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Happy Monday! Most of us are toiling away at our jobs on everyone's favorite day, Monday, the beginning of most people's work week.
However, this day has little significance for Chinese people outside of the state or factory jobs.
Anyone who has been to China knows that the work week/work hours can vary HU...
Hey Laowinners!
The other day I was sent this short video of a children's day performance where the kids put on a mock war of anti-Japanese resistance.
At first glance, the gut instinct is to think that this is a needless act of simulated violence teaching hate to children. However, the war did happen, and it is a part of history. However, the history that is taught is similar to how Kim Il Sung came to power through his undying love and countless victories for the DPRK.
The dramas I ...
2018-06-08 14:30:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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I totally forgot to post the video I made with Vivi's reaction to the first time she went to Chinatown in NYC. It was pretty funny, not just for her, but for me.
The Chinese diaspora was interesting in the USA, as different pockets of Chinese in different areas in the USA were from different areas in China. I spoke to some Taiwanese folk that had to learn Cantonese, as that was the language that was spoken in Chinatown. The mainlanders who only wrote and read simplified C...
2018-06-07 14:41:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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So it was the anniversary of the Tiananmen square massacre two days ago, and I often get asked, what do Chinese people think of what happened there?
First off, it is important that most schools or people won't even acknowledge what happened there. The slight chance that people do know what happened are under the impression that students/radicals attacked the government/army, and had to be dealt with, but the casualties were minimum.
The few who do know what...
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I was asked a quite a few times, do I read, what do I read, or what books might inspire me to make videos etc.
To answer that succinctly, I read A LOT, specifically a ton of audiobooks.
I grew up reading a lot of fantasy, but as the time went on, and I became interested in language etc, I started reading books on geopolitics, different countries, and specifically, first hand accounts of people in those countries.
Recently I have been reading a ton about No...
2018-06-05 22:08:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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Vices. We all have them. Surprisingly, many of the things that you relied on back home change quite a bit after moving abroad, especially to China.
For me, I loved Scotch whiskey, Canadian beer, golf and sports cars.
These things were simply unattainable in China when I first moved there, so replacements had to be made.
Whiskey became Baijiu. Molson became Tsingtao. Golf became travel. Sports cars became a cheap motorcycle.
However, it was th...
2018-06-04 16:30:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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Show all your friends how little you care with your hot new Chabuduo T-shirt. You've probably heard me say this a million times, but Chabuduo 差不多 means "almost" or "good enough". But it is so much more than that. It runs Chinese society.
Show everyone how little you care. How half assed you do things.
Become Chabuduo.
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Hey Laowinners!
Vivi just posted a video about what types of people join the military in China.
In a scene we couldn't talk about, she mentioned friends that are rich because of their military connections.
This is most definitely the case. There are people we heard about that have 10 car garages full of super cars, mansions in multiple countries, and people that own corporations. It is insane the kind of wealth that the PLA commands.
It's actually kind of terrifying due to th...
2018-06-01 17:04:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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I am giving Patreons and Sponsors a triple entry to my giveaway for the Huawei M5 Mediapad tablet that will be released May 30th. The video review of the tablet will be this Saturday, and subscribers will have one entry, where as Patreons will have 3. I am sure you all are, but please make sure you are subscribed to Laowhy86 so that you can have another entry. If I can't find you on the subscriber list, I will use Patreon's spreadsheet to simply triple you...
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As a stupid 13 year old boy, I started experimenting with death sticks. Ya know, cigs...
I then continued to smoke until I was about 26, and quit when I got married (yeah yeah... the vape helped).
The funny thing is that when I moved to Taiwan from China for a year, I found it easy to quit for about 6 months, as people in Taiwan smoke a lot less than in China.
It was almost impossible for a sane person to quit in China, as cigarettes are handed out to pr...
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Every time I visit the USA, I realize how much I've missed cars. Sure, I have cars in China, but China's car culture is mostly show off/utilitarian.
Cars, to many people, are hunks of metal that get you from point A to point B, but for me and my friends, they've been part of our own special little family. The places they take you, and the stories they hold inside are rarely forgotten.
I'll never forget buying my dads manual 95 Geo Metro back in 2001 for ...
2018-05-29 14:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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As you all probably know, me and Winston are big fans of the devils drink. While looking through the Conquering Southern and Northern China, episodes I thought back to the many promises made in China for an alcohol to "not give you a hangover", and "you won't get a headache from this". It seems like it's a Chinese tradition to convince your guest that your hometown, or homemade booze won't produce any ill effects.
This may stem from the fact that China has a huge fa...
2018-05-28 15:05:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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A word Winston and I throw around all the time is "cha bu duo" or 差不多。
You can pronounce it like cha (as in cha cha) boo dwoh.
This word literally means, "almost", but I like to think of it as "good enough".
This phrase is thrown around in daily speech in China more frequently than please or thank you. Why is that?
Well, Chabuduo culture in China is so pervasive, that it really controls daily life in a way. Example: Constructing a building,...
2018-05-25 13:18:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Normally I would take the US state department semi-seriously, at least for travel warnings, as I am a US citizen, but this one is a bit much.
"The U.S. State Department issued a health warning this morning to U.S. citizens in China after an American government worker was diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury. The unnamed worker reported “subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure.”
The U.S. government employee w...
