China's Psychopathic Little Emperors 

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"He's only 13 years old" If I'd have done that in front of my mother, at 13, the police would have never found my body.

Next generation of CCP members

How can excuse his behavior by saying "He's only 13 years old!" when the 3 year old next to him is more well behaved

"He is only 8!" "He is only 13!" "He is only 22!" "He is only 31!" The mother will never realise she had created a monster. In China, however, things are much worse, because class and social status play a crucial role in the society. The mother thinks her child is better and innocent, because she thinks she is better than the other family, and this is because her husband apparently has a higher social status, which she actually tried to use by stating "Do you know who my husband is?". If you think Karens in the US, UK and Australia are bad, you know nothing.

The irony of thinking that after raising a narcissistic sociopath, he will care about taking care of you in your old age.

"The kid is growing up to be a waste of space" the dude that said that phrase is a real one, props to him.

🇨🇦 I worked at Costco for many years. I’ll never forget this. A Chinese boy about 8 or 9 years old struck his older sister in the face. Really hard. I could see the marks. I remember being frozen in my steps. The parents didn’t do or say anything. I sure did. I reamed out this boy while he stared in shock and confusion. Afterwards, no one said anything. I thought I would lose my job, but at that point I didn’t care. The good thing that came out of it was that the boy did look a little ashamed. The parents didn’t, they just looked like they wanted to be somewhere else It won’t go well for this boy in Canada because people speak up in situations like this. It’s not tolerated.

While I lived in China, there was a news report of some rich guy's son, he hit a woman riding a scooter with her child. He only knocked her down. She wasn't even hurt very badly. He got out of his car and strangled the woman to death. He did this because he didn't want the hassle of her suing him for hitting her. When he was picked up by the police, he said something about not wanting to be inconvenienced by a mere peasant. I'm certain he was sentenced to death for the crime, but I don't know if the sentence has been carried out or if he's still alive.

Imagine how abusive and cruel these boys will be when they're adults and taking care of their elderly parents. Parents beware----you are training your sons how to treat you when you are old and unable to defend yourself.

Props to that dude for stepping up and dealing with that out of control child. That’s incredibly rare in China.

It's worse. She actually also said: "Other 13 y/o's who kill people don't even go to prison but now it's just him throwing a phone, I'll just pay for your stupid phone." The hero more accurate said: "A child being paired with a mother like you is bound to become a waste of space."

'You're scaring my child by being so loud' ?!?! !??!! The MOTHER is the psychopath... That psychotic little emperor bully is ANYTHING BUT scared! He is the MOST CALM of everyone there!

"He's 13 y.o. and he doesn't understand anything". At what age do they start understanding in China? 🤣

"How I raise my child is none of your business" You take a shit in your toilet at home, then it's none of my business. You bring that shit to a the restaurant I'm eating at, and it becomes my business.

When I was a postgrad uni student in the UK, I went on a visit to London with my colleague from mainland China. The guy just turned 40., and we were discussing girls and dating. Since he was older than me, I asked him if he was planning to get married and have kids. He gave me a look of complete shock and said....noooo, I am far too young for that...later, maybe in 5 to 10 years...He then proceeded to have a 40-minute phone conversation with his mother telling her that he was having a great time in London, every minor detail included😆 I have never been so weirded out in my life. These people are so delusional they think the limitations of time and biology don't apply to them😂🤣

In the military, we call the wives who say "do you know who my husband is?" as "dependapotomus" or "tricareatops"

Those little demons won't take care of their parents when they get old. Karma.

