Chinese Cultural and Philosophical Inspirations in Kung Fu Panda 

have you ever considered making a video on post ww2 chinise martial arts films and there sub text of defiying the imperialst powers that occupied it, idk if that makes sence i have vaugly read of such films and i am intrested in learning more about this topic but dont know where i would start researching the chinise movie industry

I apreciate this, however if I may opine on this as an israeli citizen without having my head chewed off, I find this type of websites to over simplify the issue as good guys and bad guys. especially when you have terrorist organizations taking advantage of this whole situation.

What do you think about Asian telling stories base off of White Culture?

The whole conflict is so complicated. I don’t pretend to know enough to have an opinion yet. I’ve been called a stupid white person because I said so.

@@Angelicwings1 Its not complicated, its simple. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-62I61kBahNY.html Watch from the beginning or skip to 3:57. Its a totally asymmetrical relationship.

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I also came to see if anyone left the deets, thank you!

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This was really helpful! Thank you!

Thank you!

A ripped po would be terrifying tho

@@kingsaracoon9594 A ripped Po would haunt my nightmares

Ripped Po = Gohin from Beastars

Yeah but he still needed good cardio, muslce development, and flexibility (Remember the cookie jar scene) or in other words still be healthy. You don't get that from just eating. Case and point: sumo wrestlers

@@alexanerose4820 ah yes the art of eating shit tonS of food while exercising a shit ton.

ANND she was wearing white and black xD

@Katie Rae I think Xiran uses she/they, if I remember correctly. I think it came up in the video about anti-Asian speech and violence. I could have misinterpreted them, though.

@@austinluther5825 iirc Xiran said they prefer they/them, but is also used to she/her. So I'd say to try to use they/them as much as you can, but if you slip and use she/her it shouldn't be that big a deal.

@@drygonfyre Thanks for clarifying!

@Katie Rae It's official. I completely misinterpreted what they said in that video. Sorry, Xiran!

That’s super cute. Awwww.

i used to think it was exploitative but now i just realise that po relishes in his fame anyway lol

I never noticed!

Thanks for pointing that out!

aww that's so sweet. thanks for pointing that out, man.

!!1 yesss !!!

He probably wouldn't have done so without direct (if vague) instructions from his own master to change the way he viewed Po. Shifu is a pretty shitty teacher at the start of the film, that's kind of his entire arc; even though Po is the protagonist, Shifu is the deuteragonist and undergoes an entire arc of his own, facing his past mistakes as a parent and teacher and learning to change his approach and finding peace in doing so. ...look, i just watched this movie for the first time in 10 years two days ago and i have many emotions. this is such a well-written and well-structured story all around...

It is actually said that Confucius once got asked the exact same question by two different students whom he gave different answers respectively, and when another student asked Confucius why he had given different answers to those two, he explained that they had different personalities so he should give them different suggestions accordingly. Confucianism kinda has this idea of "因材施教" teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, and I never noticed how much Shifu represents Confucianism until I watched this vid

Excellence

I wish my math teacher was like that T-T

💫IT'S NON BINARY 💫

So dragons with a specific item under their paw indicates their gender?

@@seekeroftruth8758 yup, but not dragons, lions (or lion stone statues), the female lion has a cub and the male has a perfectly cut round ball, they normally come in pairs, a female and a male, as a decoration or as some believed: to scare away bad things and protect the building, you could do some more research if you're interested, chinese history and culture has alot of interesting parts

@@seekeroftruth8758 It's a joke from the Mulan (cartoon) video. Lion statues are supposed to be in cub/ball pair as mother/father, but in Western media they often just go with a pair of ball-lions.... which Xiran joked meant they were a gay pair. It's apparently become a running joke reference across at least three videos now?

🤣🤣 my gender identity is an ambiguous stone lion statue.

Or the Sahara desert? Literally "the desert desert".

@@DestructionGlitter Oh wow, I didn't know that one either. I'm learning so much today!

Chai tea= Tea tea

@@gracehenry-tarrant597 my daughter and I call chai 'tea tea' because of the sheer number of people who say 'chai tea' - drives us nuts, but we find it funny at the same time.

@@celinahatton2653 In Russian any tea is also called chai, obviously a word borrowed from Chinese, so I understand that feeling.

Aww :))

​@AverageCharacter Or perhaps a subtle nod to Tigress mentioning how the Dragon Warrior can go months without food

EXACTLY

​@@OhCrapI_He I mean....the fat stores on Po (if they work like in humans in the kfp universe) WOULD sustain him for awhile if he had no food around

Also that dumpling is probably super gross after being thrown around.

Quick, get the peach wood!!!

@@eeuseilaporra1177 *throws branch at cat*

That explains why the Peach Tree was able to defeat Ka pa(?).

Oh wow I never thought on this!

@@niapurdue230 me either!

And Master Shifu is mostly white 👀 and then in panda two ISNT the ox character all black. Or am I thinking of another villain.

