want to talk about Kpop.
I have Korean parents, we were all born Korea. Growing up in America I identified as Korean American. I took the dna test as an adult. Turns out I’m only 52% Korean, 26% Japanese and 12% Chinese. I thought it was so cool. I like to share that story when I meet Chinese people or talk to other people about background. I feel a sense of unity. I may not be culturally Chinese, Japanese and even Korean in some ways but it feels good to know that I am still connected.
You are well connected with East Asia.
You from korea i like korea and japanese
@@sallehuddinmohdsabar6893nobody cares
which dna testing company did you use?
52 + 38 = 90. So what makes up the other 10% ?
My mum is Burmese but recently she found out that her grandmother was Chinese, so I'm an 1\8, I thought that was cool. Korea and Japan have many cool things but they don't have Bruce Lee - the coolest Asian !
And bruce lee was the first international asian artist to really bring the east to the west..
hongkong movies music massively influenced Korea and japan. Music as well..
At the end of the day.. everyone has their era.. even korea wave is slowing down. Japan is on a high but it is going down as well and next Vietnamese is next.
Jsut liek everyone have their time to shine
Also Jackie Chan and Jet Li were HUGE in Asia during the 80s and 90s before J-POP and K-POP came around.
Um only if you’re a martial arts fan. 😂
@@npcimknot958Korea is still going strong. Japan has been going down since the early 2000’s. Vietnam? Wth? lol
@@FriedrichIneither of them are popular now. Jet Li looks 80 years old. Wth happened to him?
As a 58-year-old Chinese-American, I grew up in a city with a majority of Japanese-Americans and was always made to feel less than because I’m Chinese. So sad that this still happens 58 years later.
If it means anything.. I actually love the sound of mandarin more than japanese and korean..
@@LKRBooks That’s a very kind thing to share 🙂
This is very unfortunate and sad since the entire Asian community should remain in solidarity. For your case, have you considered moving to a city with more Chinese presence?
Japanese and Japanese Americans are racist against Chinese in general. I noticed this trend ever since I interacted with any of them.
I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe I was lucky to grow up in Honolulu, we were all mixed up in there.
As a Asian who just came to US 5yrs ago, I extremly recommend Asian Americans that you should stop dividing yourself by ethnicity. Entertainment is just entertainment. I don't understand why you guys always compare each other for useless things and wasting your energy.
This. Thes are just trends.. in like 10 maybe less it will be indian will be the new anime/ kdrama.
These are just trends. Be happy with who you are.. and low key shes american.. she is the coolest person
Americans are literally the center of every pop culture and entertainment and always will.. the mass influence and creativity from america will always be the strength
Because not all Asians are alike. Hello?🙄
A lot of people already commented about kung fu movies, and I think that's a huge Chinese export that maybe isn't as big as it once was. For my dads generation, Bruce Lee was the biggest star in the world, and I grew up watching things like Enter the Dragon or Jackie Chans Drunken Master. Kung Fu Hustle was MY favorite movie growing up, and it still holds up!
For food, Cantonese food and Sichuan food are as good as any Korean or Japanese foods.
On the flip side, growing up Japanese, I really shied away from things like Manga and anime because they felt too nerdy or fobby. So the grass is always greener...
Bruce Li wasn't even our biggest star. Kung fu was loved before that already. Cantonese movies were insanely popular. Chow Yun Fat I would say made the most noise across the globe.
Not going to lie. Martial arts films (especially of the Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan stripe) did show the potential of modern Chinese soft power; TikTok/Douyin and prominent Hollywood actors of Chinese descent are currently at the forefront.
Always remember, the UFC was created off of the inspirational of Bruce Lee and wanting to make kung fu and other styles more mixed. He was definitely one of the people in such groups who promoted such.
Interesting perspective. And reference frameworks.
Hey it's cool to be Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese Thai, Taiwanese, it's cool to be Asian, it's cool to be whatever race you are.
What you're saying is meaningless
When everybody is cool nobory is cool.
You’re so woke, you’re clueless. Not everyone is a winner despite what woke liberals tell you.
@@juliano8652That Makes No Sense
@@jasonfromguitarcenter makes sense actually
0:47 This might actually turn out to be an interesting discussion. Depending on the points she brings up. Chinese have a very rich culture. The girl should not be embarrassed. Chinese culture is very vast and very old. That is something to be proud of in any culture. As an african i'm saying that. We have empires as well. She may be looking at too much Popular social media She may need to focus on historical accounts Instead which you can actually also find online but as facts.
The real problem is that the stuff that's inside China isn't readily available to people in the west. The Chinese government made it a thing to separate their internet from the rest of the world. There's probably a shit tons of things that might be poppin' on douyin that would translate well over to the west but because they have separate internets it's really hard to have that exposure to Chinese trends and whatnot.
