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Chinese Malls
Chinese malls are everywhere, and they tend to be enormous. A mall is generally a sign of a healthy and functioning middle class. Before China kicked out the progressive liberal communists, there just weren’t any malls in China at all. Then, when Mr. Deng started to introduce Reaganomics (though under a Chinese-friendly name), the economy flourished, and malls started to pop up everywhere.
Here’s a typical mall. I think this one is in Hong Kong, if I am not mistaken.
Youngsters performing
I personally love this video. It shows some young drummers performing in front of an audience. It’s pretty cool.
Education for the children
In China, every spare moment that a child has seems to be packed into learning. This can be exhausting, and many children want to play some computer games to escape from “the grind”. You cannot blame them, can you?
Well, a number of Chinese parents figure that if you want to play a computer game, how about one where you can actually learn something. Thus, there is a market for business simulation games. This is a small, but growing niche, where you can become a farmer and eventually become a real estate tycoon. Or maybe try your luck moving a factory making widgets into a global enterprise. These simulations help that.
Here, a young elementary student can relax by running a farm and trying to make a profit…
RV Rental
In China you can buy, or rent recreational vehicles. You can do so just like it is done in the USA. Here’s what it looks like…
Chinese Roads
As I have alluded to previously, the Chinese don’t waste their time going up and down hills. They just build over them, and if there is a mountain in the way, they just plow straight through it. They do not mess around.
China is a nation with an enormous population.
Never forget that, eh? There was a reason why China instituted limits on the number of children that you can have. While they have removed this limitation, many Chinese has opted not to have too many children as they are unwilling to take on the increased tax burden.
And that is it. I hope that you enjoyed this posting of the strange and unusual life of China as compared to America.
Thank you for visiting. I hope that you enjoyed this post and maybe learned something new in the process. Have a wonderful rest of the day!
And, may your days and nights be filled with happiness.
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in the British tabloids and an occasional write up in the American
liberal press. This is the reality. Read or not.
Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music
in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at
that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews.
However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for
investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
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Inside a bullet train
Bullet trains are all over China. There is an enormous network of them. They are very comfortable to ride in, and their cost is reasonable.
I looked at various sites on the internet, and it’s a hoot how everyone tries to justify the superiority of Amtrak compared to China’s bullet trains. They imply that China’s bullet trains are nothing to be proud of.
It’s funny, but sad too. You know, the first step in recognizing you have a problem is to face up to it, and announce that you have a problem. (12 step program for those of you who don’t know the reference.)
They do one on one comparisons and come to the conclusion that they are similar. What a laugh. The trains are similar. How can you possibly come to that conclusion?
The one article (linked above) starts off straight forward enough…
But then it starts to show a bunch of photos how they are really just pretty similar, aside from the price, and speed. As if the train stations are identical. (Have you been to an Amtrak train station lately? Talk about a run-down 1960’s era ghetto.)
Really?
Here’s a screen capture from the article listed above.
In the comparison they say that the two systems are pretty much the same. After all, it is the politically correct thing to say. Right?
What’s what the article says. Then, it shows this following picture.
Is that the only difference? Really? Are you so dumb founded blind in political correctness not to notice the differences right in front of your face?
In China, the stewardesses are all female. They are all attractive, and rated in beauty, physical appearance, and weight. They are all under 35 years of age.They are trained to be demure and act very respectfully.
In America on Amtrak, there are no age, appearance, weight or gender requirements. The attendants can be polite or not, fat or not, ugly or not, burly or not. In the progressive reality that is America today that is the reality. But don’t deny what is right in front of your eyes just for the sake of political correctness.
This is what the interior of one looks like…
And here’s the view outside…
Oh, and while I am at it, here is what the over all appearance and image that the Chinese bullet trains have in China and around the world.
In contrast Amtrak is viewed as sluggish, antiquated, and brutish. Check out the video and then go ride on Amtrak to see what I am talking about.
Train Stations
Here’s a quick comparison in train stations.
First, we check out Amtrak’s stations. The photo below is a historical station known as Sandpoint. Now, don’t get the wrong idea.
I do happen to love history and American rail has had so many absolutely awesome train stations. What about the one on Allegheny avenue in Pittsburgh, or the massive complex in Detroit? Ah, but they are all gone now.
American train station – Sandpoint station. This is typical of what remains in the United States for railroad stations for passengers.
All that remains are little quonset hut kind of affairs. You know the kind used to give the impression of progressive advancement by tearing down the old. Sad.
Now, let’s look at the train stations that you would encounter were you to board a train in China. This is from the 3nd tier city Tianjin. It’s third tier, ya all! It’s just a little Po-dunk city.
Chinese train station in Tianjin, China. It is new. Well taken cared for, and well maintained. There are no beggars and the floors are so clean that you could eat off them.Chinese high-speed rail. Look at all those bullet trains. How many billions and billions of dollars was spent for the California high-speed rail, and what? Only 15 miles were completed, and not one single train was fabricated? What a waste. America is much better than that.
Ask yourself how, and why can China do this, but much bigger, and better USA cannot? Maybe fighting eight simultaneous wars and spending 65% of welfare benefits on illegal aliens has something to do with it. Eh?
Maybe. But I also like to think that part of it is because China is a meritocracy.
America has so much to be proud of, yet we have let our achievements grow fallow, and our leadership become corrupt. We, our parents, and our grandparents are all responsible for the sad, sad state of affairs in America today.
Pennsylvania Railroad Station Pittsburgh
How bridges are made in China
Once you visit China, you will notice that everything seems to be above the ground. All the highways seem to go over the houses and through the mountains. This differs from the United states, where the roads must curve around and get permissions to build and put roads in. Not so in China.
They just build over everything. It’s sort of like this…
Classes and testing in China
Classes in such a populous nation as China can get to be pretty enormous. The same is true for tests and testing. Here is sort of what it can look like…
Uses for a Harley-Davidson Motorcycle
The Chinese people do tend to be a bit innovative. This is especially true in the rural countryside. Here we see how an old Harley is being utilized on the farm, as it were.
And that is about it for now. Let’s continue with our exploration further, shall we…
OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the
next post which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
This is the real deal. Forget about all that nonsense that you find
in the British tabloids and an occasional write up in the American
liberal press. This is the reality. Read or not.
Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music
in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at
that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews.
However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for
investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
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cookies and privacy notices. There are no ads on this site (aside from
the hosting ads – a necessary evil). Functionally and fundamentally, I
just don’t make money off of this blog. It is NOT monetized. Finally, I
don’t track you because I just don’t care to.
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Here we continue with our various videos of life in China, and how strange it must appear to a foreigner. Here, we spend a little bit of time chatting about families and relationships.
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A Boy’s love for his mother
Here is a cute video of a boy giving his mother a bouquet of flowers. It’s not really crazy, but it is sure enough, so darn cute. I don’t know if people still do this back in the States, you know, with all that political correctness and other related nonsense. A friend told me that he got in “hot water” when he sent some flowers to a girlfriend at work at a different company.
It was deemed “sexist”, and “inflammatory” by the “diversity director” in control of HR there.
Well, I don’t know much about that. What I do know is that flowers and signs of affection are pretty common in the rest of the world. Here is a boy giving his mother some flowers.
Caring for grandparents.
In China, the families stick together. As a traditional nation, they maintain a conservative household, and at that, it tends to be multi-generational. However, there are many times when one sibling will help out another. Here we have a grandchild visiting a grandmother in her house. She is taking care of her.
It’s what conservative families do.
They do not outsource the responsibilities to a retirement home, or chuck them away for the government to deal with. That is the liberal progressive way of doing things.
Celebrating the various festivals
China has many festivals. What people do not know is that they also celebrate other festivals. Heck! Any reason to party and have a great time, I say.
They celebrate Christmas with a passion that is unobtainable in the Untied States today.
They celebrate the Thailand water festival known as Songkran. Here we can see them enjoying it. (Personally, my wife hate’s this festival, and hides inside as everyone is trying to get you wet.)
Non-monetary work bonuses
The Chinese, for the most part, reward their employees by food, drink and cash. The more successful the company, and the harder the effort, the more cash that is bestowed upon the person. Of course there are other ways of rewarding a high performer.