Wow, Alex Or Whatever! You blew my mind. Excellent!!!! 👍🏽🐼🙌🏽

@@MrDrProfessorSir962 you're thinking of part 3. Part 2 has the white Peacock.

I know lots of things LOTS OF THINGS

I always read the comments first, and you have inspired me to make popcorn. Thank you 🙌🍿😺

Literally me when I see that she posted

I have XXtra Hot Cheetos-ready to rewatch this video!

I love this comment! 😭❤️

The Sucker Punch developers who gave the world "Ghost Of Tsushima" & the overwhelming majority of gamers in Japan who gave the game glowing reviews R further proof of that.

Unlike a certain other movie MULAN (2020))

Same goes for Avatar and the Aladdin live action!!

If you make something with love and respect then yeah you can make something that doesn't make the ppl you see portraying feel like they are being depicted as caricatures. But it's very easy to mess that up. You need to make sure as the creative heads behind something like Kung Fu Panda or Ghost, that you are depicting ppl who you haven't lived the experience of and you need to do your research so you can respect them as full ppl. Sadly some ppl don't want to put in that effort. Cough Ghost in the Shell Cough lol

@@zenkim6709 And if it's about japanese creators doing non-japanese settings, there's Berserk, Vinland Saga, Metal Gear Solid... there are excentricities that do leak out, but in the end it's not impossible and can lead to an interesting mix (or a disgusting mess if done superficially)

Every single time I watch a video, I'm glad Xiran was this pissed off about Mulan, otherwise I wouldn't have learned nearly a third of the things I've learned watching these videos.

Then you guys better admit at least SOME good came out of Mulan 2020!

Yeah.

As as a Jewish woman, I’ll tell you a little secret: Spite is one hell of a motivator

That was such a godsend, absolutely. For one thing, I appreciate and respect the hell out of turning anger and spite into something this good, for another I can reactivate a bit of the knowledge that sort of ended up in dusty boxes in the attic since my China Studies days (this video reminds me that I need to read the Daodejing again. And again). Very grateful for that.

“Not the finger of doom technique! Noooooo! “

That is fantastic 😂

Did Wuxi finger hold had anything to do with Wuxia ("Martial Arts Heroes") stories? I guess not, Wuxi is a name of a town. There are some origin stories like it means "without tin". referencing the fall of Xin Dynasty, but some others (source: wikipedia) Similar sound, though

I love that lol

In spanish too!

People like their symmetry more than heteronormativity, it seems.

It's not the sole indicator. Male lions are often sculpted with phalluses.

*looks at her own set with them both holding orbs* I too am protected by the gay lions :D

Almost every Chinese restaurant in my conservative American city is guarded by gay lions. So is the house of the homophobic old lady a few houses down from me. I’ve been cackling ever since I learned about this and that female stone lions exist. It’s the absolute best. Next year during pride month I’m tempted to put little pride flags in the paws of all the gay lions I can find.

@@Annie_Annie__ Doo Eeet

That's amazing!!!

Your grandpa sounds like a gigachad. lol

Who was he?

So clever ngl. 😂

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Can you actually access Chinese internet while being outside China using this VPN?

@@SPofSaturnProduction Ah, okay! I use ExpressVPN, so I would need to check how to access internet of China while I am back in the US, for instance.

China when discovers VPN: BAN IT, COPY IT

Especially when you change to Chinese and forgot there are 4 notes resulting in sloppy words, it hurts.

It's true. I'm bilingual too and thyus is really hard.

@@annacbrown1986 try multilingual. Now that's scary.

@@annacbrown1986 "how to frick am I supposed to be good in Chinese, Malay and English at the same time, think mom! Think!

Hm, I wouldn't know how difficult Chinese and English is, but Greek, German and English work pretty easily, even with the vastly different pronunciations of most of the consonants. I suppose it depends if you grew up multilingual.

When she said that I was like holy crap

@@Olivia_Dreamrider xiran is actually nonbinary using they/them pronouns

Separating actors from voice acting is kinda gross dude, at the end of the day it's still just acting. Tell me, is Mark Hamill not deserving to get all those voice acting roles (Especially his turn as the Joker from the highly regarded Batman: The Animated Series) because he was Luke Skywalker? Same with the guy who played the Genie in the Aladdin Broadway musical, he's done some voice work, too. Is he now exempt from being a VA because he's also a theatre actor? Consequently, should we deny Voice Actors other roles in live-action or theatre _because_ they also do voice-over roles?