We can access the stuff you know? Its not even hard. What are you even on about. You can get a verified account and everything on douyin.
The "good" stuff we get here and everything. Remember "Xue Hua Piao Piao" meme? The issue is that a lot of it is toxic like the A4 challenge (not to say the western trends are not toxic but it is a difference of what is acceptable).
@@aaronmontgomery2055 Exposure is the keyword. Nowhere did I say we didn't have access to it. We lacked the exposure to it because all the Chinese creators are on their own platforms. You said it yourself that you actively went to search it out whereas if Chinese people were on the same platform as people in the west they'd be more exposed to it. Your normal everyday American isn't going to find out how to get on douyin. Exposure leads to random things catching on. If you're never exposed to something you never know what'll catch on.
I'm also not aware of both of things you cited which probably proves my point. You're exposed to it because you actively seek it out or it's something people in your circle take interest it. It wasn't something totally random that you happen to have come across.
@@ponuni Then why does American, Korean, and Japanese media go into the Chinese internet when it is heavily stopped by the chinese government? You can easily access chinese internet but they can not easily access ours. So where is she getting this info from said "media" when it is even less readily available.
@@aaronmontgomery2055 Because the soft power of these countries are already established. You can't just block it out. There will be people in China that will actively seek it out. Whereas Chinese soft power is non existent! So the Chinese have to put themselves out there more and it doesn't help that they can't do that because their government wants to keep them on their own platforms.
Assuming this "she" is the reddit poster in this video? She is Chinese American so she's exposed to this "media" maybe through friends or family. If she wasn't Chinese you can bet her exposure to any of this is 0.
But thats why the can keep theirs culture. Look at Korea, nothing Korean in kpop, just a America Pop copy sometime the sing koreans, but 90 per cent of the time they sing english....not a show wearing autentic korean styles...only provocative western outfit..
Even though I watch anime a lot and greatly admired Japanese culture. But I’m always well aware of the fact that some Japanese culture were also in ways greatly and heavily influenced by the Chinese culture, and so are some of the Korean culture. And in turn I also learn to greatly love and respect my own Chinese cultural heritage.
Chinese culture has kung fu, the old traditional stuff looks beautiful, the food is fire 🔥, and the movie stars are popular, we would not have had the Bruce Lee movies, Rush Hour, Romeo Must Die, and others had it not been from Chinese culture.
Until Xi fucked us over with all these privacy issues.
Golden Harvest and John Woo movies in the 90's were such a big part of my pop culture growing up
Cantonese people litealrly made chiense food number 1 in america. Next to Mexican food. Peopel say greasy .. sure.. and yet.. it is the number 1 food in america.. and it’s actaully number 1 in majority places in the world western.. japanese kroean aren’t at the top.. so taht is intersting as well
@@npcimknot958 Remember those were Hong Kong movies under the British Rule. After CCP took over they completely destroyed it.
I always felt that wherever Chinese settled they added value to the area such as San Francisco and Southern California and Vancouver, by building businesses or just wanting their kids to get into good schools. There were even Chinese that moved into black neighborhoods to build grocery stores. Chinese work hard keep their head down and want to progress. But if you look at the history everyone has been trying to push down Chinese people for ages it’s just history repeating itself look at the history thr 8 nation alliance. Chinese people got invaded and were forced to pay white countries money after the invasion.
That is quite sad that someone would feel that way. I’ve had some issues with confidence in my past, but even during my darkest days, I never blamed being Chinese for my own ineptitude.
Like you guys said, Chinese are everywhere! We are highly powerful and influential in many of the countries where we have set up operations.
They don’t call us the Asian J**s For nothing!
Come to think of it… perhaps that is why they hate us! 🤔
The thing is, the formation and the spread of Korea and Japan’s pop culture is vastly different from each other. When postwar Japan started to become somewhat popular in the 1970s and 1980s, Japanese pop culture in general was extremely inward looking. The only thing Japan was interested in exporting was their automobiles and electronics and its own pop culture such as anime and music was only catered towards Japanese audiences. It was in the mid 1980s during the bubble economy when westerners started to become more interested in the hobbys of the average Japanese people and started adopting them by taking them home to their countries. Japan didn’t initially try to export them, foreigners came to Japan with interest and took them back to spread Japanese pop culture. This is why alot of Japanese pop culture in general has its own aesthetic/flavor because its main target are the native Japanese people and not foreigners. This is also why Japanese media even today don’t care for any social trends and political correctness thats happening in the west.
Korea on the other hand is different. When Korea started to build up their entertainment industry, its initial goal was to spread them overseas. It didn’t bother to cater towards the native Korean people because its main target were overseas. This is why the Korean government invested tons to support Korean Wave in order to spread its influence throughout the world. And in the end, it was a huge success as you could see.