No, I’m not talking about a pen that says “success if a way of life”, or a poster of a cat hanging onto some drapes and the words “hang in there”. I am talking about other rewards. Rewards of significant value.
Mary Kaye, the American cosmetic company, buys pink Cadillacs for their top performers. That is truly laudable. Well, other Chinese companies do the same kind of things.
Here we see gold being given to some high performers in a Chinese female-based company. This is not the “fake” gold that you get in the USA. You know, the “alloy” of gold which is only 0.0005% gold. This stuff is 100% gold. And, no, contrary to the narrative from the big-gold industry in the states, the gold is stable enough not to require an alloy.
You know what?
If Chinese companies can treat their workers with respect, provide them bonuses in cold hard cash, and reward them with solid gold adornments, what’s stopping American companies from doing the same? Could it be greed? Or, maybe they don’t view anyone under their class to be worthy of reward?
Hum?
Moving on to the next part of this multi-part post about China…
OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next post which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
This is the real deal. Forget about all that nonsense that you find
in the British tabloids and an occasional write up in the American
liberal press. This is the reality. Read or not.
Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music
in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at
that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews.
However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for
investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
Articles & Links
You’ll not find any big banners or popups here talking about
cookies and privacy notices. There are no ads on this site (aside from
the hosting ads – a necessary evil). Functionally and fundamentally, I
just don’t make money off of this blog. It is NOT monetized. Finally, I
don’t track you because I just don’t care to.
You can start reading the articles sequentially by going HERE.
You can visit the Index Page HERE to explore by article subject.
You can also ask the author some questions. You can go HERE to find out how to go about this.
Here we continue our exploration of the various amusing and strange parts of China that are quite amazing to Westerners. Please enjoy.
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The cool KTV environment
The KTV is a place to enjoy yourself. There are many different types, from KTV’s for children, to families, to friends, to businessmen. It consists, basically, of a rental room that is decked out for a party.
KTV’s are often quite elaborate, and ornate. With flashy colors and patterns being the norm. Here is one with a LCD flooring that is becoming quite popular all over China.
Robotic Luggage
Yup, it was only a matter of time don’t ya know. You have robotic self-driving cars, and robotic lawnmowers. Why not robotic luggage. Well, you are starting to see this in Chinese Airports. Crazy huh?
Not in the USA, though. I would imagine the Democrats would try to ban them for one reason or the other. Oh, and don’t get on my grill about that fact either. They love to ban things. They are first and foremost busybodies of the highest order. (See link below. It opens up into a separate tab.)
Anyways, check out this robotic luggage that you can see in China…
Night Light Shows
All over China, and most especially in the big cities, structures are made to appeal to the people living there. It’s an initiative from Beijing that mandates that the purpose of government is to provide for the social well being of the people. Thus you have some pretty spectacular light displays at night.
Here’s a bridge. It’s pretty typical.
Here’s some buildings. This is in Shenzhen.
Here is Shenzhen again. Only please kindly take note of that stuff moving about in the sky. The stuff in the sky are drones that fly in formation and are lit up by computerized sequence at specific times.
Statues to the Chinese Past
The Chinese honor their past and erect monuments to keep the memories alive. Those progressive SJW who tried to erase history, tear down the statues, and take over the government have all been arrested and are in reeducation camps to cure their illness.
Here is a particularly magnificent statue. I believe that it is Sun Tzu.
Aside from his legacy as the author of The Art of War, Sun Tzu is revered in Chinese and East Asian culture as a legendary historical and military figure. His birth name was Sun Wu, and he was known outside of his family by his courtesy name Changqing.
This general was pretty awesome. He turned fighting into an art. He expanded what could be considered warfare and considered actual fighting to be evidence of failure.
He wrote, “In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. Thus it may be known that the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people’s fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril” (2.19-20).
Sun-Tzu had no patience with the protracted games generals seemed to enjoy playing with each other. Once hostilities had erupted, one’s priority was to defeat the enemy, not indulge oneself in chivalry which could only prolong the conflict and cost more lives.
Water Slide
The Chinese have water parks just like we have in the Untied States. Only they tend to design them differently. They like to incorporate natural elements, trees, and flowers to provide a more impressive aesthetic.
Drinking Culture
China is a nation with a strong social structure.
I am constantly reminded of this when an American friend comes to visit me in China, and we sit down for dinner and drinks. An American might have one glass of wine or one bottle of beer. A Chinese person might chug two or three bottles of wine, or five or six cases of beer. The difference between the two cultures are that stark.
And of course, the American won’t smoke, and will actually be a bit startled that I would light up at the dinner table inside a public restaurant. A public restaurant of all places! “Have I no shame?” they wonder. It just blow their minds!
Possessing a lighter that can generate fire!
Smoking the terrible tobacco.
Drinking more than a socially approved quantity of alcohol.
Bringing “outside” alcohol into a restaurant.
Allowing my dog to join us inside the restaurant.
Telling the waiter how to cook our food.
That’s just how conditioned Americans have become to living in a progressive prison camp. The idea of doing anything outside what is “normal and expected” is like a harsh slap in the face to them.
Do you want to see just how conditioned Americans have become?
Go to a Starbucks. Watch what happens when they order a coffee or what ever Starbucks passes for coffee these days. The barista will get a paper cup, write a name on it, and set the order moving forward.
Your typical Starbucks coffee as presented to the customer. People, this is not how you should EVER accept coffee.
This happens automatically, even when the order is to be inside the coffeehouse.
People, when I order coffee from Starbucks, I want it in a real proper coffee cup with spoon. If I am going to pay that kind of overcharged money for a simple cup of coffee I want it done right and correctly. Do NOT give me a disposable paper cup if I am going to stay, and sit inside.
Would you feed your grandparents on paper plates on Christmas?
The rest of the sheep can eat out of the trough. Let them keep their paper coffee cup. To learn to reclaim our heritage, we need to start demanding our respect back.
The proper way to serve coffee. Never forget that this is the real way to serve coffee. If you go to a restaurant, then you should be served properly and with respect. Oh, and BTW, if I want tea at a fast food restaurant, don’t give me a paper cup of hot water and a tea bag. you friggin make it for me.
Anyways… back to China.
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OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next post which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
This is the real deal. Forget about all that nonsense that you find
in the British tabloids and an occasional write up in the American
liberal press. This is the reality. Read or not.
Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music
in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at
that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews.
However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for
investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
Articles & Links
You’ll not find any big banners or popups here talking about
cookies and privacy notices. There are no ads on this site (aside from
the hosting ads – a necessary evil). Functionally and fundamentally, I
just don’t make money off of this blog. It is NOT monetized. Finally, I
don’t track you because I just don’t care to.
You can start reading the articles sequentially by going HERE.
You can visit the Index Page HERE to explore by article subject.
You can also ask the author some questions. You can go HERE to find out how to go about this.
Here we continue with our exploration of China through some curious and amusing videos. By looking at the videos and studying the context revolving around the subject matter, we can obtain a better understanding of China and our place upon this global stage.
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Bonuses In China
In China, there are always bonuses given to high performers, and during holidays. It is part of the culture. These bonuses are not tied to the government where people have to give from 20% to 50% of it to the tax man, like they do in the Untied States. It is just free extra income for the hard working person.
We can see these bonuses handed out during CNY (Chinese New Year) as well as upon completion of projects or goals. Hey! You didn’t think that Baidu, Huawei, or ShaoMi got to be so enormous by giving their top performers a pen that says “success if a way of life” do you?
I well know that this is how it works in the USA.
After saving millions of dollars of business on developing the E-ETRESS, and all the late nights for free, and loss of my weekends, I got a new pen with these words. "Success is a way of life." Once the project was completed, they let me go. I didn't even get a "heads up".
While the company owners became millionaires, I got a pen. That's America for you!
Anyways, the drinking culture is extremely important in China, and it is tied with success as a businessman. If you want to be a successful businessman in China then be prepared to drink and drink heavily.