​@@tcrpgfan we already deny voice actors roles. literally all the time. in fact, hollywood actors took the roles away from voice actors, and voice actors didnt get shit in return

Some actors are just also good voice actors! Jack Black is one of them, imo. I get what you're saying though, when you're watching something and you can tell they just cast someone for their name and not their voice, it's definitely disappointing

I feel when it comes to people like robin Williams or jack black, aka actors who may not be traditional voices actors but have enough energy and talent that they can make it work should be allowed to voice act but not actors who are just there because they are big names/aren’t really that wide an actor but more just a face shouldn’t

Jack Black is arguably one of the exceptions. He's a decent VA (which makes sense as even in onscreen roles his voice is a big part of his presence) and as mentioned brought a lot of heart and vulnerability to Po. On the other hand, Kung Fu Panda does have some excellent earlier examples of "celebrity VAs for the big name's sake and really nothing else" in Angelina Jolie Tigress (who did a fine job, but like... Tigress didn't need to be her, or vice versa) and unfortunately, Jackie Chan Monkey (on paper it makes sense to have him here, it would be weirder if he wasn't, but in including him you have the otherwise perfect let voice actors voice act argument because the advertising made a HUGE deal of Jackie Chan playing a major character and then Monkey has like, two lines because surprise, the dude whose career revolves around on-screen low speech action scenes isn't the best voice actor)

Yes! Tai Lung only values selfish things that directly benefit him and dismisses anything that doesn't. Po values everything, even emptiness that can be used to benefit someone else after it's been filled even if he doesn't directly benefit from it.

@@Dargonhuman i wouldnt say he values selfish things exactly but yeah. I mean how would you react when your father teaches you the many skills to become a kung fu master yet isnt humble so you arent taught humility.

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@@Dargonhuman tai ling values validation. Shifu raised him to think that he needs to have something to the point where he can't make anything of himself. If anything this shows tai lungs Insecurity. He has to be validated as the dragon warrior and be told that he is strong because thats what Shifu made him believe. If it wasn't for Po's father, he would have never understood the meaning of the scroll because shifu couldn't see any validation in the scroll

@@BabyGirlTiny That makes sense.

The convenience of this meme is amazing

*Master²*

@@anguirosuchus55 😂😂😂

Naan Bread, Soviet Union and Sahara Desert:

Tea tea 😏

agree 100%, even now i have trilogy on my pc and i watch it from time to time :D

Don't at me i haven't seen Kung Fu panda for a long time but I think they didn't do pop culture reference or modern song the would ruin the mode of the film like Klaus when the mailman started rapping it was off putting good movie tho

Yeah but there's very limited 2d hand drawn animation nowadays

Honestly I've seen it 6 times, and not always with my children.... 💁🏻‍♀️

I mean, there are SO many 3D movies that are rich, detailed and beautiful...

could you reply back with a question like "what do you think the dao is?" (& hopefully save some of your hair🤣)

@@andromeda3687 As Lao Tzu said, "those who speak of Dao do not know it, and those who know it do not speak of it." This is because the concept is one of those where the harder you try to put it into words that give a clear answer, the farther you get from reality. The closest to an accurate answer I can get is this: the Dao is the way the universe is. Well, actually, the closest true answer you can give is "The Dao is," but if I say that, people just assume I've said an incomplete sentence. The problem is that the answer tells you very little, but the more you try to explain it, the further you get from the idea. The only way to really explain Dao is to explain other things that can be explained and lead a person to understanding, but that takes a lot of study. The more you study, the more you sort of get an idea for what Lao Tzu was talking about, and the more you realize that there just isn't a good way to explain Dao itself. It's much easier to talk about the principles that followers of Dao should follow if they understand Dao than it is to talk about Dao, which is why it's a religion.

From what I gathered it is if procrastination had a positive meaning

@@numberanother5630 That's wu-wei, and that is a common misconception. Wu-wei literally translates to "not acting," but it's more complicated as a philosophic idea. It's not that you don't act, but that you don't act out of step with the natural way. The idea is to become so in tune with Dao that you never have to think about what you're doing. No, actually, that isn't quite right. It's more like Newton's law that a body at rest stays at rest unless outside forces act upon it. It's kind of more that every action you take is not so much an action, but a reaction. Things happen and you just react to it. You don't fight or fret, you don't waste tons of energy trying to redirect the tide, you just . . . sorta go with it. But tomorrow, I'll probably have thought of another reason why *that* explanation isn't quite right either. And that's why Dao is so difficult to talk about. All you can ever really do is talk about things that are sort of like what it means, but that's really only sort of pushing you in the direction of it. No explanation is ever really quite right. And for reference, this is what it was like actually talking to daoist philosophers. At least the ones I talked to. They never give you a direct answer, they just sort of nudge you in the right direction, let you think about it and then give you another nudge to course correct when you talk back. It's very circular, but if you really try to understand, you do get there eventually. Sort of. I honestly don't think even Lao Tzu even really fully understood what he was trying get across.

