So interesting in Canada we think China is dirty and undeveloped we really know so little about their culture and way of life. Life in Canada is really falling apart.
Be careful when traveling to some SE Asian countries. They may not be as safe as Nanning. If possible , don't travel alone and sometimes even traveling in group might still not safe. Have fun! Looking forward your next posting.
You missed the grandparents. They drop everything to be there, and will babysit. This spans the gap in generations, avoids cultural drift, and gives a bit of stability to society. In return, they're taken care of by the kids when the time comes. We rarely ship the grandparents to nursing homes to be forgotten.
There's old chinese saying, "when the head of a family is not setting a good example, the juniors will not be good either ". Lets' wait for year 2034 for some happenings.
America cannot compete anymore. Their cost is high, their laws restrictive, their decisions takes forever, their work attitude is hampering and their work days/hours are short.
Quite a few kids in China are raised by grandparents who are kind, patient and experienced. Just stand outside a school of someeone in grade 3 and it is all grandparents going to pickup the kids.
Chinese parents very strict to their children when they young. Education comes first. American parents don’t do that to their children. That’s why China 🇨🇳 ahead of the world 🌎.
I live and bank in Ireland. From July 2024 the Bank of Ireland will not support its app on my Huawei phone due to American sanctions. Guess I'll bank old style and keep my Chinese phone.
Totally agree, Americans are blessed with abundant lands and natural resources and post ww1/2 economics unbelievable booms. It’s still the strongest in the world but without talented leaderships/politicians and hardworking and dedications workforce and populations. The country will only decline instead of growth with amongst the future generations.
There is ONE frightening word in the American dictionary that scares the heck out of them whenever you are proposing solutions to their problems and that is, "DISCIPLINE". During the 1920s - 1950s, the U.S. had discipline in the family, in schools, in society and then, it all began to unravel to become a habit to "do whatever we like and say whatever we like because it's 'freedom'". Until they can have some great measure of cohesiveness, unity and discipline, it will be very difficult for the country to pull ahead as a nation.
American need to realize and accepting their own problems first without blaming others, so it can move forwards. It is the same as China few decades ago, they realize they have issues and working about it step by step even sending their own children to learn in the US to find out the solutions of their problems.
LOL i like your enthusiasm, my friend. But it is easier said than done. Those things u mentioned they gotta do CAN’T be done by the US! The most obvious one is telling the M.I.C to stop making weapons, i almost fell off of my chair!! Who is gonna tell the m.i.c??? Anyway, it is fun while it last, i enjoy your channel.
Great, Gweilo! This all comes down to, that the CCP still holds to the ethics of Confucius, which is by the way very similar to the ethics of Paul in the Bible. So without knowing it, China actually lives out the Christian values much better than the US. I find this fascinating!
You got it correct the first time you mention it - China sticks to the Confucius values. So, without knowing it, or perhaps knowing it and adopting it, the Bible adopts the Confucius values, but the US soon rejected these values. (P/S - Confucius was spreading his teachings and values when the papyrus (whence Bible was first written) has not even been planted.)
The United States rejects China thoroughly just because China is practicing communism. Just mention communism or communists and Joe Biden and the whole Congress, together with the people of America, will exhale fires. I am puzzled by the stupidity of the Americans, who are blinded by what they hear and can't see facts and truth.
@@PhiloSurfer Yes, but back then there was no exchange between these two worlds. So my (as a Bible believing person) answer to how this can be so similar is, that Confucius was in his writings also led by the Spirit of God. And in the same manner: the Bible itself says, that sticking to those values elevates a people - so in my point of view, that is the reason, why China is blessed that much currently. And as long as they keep following this ethic, they will continue to being promoted. Only as soon as they stop doing that, if evil is spreading like wildfire, they will go bankrupt. As it is happening right now to the West. I’m a German, who loves China… but looking at Germany confirms all of that: as long as we followed those principles (as after the Second World War), we were flourishing, but look at us now - pure chaos
Thank you Kirk for an interesting lesson on a serious mission : Nationhood Building! This is a very difficult subject indeed . However, you are able to advise with evidence based and time tested solutions. Well done Kirk!
I was talking with a mum in the local park (UK) this morning who was with her son (teen) and his friend fishing in the small lake (Moat). I mentioned Canada and China, but she didn't like the sound of China. Surprise surprise. I quickly learnt that all her information about China was from the Media and Govt. I re-educated her, and she was pleased I did. There are two signs up by the lake put there by the Council, "No Fishing". That Council are off their heads. Last year they were charging children a fee to fish. (Licence) Now they have torn down the wooden staging posts to stop them. Someone has painted over the "No" and replaced the "N" with a "G", so it is now "Go". This is the madness of the UK.
Your correct again Kirk and I back you all the way and frankly I could not give a frig about the trolls. I notice to that China has come a long way since the days of substandard infrastructure and they don’t piss about like some countries I could mention here. They get on with the job and move on to the next. Very hard working people unlike many I see in the west. Young men more interested in getting their leg over and avoiding getting a job many living with their parents. In all fairness you always give a good account and your not biased but you tell it as it is and that’s what I like.