Now with China, which one of these examples are they going to follow? Are they going to go with the Japanese model where it starts off inwards by building up authentic pop culture within China and wait until foreigners picks up on it and eventually let it spread? Or are they going to try the Korean model, where the government purposely “creates” a pop culture on their own and tries to sell them overseas? Honestly, China has the ability to do both. They have a huge domestic population, vast amount of ethnic Chinese living overseas that can act as a “bridge”among countries and also a powerful government enough to promote them overseas by investing tons of money. But you know whats truly holding China back? The lack of freedom among the general population and consumerism of foreign goods. You CAN’T expect to develop a sub culture or a pop culture without the people expressing themselves freely. Sub cultures are born by letting the younger people express themselves to the specific social environment they are in. You have to let those people naturally form their own “clique” or groups to let their expression and aesthetics shape itself. Whenever that stage is cleared without any government involvement to crack them down, let it naturally spread even more throughout the country and wait until you can make profit out of it. China can do this with the enormous amount of population they have. The problem is that the Chinese government is extremely sensitive to any type of social groups forming within the population and will do anything to suppress them if they feel threatened. Hence why the Chinese population has the tendency to depend on foreign pop culture if their own domestic entertainment is not their taste. Honestly if you are a Chinese American, don’t depend on China to form its own “cool” pop culture. It probably wont happen with how the country operates. Its political structure is not suitable for any type of authentic sub cultures to be born. Even if there would to be with the “guidance” of the Chinese government, it most likely wont be authentic to the general Chinese population. Sub cultures has to resonate with the general population, especially the youth. Chinese Americans(or any other Asian Americans) has to form their own identity and sub culture that can be resonated and spread among other Asian Americans.
China doesn't need to follow any of the those examples, China has enough cultural power on its own
I both agree and disagree. Chinese soft power does have the potential to follow the Japanese and Korean models, but maybe it’s not needed. Probably already been done with martial arts films (especially of the Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan stripe) whereas today, TikTok/Douyin and prominent Hollywood actors of Chinese descent are arguably at the forefront of modern Chinese soft power.
That’s gotta be the most desperate reason I’ve heard on kpop not being for Koreans. Kpop was for the Korean people, south East Asian started liking it first then it got mainstream. It was then adapted into western cultures for more revenue.
I’m a 50 yo Korean American and it wasn’t long ago that nobody thought Kculture was cool. Those of us who are more aware and educated appreciate so many aspects of Chinese culture. I hope the younger generation of Asian Americans can grow up with confidence and pride. Our family is multicultural, a mix of different Asians backgrounds and I’m big on solidarity among Asians Americans!
I am a Viet-Chinese…and I am PROUD of my Chinese ancestry. I think many Chinese diaspora in Western Countries, they don’t know their own culture. Most SE Asian Chinese are a lot more proud.
the Martial Arts boom caused by Bruce Lee in the late 60s and early 70s. China absolutely had a massive era where it was at the forefront and super popular. During those days other ethnic groups and races all wanted to become Chinese. Then it shifted to Japan, now it's Korea. Chinese were the first Asians in America and helped build the country, it's only natural that Chinese become more "boring" and less "exotic" as most other Americans just take Chinese for granted after a few generations. In the 80s, there was a massive Japan/Ninja boom followed by the Anime boom of the 90s and also video games, etc. It's just taking turns.. and like fashion, old fashion becomes new fashion. Maybe that girl wont get to benefit from a cool perception of Chinese, but her kids might
All the variations of OP’s name be SENDING ME 😂😂 belly bean, bun bean,
I love and deeply respect the Chinese!
👍🏾👍🏾🔥
Why?
Quite surprised to see a Filipino liking China since our government hate each other
15:31, I can answer that from personal experience. Yes, the individual can transcend, especially growing up upper class (not new money). This can keep you inside a bubble of other cultured and upper-class people, and you'd have a lot more common shared experiences with them (you both went to private boarding school, went to euro family skii trip when you were young etc).
One Love. Love all the Asians.
You love Winnie the Poo too?
I don’t like Kazakh, Indonesian and Malaysian Muslim.
Don't worry my Chinese brother I love you.
My guy
The only way to claim coolness from ancient China perspective is that they originated the first comic book with Journey to the West and the associated adventure for grandiose 😉
that is where the dragon ball series came from. lol
I really appreciate that you guys grew up in the US but still have such appreciation of your culture. Yes it’s super deep (in an Indiana Jones way) and beautiful, but seems like only our own kind are able to understand.
My takeaway learning about China's culture: unfortunately due to CCP getting a lot of press & how Mao changed most of that generations thinking about mostly thinking about money & taking whatever they can has outshined China's good culture
This is similar to Africans where theyre vew as poor people yet theyre culturally rich. A good thing I found interesting was how gymnastic moves orginated from Chinese folk dance
Korea got K-Pop and drama.