"The Dao that can be named is not the true Dao" "Thirty spokes share a single hub; grasp the nothingness at its center to get the use of the wheel. Clay is fashioned to make a vessel; grasp the nothingness at the center to get the use of the vessel. Bore windows and doors to create a room; grasp the nothingness of the interior to get the use of the room. That which is constitutes what is valuable, but that which is not constitutes what is of use." “When the fierce wind is past all the hollows are left empty - haven’t you noticed their trailing cries?” Ziyu said, “By the pipes of earth you mean the hollows; by the pipes of man you mean the braces of bamboo flutes. May I inquire about the pipes of heaven?” Ziqi replied, “They whistle through the myriads of different things and let each be like itself, each taking all that is appropriate to each - but who is it who blows them?” Dao is the emptiness which turns walls into a room, or a dowel into a flute - the avenue of wu wei, of acting without acting, or of noncoercive action. And yet, it is more. It is the Way of the world, the great viaduct of qi, it is one's instinct and also one's trained intuition. Dao cannot be simplified; it must be sought after without expectation of result or reward. I can neither say that the Dao simply is - for one cannot say that emptiness truly is - nor can I say that the Dao simply is not, for the hollow of a bowl is what makes it a bowl, and so it is for the Dao. I could call it a universal Judo, but that would not capture it either - there is too much structure in Judo, for that analogy to hold And that's why talking about "What the Dao is" is so infuriating

Forget good news, it’s *great* news

Up you go !

@Nathan L I read this in his voice.

@@JustGrowingUp84 Me too.

Definitely!

I'm glad someone has pointed that out. As an adult I can appreciate the character of Shifu for feeling realistic, he isn't completely good nor completely evil. But at the same time he's so realistic that I can pinpoint many real people I've met that I just can't stand, precisely because they have the same blind hypocrisy going on: Complaining about every good thing (and person) in their life, while failing to realize that the problem is their own attitude. Sometimes we reflect our state of being into our surroundings, like the "half-full or half-empty" water glass debate, and Shifu saw everything as half-empty because he himself felt that he lacked something within him.

It's a story about NOTHING@!

@@100lovenana for me the glass... is both half empty and half full.... what does that make me? ive always been confused by why people debate about it when its both

@@NoobGamer-hn5rs I guess in your case it means you're content, or at least neutral

@@100lovenana okies yeah lol thank you

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damn... that hurts... after all the promotion disney did about that.. ooff xD

Given what Disney did, it's not that hard.

XD ~dies of laughter XD Good One!, and now to climb up the mountain of my Chair ;-P

I was just about to say! What a visual interpretation of Daoism as she talks about it.

Spite is one of the fundamental forces of (human) nature. There's hardly any stronger motivation than doing things out of spite.

@@DonVigaDeFierro There are many things that only exist because somebody somewhere said the magic words "FUCK YOU".

"there are no accidents"

@@DonVigaDeFierro What about the desire to make a buck?

I was just thinking about this lol

Ah, that does make sense. I've studied Bagua before and when I saw the flag my first thought was wondering why fire and water are randomly placed there. But I know fire can also represent the sun, so logically water could be moon, too. Also, just to save folx a google search, clockwise the symbols are water, earth, fire, heaven

I've also read somewhere that the Korean flag was based on the flag of the Qing Dynasty. And the similarities are apparent. However I'm not sure about the actual history between the two and it's implications.

That's so cool!

​ @GW2Scapades Hi there! Hope you don't mind me just hopping on this comment, but actually, that's not true at all. You may have unintentionally fallen prey to Chinese revisionist attempts at Korean history, and misinformation rampant in English sources. It's pretty complicated but I will condense it into a brief synopsis. The claim goes like this: "Ma Jianzhong, a scholar and delegate of the Qing dynasty suggested a new flag for Korea (Joseon at the time) and proposed a dragon design based off the Qing dynasty flag for them. A Korean official took his suggestion and created the Korean flag based on Ma's ideas on 1882, September." However, this is a theory based on no evidence. What actually happened was that Joseon officials and the king of Joseon at the time, Gojong, created the flag. We know this because in 2004, we discovered a US navy record titled "Flags of Marine States", where Joseon had made a sketch of the Korean flag in 1882, May. Additionally, nowhere in our current flag, do we reference dragons as suggested by the Qing dynasty, further showing that the claim is false. Hope this helps :)

@@gracejung4070 Definitely! Many thanks for this clarification!

Reminds me of so much flag iconography.

wow

Now that’s some good flag design

Yep xxx *fusses moggie*

Meowism

The cat: "I'll go with the flow"

mmm... Monke

Mmm.. Monke

猴子🐒

mmm.. monke

mmm... Monke

They actually use they/them pronouns btw

@@allanagiles9470 Oh, I did not realise. Corrected now.

@@colinfitzpatrick3389 If they’re both right, you didn’t have to correct them..?

@@salami7031 Think of it kinda like the argument for or against the oxford comma. They're both right...one is just more right than the other. =P

*Because Monke*

@@jadeuwu9860 Based

That's exactly what I was thinking!!! I was like, oh surprised she didn't cut this part out - *realizes what she's talking about* OHHHHHH MY GODDDDDD

I mean, cats flow like water sometimes so...

Dao is the only possible way to deal with a cat at any given time. They will do whatever they want so you might as well just accept it.

Cats are the true masters of the Dao, actually

That was exactly what I thought!

Hey I eat when I’m upset.

