Chinese culture is cool and important

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J.J. McCullough

J.J. McCullough

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@OmegaRejectz
@OmegaRejectz 5 ай бұрын
“You may recall a few minions back”
@MIKAEL212345
@MIKAEL212345 5 ай бұрын
"one Minion Time Unit (MTU) back"
@kev1257ful
@kev1257ful 5 ай бұрын
JJ is minions a form of North American culture
@benjaminwatt2436
@benjaminwatt2436 4 ай бұрын
minions...gross
@FBIsMostJuanted
@FBIsMostJuanted 5 ай бұрын
New Era of JJ’s hair
@cdvideodump
@cdvideodump 5 ай бұрын
You can say that his hair took… *a great leap forward*
@charredwind
@charredwind 5 ай бұрын
New haira, if you will.
@Ragerian
@Ragerian 5 ай бұрын
brian may era
@JeffKing310
@JeffKing310 5 ай бұрын
I can’t decide if we are entering the May Era, Page Era or Louis XIV Era. In any event, I expect an award winning video on this from future cultural historians in 2050.
@uncouver
@uncouver 5 ай бұрын
grey?
@dirgo
@dirgo 5 ай бұрын
The difference between Chinese peppercorn and South American peppers is that Chinese peppercorns are from an ash tree and give the numbing sensation. South American peppers are from the night shade family and give that spicy sensation. The combination of both is called Mala
@Tax_Collector01
@Tax_Collector01 5 ай бұрын
For those that don’t know, “Mah La” means “Numbing spice” in Mandarin. Which is a sensation I cannot tolerate in any degree with food, but my parents love it.
@EepyBnnuy
@EepyBnnuy 5 ай бұрын
Omg! That’s what I bite into when using hotpot sauce in my stir fry’s!!! It does numb my mouth lol 😆
@Pheer777
@Pheer777 5 ай бұрын
I love Mala, it tastes like the feeling of the end of a D battery on your tongue
@WadWizard
@WadWizard 5 ай бұрын
Sichuan peppercorn is actually a kind of citrus
@colethewolfboy
@colethewolfboy 5 ай бұрын
I had no idea lidocaine was a spice
@kero9rainbow
@kero9rainbow 5 ай бұрын
I am a Taiwanese musician based in NYC who plays traditional Chinese-influenced metal music, so I can perhaps provide my two cents on why Chinese cultures (notice how I use the plural form--will get into that later) are not exported to the west the same way as Korean or Japanese cultures do: One of the main driving factor is, of course, politics, which naturally creates, if not exacerbates the cultural barrier we are experiencing today, but another major factor that often flies under the radar is the fact that there are about 1.31 billion people around the world who speak Chinese, which includes Mandarin and other Chinese dialects like Cantonese, Hokkien, etc. Musicians, artists, entertainers, or the big money that back them in the Chinese-speaking parts of the world don't have much incentive to export their cultural product to the west when there are already 1.31 billion potential consumers scattered across the world. Pop stars like Jay Chou from Taiwan, Eason Chan from HK, JJ Lin from Singapore, or G.E.M. from the mainland don't just sell out stadiums after stadiums in their home turf but also in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and anywhere else with a significant Chinese-speaking population, so from that perspective, why would they bother to grow their fanbase in the west while they can be kings and queens in their own circle? The same goes for other art forms, like movies, and especially the traditional ones like Peking Opera, as the art form is never intended for audience outside the Chinese cultural sphere. One other factor that I began to learn recently, albeit possibly insular, is that the Chinese are terrible at branding, but one can't really blame them because it is hard to build and sell the brand, i.e., the Chinese culture, if 1) there is less incentive to do so, as discussed before; 2) China is made up of different provinces, each with their distinct culture and dialect (thus Chinese culture"s" earlier); and 3) a catastrophic event at an unimaginable scale, a.k.a. the Cultural Revolution, literally wiped out almost all traces to what we