Thus, this next micro-video. Here we have a bonus structure based on your ability to drink. It goes from a small sip of wine with some “little” money (for a small meal perhaps) to quaffing two (2x) entire bottles of wine and getting a credit card worth thousands. Hey! This is how it is done in China.
It sure beats being lectured by the resident “Diversity Officer” on your “white privilege”. Eh?
If you want to play with the “big boys” you’d had best be able to “step up to the plate”.
Chinese Michelle Jackson
Here’s a cute little girl singing “Beat It” by Michael Jackson.
Everyone want’s me to sing this stupid song in the KTV, I’ll tell you what. Michael Jackson is very popular in China. I do not know why, but everyone knows him and loves his music.
‘When Michael Jackson Visited Mainland China’ “Most of his fans in China regret that he never performed on the mainland. However, 32 years ago, he stepped on Chinese ground. He entered the hearts and minds of the Chinese people.
Look, guys, I like Michael Jackson as much as the rest of you. However, I don’t really like to sing his faster songs. It’s not enjoyable for me. It’s stressful.
This is a little girl.
In China, all students learn English in school. In fact, you cannot enter college or university unless you can pass a speaking and reading / writing exam in English. I checked out that exam. Most Americans would have a difficult time passing it as well.
Chinese college entrance exams. This is what it is like. Can you frigging’ believe it?
Can you imagine the howls from the progressive liberal democrats! Imagine if Chinese were mandated to be taught in every school from elementary through high school. Oh the howls they would screech! Now, couple that with Chinese language proficiency was a requirement for access to college? There would be protests on the streets for “cultural appropriation” and “virtue signaling”.
Well, it’s like that.
The thing about Chinese students speaking English is that there are different levels and degrees of proficiency. Some are really good and sound just like an American, while others can hardly manage to say “Good Morning” to you. It’s pretty odd, I’ll tell you what.
Anyways, she does a pretty good job singing, all things considered.
For those of you nay-sayers out there, who think that she is not very good. All I can say is YOU try singing a Chinese song. I would like to hear you belt something out. Eh?
You try singing
Here is a micro-video of the first few bars of one of the top most popular songs in China today. Do you think that you can sing it as well as that little girl sang Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”? Well, then check it out and give it a try…
Chinese Influence in Africa
Unlike America, China has worked on strengthening economic ties with other nations around the world. America would just hand out money (like Obama gave to South Africa, and Palestine), while China instead sets up roads, train and rail lines, and a means for industry to migrate into poverty ridden areas. Not to mention significant funding to ensure that the road and belt initiatives take place properly.
For the last 20 years, China has been investing in China. THey have created roads, rail lines, and other public works. This is in direct opposition to the American way of doing things; where we give piles of cash to rich oligarchs as long as they implement some social change that we favor.
You don’t hear anything about this on American mainstream news. I guess that they are too busy trying to prove that Donald Trump is a Russian spy, but they should report more about what is going on in the rest of the world.
They have really failed in their job of reporting the news.
Anyways, here is a video that is pretty typical of a Chinese company setting up factories and employing people in impoverished areas. I think that it is hilarious.
Ah, you cannot deny that China hasn’t had it’s influence…
Just think of all the good that the $7,000,000,000,000 (of American taxpayer money) that Obama gifted to the oligarchy in South Africa could have done if it was parted out like China does. Not to mention the additional $7,000,000,000,000 given to Kenya.
One single $1 goes a long way to feeding a family of four for a month.
China has spent twenty years developing and enhancing the economic footprint in Africa. This has lead to the rising middle class in China. Of course this differs from the enormous financial give-aways that are part of the Washington DC and CIA global power structure.
Off to their assignments
Many companies in China have morning “tailgates” and meetings that are a cross between a “status report” and a “pep rally”. In China, the employees have a vital role in the company. It differs from the “lip service” that you would find in the Untied States in many ways, but the most important is a PROPORTIONAL increase in salary of the individual workers as the value of the company increases. Likewise, if the company loses value the employees will also suffer.
In the United States this is quite different. A company can have a period of enormous profitability, but it is very rare for the employee to benefit from it. At best, he has the option to “jump ship” for a more lucrative job opportunity elsewhere (as long as it is not a competitor… that is what a NDA is for).
Here, the workers are leaving their “tail gate” meeting and off to their assignments.
And let’s move on to the next post in this series…
OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next past which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
This is the real deal. Forget about all that nonsense that you find in the British tabloids and an occasional write up in the American liberal press. This is the reality. Read or not.
Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews. However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
Articles & Links
You’ll not find any big banners or popups here talking about cookies and privacy notices. There are no ads on this site (aside from the hosting ads – a necessary evil). Functionally and fundamentally, I just don’t make money off of this blog. It is NOT monetized. Finally, I don’t track you because I just don’t care to.
You can start reading the articles sequentially by going HERE.
You can visit the Index Page HERE to explore by article subject.
You can also ask the author some questions. You can go HERE to find out how to go about this.
Let’s continue with our exploration of unique and odd China. Hey! What do you think about the splash picture? Pretty odd, eh? Yeah, I know.
It’s a green-friendly police armored car. It is a fully electric armored police car for use domestically in China. You can read about it HERE, or HERE.
This is the mad Zijing Qingyuan Armored Spherical Cabin Electric Patrol Vehicle, seen on the Security China exhibition in Beijing last month. The vehicle is developed for anti-riot work by police and paramilitary forces. Its most interesting feature is the spherical cabin, allowing policemen a 360 degree look around.
-Car News China
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This is pretty cool. This is a self-driving car made in China for the Chinese market. It’s got some pretty unique and amazing features that are decades ahead of most Western automakers. Hey guys! You’d had best fire your “diversity officers” and hire more engineers, don’t you think?
A "diversity officer" is a highly paid employee of a company that makes sure that political correctness, and other progressive issues are implemented in the company where they work. This was an Obama initiative, and most of the fortune 500 companies in the USA today have them. They are nothing less than PC commissars.
To understand what I mean about the dangers of having “Diversity Officers” instead of trying to compete against the very aggressive Chinese industry, you need to read what I have to say about their purpose. Why they are present in the United States. You can read about it at the link below. It will open up in a new tab so you need not worry about losing your place here.
Anyways…
Back to the subject at hand. XPeng Motors has unveiled a self-driving car. It is the EV-GA. It has numerous very unique features that will enable it to operate successfully in hyper crowded China. (You know, where there are cars all over the place, breaking every rule in the book… where little old ladies with walkers stand in front, and donkey carts pull in behind you.)
I argue that these are new innovations.
Not only new, but unique to China and if China continues in this pace of innovation, American industry won’t have a chance in Hell to keep up. Thus, my argument that the $450,000/year salary for a GM “Diversity Officer” would be better served hiring five design engineers instead.
Check out this video. And, unlike other videos that I might have posted in the past. This is not CGI. This is the actual car. It uses all four-wheel electric drives and operates in a a manner similar to the NASA Apollo lunar rover did.
Of course it will only be sold domestically.
This level of technology would take a while to be accepted and approved through the maze of regulations in the United States. I do know what I am talking about. You would not believe the amount of money that changed hands for us to get LED’s used in automobiles in the 1990’s. It was like pulling teeth.
What? You think that they just popped up and simply replaced traditional incandescent automotive lighting without having some bribery take place? You believe that, eh?
It’s a protectionism racket, and the government is not only complicit, but they often initiate all the hurtles you must climb through.
Crime and corruption is rampant all over the United States. The reason why it is not recognized by international organizations is because it is institutionalized. They only seem to care about low-level bribes, and simple corruption and money laundering. Once the amounts reach a dollar figure somewhere in the millions, it is considered acceptable and is no longer tracked. The reason for this is because at that enormous size, any respectable government would “of course” investigate the wrong-doers. In the United States, this level of bribery is institutionalized by the very people who are supposed to be watch-dogs for this kind of activity.
Of course, many people will take offense at this statement. You know, that the United States government has become a terribly corrupt organization. Well, to that, I must remind you about all the publicized corruption at the DOJ and FBI, but you know, that’s not what I am talking about here.
I am talking about using the power of the government to regulate for personal financial gain. Like what happened with PT-141. You can read about this sad state of affairs at the link below. It will open up in a different tab, so you need not worry about losing your place here.