2018-05-24 13:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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People often ask me about the cultural differences between my adopted home of China, and my home country of the USA. These are constantly highlighted in my videos, but what about in my relationship with my wife, Vivi?
Vivi and I tend to see eye to eye on most things. Unlike many Chinese person with western person relationships, I have spent enough time in my wife's country to understand China very well, where as she went to school in Macau and lived there for 7 year...
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In amusing news today, a drunked foreigner at 5 AM in Shanghai was removed from riding the bull statue at the bund, and the internet is abuzz with saying that it is me. Hopefully this rumor will die a quick death lol.
I guess he does look like me...
Thanks a lot, douche...
Thanks for your support!
Hey Laowinners!
I don't know if you are interested in this, but my parents never want to be on camera, however, my dad obliged to review these two MRE rations. It's funny to see what he liked vs. me and Vivi.
Thanks for your support and welcome all new Patreons.
Vivi and I appreciate each and every one of you!
Thank you!
Hey Laowinners!
An awesome YouTuber Steve1989mreinfo https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA is a YouTuber who reviews military rations from around the world, and sent us a big box!
Check out Vivi and I as we duke it out and test them against each other, China vs. USA!
I'll post my dad's video in a bit.
Thanks!
Hey Laowinners!
Today I wanted to mention a lighthearted, yet annoying thing.
Recently, some middle aged Chinese lady tourists in Vietnam were forced to change their clothing after wearing the infamous 9 dash line map of China, which claims resource rich areas off of the coast of Vietnam.
This dispute has been going on for awhile now, but the choice for these women to wear these shirts - TO VIETNAM! was a bit ridiculous to me.
I can guarantee a Vietnamese tourist would not wea...
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Weirdly enough, Uber has a strange story in China. It was basically taken down by a domestically grown competitor, DiDi. DiDi has now entered the vernacular of Chinese people, and it's absolutely insane on how many people use it now. So through government help, DiDi managed to wipe out it's foreign competition in China...
But China being China, one drastic crackdown (which we covered in our last ADVChina video 2018-05-17 13:34:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Laowinners!
I have just been accepted into YouTube's sponsorship program, but will not be announcing it publicly at this time.
Basically, YouTube is giving big channels (+100,000 subs) a chance to get extra income through sponsoring the channel, where subscribers get access to emojis, a community platform, and badges etc.
First of all, everyone on this platform (Patreon) has been with us thick and thin, so I wouldn't change a thing. So I decided this. Sponsors on YouTub...
Laowinners,
Dealing with this right now, but I wanted you all to know first.
Thank each and every one of you for your support. Love, Vivi, C-Milk and Baby Liv
2018-05-16 01:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey Laowinners,
I have to say, I am pretty blown away with the help you guys put out with the IMDB BS. You guys are truly appreciated, and I really feel like I am lucky to have a community backing me, Winston, and my family. I appreciate each and every one of you.
C-Milk
Hey Laowinners,
Let's be real for a second.
Some very immature haters decided to attack our IMDB pages for Conquering Northern and Southern China with fake reviews. It was obviously a team effort to bring our scores down, and I suspect I know which Reddit community did it. The same ones who deface our Wikipedia pages.
If you are feeling pissed off and want to help, feel free to write a REAL REVIEW and give a REAL score.
I would appreciate it, as it directly affects our future proj...
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Please watch the full video first!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPJbokaT2w8
I just released an interview I did with Jason, a body builder, personal trainer and rap artist from Inner Mongolia.
This is the extra parts of the interview, and the footage of him going home for the first time.
Jason's story of hardship is both haunting and inspiring, with suicide, domestic abuse,...
Hey Laowinners,
I am super pumped to release to you guys early, the first behind the scenes video for Conquering Northern China. We have a ton of content, self filmed stuff, and lots of scenes that didn't make the final show.
That is not to say that stuff isn't good, but we had time constraints for our distributor and how long it had to be in the end.
Long story short, I always felt that the first province we went to, Shandong, was really underrepresented, so this is the journe...
Hey Laowinners! I was going through things I haven't edited, and I found this other half of our trip over Christmas to NYC. I took Vivi to Chinatown for the first time, and I wanted to film her reaction and experience.
Also thought you guys might be pumped to know I am working on a behind the scenes series for Conquering Northern China so go watch it now if you haven't seen it yet!!!
2018-04-10 21:09:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey Laowinners!
How are you guys doing? A ton of people in the Patreon messages asked me about retirement, welfare, and all the other benefits that people in China get under a "communist" government.
In this vid, Vivi and I chat about that very subject! Enjoy!
Hey Laowinners!
If you haven't seen this, warning... it's bad.
So I was on my channel looking for a video, and sorted from oldest to newest. I can't believe what I found. I had totally forgotten that I had at one point, was asked to join the Inner Mongolia University Olympics as the only foreign competitor (save for some random dude who ran from Hohhot University).
I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to cut my jeans into shorts, and draw a mustache while simultane...
Hey Laowinners!
Thank you to Steven, a very generous Patreon for the awesome video idea!
Me and Vivi go head to head on a China knowledge based quiz to see who knows more about the middle kingdom.
Loser has a punishment!
Was fun to make. Let me know if you like these kind of videos once in awhile.
Japan series continues after this!
Thanks for your feedback and support. We really appreciate each and every one of you!