Japan got anime, samurai, ninjas, and nice cars.
China got Bruce Lee and world-superpower.
All Asians got martial arts.
Lui bei, Guan yu, Zang fei. What do you call that novel in English. I used to read that novel, palyed a game based on it a lot. The game was made by Japanese cooperation btw, and I am Korean. I wish you forgot martial arts ㅠㅠ It makes asians look goofy
In my opinion, many Chinese girls are beautiful, but I know many Chinese guys in mainland are having a hard time dating Chinese girls. They lack girls in main land China, so girls got a boost in ego. That is a turn off for me😮
@@user-bn3cn1xb4b Martial arts brings respect to Asians. Bruce Lee invented mixed martial art a.k.a. MMA. Very popular! I don't know how you think that martial arts make Asians look goofy. That's absolutely ridiculous!
China has Cdrama’s and I’m really enjoying them. I’m not much for the historical drama’s but I’ve watched a few.
I thought Ninjas weren't a Japanese thing. Ninja's are like the complete opposite of the Samurai lol
Very cool conversation. I became a fan of Chinese dramas, and thus became much more interested in all the recent China news, culture, state of religious freedom, etc. I pray for the Chinese people, and it's hard to get a full picture of life within the nation's borders due to the language barrier. But, Chinese dramas have a lot of creative and unique perspectives, and through them I see the creativity, intelligence, and artistry of the people behind them. It's just one tiny sliver of China, and not any more real than Hollywood, but when I pray for the people in China I can appreciate the stories they've brought to life and all the people behind the scenes who made them possible.
I feel terrible for this girl….how can you be insecure with your own race? No race is perfect, that includes your idols Koreans and Japanese. Have a backbone, and stand up for it.
Bruh as an Indonesian I’m jealous of all yall. The only thing people know about us Indos is Bali 😂
You guys got Iko Uwais and Joe Taslim!
As a Bangladeshi, can u feel my pain?!!
You guys make good food.
Indomei is my favorite instant noodle brand
Bali is a force
As an Asian American more specifically Korean American I can say that we're all East Asians no matter where you go in America. During the covid we all were targeted for being Asian. We as Asians don't see Europeans, Latinos, or Arabs and differentiate them based on what countries they're from. What I am trying to say is that it's one of those teenagers' things and she'll get over it when she gets older.
She's obviously never seen once upon a time in china. The single greatest kung fu movie ever made. She's the un cool one not us
No, its obviously Kung Fu Hustle (but for a more serious one enter the dragon or the 36th chamber of shaolin)
You guys are boomers. She is teenager. Totally unconnected
That was a Hong Kong movie under the British Rule. When China took over Hong Kong they destroyed everything of whats left of good cinema.
I read in an old Chinese proverb, to beat the teen, u must become the teen. Tell her kung fu panda was my ish!!! Girrrrll. Girl! Tell u what, bobby. No sh that's what it really said
One more thing to add, I think Italians have somewhat similar issue with French brands being more cool but Italian products are better. I think a lot of soft power is how to market what you got.
1000% french food taste horrible italian knows their carbs well!
It's not that China isn't good with soft power, think about Tiktok and Temu and city infrastructure, no poo on streets and safe, and that majority of Chinese are hospitable to white people. It's just that countries that are jealous are doing their very best to make sure people don't know about it through their media channel. Just for instance why is Fungbro not getting more views because their contents are great. This is meant to be the anti Chinese decade if not century. It's a strategy is what I am saying. Some people believe the rise in popularity of K-pop was to offset Asian hate in certain parts of the world. DBSK was probably a cooler group compare to current K-pop groups but they were not popular in the world. So if someone is jealous of you, then you should be proud that you are doing something right.
Stop caring about being cool or not and stop caring if other people are cool or not.
I’m more into the Korean and Japanese culture more than Chinese tbh
If you don’t respect yourself or your culture then how do you expect others to respect you?
Chinese has its own merit. Be proud of who you are. Here’s my hot take.
China is cool because we are the scapegoat for everything negative about asia.
- horrible working hours, Japan and Korea aren’t different.
- dirty street food, I’m sure a lot of Asian countries all have this issue.
- slanted eyes, that’s common among Asian countries.
- genital size joke, it’s an Asian thing but China will always take the hit.
So yeah, China is cool for taking all the negative stereotypes so other Asian countries don’t have to.
I suppose, it's a given, considering China is the largest Asian nation, not to mention the one with the longest recorded history. Also, the most widely known. Logically speaking, yes it probably makes the most sense to learn Mandarin, than any other Asian language, for worldly utility.