Police Drill
The Chinese practice, and practice and practice. They believe that you must have the fundamentals down so that you can implement them automatically when the time comes to use them.
Here is a video of a police drill of the take down of a car in pursuit. Unlike the USA where you might have jurisdictional issues, in China, the various jurisdictions collaborate together in crime prevention. They have to. China is far too large, with too many people to play around for political posturing.
Snow Bunny
Ah. We have them in the states as well, don’t you know. But here, the snow bunny is actually dressed up to look like one. LOL. I think that it is enormously cute.
Just some Guys Having Fun
Here is a video of just some guys having fun. Seriously, we should be doing this kind of stuff more often than not, I’ll tell you what.
Maybe, by checking out the diversity of the micro-videos and the uniqueness of the subject matter, you (the reader) could better understand that China is an enormous and complex nation. It is growing and it is being managed by people who have got into positions of power through merit. The Western narrative, or as I like to say “cardboard cutout” of what China is, is a dangerous lie.
We have to recognize that China is growing and is not a nation to take trivially.
OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next post which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
This is the real deal. Forget about all that nonsense that you find in the British tabloids and an occasional write up in the American liberal press. This is the reality. Read or not.
Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews. However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
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Let’s continue with our exploration of cute and unique China with these following examples…
Many people that I met were curious about China, but their impressions of China would end up with words like ‘communist,’ ‘pollution’ and ‘no Facebook.’ While many facts are true, the contemporary, living and multifaceted Chinese life is rarely heard of.
-Tinyeyescomics
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Disco Swimming Party
The Chinese have a great love for being together and having fun and partying. Often they mix singing, dancing, and (of course) drinking with their other pleasures. As any other normal adult would. Here, we look at a typical swimming pool and their weekend festivities.
And, yes… this is TYPICAL.
I, myself, enjoy swimming. As a boy we would swim in the ocean and in the various pools around the community. This was true whether it was a private club, or at a friends house. I have always associated Summer with pools, and I think that all kids should have the same kind of fond memories attached to swimming and Summer as I have.
After all, who doesn’t want to go have fun?
Photo from the late 1940s and early 1950s of some gals on the beach. You can well imagine a nice day, some fine food and friendship. Not to mention walking and swimming along the shore. Such memories I have of those times.
Back in my middle school days, all of us kids were part of the YMCA after-school swimming program. When ever they had one of these programs, my parents were the first to sign us kids up for the classes. I became quite good at swimming, and that later turned into an asset once I joined the US Navy.
After school, we would hop onto a bus and it would carry us over to a nearby town for our lessons. I seem to recall that the trip would last around a half an hour, and the entire time at the YMCA might have lasted around three hours. I suppose that gave our parents enough time away from us kids for some private time. Heh heh.
The YMCA had an indoor pool, but we would also go use outside pools during the Summer months. I had friends who loved to swim in the rivers and lakes, but they were way too dirty for my personal sensibilities.
For me, my time around the pools pretty much looked like this. Even at the pool where we were a member, my parents would pay for me to take swimming and diving lessons. I learned well how to do many dives.
Being with friends and noisy kids is part of the swimming experience. And, you know what? I think that it is great. I really do.
There will be plenty of opportunities for other kinds of beach and swimming pool adventures in your future. That’s life. Some will be great. Some will be not so great. Some will have you walking on the beach hand-in-hand with someone you love and care for dearly. Some experiences will involve alcohol. Some experiences will involve a group of close friends, with music, food and other pleasures.
I think that the best thing about life is to enjoy it as it is happening.
What I mean is that time is short and it is fleeting. You need to know that if you are always goal oriented, you will miss out in the opportunities and adventures that lie all around you right now. There is a saying to “take the time to smell the flowers”, and that is very true, but the saying has become trite and over used.
Appreciate you life as it is happening TODAY right now. You might not get another moment exactly like this one in the future.
What are your favorite moments when you grew up? Can you be evocative of them? Was your childhood like the movie “On Golden Pond”? Or, maybe it was like the movie “The Goonies”? Enjoy what you have while you are living it.
OK, now going back to China.
Yes there are all kinds of ways that you can have fun at pools and on the beach. Just like in the United States or in an exotic holiday resort. You can go to pools, public water and pool parks, and even have your own pool where you would invite your friends over for some fun and frolic.
Here is a micro-video of a Chinese public pool. There are some things to note.
Unlike the video above, this one isn’t so rambunctious. It is quieter and more peaceful. It is not designed for groups of people to party and have a good time at. It is, instead, designed to relax and have a nice spa-like experience with friends and family. You will also notice that there is a huge canvas awning overhead. This is typical in China and most gals do not want their beautiful white skin to get dark.
You will note that the water is not deep either, and that there is a bench all along the sides of the pool for people to sit up and rest within the water. In this pool it is sort of like a cross between a whirl-pool and a regular pool. It is a place to relax, while the other video was a place to get crazy and have fun in.
Studying with Roommates
Most colleges and schools in China are dorms where there are from four to eight students crammed into one room. It is cozy, and over time, everyone develops a very close bond together. I used to think that this was terrible, but once I started to make Chinese friends, I saw the advantages of this.
You form “tribes” or “families” what are self-supporting.
It is common all over Asia to form close-knit “tribes” or extended family as part of close living conditions. Seriously, you cannot get much closer together than living in Tokyo or Hong Kong. Here is the dorm that the K-Pop group “g-friends” live in.
This is very important when you are away from home for the first time, and need to have friends and associations for support, emotional health and friendship. In China, having friends and family is of extreme importance.
The Chinese typically share a room with four to eight others. The American often shares with one other person, and the British get their own private rooms to themselves.
I’ve experienced student dormitories in three countries: In the U.K. I have my own private room with shared public space; In the U.S. I shared my dorm with one roommate; In China, I used to live with 5 girls in the same room.
This lack of privacy must be shocking for some of you, but in a country with 1.3 billion population, space is always a problem.
While there are many inconveniences for not having enough private space, on the bright side, sharing a room with someone also makes you learn quite a deal about communication, responsibilities and tolerance.
-Tinyeyescomics
Here is a typical dorm room scene.
You will note that the room is rectangular with beds on stilts that lie over the study desks. This is not everywhere, but seems to work well. I have seen other arrangements, of course. You will also note that, like college dorm rooms all over the globe, the students decorate it to their own personal tastes.
I particularly like the swing chair. It’s actually pretty popular in Chinese dorm rooms.
Japanese Invasion
There is a movement toward wearing traditional Chinese clothing all over China. I personally love it, and enjoy watching girls wearing their really cute outfits. Well, girls (all over the world) enjoy dressing up and wearing different outfits. From time to time you will see these girls getting dressed up in period fashion and Japanese fashion. It’s all pretty darn cute.
Here we have some Chinese gals getting involved in some of the Japanese fashions in Shanghai.
Pretty Crazy, huh?
Of course, you do need to put this into perspective. Any “invasion” from Japan is not about displacing traditional Chinese culture. Rather it is about enjoying your own uniqueness within China. You see, in China there is no such thing as “cultural appropriation” that is a bunch of progressive hooey that is all the rage in the United States. In China you can pretty much be who ever you want to, and no fat overweight pink-haired feminist is going to scream in your face about it.
That enables the Chinese to enjoy their history, and their culture without any disdain or apologies.
And they do so. They are very proud of their culture and when given the opportunity, they will happily don traditional clothing and be themselves. Here we have a girl from one of the Southern regions of China. I believe (but am not sure) that her culture is from the Hainan island area. (Incidentally, the women have traditionally covered themselves in tribal tattoos. This is something that is NOT carried over with modern Chinese ladies. They prefer to leave their bodies unadorned.)
You can see the cross-cultural influences from other ethnic regions within China here.
The headdress is borrowed from some central Chinese cultures, and the flower in the hair is from the South Pacific with a relationship influence (flower on the right if married, on the left if single). In the Northern part of China, you will see the ladies wear long dresses with coverings on their arms. In the Southern sections (where it is HOT) you will find them wearing mini-skirts and loose clothing.
OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next past which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
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Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews. However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
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Here we continue on our pleasure of watching really odd videos of everyday life in China. I hope that you, the reader, are enjoying yourself as much as I am.
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Trick Glass in Chinese Parks
As I have mentioned previously, many of the parks in China are at the summit of enormous mountains. Well, many of the paths have glass-floored bridges. And, the Chinese, being the jokers that they are, often have little games and tricks that they like to provide people with.
Like, for instance, cracking floor glass…
Protection from Progressive Socialists
The Chinese well know what a fiasco the implementation of communism was under Mr. Mao. They will never forget the roving bands of SJW’s and the 30+ million people who died because of those lunatics. That’s one of the many reasons why they got rid of them back in the 1970’s.
As well as one of the reasons why they today have absolutely zero sympathy for SJW, radical Muslim fanatics, or LGBQ activists. They capture them, subject them to mental evaluation, treat them for mental conditions if appropriate, and then imprison them to keep the rest of society safe from their dangers.
Anyways, the Chinese haven’t forgotten the intensely long period of terror that was the SWJ norm in China. Today, in China, if you have the money, you make little pigeon holes or egress chambers to hide in and to protect your valuables. You can never be too safe.
Some are quite ingenious.
Chinese Automobiles
The Chinese automobile industry is staffed with high-performing engineers, and if there is some technology that another automotive company has, they hire the engineer to work for them at 4x their regular salary. The Chinese do not mess around, and they reward high performers and workers through merit.
You can see this in the latest crop of Chinese products marketed to the local Chinese…
Technology in High-Speed Rail
The Chinese love those enormous LED / LCD screens. You can see them on the sides of buildings everywhere. As well as on the sides of trucks, and in other places. You can have them on the floor so it looks like you are walking on water, or on the ceiling like there is a dragon flying above your head.
Here is one on a high-speed rail (bullet train) in China. It’s pretty common, though for people who have never seen this from outside of China, you would be amazed.
And, here is an application where the floor is touch sensitive LCD screen. It’s a nice effect and becoming quite popular in China.
I have however, no idea if anyone is implementing it in the USA.
Small Town Restaurant Advertisement
Like the USA, there are all kinds of “mom and pop” little “cubby hole” restaurants everywhere. Once they get the money, they try to advertise. You know, to get more business. This is true in China.
Here is a typical mini-commercial for a local family restaurant. It’s called the YuKee Restaurant. (The Yucky restaurant…LOL!)
Flying First Class
In China, like the United States, are different classes of travel on domestic airlines. The three classes are the same. There are coach, business and first class.
For reasons that will take about 35 posts to explain, the Chinese have more disposable income than Americans have. Thus, they can afford things that many Americans cannot.
You can see this manifest in different ways. One of which is in the proportion of class seating on commercial airlines. The societal stratification in the United States is very severe compared to China.
On airlines in America, most rich and wealthy people travel on their own private airlines. Successful people, not owning their own airplanes, would fly first class or business on commercial airlines. Thus, you would have a tiny section in the forward compartment of the airplane devoted to these higher paying customers.
In America, this might be a total of ten to twelve seats.
While in China, it might be a much higher percentage. Maybe the front 30% of the plane as opposed to the front 5% of the plane that you would experience in America. In fact, there are even entire planes where 100% of the customers fly first class or business.
Here is one example…
You will never see this in the Untied States simply because the gulf between the rich and middle class is so outrageously enormous.
That’s about it for this post. Let’s move on to the next group of videos in the next post, shall we…
OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the
next past which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
This is the real deal. Forget about all that nonsense that you find
in the British tabloids and an occasional write up in the American
liberal press. This is the reality. Read or not.
Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music
in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at
that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews.
However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for
investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
Articles & Links
You’ll not find any big banners or popups here talking about
cookies and privacy notices. There are no ads on this site (aside from
the hosting ads – a necessary evil). Functionally and fundamentally, I
just don’t make money off of this blog. It is NOT monetized. Finally, I
don’t track you because I just don’t care to.
You can start reading the articles sequentially by going HERE.
You can visit the Index Page HERE to explore by article subject.
You can also ask the author some questions. You can go HERE to find out how to go about this.
Here we continue with our exploration of China through some curious and amusing videos.
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Pets in China
Most Americans think that the Chinese eat pets. This is a falsehood propagated through ignorance and comedy. Yes, there are a few hillbillies who still eat dogs, and fewer still that eat cats. They cluster in the rural sections of the Guangzhou region. They have their own festivals and menus, and I am sure that you can find all sorts of things about this on Google.
You won’t however, find out about the much, much larger dog culture there. Google is just a voice for the oligarchy. They want to keep you ignorant and living in fear.
The reality is actually much more interesting and very, very strange. Many people treat their dogs like family members. They dies their hair, and have them wear clothing and sit at the table and eat with everyone. It’s pretty darn strange.
This video is not an uncommon scene…
Making Noodles
This is the traditional way of making noodles, and yes, you can see this in just about every city in China. It’s common place, though to a Westerner, it will seem strange and exotic.
Crowd Control
Actually you have to hand it to the Chinese. They do know how to handle crowd control.
Rocket launches
China has an active space exploration and utilization program. It operates unfettered by the political winds of the nation, unlike the United States. As such, they have a crewed space station that is occupied by the same number of people as Americans have on the ISS. They are also developing their moon base initiative, and they are proceeding forward with it via joint venture with the Russians.
When ever there is a rocket launch, which is fairly common, people gather from all over to watch the spectacle. It’s pretty impressive.
Duplex community pools
Yes, China has suburbs. There are all sorts of different kinds of housings and housing developments all over China. One of the latest trends is to have duplex complex communities with a shared pool arrangement.
Instead of a back yard behind a duplex or condo, the Chinese prefer to have low maintenance shrubbery and a communal pool. These pools tend to be long, like a waterway. You can enter them from your back door and take a swim any time you want.
As far as I know, this style of building or living arrangement is unique to China.
And here’s a different one. Like I said and alluded to, these are all over China. Most Americans will, unfortunately, never encounter one because they are usually never given the opportunity to visit a home of an Chinese coworker, colleague or businessman.
OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next post which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
This is the real deal. Forget about all that nonsense that you find
in the British tabloids and an occasional write up in the American
liberal press. This is the reality. Read or not.
Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music
in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at
that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews.
However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for
investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
Articles & Links
You’ll not find any big banners or popups here talking about
cookies and privacy notices. There are no ads on this site (aside from
the hosting ads – a necessary evil). Functionally and fundamentally, I
just don’t make money off of this blog. It is NOT monetized. Finally, I
don’t track you because I just don’t care to.
You can start reading the articles sequentially by going HERE.
You can visit the Index Page HERE to explore by article subject.
You can also ask the author some questions. You can go HERE to find out how to go about this.
Here we continue with our exploration of China through some curious and amusing videos.
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The Baby Trials
When I was a young boy, a number of items were placed in front of me. I was allowed to go for the item that was (supposed) to represent what my interest would be in life. There was a thimble, a dollar bill, some cloth, and a few other things. It was a Polish tradition.
I don’t remember what I went for.
My father didn’t remember either. I am sure that he had entire series of pictures regarding that event. As he was a photo-buff of the extreme kind. Never the less, it probably was something having to do with my hands, like a clothes pin or something similar.
Here we see the Chinese playing the same kind of game with the young boy. I wonder what this Chinese boy will be attracted to…?
Yeah. In case you didn’t get it, he went for the $100 yuan bill. This young buck went for the cash, oh baby!
Dog’s bike riding
In China, of course, there are all sorts of rental bikes everywhere. Many have been discarded last year when they began to compete against the local towns for revenue. Never the less, they are still very popular, and getting one is a very simple task. You just scan in the QR code with your cell phone. Cost is around $0.05 USD for an hour ride. It is automatically debited to your bank account.
Here we have a dog riding in the bike. It’s pretty typical as the dog is wearing clothes, and underwear and socks. Yup, this is China. It’s a place where the children wander all over without pants letting their gunk sway in the wind, and dogs and cats wear three-piece suits. Who’d figure?