"This kid is going to grow up to be a waste of space" haha great call

I grew up in TN. My teacher sent home a piece of paper my dad had to sign, stating whether the teacher was allowed to spank me or not. He signed no. A few weeks later, the teacher got on me, and i replied, "What are you going to do? Spank me? My dad said you can't touch me." I was really rude about it, too. She just walked away, or so i thought. 15 minutes later, my dad comes walking into the room, asks the teacher for her paddle, and walks me into the coat closet, and paddled my behind. I won't say he beat me, but i was spanked hard enough that i understood he wasn't playing. I rarely got into trouble as a kid, it wasnt worth it. Especially not after that

I use to own and rive my own 18 wheeler cross country. One night about 6 pm I pulled into a truckstop to have a hot meal then go to bed. Soon as I walked in, I heard a kid yelling and screaming from the other side of the restaurant. I sat down in the drivers section in a booth that had a wall about 2 feet high to my right, on the other side of the wall was one of those claw machines where you try to get a prize. Waitress comes over and starts to take my order when I discovered to source of the yelling and screaming. A father and daughter ( about 11y/o) walked up to the machine and the daughter told him what she wanted. Quarter after quarter and he failed to get the desired toy his daughter demanded. At each fail, she would yell at him, insult him and such. They went back to their table with her somewhat quiet. Then she started yelling again and back to the machine they went only for the father to fail and the girl to start up again. There was no peace in the place because of the girl yelling and screaming. They made about 4 trips to the machine with the same results mentioned above. Well the waitress was standing at my table when the demon duo walked back up to the machine. I knew they could hear me talking to the waitress and it went like this: Waitress: " Can I get you anything else?" Me: " Yes, when a list is started on who gives that girl the spanking she needs, but her parents will not give her. Put my name at the top of the list." Then from the drivers sections other voices spoke up, " I'm second.", "I'm third", "I'm fourth". Hearing that the father took the girl back to their table and a few minutes later here comes the father, mother, daughter heading for the main door to my right. Both parents giving me " the look" as they passed and left the restaurant. The place was now quiet. The waitress came back to my table and told me that the girl had been like that since they walked in the door about 2 hours ago. She said the brat was on the nerves of the cook staff, wait staff but they could do nothing. Waitress: " The kitchen staff wants you to know that your meal is on the house." To this day I wonder what went on in their car as they drove away. I wonder what other family members said when the parents told them what happened at the restaurant.

"the way I raise my kid is none of your business" not a single adequate and competent parent has ever uttered such a line. an incompetent parent will have idiot children. "do you have any idea who my husband is" a failed father and a parody of a man

"He's only 13 years old, he doesn't know anything" Well pretty sure when I'm 13 I don't just randomly kick a 3 year old, let alone rubbing ice cream around someone's phone

This is not at all a surprise to me - being married to a Chinese woman (who has her head on straight) and trying to raise our children, it quickly became clear to me that none of the inlaws really understand what it means to raise children, to teach them discipline, responsibility, empathy, self awareness, and an understanding of how reality works (cause/effect/consequence). Wife and I have had to limit contact between the kids and her extended family because they're just such bad influences, and despite having good intentions, actively undermine our parenting. No mater how many times we have explained, for example, why it's is a bad thing to reward bad behavior, they just don't seem to be able to comprehend anything other than, 'the kid is unhappy so give them whatever they want until they're happy' and refuse to enforce any of the rules, restrictions, consequences, etc. we have put in place. On the one hand it's amusing to see grown adults so completely and effectively manipulated by children, but on the other hand it's maddening that grown adults can't seen to grasp the basic necessity of needing to tell kids "no" sometimes. We ultimately had to make the decision that the extended family don't get unsupervised time around the kids until they respect our rules (and again they seen completely unable to comprehend this basic boundary). Family is family, but parental responsibility to raise our children to be functional, responsible, healthy adults, trumps all. And so it goes.

I am a Taiwanese living in Australia with a few years of living experience in China, I said to my kids stay away from the Chinese kids as nothing positive you would likely learn from them….

I’m in Canada & I literally saw this scenario play out where a little Chinese boy walked onto a bike path with tons of bicycles riding from both directions & ofcourse got bumped into by a woman on her bicycle. The woman on the bike stopped & the boy fell over and started to cry while is mother (who saw it all play out) came running over to coddle him. The bicycle woman said “I’m sorry he walked infront of me is he ok?”, and the mother just reacted angrily in defence saying “you hit him, I saw you did it on purpose it’s your fault!!”. The bike lady just shook her head & said “whatever lady” & lost all empathy in that moment & made the right decision to continue riding on.