So, it makes sense, China is the first & typically the only Asian country that is well known. No one mentioned China's big knock-off market. Every time I go online looking for an item. If the listing states the "China" version, I know it's a fake.
The only reason you guys get a bad rep is because of the brainwashing your gov does to your people. Those people in turn travel outside of the US and start heckling people, littering, and portray bad manners etc... its the product of YOUR government. That is why Chinese Americans or Chinese Europeans hate the CCP.
@@holonet1English is the most important not mandarin. Also Chinese are the most well known? Lmao ok
What can she do? She can always apply for Japanese or Korean citizenship.
Korea and Japan don't have citizenship by birth right like US or UK. Even if someone is born in those countries, does not grant citizenship. Even 4th gen koreans in japan still have korean citizenship, some even never been to korea and hold korean citizenship. It seems however that korean citizenship (south korea) grants naturalization citizenship easier than Japan.
@@vaccinatedanti-vaxxerJapan is the most xenophobic of all democratic Asian countries.
You know, maybe, just maybe, the old adage "comparison is the thief of joy" is such a true statement.
If Chinese has a totally free creative environment,I have confidence Chinese sub culture can be really cool.But that is impossible to happen😂
Btw this girl is immature. No one will love you just because you’re specific race.It’s all about yourself. So if someone dislike u just because you’re Chinese American,then even if you’re a Korean American or Japanese American,you won’t build up a genuine relationship
Indian has it, Cambodian has it, Nepalese has it, heck I would say 80% has what you called "totally free creative environment" so where are their "cool" movies, games or anything creative?
I love Chinese and admire their beauties and cultural arts .
I didn't see the Chinese jealous of another Asian. To be honest in truth they are the least jealous group I've encountered among the three from from my decades years of experience with living closely with the Korean, Chinese and Japanese.
These two guys seems off.Speaking out of an agenda.
China has 8X the population of Korean and Japan Combined.. The Chinese entertainment industry doesn’t cater to them or the west that much because the potential to sell is higher in China, they got near 1.4 billion potential purchasers there. Where as Japan and Korea have relatively low population.. therefore in order to be a millionaire in entertainment Koreans and Japanese people (more so Koreans) almost have to source fans and purchases of merch from outside Korea/Japan…. Fan Bing Bing as a Chinese actress has the same net worth as Angelina Jolie which both are beyond the scale of any Korean or Japanese actress. Just as Americans don’t cater to other countries that much China does the same.
This is why KPop tries really hard to sell to China and America but China see’s no need to even target Korea and might think about America but I haven’t seen them try yet.
Wrong, China is notorious for trying to manipulate, bully, coerce and down right lie, steal, cheat to gain recognition, power and praise. They have changed Hollywood scripts for decades now. Always trying stir animosity towards Koreans and Japanese. Don’t believe me look it up. Fck China
The entertaintment industry in Japan is huge and it sustains on its own. It doesn't really need the rest of the world. It was the outside world that demanded Japanese entertaintment, not the other way round.
@@ijansk Dragon Ball manga has sold over 160 million copies in Japan, while globally it has sold over 260 million copies. 40% of Dragonball Z success comes from OUTSIDE of Japan.
Pokemon 36.6% percent of total revenue comes from America. 32.6% of the revenue from Japan. The rest of the world contributes 30.8% of Pokemon revenue comes from the rest of the world.
Clearly the two biggest franchises in Japan need outside help for it's current level of success.
Here's a tip, be a Stoic and enjoy your life. It's the best way to live 💯
One question. Definitely the Kung fu movies by Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan were popular and Japanese Manga and Anime were popular in the West before. But at that time as an Asian man I never felt any advantage from them in the dating market with western girls. But the recent success of K-pop and K-Drama actually start to influence positively on Asian males in the western dating market. Why do you think K-pop and K-Drama are more influential for Asian men's Dating Market Value than the former? (I think Bruce Lee was quite sexy but he didn't seem to arouse any advantage for Asian males....)
A Chinese who has a strong emotional bond to her roots and her motherland would never write something like that. Actually China is the mother of all of East Asian nations. So as a Chinese, what is there to be jealous of? Koreans are our closest blood brothers/sisters. Their win is our win. Just enjoy it. And I'm sure many of them deep down know, that our win is also their win. (I have several Korean friends, so I can feel this sentiment, despite the current geopolitical situation, they are aware that the Chinese are like their distant cousins.)
We are nothing close to being your brothers.
You are delusional. Mongolia, Japan, Korea we hate and reject China and have been enemies for thousand of years. We are different, we even hate the sound of chinese spoken language.
My daughter is half white (Italian/Irish American) and half Korean💗she’s beautiful
AMWF for the win.
Please don't put hapas on a pedestal. I am one. Our families put us on pedestal at home and then we go out into the world and get rejected by both sides of our culture. Your daughter isn't better than other Koreans simply for being part white.
