Chinese Manners: Reason Why - Vid response to Gimmeaflakeman

A video response to Gimmeaflakeman. Discussing Chinese manners, and why many chinese are often thought to have no manners or be rude.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• chinese
• manners
• culture
• history
• revolution
• china

[LeClassics]

Americans calling the Chinese rude is like the Chinese saying the Americans should be democratic.

[wingwaabuddha]

@LeClassics eh?

[lgbtTV4]

Re: Mao's fear of the intelligentsia, you might be interested in the video I just uploaded as a Video Response. I can also send you the short story on which it was based. I recently wrote a comment comparing Mao's intellectual purges with those by the Catholic Church.

PS - I hope you had a great birthday. Consider the video a birthday present! You might also like "Heatwave." I left the links as a comment on your Channel page.

[wingwaabuddha]

@lgbtTV4 ye the vid was confusing at first, but made sense. Yes with the western influences also. History is once again the reason. B

[marrible]

I've read Mao Zedong's biography recently, and supposedly he would grab his crotch in public and strip down during interviews with foreign reporters because it was too hot outside :D

[wingwaabuddha]

@marrible yep thats right, not sure which one you read, the best one is Mao the Unkown Story. You are almost going to China, how many days/weeks left?

[gernerstrom]

I find this statement interesting because the complaints of those who call Chinese "rude" apply equally to Hong Kongers (most of whom were isolated from and/or opposed Mao's views). Hong Kong manners are still rude by Western standards. You can't point to the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward as a stand-alone explanation for Chinese manners today. Surprisingly nobody has mentioned 热闹 ("boisterousness"), an integral aspect of Chinese manners that goes way back before Mao.

[asasasasdasas]

Oh and by the way I believe you meant to say President not prime minister they do have a prime minister but thats not who you were referring to. I like how at the end of the video you also get another spontaneous idea and then say its also because of great leap forward.

[asasasasdasas]

This is directed towards the uploader: Actually i see many young people spitting, picking their nose daily. Also young mothers let their children piss and shit on the street. Hmm blows a hole in your theory doesn't it? Let me ask you did you come up with this all on your own?. I don't know why you brought up about how during cultural revolution the school system shut down. You don't need to go to school to know that its rude. I never had a class called, "no spitting".

[excalipoor]

i sent the other comment before i finish watching the video. well said about the struggle going on in China. I thik it's fortunate that China opened their door back then, or we would have to deal with something like in north korea, where a billion people have to cry when the leader pass away. old habits die hard, just have to wait til those people to die out, give them at least 15-20 years. at least they learn how to start a labor strike right now.

[excalipoor]

for us hong kong people, we call mainland people having the farmer mentality. Like you said, all the intellectual were killed and just left with farmers. Even right now, they still think like farmers (just makes more money), they only care for their own backyard and never help others because they are fear of losing their own. Really narrow minded.

[1102071]

Here a fact, any countries can be put ob "stage" and you will find something unethical or issues about it. Reasons why people act the certain way they do and are not understanding to some are all the culture differences.

[chingyang101]

I know Chinese people in fact I got an in-law. This guy have some interesting facts but I don't think it would explain the lack of common sense.

[umchung2]

Totally agree with you . It's impressive that you can think in this way even you'r not a chinese.

I think that chinese manners will be improved later on..

[Whitetrasheatshit]

@marrible A 15-year-old boy was dragged into a cotton gin and crushed to death in Nanchang after working a succession of 20-hour days. And 70 girls from rural Henan Province were brought by their teacher to work at a grape processing plant in Ningbo, where their hands bled from working 16-hour shifts.