Od Spanish saying; "raise crows and they will peck out your eyes"

As a Vietnamese, we have a similar issues with little emperors and their parents that got memeified on the web, albeit less egregious. In their memeified representation, spoilt kids are depicted either abusing pets (with FAFO depending on the abused animal) or damaging mecha/anime figures and even expensive PC rigs. The latter case, and the more popular in particular, would get dismissed by the parent of the little emperor, often with a dash of victimblaming for not safeguarding the property or, even ad hominem towards the victim being a "manchild" for owning figures (still widely perceived as toys and not worth bringing up for compensation). To add salt to injury, the victim would also be pressured by their own family to sweep the matter under the rug instead of pressing for compensation due to the LE's parents being a family friend/business partner, etc.

"You can look through the long history of Chinese literature and not once will you find any notion of empathy for suffering" - Dr. Revilo P. Oliver

In Asia, I saw a mother and her son and daughter walking down the street, the boy was probably around 7 and the little girl was no more than 4. She ran up and said "I love you brother!" and hugged him. He got angry and pushed her down, she fell on her butt and started crying. The mother rushed over and started scolding the daughter and slapping her wrist for bothering her brother. That was the first time I saw that sort of thing and I was dumbfounded by it. I found out that it was all too common.

Little emperors are a symptom of a greater problem... spoiling sons and abusing daughters

Getting married is like gatcha game. You dont know if it's good or not until you play it.

Unfortunately we also have kids like this in the UK, kids that have never heard the word "No" who have parents (or more usually a parent) that give them whatever they want and defend or make excuses for whatever appalling behaviours they display.

I am a Singaporean Chinese. When I was young, my parents ever said this to me, "Should I ever become a terror to society, they will kill me themselves". I'm so glad I turned out decent.

When a person start saying stuff like "Do you know who my husband is?" or who my family is?" anything on the line, already means that person is ignorant, bad manner, dirty as well.

"Do you have an idea of who my husband is?" Maybe a carboard man? That would explain your child's behaviour.

When I was 13 there was this idea that older men/boys would beat me the fuck up if I did something outrageous.

My late Mum once took on a Chinese student here in the UK, he lived with my parents to learn about UK culture and attended a private international college for overseas students. Anyway this kid was a nightmare, he would shout in Chinese at my parents. He sh$t on the bathroom floor and left it there, and finally one day he randomly slapped my mum. That was the end of it, my Dad called the police and he was arrested for assault. His parents actually flew over to collect him a few days later and take him back.

Oh my god, how do those parents think their young children, who "don't know any better," will learn manners, empathy, kindness, respect, or consideration for others if they don't _TEACH it to them?!_

Even Puyi, a literal child emperor, wasn't this bad.

They expect their sons to take care of them later in life, when they don’t teach them to care for anybody? Doesn’t sound like a plan.

My wife had a job watching a “little emperor” in our city and the kid attacked his mom with a knife and when my wife intervened she was stabbed repeatedly in the hands fending off the attack! My wife was a 17 year veteran police officer in Guangzhou, but the mother still stood up for her child!

ONE time in my life I was hanging with my friends in my room at around 12 years of age, mom comes in and tells me enough with playing games you have cleaning chores and homework. I called her a crack head thinking I was gangsta and my friends started laughing. She smacked me over the head the way only a loving mother could do and she forced me and my friends to remove my PC, TV and games from my room. Made us clean the whole place and then we where sent out with no dinner that Saturday 🤣. I swear I loved that woman😄