@@ElizabethChee-rj7bnI’m full Asian. But half Asian of one kind and half Asian of another. Get rejected by both. This is not a hapa specific problem Asians just tribal af
Cool to *who* though? Who is this "coolness" being perceived by hypothetically?
the funny thing is that in korea, there are lots of chinese foods that are on trend(Tanghulu, Spicy Hot Pot, Hot Pot etc. ) ,even though china- korea nation relationship is the worst than ever. So imo I think it is just promotion issue.
What makes me very sad is that China has the potential to create soft power that would leave Japan and Korea in the dust.
I was exposed to a lot of Chinese pop culture from a young age and I've always believed that China does the best fantasy stories in comparison to the rest of Asia.
Not to mention classic stories like The Water Margin which could be as huge as Game of Thrones if it was made accessible to a wider audience.
No, it doesn't.
My son is 7 years old and is asian American and he is also Cambodian mix with Portuguese and white if that make sense lol 😂
So he is gonna be Filipino
That is great but as a mixed person myself, someone shouldn't be the pride and joy of their family simply for being mixed with European blood. A very damaging mentality both for the mixed person and for the Asian community. I have lived experience to go off as a Eurasian..
I love watching douyin vids. China doesn’t release a lot of their modern culture. I basically have to dig for Chinese content.
Don't worry girl... a lot of chinese people feel similar
Chinese people have made significant historical and cultural achievements in the past. but I think It seems that their cultural development is being hindered by the CCP and its supporters today. (I am not chine so can I say this?? right?)
China is the only super power in the world that's able to compete with the US now. I don't get why Chinese Americans don't feel proud and confident as being Chinese ... For a Chinese girl from China like me, Chinese culture is really cool. Thousands of years of history, all the classic literatures, the architectures, movies, different types of local music, the Chinese mythologies, Wuxia novels, and the recent game black myth wukong, aren't they not cool??
I think the biggest issue to cause this is that Chinese culture is way more difficult for the westerners to understand due to the huge language barrier and lack of background knowledge. For instance, Black Myth Wukong might be popular now globally but I bet a non native Chinese player would not understand the meanings behind each story, and why the Characters and lines were designed that way...
For Korean and Japanese culture, I might be wrong but i feel like they are quite whitewashed and Westernized and have been losing their own stuff. I'm happy that Chinese culture is able to maintain its own uniqueness considering how popular and strong Hollywood is in Asia.
American culture is cool. I love Taylor swift, Ariana Grande, and Demi Lovato. I love American musicals such as Chicago and Hamilton. But these don't make Chinese Culture less cooler. They are just different.
being a Middle Eastern from the Gulf GCC I do feel that Japan is high in terms of creativity and soft power but in terms of political power and world-wide weight CHINA has more dominance in politics and economy --
Go visit China. Immerse yourself in the Chinese culture and understand more of it.
Been there, big cities are good and nice, but if you go outside basically nothing, just tiny villages where people are starving and struggling for jobs....
@@davidkusanagi589 what are you talking about? Fewer and less paid jobs? sure. Starving? No. In the village, people grow their own food, and they don't have to pay property tax, property insurance, income tax, land tax, utility cost is low, can you do that in your country?
China has a great transit system. Their railroads are great. China has some great movies and dramas. China has a great culture. She should be Chinese and proud and hold her head up.
I love being chinese
Nice shirt Andrew
I like Mazda the most 🤣. I've always liked their cars.
people always say the best way to introduce someone into a culture is their food, but chinese food outside of well established chinatowns are pretty ass
there are always gems, but most of them are not
I think we got a give China the benefit of the doubt because during the early 20th century China was in so much turmoil it was not in a position to promote its culture while Japan was already making moves to spread its culture around the world. At the same time, and I am not saying this to diss Japan, but there is some stuff that is thought of as Japanese that has its origins in China. From a popular media standpoint, the inspiration for Dragon ball is one of the obvious ones. Another lesser known one is the Kitsune anime trope. China has stories about Kitsune dating back 2000 years and the nine tailed fox originated in China(look up Classic of Mountains and Seas - Jiu Wei hu)
Literally the culture of East and parts of Southeast Asia has its origin in China.
I feel like this is more of geopolitic thing.
Japan and SKorea are West friendly. So they get the cool push in the West.
China is deemed an adversary to the West by the West.
So they don't get the push. And the low self esteem Chinese feels ashamed of themselves.
Look at the comments, literally anything China is correlate to "ccp."
That's quite ignorant on their part though.
Remember, China is the one of the few countries in Asia that doesn’t get bossed around by the US.