China is very dog-friendly
Speaking of pets, China does not have the same kind of prohibitions concerning animals that you would find in the United States or most other Western nations. You can bring your dogs into restaurants and go shopping with them, and no one would bat an eyelash.
In China there aren’t any health regulations that will prevent you from bringing your dog inside a restaurant with you. You can bring them in. Sit them down and enjoy your meal with “mans best friend”. Don’t you just love it!
We like to think that America is full of pet lovers, as it actually is. But the government is NOT pet-friendly.
The radical progressive liberal busy-bodies have put up all kinds of prohibitions regarding pets in public. This includes everything from leash-laws to businesses being off-limits to pets. All progressive democrats in office tend to treat animals as disposable props. While conservative politicians have a mixed bag of appreciation of our furry friends.
The argument is always for the “public health”. You don’t want to risk the 0.00000001% of the population that would have a violent reaction to pet fur getting harmed. Those progressive liberals are so silly!
The job of the government is NOT to protect everyone, all the time, in every way possible. It is to provide a society where the 80% majority can live in peace without government intervention.
SJW Busybody – Making your life miserable ever since 2008.
Sort of how China does it.
Anyways, you can bring your dogs and cats, and lamas (if you have one) into any establishment in China without problem. The only ones that would ask you to leave are American or Hong Kong businesses operating inside China. Their corporate structure has incorporated American and Western norms of conducting business.
Ah. The fools!
Anyways, China is sort of like this…
Yes, this is a pretty well trained dog. Most are not so well trained. But this is China, and you will get used to dogs eating at tables in restaurants, and shopping once you live here for a spell. You will. It’s pretty darn commonplace everywhere.
I like it. Part of it is because I am an animal lover. I love both dogs and cats. But, part of it is because I appreciate what freedom is. Bringing your pet with you into a restaurant is a freedom that most Americans cannot enjoy.
The difference between me and the typical American is that I know what freedom is, and what it is not. No matter how many time you try to convince me that seat-belts are important, that large sodas are dangerous, and that fire places are outdated, the laws that prohibit their use is an insult and an encroachment on MY freedom. I do not care if someone else thinks that I drink too much, eat food that is too fattening or too spicy, or care what breed my dog is. It’s none of their fucking business.
Freedom is the liberty to be left alone.
Real freedom is one where you can practice living life without regulation, laws or rules. In China you can have the real freedom to be yourself and enjoy life without some SJW busybody calling an armed SWAT police force from the FDA on you. It’s frigging glorious.
There were many reasons for my decision to leave the USA and move elsewhere. You know, being around fat ugly aggressive women played a role. I mean, any woman that is bigger or heavier than me is a disgrace. You know, having people being promoted over you because they needed gender equality also played a role.
Taxes getting worse… Regulation increasing… News media making fun of me and my values… The constant onslaught of attempts to ban my guns… my alcoholic beverages… my smoking… and regulation on what I can do with my own body played a role.
Though, I guess a real nasty divorce from a closet radical feminist, and an aggressive IRS audit pretty much closed the deal. Trust me, if you have lived through what I endured, you would leave the shore of the USA faster than a hedgehog on fire!
Anyways, back to China and the FREEDOM and LIBERTY to eat with your dog in a public restaurant. Please keep in mind that that not all dogs are so well behaved. Like this one for instance…
Well, moving on to the next post in this series…
OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next post which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
This is the real deal. Forget about all that nonsense that you find
in the British tabloids and an occasional write up in the American
liberal press. This is the reality. Read or not.
Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music
in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at
that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews.
However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for
investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
Articles & Links
You’ll not find any big banners or popups here talking about
cookies and privacy notices. There are no ads on this site (aside from
the hosting ads – a necessary evil). Functionally and fundamentally, I
just don’t make money off of this blog. It is NOT monetized. Finally, I
don’t track you because I just don’t care to.
You can start reading the articles sequentially by going HERE.
You can visit the Index Page HERE to explore by article subject.
You can also ask the author some questions. You can go HERE to find out how to go about this.
Let’s continue with our exploration of really odd China. Please let’s keep in mind that we are looking not for curiosities to amuse and titillate, but rather to discover new and varied ways of doing things and looking at things so that we may personally benefit from them.
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The Singing Chef
Chinese people love their food, they spend lots of time savoring and enjoying their meals. Food is not just “fuel” for the body, but a pleasure, an art, and a way of socializing. If you want to make friends, go eat. If you want to close a business deal, go eat. If you want to pursue a romantic relationship, go eat. Since ancient times, food has been considered priority in Chinese culture. The government’s goal was to make sure that each person is taken care of and "has enough to eat”. From another angle, it also suggests the realistic character of Chinese: food goes before ideas, and this life is more important than after life.
-Tinyeyescomics
Restaurants are all over the place in China. Just like they are seemingly everywhere in the Untied States. There are all kinds of them as well. They run the gambit from cafeterias, to fast food, to small family affairs, and street vendors. This is certainly a great subject for another series of posts, but here instead, I would like to talk about one aspect of certain Chinese restaurants.
That aspect is the “singing chef”.
In certain restaurants, you can have the chef sing to you, and you can pick up a KTV microphone at your table and sing along. In China, of course, singing and dancing are very popular Chinese pastimes, as they are all over Asia. People just love to sing. Well, what’s better than singing with friends, eating fine delicious food, and drinking wonderful adult beverages? Well, not much.
Here we have the chef singing a duet with a customer…
Of course, to be able to fully appreciate how cool this is, you need to understand that Chinese food is really tasty and there are so many different kinds and types of food available. Most of which are unknown in the West. Yes, I am sorry to say that those corner “Chinese restaurants” that you have in the states only prepare Americanized Chinese “fast food”.
So imagine the joy of playing around, singing, and eating some truly delicious Chinese food…
This is spicy Hunan style food. This is called “Hot Pot”. It is like a Chinese version of Fondue, only very, very spicy. You are provided with meats and vegetables that you put on skewers and in ladles that you cook inside the pot.
Of course, not all Chinese food is spicy. Some are, but many are not. China is a land with all sorts of strange and delicious foods. In fact, I have another post just about this very subject. You might want to check it out. (By clicking on the link, the other article will open up in a different tab.)
In any event, eating spicy food is a great excuse to drink some fine frosty beer. China has all sorts of local breweries. You can obtain some very cheap beer in China, and It actually does go well with the Chinese cuisine.
Personally, I like my beer to be super cold. This is to such an extent that I ask for a half a glass of chipped ice that I can pour my beer into. Yes, I know that it’s a tad extreme, but that is just me. Do not knock it until you get to try it yourself. OK?
Oh, and speaking of wonderful and delicious beer. How about this…
Delicious dark beer. There are some wonderful dark beers about. Of course, I love dark Irish beers, and this is a Icelandic beer. Well worth a try if you ever have the opportunity.
Oh, and speaking about beer, let’s talk a little bit about parties and partying in China. After all, how in the world can you possibly experience China without going to a party and getting shit-faced drunk? It just isn’t possible. Drinking is part of the Chinese traditional culture and society.
China’s Party Scene is often Enormous
The Chinese like to party, and when the opportunity comes, they will gather together and have a great time. To us Westerners, this seems odd, but it really shouldn’t. Think of “Spring Break ” on steroids, only with office staff instead of drunk college students.
This is true all over Asia as well. From the Philippines to Vietnam, and Korea. All Asians love to have a great time. And unlike the politically correct United States, it’s just fine to discuss smoking, drinking, singing and dancing in public and at your workplace.
China has an enormous music and television industry with all sorts of stars and favorites. I covered this in another post. You might want to check it out. (The link opens up in another tab.)
However, it should be noted that many singers and musicians from all over the world find that by catering to the Chinese, sales of their music and popularity skyrockets. So you will be surprised to find Polish singers, Brazilian groups, and Country and Western singers from America playing within China.
Of course, if you are going to sing, eat, and drink, you shouldn’t go anywhere near a car. Just pay for someone to take you home, or crash in a nearby hotel. Yet, this option is often beyond the comprehension of the severely inebriated.