I worked in kindergartens in two different countries on two different continents (Europe and southern Asia) , on top of that i have family in south America and the USA (have a degree in special education). Cultural upbringings are nothing new to me, but sometimes its amusing and sad at the same time. My cousin from the US was getting married and invited the entire family of which 80% off come from South America, BUT their partner did not want any children at the wedding. Our family was quite distraught because weddings, like all family events, are a family thing and include everyone. So they talked to them and what came out was that some of the married couples friends had kids and all knew about how those kids behaved (more than one couple mind you), and they didn’t want them ruin the wedding. My aunts and grandmas were very confused about it, because those were American kids, not latino American, which is, according to them a huggge difference. So, they relented and allowed the three little cousins to come. Everyone at the wedding seemed thrilled with the little ones and how they behaved. Some even came up to us to say how wonderful it was that they were so well behaved. They sat quietly on the table (eating chips with a fork which made even me laugh), danced with everyone, asked us politely if we would come outside to play with them when they go bored and once it got late, just sad down and nodded off. But its not a cultural thing, not entirely from what I experienced. Ive met very sweet kids who would come over and rip all my moms flowers out, i had to babysit kids from well off families who would call me names and be very rude, kids who would test limits because they never gotten any, but also kids from posh families who would be very polite, and standoffish kids who would sit beside me quietly and listen. It all depends on how you decide to raise them and if you decide to be consistent with the education or show them it doesn’t matter to you, and if it doesn’t matter to you, it won’t matter to them.

I once read an editorial where someone said something along the lines of "children are nothing more than uncivilized little barbarians that care for nothing but themselves and their own needs and wants. It's the job of the parents to drag them into civilization and teach them how to become civilized themselves."

I've worked in law enforcement for the past 23 years, and I've seen the results of an entire generation of parental malpractice. I've had a front row seat. I've _never_ seen kids who were spoiled like this turn out well, but what I have seen a _lot_ of is how terribly these kids, as teenagers and adults treat the parents who let them get away with anything when they were younger. I've seen more mothers than I could shake a stick at who were genuinely _afraid_ of their teenage or young adult sons -- sons to whom they never said "no" when they were little, and who thus developed a spoiled, entitled attitude, and reacted angrily to ever being told "no" when they were older. If the parents of these unspeakable little brats are going to count on those same boys taking care of them when they are old and retired... Well, I think they are going to be in for an eye-opening experience when they find out what it's like to be dependent on selfish monsters like the ones they created.

Instead of putting her small daughter behind her she continues to keep her in front of her while having the argument. It was very dangerous and irresponsible.

China used to be famous for strict upbringing and education, things are changing all the time I guess

I do like how direct the Chinese are. "Your child is going to grow up to be a waste of space." Yup! That's about it!

My Chinese friend who’s a lawyer in China and US told me this would happen 20 years ago, now here we are.

I do rly appreciate how you end the video with a little reminder that not everyone in china are misogynistic and not everyone agrees with whats going on but are stuck to live through the consequences of its harsh society in silence since standing up results in bad consequences. Its good to remember there are always nuances and not everyone are bad

If that was my son? Paying for that phone would be the least of his worries. What an embarassment of a child.

I generally agree with the sentiment, "How I raise my child is none of your business." However, when your child is wreaking havoc on other people and doing stuff like that, then your child's behavior becomes other peoples business.

We have a 7 year old kid from China, a son from a woman in a group I'm in. He is the absolute worst behaved kid I've ever seen. He will actually hit his mother, scream at the top of his lungs, etc. and she does nothing about it. She also has a 17 year old daughter who is somehow extremely considerate, the complete opposite of her brother.

There is a valid golden rule you and anyone should follow - "before you look and criticize the neighbor's home, look at your own"

Very powerful video, thank you for sharing.

My co-worker and casual friend is a half-Chinese half-white only son to a Chinese mother. At 28, his parents bought him a newly built single family house in the suburbs of San Diego, pricey home. But that was not the problem. At 28, his mother also came over to cook, clean, and do his laundry! He had a girlfriend that was also my friend. One day he asks her to marry him and she smartly said NO. The guy is actually a normal behaving dude (not mean or rude) but his girlfriend said that he does absolutely NOTHING at home, expected her to serve him like his mother served him. She didn't want to become his "new" mother so backed out of the entire relationship. His Chinese mother basically ruined him for all women.