Hey I eat when I’m upset

He got over his insecurities about being unable to match the Furious Five's level, only to have childhood trauma yeeted in his face by Shen and the wolves

You saw it too, right? The mom energy in their eyes could thinly carve stone, I swear!

@@grammarmaid 😂💀

I FELT that look.

I'm Black. We get that look from our mothers too... 😩💀

My Japanese mother in law gives that look to my partner or his sister at least once every family gathering (well, in The Before Times at least)! I'm lucky enough to avoid that look - 多分彼女の子供は日本語を話せられないから、私は話しことが出来で大学校の先生です。

I think it's more stereotypically parent than stereotypically *insert country where you grew up & experienced this here*

@@elaineb7065 Is doing the *insert country* thing you just mentioned another way to say "We live in a society."?

@@cccaaa702 Parents were taught what is best & believed it blindly. They expect it of themselves & of their children, making everybody, themselves included, miserable.

@@elaineb7065 Make sense, but I just wanted to make a society joke

@@elaineb7065 Make sense, but I just wanted to make a society joke

0:01: Uhm, can we talk about this more? ...I mean, the topic of the first 15 seconds of this video probably deserve their own video, yeah? Or their own channel even?

YESS i was looking for this comment! I can't add anything other than learning about the balanced elements and all, my only knowledge comes from studying Tang Soo Do (martial arts) when I was little (and they had us study and memorize some aspects of Korean culture for our belt exams.^^;

I’m not a scholar either but that’s also what I was taught. I was also taught that the red is the sun and the blue is the ocean ☺️

I was looking throughout the messages to see if this question was answered it really peaked my curiosity

Huh, I learned something new today, cool :D

When she said about the Korean flag with the trigrams.. ahhh the Hyugas though?

I remember when I was in sixth grade, there was a medieval festival at my school. I wanted to dress as a Viking, so my mom and I spent days researching their armor and weapons to get it accurate. People were wondering why I didn't have horned helmets, and I told them. Don't ask if I still have the costume, I do not. I have no idea what happened to it.

LITERALLY, I AM A HISTORY MAJOR, AND PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL THEM THIS

Indeed, the horned helmets were associated with viking war attire because the clothing designer for Wagner's Valkyrie wanted to draw attention to the character despite the distance between the scene and the spectators

Now they have braids in pop culture (TVs and games) and it seems that historians once again say there is little evidence over their hair styles…

@@nehcooahnait7827 We do know a few things about the hairstyles of Vikings/Norsemen. Contemporary writings from non-Scandinavian writers commented on how the Danes were much cleaner than other Europeans (bathing once a week on Saturdays, combing their hair, and wearing clean clothing) and how this was bad because it meant they were seducing non-Danish women. Archeologists have also found combs in Viking dig sites.

*manifesting lord shen peacock resembling aesthetic in the next analysis*

@@kingsaracoon9594 yes PLEASE

YES ! Just YES !

I would be so interested in all of her hair pieces.. I look out for them in every video..

First thing I noticed too! Small details like these allow her dedication and passion to shine through... Can't stop watching!

To be fair, a red panda is more of a raccoon than a great panda.

ye

the movie that shall not be named

@@drawnwithlove3499 what movie is it? Im guessing mulan

@@alraunedee8973 how dare you speak blasphemy. There can only be 1 Disney Milan film and that is the 1998 version

@@heistingcrusader_ad3223 Yeah it's remake deserves to be tossed into the flaming pile of trash, along with it's director.

Mostly because they actually portray the concept of Chi and not just use its name for generic superpowers.

Well tecnically they had one, Jackie Chan was the voice of Monkey. Just too bad that that character didn't talk so much.

Also Viper, Oogway, and Mr Ping, I think

@@pendragongameart Lucy Liu, Randall Duk Kim, and James Hong.

@@keithkoganeislife3144 yeah, them, thanks!

@@keithkoganeislife3144 I think Randall Kim is Korean American not Chinese

sameeee 😂

Glad I'm not the only one

I wonder what a bi lion would have

@@silentlyjudgingyou A ball and a cub, probably.

As someone who thinks they maybe Non binary them self same:-)💜💛

There also stubborn as hell tho. Will only mate in certain conditions and will only eat bamboo even tho they can technically eat other things

@@lunawolfheart336 And they communicate in written language! ...Sort of. Their facial features are inexpressive, they don't seem to use pheromones, and they don't vocalize much, so they seem to communicate among themselves by clawing trees in their territory. Pandas are neat little weirdos.

They kind have to go with the flow, because their food is so nutritionally poor, they have no energy to go against the flow.

@@lunawolfheart336 as we learned during the pandemic, they just won't mate while people are watching. Can't say I blame them. lol

There was literally a cartoon I watched as a kid called Tao-Tao, it was about a panda bear cub :D

Honestly having a youtube channel like this gives you the BEST excuse to binge on your comfort movies

Xiran has said this before, but the Disney video blowing up was originally supposed to be a one and done thing, but then the subscribers blew up, too.