Uh, yes they do.. Blocking Huawei from being sold abroad, blocking Chinese made evs or batteries from being sold abroad. Lol
@@alexl0890 That's not getting bossed around. China blocks tons of American products too. lol
Yea but china only blocks American products in China. Us blocks Chinese products across the world.
True
How exactly are Japan and Korea bossed around by the US? They are free democracies and choose to align themselves with other democracies. China is a corrupt dictatorship. Chinese people get bossed around and fucked over by their own government. What population do you think has a better deal?
Ooh, tattoos. There are plenty of non Chinese people have hanzi characters tattooed on their body areas... DOES THAT COUNT?!? Yes. That does. 😂
They would probably deny and say the tattoo is Japanese not Chinese seeing how much they hate China
5:37 In an ancient sense china has preserved its culture.
6:25 Who are those guys?
Jerry Yang (Yahoo founder) , Jensen Huang(NVidia founder), TH-cam founder - Steve Chen, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Wu Chien Shiong, AMD CEO - Lisa Su are all ethnic Chinese. Without them, what would USA be like???
Perhaps I'm biased, because of anime, but Japanese is the best sounding Asian language, of all the ones I've heard.
Well, I did really enjoy the Dynasty Warriors games. Don't know what the real counter parts looked like, but I liked the character designs from the series.
I like korean language more😊
You may think the Chinese economy will be bigger than the US. But the Chinese economy's fast growth era is over. The Chinese economy is in serious trouble now that the debt crisis is blooming and the population is decreasing. At this rate, the Chinese economy will never become the world's biggest, and it may enter a long period of slow or no real growth. Just like the other Asia economies did. This girl is too young to understand the bad parts of Korean and Japanese culture. She is way too focused on the shining aspects. Hopefully, she grow out of it.
Chinese economy is, well, going downward, just like Japan. I think Chinese economy has reached the peak.
@@sinnopal1 Its been at its peak, that is why they are desperate to get Taiwan. That is their only hope.
At the end of the day it’s about tryign to find a place you belong. And sometimes not belonging might be the greatest gift you got being born in america.. you were born in a place that allowed you to celebrate your individuality and you collectives at the same time.. and this is something modern japan, korea, china have wanted to adopt.
That spirit of individuality that the east doesn’t’ really have.. it’s a contrived.. but it’s something america more than anywhere else gets. Canada , uk Aussie are after but america.. that is your greatest pride. And if you understand that.. you will understand why everyone wants to copy america. Rap was made in america by a poor class.. and now it’s the most renown style of music everyone wants.But it will never be the same as american r
I like being me, therefore, I don't mind that much about culture competition. 😊
What can she do? Easy. She can hit the gym daily & develop a "knockout body". She can improve her makeup & have amazing hair.
In other words she needs to become an ABG. ABG.
I was born into a poor family and came to Seoul to study. I studied hard because I thought I had to lead my family. And with some small success, I helped my hometown. But my parents were already working hard so they didn't need my help and instead helped me. I was grateful to my parents. And I felt proud of my parents' hard work. But my parents were grateful to me for going out and working hard. This story is a story between Koreans and Korean-Americans. I hope this comment will be a reference to someone.
Don't feel this way. Chinese Americans are great Americans.
First, I wanna give credit to the Fung bros for their great insight and analysis.
I think the big elephant in the room needs to be talked about. With the great potential that China has, the CCP has killed all creativity, innovation, history, culture etc. It is difficult to detach oneself from his/her government. Even as Asians, when we go abroad and people ask us where we are from, we mention USA or Canada on top of our ethnicity. Then those people assume we would act/behave a certain way because we are from Canada or the US.
Don’t forget language. They tried to kill/zombify Mandarin, and are in the process of trying to kill Canto.
@@PaulVonLoren
Uhhh. okayyy?
Wumao has officially entered the comment section, I guess.
Hope you are comfortable around Democratic and free people? that’s what most of us here are , fyi.
(BTW, if you mean, bastardized CCP-ized dime store mandarin, then I have even more comments to share with you later: that is NOT standard, nor classic, nor culturally rich & authentic Chinese )
That's like the dumbest most brainless propaganda regurgitation I have ever heard. This is what happens when you are so propagandised but don't know jack. You are so confident with your view you have no idea how far fetched it is from reality. Lmao.
@@pushslice lol 'zombify mandarin' and 'try to kill Cantonese'. Explain how. Listen to yourself. You legit don't know anything about Chinese policy and efforts, or even understand a modicum of Chinese history to be spewing this stuff.
Look up
Bruce Lee
Jackie Chan
Jet Li
Chow Yan Fat
Donnie Yen
Michelle Yoah
Akwafina
Lucy Liu
Simu Liu
lol Akwafina...
Lets get this straight...
Bruce Lee, Awkwafina, Simu and Lucy Liu are Americans...
Michelle Yeoh is Malaysian.