What these parents can't understand is, if you don't raise your kids at home, someone WILL do it on the streets. If your kid comes like that (the restaurant bit) at me and mine, your kid will FLY over the table. I quarantee it.

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Great work brother. Respect from south west England. 🤜🤛

China is weird, I was there for six months 10 years ago, I've never seen a culture that more resembles the borg than the Chinese culture.

My mother and I were visiting a family friend in Tokyo. We went to have lunch in at the Tokyo Sky Tree. At a table next to us sat a family with three children. The children were WILD. Yelling, screaming, and hitting each other. Our friend said to us that you can tell that they’re Chinese by their behavior, before they speak😅

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I was a ESL Teacher for Chinese children once. There was this one boy who flipped me off and I reported it to the higher ups. I don't remember what happened because it was years ago. But I never saw him again.

The little emperor’s will preside over the collapse of Chinese society

When the mother said "did you hurt your hand my little prince?!" right after he threw the phone into the hot pot, my jaw dropped 😮

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Never spoil your kids, folks. This will be the bad result of it….

Seeing this just made me miss my dad, he’s dead now but he was a good solid single dad for 18 years of my life. He raised me so good and always taught me everything. He showed me to be kind, respectful, to be thoughtful, to help people whenever an opportunity arises, how to have empathy, and to be honest. I feel bad for kids raised by people that don’t love them, and i mean truly love them.

When i was 13 i was mowing lawns for old neighbors for money or free . And making money doing a paper run. And had respect for others. At 16 working at a steel fab factory ,Cheers from Australia

"Your talking non sense! Do you live next to the sea?" 😂😂😂 Dialogue straight from a Jackie Chan movie

There's a reason you always find a table that's a bit separate from all others in a restaurant.

When I lived in Shanghai, our apartment manager organized a Halloween event where the children could do trick-or-treat. At each residence, the children were told to take only one or two candies. But most Chinese children grabed two fistfulls of candy, and they were encouraged to do this by their grandparents. So, I do understand Chinese culture, it is to lie, cheat, grab and steal as long as you can get away with it.

I was with a group of friends at a Chinese restaurant at Thornliegh in Sydney Australia, and most of us speak Chinese. A neighbouring table had two kids running around the restaurant and generally making a bloody nuisance of themselves. This rising annoyance in us lead to me bellowing at the children to stop and sit down (in English) almost simultaneously another of my friends chimed in and berated the littles brats, then his wife in Chinese ripped the parents in Chinese , the restaurant manager made herself known to the table of problems and asked them to leave. So they are bringing that crap here to Oz as well.

While I can't speak for every child, one can never say that a disobedient little child will definitely grow up bad, while scolding may have it's place during moments, it definitely isn't always the only and best option. I grew up as a little emperor, as a kid I grew up wreakless and would hit my mother back if she smacked me. Fast forward to my mid forties! - I took care of my 82 year old mother, and loved her and cared for her up until her last breath. I cleaned her and caressed her as she lay dying in her own bed, (which was something she wanted, to die in her own home). Before her death, I tried all I could to help her recover from a broken femur, her cancer had spread to her stomach and lungs, but we never gave up, my older sister was right there with me! My sister supported her as well, especially on her first fight with bowel cancer 6 years prior. We loved this woman more than life! Today I have X2 small boys and X1 teen girl, boys are hard and cheeky and can be disobedient, I yell at them, never hit them! But I also know that they learn by how I act. So I must double, even triple down on the love! They do things in public that is disrespectful sometimes, yes, but scalleding them always will build a hard shell, I try and reason, explain to them, even if it seems like they don't care or aren't listening, something gets through, and with time you will be amazed, this was something my father taught me to do, guess he must of used the same principles when I was young? He only smacked me X2 in my life. As I grew up I realised I was a cheeky boy, difficult, but my mother loved me, and I grew up realising how hard it was for her, dealing with me, which made me love her all the more. All the best, be blessed. 🙏❤️