@@KyrstOak Of course the sub base blew up, that was an amazing video! As are all the others!

@@lalystar4230 Indeed they are! I can imagine all of us ten or so years from now looking back at these first videos in celebration of a big anniversary.

This continues to be the most chill commentary channel ever.

Nonlionary

@@catherineperry5099 *bows down to the pun master*

that reminds me of a poem, actually. "Beside the red doors wine and meat go bad, on the chilly roads people freeze and starve to death"

@@landmerry_6742 Wine, not sake. Sake is Japanese, though it's the same character 酒. Unless Japanese copied this line from Du Fu and you quoted them.

@@mRRandak 啊我知道，只是一直当那个单词是英文在用啦，所以不严谨

@@landmerry_6742 那最好是用'（rice)wine', 'vodka' 或者 'Liquor'. 即使中國釀酒的過程跟歐洲的beer的更像，正式地最好翻譯成 Chinese rice wine之類的。如果用'spirit',這也行。

@@mRRandak 我是觉得都很奇怪啊，首先为了翻译美感三个词的肯定不行吧，但其他给我的印象都带上了典型的西方特色。虽然sake也是日本特色吧，至少一起在东亚……或者又想了想wine其实也行，虽然我的第一反应是葡萄酒，但我国古代应该这东西也是有的

Mulan, Avatar, Kung Fu Panda... mama😭

They use they/them pronouns :)

east asian culture in general as welll

Dang, you have point🤔

@@crunchylettuce You are absolutely correct that slipped my mind.

where the floor is made out of floor.

That actually makes me curious... My coworker from India says Americans (me included) smell like milk ... I didn't even know milk had a scent, but it makes me curious... Is it due to diet?

@@MegaRambit as far as I can tell epocrine scent is genetic, not diet related.

@@MegaRambit two different things. but THAT one I can answer. In most other cultures/geographies, adults don't drink milk, only babies and maybe children and the elderly (this was also true in Europe), but CHEESE has been a huge part of the "Western" diet for millennia and even back in the middle ages and industrial era, people from Africa and the Middle East noted that Europeans had a distinct "milk smell".

That’s hilarious 😂😂😂 I can see why they say that too because lord have mercy, that smell can be extremely potent, piercing, and sharp

@@AlexDuck what people specifically ? Here where I am from (lebanon) our daily food is like 80% diary products, especially breakfest and most people in the countryside have a cow or two

That is why it is not silly to use A-class actors as voice actors for animated movies. A lot of the actor's own energy and personality, and of course their acting skills, goes into the voice acting. Great animation studios fine tune their animations, especially their facial animations, according to the voice actor's expressions (they use motion capture cameras when recording the voice track to drive the facial expressions). It is hard to imagine any other actor to bring the same personality and energy to the character of Po. With a different actor, even if the script is the same, the character would have come out completely different.

@ㄉㄎㄉ • ꨆꨟꨮꩆ ꨣꨰꨕ He's good but not great

@@StarlasAiko Further, a lot of these roles are written for the A-lister they get cast by; see also, the Genie in the original Disney Aladdin film, who was explicitly written for Robin William's frenetic energy. You can't have that role without Williams, its part of why the first sequel is so much worse.

@@BloodyAltima true, and I hate it when people's go to critic is "celebrity voice acting" and it's like... I can see why it'd be annoying, but if the celebrity is already an actor... then who tf cares?

@@JaneDoeValentine It's moreso that we're annoyed with how its a transparent attempt to attract viewers. It's obviously different when the role was tailored to the actor, but when the actor brings nothing to the table and is only their because of their clout, when a more culturally appropriate option exists, or when professional voice actors with years of experiences get shafted for these larger celebrities (or when a character is brought to the big screen and the person who's always voiced that character gets overlooked for the big celebrity), it gets obnoxious.

I think it's even better that they used Daoism as the conflicting philosophy rather than some western idea of individualism. Too often we see stereotypes of strict Asian parents put into contrast with individualist western culture making it appear that strict parents is a universally Chinese thing. By placing Daoism in this place, it's demonstrating an entirely Chinese alternative to that Confucian mindset, showing the reality that there's a lot more nuance in Chinese culture, just like there is in any culture.

@@cozmicclockwork1136 Hey, I have had a long lasting but still pretty superficial (to my regret) fascination for Xianxia and Daoism as a whole, could you explain me in details the contrasts between Confucianism, Daoism and Individualism ? Or send me towards articles or videos that talk about it ?