Heck Awkwafina is also half blood Korean.
Dam my mom is kinda like her. Mom is indifferent to being Viet but loves Korean culture. I grew up watching shows like Running Man with her but never watched Viet shows.
get her canceled, problem solved
Such heartwarming story lol
No need to feel bad about being Chinese. People just don't like Chinese government not Chinese people. If one day Chinese got to vote for the leader you want, things will turn around 😊
trying too hard to be cool will never be cool
Exactly
He's got a Raptors Bruce Lee limited edition shirt! Those things sold out quick.
12:36 stop you righ tthere.. cantonese is by far the best language.. why the cussing is magical 😂its so good china who hates hongkong so much adapted cantonese cuss words.. cantonese is god tier when it comes to swearing:) and to me is the funniest more fun language..
Of course I love japanese.. it melts my soul.. but cantonese .. oh man.. visceral i love it. Let’s make swearing in canatonese a trendy thing😂😂
Imagine trying to negotiate coolness, that says it all. Who else does this except the Chinese.
Actually a lot of countries do this.
softpower is a much harder bubble to grow and maintain than hardpower and can collapse or burst much easier and faster. only a few countries have achieved to establish but even the majority of the 1st world countries don't have this honor. germany for example is the largest economy in europe. but if you ask people around the world about germany typical answers will likely be luxury cars, beer, sausage, oktober fest and nazis. not really softpower.
in the 80s western germany had more softpower than today. "neue deutsche welle" which was similar to korean hallyu wave. but that was a different time and only memories are left
China has always had a negative PR image on the world stage for a multitude of obvious reasons. Economic prosperity is only one half of the equation. It's a hard sell when the country is widely perceived to be a quasi-dictatorship. It's like how oil rich Middle Eastern nations are considered pariahs in the West despite their industrial boom. If democratic and socially liberal attitudes don't follow, it won't matter how wealthy a country becomes. Any civilization that wishes to achieve sustained longevity must not actively repress its own populace. Tyrannies always reach a tipping point before they devolve, it's inevitable.
That's not what is happening. The thing that will ruin China is the population is declining, just like the other countries in the world. Majority of Chinese accept the rules willingly. They all have the choice to leave. People like Jackie Chan would rather have safety than freedom. They think America has too many people dying for no good reason. They think America is not a first world country because your kids are in danger when they go to school. Mass shootings every month and all the drug abuse from the poor to the rich. America isn't even true freedom, it's a false freedom. You guys are spied on by NSA and all the CCTV's. America doesn't allow you to say certain things like yelling fire in a theatre or yelling you have a bomb. You can't carry bombs. True freedom means all of that included. China is fucked up but so is America. America is run by companies and war. China is run by an ego driven lunatic.
12:50 its always the grass is always greener.. you dn’t like cantonese.. japanese person hates japanese ‘ which is why they want to learn kroean or english.. I’ve met these peopel .. korean have korean want to learn mandarins..
Grass is always greener.
There's been a remarkable improvement in Chinese soft power lately from its nadir ~2 years ago. Chinese web novels are huge internationally. Chinese video games and films and tv series are also becoming popular and mainstream. Chinese Tiktok and Temu/Aliexpress and Shein are dominant. Chinese hanfu and traditional practices are returning to prominence. And Chinese electric cars and smartphones will soon be as ubiquitous as all the other 'Made in China' products. And Chinese culture has always had broad appeal, be it martial arts or food or philosophy or festivities, though not to the same intensity among youths as Japanese anime and Korean kpop. Chinese soft power will continue to grow, even with all the baggage and headwinds, because such things grow with hard power.
Back then I wouldve married a Chinese woman from mainland just for business purpose.
I'm sure that would've worked out great for u ..
Korean food light and nutritious? Personally, I like Korean food, but it is the least of the major Asian cuisine. Korean food always have this chili flavour in everything. It becomes boring after awhile.
my theory. it'll come one day, but maybe it'll take 20-30 years. The good thing they have going, is their internet not being connected to the rest of the world. Therefore It'll be the only place in the world where undiscovered modern arts and subcultures will exist one day.
13:00 The MTR woman really does 😂
I think all of you are pretty cool..When I watch a Kdrama, action/martial arts movie, or an anime…I see me.👀😂😂
One day you will find out being "cool" by Western definition isn't really that cool.
chinese have bruce lee wong kar wai and amazingly nuanced chinese cuisuine and we created gunpowder. we should have gatekept all of it 😂😂😂😂
Now try being SE Asian: hardly represented in the West and looked down on by East Asians in Asia (not so much by E Asians in the US though)
Y’All Literally Got It Good 🤣
Being strong and independent is much cooler than being just cool!
China is the new century. China is history and also creating NEW HISTORY FOR THE WORLD.