Im going to use incogni, thanks for your vids man, we are listening... and shocked always haha

This video explains an incident I encountered at Shanghai Airport and never understood. I had a long stopover and used some points on my credit card to spend a couple of hours in an airport lounge. Towards the end of my two hours, a Chinese couple in their late 30s came in with not one, but two young boys, aged about eight and ten. The boys ran totally amok yelling and screaming at the tops of their voices. It was a quiet space with only adults eating or tapping away on their laptops. Surely I thought, the parents will tell their kids to behave. Nope. They just carried on being little shits and the parents completely ignored them and their awful behaviour. The boys started throwing food from the buffet around and no-one did or said anything. The lounge attendants just cleaned up the mess and carried on as if this was completely normal. No-one even looked up from their laptops or said a word. This incident stuck in my mind as some of the worst, most selfish behaviour I'd ever experienced. I wondered if all Chinese parents were like this. I finally understand what was going on that day.

If I had behaved like that at 13, my arse would still be bruised 50 years later,

"He's just 13 years old, he doesn't understand anything" bruh, that boy already knew to do the middle finger gesture, he should've also learnt (whether from parents, or just from interacting with just about anyone else) that stomping on someone else's clothes is not just rude but an insult outright, let alone stuff like banging utensils onto the table, or even harming someone else's property (like with destroying the cellphone of that girl). Like, either his mom is disingenuous, or the father is a CCP official and the mother-son duo were a hidden family who wanted to flex a bit even when advised to lay low, or something. Idunno. Edit: Frick, the boy's mom literally pulled the "my husband is a bigshot and I can get away with anything" card.

It strikes me that the Chinese military will never be a real threat. In the military individuals need to be ready to do the hard things. Little emperors will never make the necessary sacrifices..

We had a situation not too long ago, where we had a Little Emperor come to the states to visit us, and he played with my niece, who is Asian-American, and she's extremely confident by nature. More so than even your average kid. You can imagine how that went...it was a nightmare. She wasn't having any of it. I actually felt sorry for the boy because he is still young, and his situation could be turned around if the parents changed their approach now, but they won't. He would yell at his mom and say stuff like "you need to say sorry to me NOW!!!!!", and his mom would start crying and run away. She had lost all control, and just let him dictate how everything would go. He was generally destructive with our belongings in the house, rude, and when we finally dropped them off at a hotel, he started rearranging all the furniture in the lobby and laughing. The mom did nothing to chastise the kid or put the furniture back, so I did. I apologized for the behavior to the hotel clerk. It was just ridiculous. But nothing can change, because parents will coddle these types of kids, until it's just too late to reverse the damage. It happens all over the world, but your right there's a bigger problem of it in China. From my observation there, parents would sometimes say "oh he's just a child" if a boy did something wrong, but really get upset with a daughter if she misbehaves. The other thing that used to kill me was watching grandparents spoon feed the boys until they were like 10 or just generally just too old to be fed by another person. I never noticed that behavior, at least as extreme, with girls. It was, and sounds like it still is, quite inbalanced.

it's TERRIFYING. . . . I'm 50 and i have been watching very DISTURBING trends of how kids are being raised (or NOT RAISED).....on devices mostly. . . . . . People don't realise the dangers.. They don't realize that from 0-7yrs, programes the human forever.. . . . This situation in China is extreme.... VERY disturbing but i see similar problems all over the world...

Good Reporting Bro❤

I've experienced this in the UK at a Santa's grotto - a Chinese family burst in & ran around destroying everything, knocked over the tree, stole presents laughing and filming each other. We eventually managed to get them out. It was weird most Chinese people are so polite. They were just so entitled and didn't care.

There is a saying “If you don’t teach your kids well, others or society will.”