@@levi2725 I wouldn't really know where you would start with that myself. I was mostly just referencing how in media you would often see strict Asian parents in contrast with white American parents who would be depicted as more permitting to their child's personal aspirations or interests. Although anyone who has lived in a western country like America can tell you that there are just as many strict parents here as there are Asian ones.

now i know why my friend's abusive parents never let them see the movie 😬

Chinese intellectuals have being calling out Confucianism since the 1920s’ New Cultural Movement…

Omg me too!! I'm Chinese and adopted by a Canadian family and never had BO or needed to use deodorant either! Finding out about dry wax and wet wax was also an interesting tidbit. So glad I'm not alone in this revelation as an Chinese adoptee : D

There’s this one anime called Asobi Asobase that has a white character named Olivia and there’s a bunch of jokes about how she smells much more strongly than her friends

@@TheGrumblyTumbly I'm positive I replied to this, RU-vid is being weird. Glad I'm not alone though!

@@morganalabeille5004 Huh, that's an interesting detail

i was today years old when i found out that there can be wet ear wax

On the contrary, I got the impression that he was always full of himself and entitled, blaming Shifu for filling his head with dreams (paraphrased) and false hope. I thought that he was simply never meant to become the dragon warrior because he did not have that innate goodness within him due to his conflated ego and narcissistic intentions. So when he saw the scroll (the one thing he came to idolize as a mark of greatness and the final step to achieving pride in himself and from Shifu) contain nothing to fulfill this greed, he was underwhelmed and couldn’t understand the message that there is nothing else that would ‘elevate’ his worth, because all he is worth is what he has done and who he already is.

@@pokaay3163 nah. he says all he wanted was to make dad proud. He let himself get hurt cuz he wanted to rise to his father’s expectations and underwent that strict training. Dad told him he was destined to be great, and that gave him expectations of himself. So while he was full of himself due to what Shifu told him, he also was insecure cuz he wasn’t perfect. He wanted to be perfect so dad would think good of him and fulfill his expectations, even tho Shifu would’ve accepted him regardless cuz he loved him. And that’s why he took the rejection of being the dragon warrior so badly, he failed his father and master in front of him. His worth as a person was simply an empty title, and when it didn’t give him what he expected, that fulfillment, he couldn’t understand. What it always was about was his hard work, not the fulfillment that scroll would bring to him. And that value as a person was what Shifu saw within him from the start. So he’s full of himself AND insecure. The mix of feeling you deserved something and feeling bad that he didn’t deserve it was what drove him to evil.

@@ma.2089 interesting analysis, I think we can all agree in the end he was a tragically conflicted character with a sad origin story.

same

😲 Is that the correct pronoun for them? *excited nonbinary noises*

@@jayleejames864 yup!

Worry not, the more you switch the better you become at it I, for example, no longer have to forcefully restrain myself from mixing up English and Italian, so improvements come

​@tuluppampam I used to swap pretty easily, but I've fallen out of practice as I don't speak Greek as much as I used to... noone to speak with any more

@@IsaScience talk to yourself in greek, or perhaps write notes or whatever you end up writing in greek unfortunately speaking is a bit harder

Same here. I think it's awesome to see changes like that. It adds more variety.

I'm wondering, if that was the purpose of the new movie Soul

@@ambergathings7160 It definitely fits the vibe of Soul! Soul played off the assumption many people have that having a passion or talent that you can contribute to society is the point of life, then turned that assumption against the protagonist by saying that enjoying the experience of living is the point of life. Although I doubt it was intentionally reflecting Taoist beliefs and was more likely a reaction to the current cultural beleif in America that says your life is only worth something if you achieve mainstream success.

Yeah to much our culture pushes this idea that you must be ambitious and that being content means you are stagnating and failing. When being content is great, like nothing with with me ambitious, but if you do reach a goal you don't have to force yourself to reach for some new goal. Enjoy where you are at, take stock of things, be happy.

The Kung-Fu Panda series is actually really good, so a lot of people here, myself included, would recommend it!

you gotta watch at least the first one! great pizza night movie. all the fun of a martial arts movie, in a nice animated package, with a great cast led by Jack Black!

@ㄉㄎㄉ • ꨆꨟꨮꩆ ꨣꨰꨕ I mean in that every bit of mythology, cultural significance, or even just general ideas all stem, when you go back really, really far, come from Mycenaean Greece.

@@SyxxPunk while a portion of Greek gods came from Mycenaean Greece, there are plenty of gods that were created by the Greeks that settled in the area after the Mycenaeans and some arrived by travellers that settled after the Greeks (how Aphrodite was brought to the area). In my opinion, like the first reply, the Roman Empire is more fitting because the military structure also has to be considered in how it's used by modern people in the West. But I do see where you're coming from because the portion of the Greek pantheon that came from Mycenaean Greece which then transformed into the Roman Pantheon (with variation due to combining with local deities, that's how Hades became Pluto the God of the Underworld and Wealth, he was combined with a local wealth god).