Which brings us to this bitter-sweet video…
The Guy that Just Can’t Drive
I don’t know how better to introduce this video to ya all. This guy is obviously having a bad day, and cannot drive worth sh*t.
Poor guy. If he isn’t drinking, then it is obvious that he is having a bad day. It’s times like these that make you just want to throw in the towel and call it a day. It’s time to go off to a small restaurant and order a beer. It’s time to take a long drag off of a cigarette. It’s time to chill out and watch a game on television.
What ever it is, it’s a time NOT to drive.
OK. At four videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next past which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
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Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews. However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
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Here we continue with our video exploration of some of the crazy and odd things (or just unusual things) going on in China this month. As a kind reminder that this is not so much for entertainment value as it is purposed towards looking at how we do things in a new light. And, as the situation is exposed, in a new appreciation.
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Regional Festival
I do like and enjoy regional fairs. I always have. It didn’t matter if it was a apple pie baking fair in Milford, Massachusetts, or a apple butter celebration in Clarion county in Pennsylvania. I loved them all.
Here is an apple-butter festival in California. Look at everyone having a grand old time. These little festivals are certainly worth your time and effort to participate in.
If you ever get an opportunity to go to a regional fair, I would strongly suggest you do so. They are all fantastic and worth the time and cost to visit. In fact, if I might be so bold, might I suggest some of these ideas for fairs in the United States…
Any pie, ice cream, or bakery fair.
Any type of Amish or Mennonite fair.
Fairs related to antique tractors and farm equipment.
Fairs related to local history.
Fairs related to reenactments.
Fairs related to maple syrup production.
Fairs related to grapes or wine production.
Fairs related to dog, cat, horse or other critters.
Fairs related to renaissance revivals.
Bluegrass festivals.
Any fair sponsored by a historical club, community or organization.
Fresh apple-butter sundaes made at an apple-butter festival. These are not only very fresh, but they are amazingly delicious. There is nothing quite like fresh home-made ice cream and fresh home-made apple-butter. Yum!
I really do enjoy festivals.
I think that over the years I have forgotten how important it was for me while I was growing up. I started to take them for granted, and forgot the pleasures and excitement that I had, as a young boy, attending them. I remember a historical building walk and festival in Georgia that was awesome. I also remember a festival of the old west when I lived in Ridgecrest, California. (My China Lake days.)
Such history.
Not to mention the various regional foods. Let me tell you, you haven’t lived until you tried some BBQ at a festival in Texas, or a Chili cook off.
Here is a limburger cheese and bratwurst sandwich from a fair in Wisconsin. Now who in their right mind wouldn’t want to have a bite of this? Eh? Especially with s cup of some fine local beer. Doesn’t that sound great?
Just like in the United States, with seasonal fairs, the Chinese celebrate their own regional holidays and traditions. Here is one such holiday, were the local ladies dress up in traditional attire and have a parade into the community. In China, local traditional fairs can include costumes, regional food and drink, and of course the local traditional activities.
Which in China, can be quite elaborate and noteworthy…
Upon close inspection, you’ll notice that the outfits are not identical. Each one is subtly different. They are not costumes. They are family heirlooms.
The different colors of the dresses all have meaning, as well as the different decorations and caps on their heads. Just like the Irish and Sottish have different patterns for the kilts and weaves, the Chinese do the same for the various traditional attire.
In China, you can tell from the subtle differences in the clothing just which family is represented, where they come from and the family’s ranking in the community. Just like you could tell it in Ireland or Scotland.
A random selection of different Irish patterns and the families that are associated with those patterns. All over the world are these little nuanced differences, and we have forgotten their importance, and the importance of festivals and families.
There are many, many different ethnic regions in China, and it would take a long series of complex posts to describe even a mere overview of them. Which, of course, really wouldn’t be appropriate here. This post is just an introduction to differences in culture and how, by looking at them, we can obtain a better appreciation of our own culture.
Oh yes. America does have a culture. Numerous ones actually, and they are all totally and completely awesome! Don’t forget that.
Speaking of awesome American culture. How about some awesome and genuine American food? Right? Am I right or am I right? Maybe something along the lines of this…
What is better than a delicious Ruben sandwich? I like it served with thousand island dressing, and then I love to dip it in the dressing when I eat it. You know, the secret in making a good Ruben is avoiding having the bread get soggy. You can do this by enclosing the sauerkraut with the meat, and toasting the bread properly.
Here is another view of this particular ethnic subculture. I really love the outfit, and the smiles on all the pretty girls.
The silver adornment all has a reason and purpose, as well as a story. The crown on the head is full of symbology and meaning… especially toward the various individual family histories. The patterns on the dress, as well as the color differentiate the various history and region that the wearer comes from.
I find it all so very fascinating.
There are many, many different sub-cultures within China, and each one maintains their history, their dress, their culture. In fact, the Chinese government promotes this as an important part of China’s heritage.
I don’t know what it is, really, but I love to see beautiful women in regional clothing with history and meaning. It makes them so multi-dimensional and infinitely interesting. It makes me want to meet their families, drink and eat at their tables with their aunties and uncles and try their delicious regional food. Oh, what stories they could tell.
While the gals in the above two micro-videos are from the interior mountainous regions of China, here is a gal from the Northern regions. I think that she is just awesome. Don’t you?
I do believe that I will do a couple posts on this subject in the future, as it is truly very interesting and absolutely ignored by the American mainstream press.
Ah. I just cannot help myself.
Here is yet another different regional ethnic group. Again, I find the colors and the outfits mesmerizing. And look at how happy and proud of their heritage they are. When I go back and visit the USA, I am often afraid of saying anything lest a “white person of privilege” offends someone. Sigh.
All this is pretty cool, but it has some implications that may people miss.
For instance, if you decide to learn some Mandarin before you go to China, thinking that it’s everyone’s mother tongue, you might be in for a surprise. It’s not spoken everywhere.
Although Mandarin became the national language more than 100 years ago, many Chinese people can’t speak it. There are literally hundreds of dialects and languages in China, and Mandarin is just one of them.
Young people will usually speak Mandarin, because it’s taught in school. Just like many of them will be able to communicate in basic English to you. However, if you’re speaking to older people they may only speak their native dialects.
Moving on to a different subject…
Morning Exercises in Elementary School
All public schools in China have morning exercises. They are typically held in the front courtyard of the school and involve jumping jacks and other such “limbering up exercises”. This is the same as what you would expect in certain schools in the USA, like military academies and religious schools. (Not so in American public schools.)
Over the last few years, the Chinese methods of education has been changing and evolving. This includes everything from studying physics to music. Now it also includes sports and exercise, and yes, over the last decade that has begun to change.
Today, many, though not all, utilize dance routines to limber up the children for the day’s study events. They play popular Chinese songs (Pop-40) and the children exercise to the choreographed dance routines associated with the given songs.
Here is a nice video showing that…
This kind of activity begins as early as pre-school, and continues to long after graduation. Many companies have morning exercises and routines to get the crew and staff ready for work.
Here’s another school, doing a different dance routine. Notice how much fun the kids are having. They don’t even notice that they are exercising. Instead, they view it as a fun activity.
When you think about it, it makes total sense.
Children work just like adults do. Only their work is through play. That is how they learn. Girls like to play with dolls so that they can learn to be able to care for the family. Boys like to play with blocks and build things. That is how they learn to make things and then sell them to earn money for their family.
When children are having fun and playing they are learning at top efficiency. When the effort is dull, prolonged and boring, they are not learning. They are memorizing for repetition. The Chinese have a long way to go towards understanding this fully, but they are implementing this technique in many schools.
And, they are doing so quite early.
Here we have pre-schoolers learning how to dance-exercise in the morning.
Adults Exercising in a Gym
Of course, you don’t need to attend elementary school to exercise. You can do so in a gym. The only thing is that the Chinese also like to have this kind of disco / club / DJ / House exercise environment. That’s one of the things that I really like about China. Pushing iron and driving yourself hard to music.
It’s sort of like this…
Pretty crazy, eh?
OK. At eight videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next past which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
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Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews. However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
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China is a big country, with a huge population. At any given minute there are all kinds of things going on, from the curious to the absurd. That’s pretty much what makes travel so enticing. You are exposed to new ideas and new ways of doing things. These new ways might be better or worse. Yet, the fact that they are different adds value to your experience.