In 1989 I was working in Cincinnati teaching computer graphics & animation at a uni. Their Bookstore had a good selection of international daily newspapers, and I occasionally bought Spanish language papers to keep up my reading skills. A Madrid newspaper reported that in the first few years after clinics could provide parents the sex of a fetus in New Delhi, India, the percentage of female fetuses aborted was near 99.9 percent of all abortions. India, similarly to China, has a very well-established tradition requiring that the bride's family give a substantial dowry to the Groom's family at the time of their wedding. It was a full DECADE before I found ANY reference to this information in US journals. Both India and China have noted in their media, that their countries are suffering a distinct shortage of marriageable-aged young women beginning about two decades later, in the early 2000s, and deepening since.

I have a few of these boys in my second grade class in America. They come to my class hungover from playing video games all night long and they never do homework. The parents think the kid is perfect.

If they try to conquer Taiwan, imagine an army of Little Emperors in battle.

My wife and I once fostered 2 "little emperors". It was such a battle to get them to behave but in the end they loved us for it. The little boys came to appreciate that we disciplined them because we cared enough to do it. Their parents were in complete shock when they received their well mannered children.

This is why my Asian wife married me, a non Asian man. She got sicked of being treated like crap and she seen her mother and grandmother dealing with the same crap. She made the choice to not continue the cycle

"Awful behavior is awful common"

Acting like that at 13!!? I was going on movie dates at 13, riding dirt bikes, cutting grass, sports. This summarizes china up a lot more than people realize. Excellent, excellent video Winston. I love this topic. I think it helps people understand what we’re dealing with. Keep up the great work.

I've seen two instances of young boys wildly berating their Chinese mothers in public in Manhattan. I was appalled, especially at how their mothers said and did nothing. They have no prospect of being good men

We have children like this in Australia as well. I have spent decades trying to teach them.

If my phone was thrown into hotpot I would have reacted more strongly.

Me & my mum were on a flight to Beijing from Kota Kinabalu (in 2018), and a little kid (about 5-6 y/o) was sitting behind my mum, the kid's mother sitting right next to her (I know she's the mother because the kid calls her "mama"). The kid kept kicking the back of my mum's seat and the mother just lets her. I kept looking back and gave the kid and her mother scathing looks, while my mum just sat quietly, but I could see that my mum was highly uncomfortable but she doesn't want to say anything. The kid's mother acted like she didn't see me throwing her dirty looks. For context, I'm Malaysian, from Sabah to be exact. I look nothing like a Chinese person (I'm a native Borneo tribe), but I'm fluent in Mandarin because I attended a Chinese school in Malaysia. Finally, I've had enough of the kid's shenanigans so I stood up and turned to look at the mother, and warned her that if she doesn't stop her kid from being obnoxious, I'm gonna switch places with my aunt (who conveniently sat behind the kid's mother) and start kicking *her* seat. More than anything, the kid's mother was so shocked to hear me speak in Mandarin that it took her a while to actually process what I said to her. I bet she never expected someone who looks like me (a typical native Borneo look - dark skinned, short & stocky build a.k.a "pindik tagap" in our local language) could speak Mandarin flawlessly. When she came to her senses, thankfully she heeded my warning and scolded her kid. The kid sat quietly (or at least as quiet as a kid could be, she did whine and cry here and there, but she never kicked my mum's seat again) for the rest of the 7-hour flight.

I read Dear Leader, a book about an important upper level North Korean, Jang Jin-Sung, who escaped to China and ended up living briefly with a wealthy Chinese family who had a teen age son. This spoiled only son was allowed to do whatever he wanted and even though they all hated it they never punished him for anything. Jang, who was staying with them tried to correct the teen. The teen, furious at being thwarted, turned the entire family into the Chinese government for harboring this man who was hiding out from the North Korean government. I suspect that this is a tale repeated many times over in China these days. These boys, now men, have been trained for their lifetime to be narcissistic, spoiled, selfish and completely callous towards others; little sociopaths. The boy in the video reminded me of how they became what they now are.

A generation of little Joffreys is terrifying.

Imagine the 13 year old as China, and the little girl as the Philippines, and the passerby who came to the girl's defense as the US... That's what's happening in the South China Sea.

"Never trust a coward, they'll always sell you out to save their own hides..."