Despite all the woes, America is still an open society which attracts talent all over the world and have the best universities. America can certainly compete but its instinct,after decades of dominance,is to squash any peer competitor. It does not believe in fair competition when it is not going its way.
That kind of education was years ago... now they removed God from school, teach them to select a gender, take rights away from parents to correct their children etc
usa is simply obsolete. the social/poltical system is primitive, initial advantage of geography exhausted, it's easy to see how to improve usa, but there simply isn't the direction skills and will to do any better. look at the quality of the current masters of the nation. dregs. so quite a few people are moving to china and the commercial center of gravity has shifted there.
Well that's probably a subjective topic..but yes a close family life and obedient upbringing can motivate children to study and work hard....I agree that's significant...
You hit the bull's eye. Empires rose and fell throughout the history. No empire could escape this fate. China was in deep shit from 18th to 20th Centuries, when the West and Japan invaded and bullied China. But now China has managed to shake away its bad luck, it is the West's and Japan's turn to be the underdogs.
After visiting China for the first time in March, it is apparent to me that China is decades ahead of many developed countries. Yet it's people say that they are still a developing country.
The economic transformation started 1980s rested on the basis built at the start of PRC. These include mass literacy/education programs, barefoot doctors/spread of basic health to all corners of China, and expansion of basic infrastructure. With the right economic policies introduced in the late 1970s, allowed China to become an industrial powerhouse that you see today.
家是小小国, 我爱我的家, 我爱我的国！ Families are the bedrock of a nation. It's through family education that children learn the foundation lessons on moral values such as responsibility, love, civility, courtesy, commitment, patriotism , discipline, discipline and social obligation .
Meritocracy I think....when the west were developing in the 17th-19th century most of them were not Democracy. The West only enjoy "Democracy" after they developed after 200-300 years of industrial revolution. During the era of industrial revolution there's no such things as labour's right, women's right. Child labour were rampant and encouraged. Exploitation were the norm. I think the idea of Democracy is great but the problem is humanity is not ready for it unfortunately. We are easily swayed by promises, shortsighted goodies like tax-cut....etc etc....
But a win/win doctrine in the eye of Americans is that the other country wins twice, America loses at the end. This is why Americans never believe in win win situation, cuz Americans only believe in Zero Sum doctrine, just like the Christianity believes that only One God existed in the world, there are no other gods. So what I understand is Americans will not cooperate or learn from others, cuz their government thinks they are the best and the only lighthouse for the human kind, or on the other way, they are the only human being in the world, others are not. It’s like an old saying in Chinese, either you die or I live. It’s hard to communicate with Americans government. Americans government foreign policy is basically to dominate the whole world and become the only empire in the world and let other countries worship them. Simple as that. Prove me if I’m wrong. 😂😂
Good advice, but I think there is too much momentum to do the things you say unless there is a traumatic change caused by a decline in lifestyle that awakens the public to their misleading leadership. If you look at Chinese history, the 'century of humiliation' was the bottom of the Chinese civilization. Colonial forces ravaged China, there was endemic poverty, and a ruling class that cared little about the life of the average Chinese. Those that could, left China to find a build a better life. Those that couldn't saw a glimmer of light in following Mao. The rest is history and for China, the communist party was the common thread that made China what it is today. Western media and politicians say otherwise, yet their guidance is leading the US into ruin. Once a shining light of hope in the post war era, it has come to this with American society falling apart.
It just make me wonder how are families telling their kids to stay away from drugs when it can be legally purchased like other commodities in the market. Telling them drugs only harm your body and mind would not be acceptable to them.
3:26 Not just drug addicts but alcohol addicts too. Chinese people don't have that kind of alcoholic cultures - unlike the West, no one in China (perhaps in Asia too) will bother to hang out in pubs (OK, but Karaoke, but it does not have to be any alcohol involved) all day long or got drunk on streets, etc. There is simply no fun to do that for Chinese, and most Chinese and Asians are only social drinkers at best, but drinking (or getting drunk) is what many Americans/Europeans love to do.
they still need rice farmers, just because it's a big city doesn't mean it's great. You still need to eat, as the cities still gobble up much farming, and wildlife land. Other animals need to exist too. Most people don't have the concept of how important the country farmers are.
gordon chang speaking here if we were to make peace;who is going to buy my books?I don't want to be homless or to live with uncle mike pompao or aunt polosi
Ben Amerikaliyim ama Türkçe kullanıyorum çünkü pratik yapıyorum. Ben 2016 yılında Çin'de yaşadım. Özellikle Jiangsu ilinde yaşadım. Çocukların çoğu büyükanne ve buyukbaba tarafından büyüdüler. Genellikle hem anne hem de baba çalışıyorlar. Yetişkinler zamanları yok. Hem Amerika hem de Çin çok işlevsiz.