If the new experience is better, then you can see where your previous assumptions might be wrong. This is what happens when you move out of your “comfort zone”. You learn that what you are accustomed to might be wrong or problematic. A good example of this is paying for drugs overseas. Drugs are cheap just about everywhere outside of the USA.
If the new experience is worse, then you have a better appreciation of what you have come to accept and live with. A good example is going to the public toilet in rural China. You really start to appreciate Western-style public restrooms.
I created this post to illustrate that there are many ways to do things, and often these other ways might appear odd, strange or simply curious to someone who is not used to them.
You know, when I first visited China, (back around 1993 or so) many of my (new) Chinese friends thought that a “hamburger” was exactly what McDonald’s made. They had no idea what American food was, and their only exposure to it was McDonald’s or KFC.
A McDonald’s cheeseburger. It’s ok to eat. It’s nothing fancy, but rather plain and mass-produced fast food. The “meat” is too processed and full of preservatives, and the toppings are rather pedestrian. The bread roll is bland.
They were surprised when I explained to them that hamburgers are something totally different from what you would find in most (not all) American “fast food” restaurants. They didn’t believe me, and had a very difficult time visualizing it. So, what I had to do, was make up some home-made hamburgers on real rolls, with fresh fixings to show them.
This is how a hamburger is supposed to be made. It is 100% real beef. The roll is fresh and has a crunchy outside crust. It has fresh vegetables, and is cooked just right.
Well, China is like that. They often do things different from we are used to seeing. And because of that, that kind of exposure, let’s us view things that we have taken for granted over years and years of exposure.
Maybe we need to take a look at why we do certain things in certain ways. As such, we can start to question if the things that we are accustomed to, are really the best way to do them.
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Monkey Style
I was raised watching David Carradine in the television show Kung Fu. I, like many of my generation became entranced by his Shoulin kung fu style. I, as well as most Americans, at that time, only knew of two ways of battling bad guys. (Aside from shooting them, and boxing them.) That was by using Karate, or Kung Fu.
For many Americans, we learned about Kung Fu through television and movies. Television brought Kung Fu to our livingrooms, and exposed us to the shaolin style of kungfu.
After a few decades of this, we became exposed to martial arts through watching Bruce Lee, and other notable martial arts actors on television. It seemed like all of the best martial arts originated out of China, and more specifically, out of Hong Kong.
With this being our only “education” into the world of martial arts, it is no surprise that we Americans have come to assume that this is the best and (perhaps) the most effective style to fight in martial arts. It is our lack of exposure to other styles that gives us a false understanding of what is available to us personally.
Perhaps we should be exposed to other techniques and methods. Even if they appear odd or strange to us. They exist, because they when performed with mastery, are superior fighting forms.
Other styles of Chinese martial arts include, but are most certainly not limited to:
Wushu: Known more in the contemporary world as not really a style, but more as a sport or a showmanship of forms.
Tai Chi: A very popular internal martial arts style that is characterized by its breathing techniques. Millions of people practice this martial art for relief of stress, meditation purposes, and health and balance in their stress-filled lives.
Kung Fu: King Fu is used in the contemporary world to describe the many styles of martial arts in China. There were additionally various sub styles of Kung Fu from both Northern and Southern China. Whereas the Northern region boasted Shaolin, Eagle Claw, Long Fist and Monkey Style and the Southern region laid claim to Wing Chun, Hung Gar, and Choy Li Fut.
Shuai Jiao: Shuai Jiao was one of the first martial arts in China. Shuai Jiao was taught to the troops by means of utilizing the horns on their helmets and throwing as well as ground fighting was the main focus of this martial art.
Here is a micro-video of a monk performing “Monkey Style” Kung Fu. What do you think? Do you think that it would stun the attacker, or have him roll on the ground laughing?
You see, or maybe not, the point here.
This style is both humorous and unexpected. It’s difficult to fight someone who cannot be predicted. And the humor is disarming. This technique is not for everyone, but it has advantage, and in life… that’s what we need. A little bit of advantage.
Here’s another video depicting scenes of a Chinese movie character that utilizes such actions to disarm his opponents, and obtain advantage in situations. It’s sort of like the book & movie “The Scarlet Pimpernel”.
Moving on to a totally different subject, but still a little odd and crazy is what happens when you drink too much.
A Little Too Much To Drink
Now this is China, don’t you know. Everyone drinks alcohol as it is part of the culture.
In America we would go home to sleep things off, or maybe crash on some stranger’s porch or in our car (Heaven forbid we drive home). Rarely do we try to walk home. Though, I have seen people riding a bike home after closing time at the bar. (You know, that almost all bars in the USA have Cinderella hours. That’s right, they are not open all night. Yeah, crazy, huh?)
It’s 5:08 AM. She obviously left the club, bar or KTV, and is having a bit of trouble getting oriented. Lordy, you would think one of her friends would help get her home to bed.
This poor chick had a little bit too much to drink. I think. Either that, or her world is just spinning around and around.
Training a K9 Police Dog to perform CPR
I’ve seen people train police dogs. There are all kinds of movies and shows depicting this. I have seen them take down a “bad guy” wearing a padded suit. I have seen them run though obstacle courses. I have watched them sniff for drugs, and locate bombs.
But, I have never seen them be trained to give CPR.
Well, this is China, and they are not afraid to try new things and push things to the limits. This is a cute and interesting video of a young police K9 puppy being trained to perform CPR on a downed police officer.
Three videos are enough for one post. The band width would never permit you to load too many more. So please kindly go to the next section to check out some more crazy Chinese videos.
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
This is the real deal. Forget about all that nonsense that you find in the British tabloids and an occasional write up in the American liberal press. This is the reality. Read or not.
Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews. However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
Articles & Links
You’ll not find any big banners or popups here talking about cookies and privacy notices. There are no ads on this site (aside from the hosting ads – a necessary evil). Functionally and fundamentally, I just don’t make money off of this blog. It is NOT monetized. Finally, I don’t track you because I just don’t care to.
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Here we continue with our various videos of life in China, and how strange it must appear to a foreigner.
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People Helping Others
You would NEVER see any of this in the Western press, but the Chinese tend to be very helpful and socially consciousness. If you know any Chinese personally, whether it is at your church, or in your school, you can attest that they work hard, study hard and tend to be great friends.
Well, they also will come to your rescue when necessary.
Here’s some videos that illustrate this fact.
This one is a truck driver that lends a hand when an ambulance was involved in a car accident…
Here is a compilation of other instances of people helping others or saving their lives.
The Underground World
China has become a nation of underground tunneling critters. They have built hundreds of these huge tunneling machines and use them to construct subways and passages from one building to another.
As any visitor to Hong Kong can affirm, each subway station in Hong Kong is a huge mall, and from that, branching outwards are all sorts of underground passages connecting one underground complex to another.
Here is one such underground passage. I believe that this one is in Shenzhen…
Ethnic Minorities
China is a land that is comprised of many, many Chinese minorities. Each one has their very own language, traditions and culture. The Chinese government sees the value in allowing these regions to maintain their history, and so they do.
Today you can see various ethnic groups posting themselves in traditional attire and singing contemporaneous (but regional) pop songs. I think that it is outstanding. Check it out…
Here’s another from a different region.
And of course, the Han Chinese…
OK. At these micro-videos, let’s move to the next part of this multi-part post…
OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next post which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
This is the real deal. Forget about all that nonsense that you find
in the British tabloids and an occasional write up in the American
liberal press. This is the reality. Read or not.
Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music
in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at
that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews.
However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for
investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
Articles & Links
You’ll not find any big banners or popups here talking about
cookies and privacy notices. There are no ads on this site (aside from
the hosting ads – a necessary evil). Functionally and fundamentally, I
just don’t make money off of this blog. It is NOT monetized. Finally, I
don’t track you because I just don’t care to.
You can start reading the articles sequentially by going HERE.
You can visit the Index Page HERE to explore by article subject.
You can also ask the author some questions. You can go HERE to find out how to go about this.
