 Oh, you think the Chinese people only want to work? Well, guess what? I want to break that stereotype and not work. A lot of things that rappers say are simply not true. No, they didn't. Chris Wu just got sentenced to 13 years in prison. All right, everybody, welcome to the hot pot, boys. We got four viral articles coming out of China. We got them from Nex Shark. And, you know, nowadays it is kind of fun to keep up with the news out there, even though it's in a different country. But, you know what? Globalization. Number one, Andrew. This news is going super viral on a lot of different platforms right now. Andrew Chris Wu just got sentenced to 13 years in Beijing prison for, you know, various things. He's about to get deported. He got fined $86 million. Andrew, if you're in a foreign country and he's like a Canadian citizen, even though he's a Chinese pop star, do not do crime. I think when China looks at celebrities that are acting bad and have bad behaviors, they take it extra hard because they understand that they have a lot of influence and a lot of responsibility because you get paid a lot. You get to live a cool life. You get very famous, right? But then if you mess up, that's gonna affect more people. And that's kind of from what I understand how China kind of sees it. So yeah, I mean, hey, listen, you messed up and, you know, this is what happens. Listen, if you get caught drug smuggling in a lot of countries over in Asia, it could be automatic life imprisonment or like even execution. So I'm just saying they got a whole different system there and a different set of standards. Story number two, viral coming out of China. Andrew is from Hunan province and eight-year-old boy disobeyed his parents. He ignored his chores because he wanted to watch TV. So his parents came home and they're like, oh yeah, you're a glutton for TV. So now your punishment is to watch TV until 5 a.m. See how you like it. And other people say, yeah, my son, he likes hamburgers and KFCs. So I made him ida fu for three days. Now, he no longer wants a fast food and junk food. Yeah, once you get too much of what you originally wanted, it kind of kills the fun. I remember this one time when I was kind of young, mom actually bought a can of beer and had me take one sip in front of her. And it was so bitter and disgusting at the time. I was like, it totally deterred me from drinking beer for several years after that. And then mom was like, see, I told you you wouldn't like it. So don't drink beer ever again. At the end of the next shark article, Andrew, it basically brings up a study about tough parenting, AKA tough Asian tiger parenting. And some says that Andrew, even though there is some research to show that it does have some good successful outcomes in terms of the kid's career path, you know, they're gonna do what they do, do their chores of their career and also could manifest depression later on in a child's life. Andrew, what do you think? Because this is a big debate in the Asian community right now, because obviously for the old school, they were just about the tiger parenting. But the newer parents, you know, they're trying to find a mix, a hybrid, get the upside without the downside. Can you do it? I think that if you're gonna come down hard on your kids and really like be a super strict tiger parent, you also gotta give them some things that they like. You have to have that balance. And it can be different, but you don't have to ease up on grades, but you gotta ease up on other parts of their life. I feel like that's the 2022 way. I think that that's the big thing, man. I'm not gonna lie. A lot of Chinese parents from the old school, man, they just do stuff that, you know, they just make you do stuff you don't want, but they do not allow you to do stuff that you do want. Number three, Andrew is in the same vein. China announced that, yeah, we be the war on video game addiction, but now we are losing the final boss war to Douyin and Bili Bili, the kids that love the short form video so much. Yeah, I mean, I do think that there's even a possibility that they start regulating the time on Douyin even more. I know that a lot of people say, oh, Douyin is all these scientific videos and educational videos. That's actually not true. There's actually a lot of stupid videos on Douyin too. Yeah, I mean, I think that they're gonna start regulating just like they regulated video games, even though it was maybe easier to regulate video games because they had to log in with a certain ID login that was tied to, I don't know, their identification and stuff like that, so I guess it was easier to stop. I don't know, maybe they gotta make better edutainment games or something. Like you said, Andrew, earlier from point number two, if you take something away, you also have to provide people something that they didn't have as well. It's always a balance, it's a give and a take, or I guess in China's case more like a take, take, take. At least one give for every take, take, take. Yeah, listen, I mean, I think that anytime there's like an issue with a certain group of kids in China, since there is such a huge