I’d say it’s more Greece than Rome, as when it comes to being the origin of cultural keystones Greece is the origin of many Roman ideas and practices. Greek democracy gave birth to the Roman republic, the Roman pantheon originated from the Greek (I feel like the person before kind of downplayed just how much, it wasn’t just the Mycenaean parts), and that’s not even mentioning all the things that didn’t come through Rome first, like the Hippocretian oath and caduceus (the “do no harm” thing and the staff with two snakes wrapped around it), all the great Greek philosophers and philosophies (do I really need to name anything here? Pluto, Diogenes, Aristotle, “I think therefore I am”), and even atoms! Greeks originated the idea of everything being made up of tiny indivisible microscopic particles, and the term “atoms” comes from the Greek word “atomos”, which literally means “indivisible.” In the end, both Greece and Rome are cultural juggernauts in the west. Whenever you say “classical world” people will think of either one, and more often both. A lot of Greek philosophy is like the west’s Confucianism and daoism. Anyway, very long. Sorry. I’m a fucking nerd

Huh that explains why my family hardly uses deodorant.

Yall are so lucky istg

Now i know where i got all the extra ones ;-; i am apparently the dump site of that gene

What's Teo Chew?

@@kittykittybangbang9367 it's a subgroup of Chinese people (if my memory serves me right). It's also a language that's spoken by the teo chew people.

As someone else in a different but similar comment thread pointed out: research. The Dreamworks team actually learned about the cultural influences they wanted to use to ensure they were using them correctly and respectfully. Disney just went with a surface-level "This is kinda Chinese, right?" then Disney-fied the hell out of the cultural influences without caring about accuracy.

RANDOM, I KNOW, BUT: Can you go and report some stuff? Cancel-Culture is a social problem and a big problem indeed but PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE FACT that the 180 Degree Opposite of C-Culture does exist. People, among others also me, try to make RU-vid and with that the internet and with that the world a better and safer place. Just like using the Police-Phone-Number offline, its only right to use the Flag-System if youre online; thats just right - IF you dont become Cancel-Culture. Honestly, i would ask you to help even: Please BE the Opposite of Cancel-Culture, as many people genuinly try to be, so youtube can become more healthy and less s-ual and racist and all such. I myself have gotten so many people deleted; Scammer trying to rob People of their Money, Racists, Sexists, and so much more. I had much success, but not enough; thats why i search for a long time now to get believers-in-god to help me; but apparently, 2020/2021 has gotten their spirits down or even made their believe in helping others for no money, crumble? ...Its rightful AND fun - so why not join?

Me too 😈 note: they use they/them pronouns

@@dtown_demon Tell me more about your User-Picture!

@@loturzelrestaurant He's my cat Hachi, but we call him Hachiko

@@dtown_demon ?

Hi! Xiran uses they/them pronouns

@@idfk695 thanks for letting me know. I try to check to see if I can find pronouns but I didn't see any on their RU-vid or IG when I looked (turns out it was on their Twitter which I don't use so ig thats why I missed it)

@@mateod1112 It’s on their website! (So is a pronunciation guide for their name I think)

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This comment killed me. 😂😂

These philosophers agree

same

Also me since I was 15 Well, replace "trash" with "compost heap" but still

legit my dad was right next to me and gave me such a judgmental look I had to rewind and show it to him too hjfdbfjhsjk

@@nihilism1652 SAME HERE! My dad thought I was goin crazy 😅

TAI LUNG

I'm not sure if this is a joke, but they said they're genderless because in china, a male lion would hold a ball and a female would have a cub with her. So, the lions are genderless because they dont have either of those.

The first is serious, the latter is a joke.

what monmon said. i partner with my buddhist friend and professionally make Buddhist temple videos. but everyone tells foreigners this anyway.

its continued to be a major belief system in many parts of Asia and Oceania from ancient times until today

@@kuroneko4447 though it became more widespread in rome, the first stoic was a cypriot

The closest parallels are lavayen satanism and pastafarianism.

I think it's a bit different in China. Like Xiran said, the ideologies never really went away, like how the government based itself on Confucian morals but used legalism for its legal system (which is quite "state and law above all") (Which I think explains a key difference between Chinese views on government and western views on government, which explains a lot of the local reception to the current ruling party). As a kid, we interact with all these ideologies and philosophies in our primary school texts, and we continue to learn about them growing up. (Not just Confucian and Legalist, but also daoist and mohist) I think the philosophies are something that is so intrinsic to the culture that it doesn't need a comeback, it's always there. That being said, there are probably more people abandoning city life to pursue a daoist lifestyle in a mountain somewhere, due to growing pressure in society both from capitalism and urbanisation.

Stoicism never stopped being important in western culture. If anything, today people care less about it, seeing as philosophy is not seen as important as it used to be.

...he can literally yeet people into the spirit realm using a made-up technique, is what I'm getting from this. And it's terrifying.

@@DarkestElemental616 Yup! He suggests using it on some rowdy students of the Jade Palace to spook them into behaving at one point and Shifu's like NONONONONO DONT USE THAT ON CHILDREN

@@Kat-xy7fm That's amazing lmao

*they

@@skyler9643 Did Xiran Jay Zhao confirm that some where?

@@dingle2987 in their last vid!

@@dingle2987 Yes in their anti-racism video.

@@skyler9643 actually they've said they use she/they pronouns in a video about cats so either is correct