gigantic population in China, anytime some of these like stories pop up, it still involves like thousands of children that are like complaining about this or a thousand families feel this way. But I also think like at the end of the day, China's gotta ask themselves like, why is it that like everybody always wants to just play video games and be on Douyin? You know, like maybe those seem like the best options for dopamine, serotonin, endorphin release in the body. Can you provide a societal alternative so that kids don't only wanna turn to video games in short form video? Right, because people turn to things that they feel like that's their best option to get what they want for the moment. Last but not least, Andrew, we got viral news story number four coming out of China, Andrew. And it sort of ties into number two and number three, Andrew, because things are so unfun or unfair or people are no longer believing in the Chinese dream of the previous two, three, four decades. Andrew, Tang Ping, which means to lie down and Bai Lan, which means to let it rot are becoming popular slacker slogans for like people who maybe have a little bit of money from their family, but they're like, yeah, I just kinda gave up. I just like party or just do my like interest every day because if I put a lot of time into my career, I'm still not gonna get rich or you know, all the spots above me in my company already taken up is no fairs, no fun. I just want to like cruise by in life, be a slacker. It's almost like a weed smoking like stone or slacker attitude, Andrew, but mine is the weed because that's not available. I recently watched a lot of videos on this type of culture happening in China. And it's really from kids who told growing up to work very hard and that they're gonna move up, but then they don't really see the way up. So then they're just kind of bowing out of the game. And I mean, it affects men and women, but I think a lot of the guys are given up too. But I think that's different because, you know, in America, we have like this free market where you have all these different side hustles you can do. You can like trade options on Robin Hood or get rich off Shiba Inu while, you know, you did get rich off Shiba Inu and I don't know about it anymore. But there's also Amazon dropshipping and all these hustles that you can do to make money in America because America's such a money focused society, but in China, you don't always have all those other side opportunities. So these kids are told to focus on climbing the traditional ladders and they don't like the traditional ladders. They don't like what they're seeing and they don't like what they're getting. So I kind of feel bad for them. Yeah, I do feel bad for it. I think anytime you look at a large cultural phenomenon, and obviously it's not 100% of everybody that's like 20 to like 40 going through Tang Ping and Bailan, you know, which is lying down or let it rot, but like a pretty sizable portion. And like you said, Andrew, anything that's sizable on a racial basis across like 1.35 billion people is a ton of people. I hope that if people like do give up in life, they're at least able to like do it in a more constructive way. You know what I mean? Let's say for example, you wanna play basketball all day long and that's your way of like quitting your job because you're no longer trying to move up the ladder, right? At least maybe like start a basketball company or like a small little side hustle involving basketball leagues or be entrepreneurial in your mindset. Right, and I mean, maybe these people just wanted to break stereotypes. Oh, you think the Chinese people only want to work? Well, guess what? I want to break that stereotype and not work. Yeah, I think in a country full of like model minorities and overachievers, you know, China reached this like burnout phase pretty quickly because the stages of development like we're so hyper accelerated over the past couple of decades. Yeah, we'll see what happens. I don't know. Nobody can really change society that easily. It's usually like a thing that takes like millions of people to reorient. All right, you guys, let us know what you thought of the stories in the comments section below guys. I think there's a lot to take away if you're a Chinese American, sometimes it's kind of cool to see stuff happening in China because guess what? There's takeaways even about tiger parenting for the way we live our lives here in America or the West. Yeah, let us know in the comments down below what you think about these news articles and our takes. And if you have anything you want to add, you know, again, I think with globalization and as Asian Americans, we find out more about our counterparts in Asia and then them in Asia, they know more about us in America. It's kind of like building this type of kind of cultural knowledge bridge or awareness, I suppose. So hopefully, you know, it's just there to build bridges in the future. But anyways, guys, those are your four viral Chinese news articles, let us know what you think and send us any more that you think we should talk about. Until next time, we out. Peace.