know as Chinese history and cultures and resulted in a significant disconnect and arguably an ideological void (as described by my father in-law from the mainland) among today's mainland Chinese population. These factors combined make it difficult for the Chinese to articulate what are genuinely amazing and astonishing in their cultures, let alone exporting them to western audiences. The most ironic thing is that due to this ideological void, you see more Chinese people resonate more with Japanese and Korean cultures, both of which have a more solid footing in terms of their power of cultural projection. For example, you have K-pop-looking stars or boy bands selling out stadiums in China, or young Chinese men and women consuming anime, speaking Japanese sporadically, or wearing kimonos on the street as a fashion statement. However, this has been less common as we see the growing popularity of the concept of "國潮", which can translate to the Chinese wave, encouraging (mostly young) people in China to wear Chinese, whatever that means. It's a shame to see Chinese cultures not being represented or appreciated that much in the west the same way as Japanese and Korean cultures do, as there are so much history, so many tales and just cool things that I strongly believe not only western audience but also audience within the Chinese-speaking world will love but have not discovered yet. It's so easy for the Chinese, especially those in the mainland, to blame this lack of cultural representation soley on imperialism, which I think is true to some extent, and to belittle Korean and Japanese cultures by claiming them as their own or an extension or appropriation of the Chinese culture, which is a narrative I heard a lot among my mainland Chinese friends, but I think it is going to take not just one but two or more generations for us in the Chinese-speaking world to rediscover what made Chinese cultures great in the first place, and at that point, we may see the possibility of a more popular and friendly Chinese culture being exported to the rest of the world.
@lallal-fg6rv
@lallal-fg6rv 5 ай бұрын
文化大革命并没有对传统文化消灭太多。满族人消灭的汉族文化才多。因为近代中国衰弱,中国人更多的是批评传统文化,认为中国传统文化导致中国人极弱两百年。直到经济发展,现在的中国人才有一点文化自信。20多年前,大陆批评传统文化的声音也是主流。
@donotlookback2946
@donotlookback2946 5 ай бұрын
不破不立
@DeathobJail
@DeathobJail 5 ай бұрын
台湾人就算了。连文化大革命具体为什么会发生,为何失败都没去研究过就这样简单讲的人挺无知的
@孔繁恪
@孔繁恪 5 ай бұрын
⁠​⁠@@lallal-fg6rv150年前洋务运动运动时候就开始反思了,不过反思一百多年也没反思出啥玩应,因为不是我们的文化不是太低级,反而是太厚重了,老外欣赏不来,在他们眼里曹子建的《洛神赋》不过就一通篇媚女的打油诗,如果不是汉语使用者,怎么能理解“翩若惊鸿,婉若游龙,荣曜秋菊,华茂春松,仿佛兮若轻云之蔽月,飘渺兮若流风之回雪”的优雅
@ethanh5217
@ethanh5217 5 ай бұрын
I found that informative.
@robotpanda6322
@robotpanda6322 5 ай бұрын
As a Chinese person I can tell you that Peking opera is a relic, my grandfather was really into it and enjoyed it, he used to watch/listen to it on TV, yes there were Chinese TV channels that only played that 24/7 even now but now days live performances are pretty empty. These Peking Opera performances as an art form are just not very approachable for new audiences, and was the entertainment of a bygone era, the most historically significant Peking Opera singers all lived before WW2 in that time it was culturally important I heard stories of news papers writing reviews about the Peking Opera like critics reviewing a Broadway play but time have changed a lot have changed.
@kightsun
@kightsun 5 ай бұрын
Isn't it illegal for you to be here?
@deusical5982
@deusical5982 5 ай бұрын
​@@kightsun they could just be a Chinese living outside of china or using a VPN or smth which is technically illegal but the government doesn't really care
@lucinae8512
@lucinae8512 5 ай бұрын
I think the West is more obsessed with it than Chinese people, because they portray it as high art and respectful, while the couple of times I saw it in Chinese media is usually from an older character.
@robotpanda6322
@robotpanda6322 5 ай бұрын
@@kightsun I don’t live in China, anymore
@LL-bh6bt
@LL-bh6bt 5 ай бұрын
Yeah it's not something I've ever gone to while I lived in Beijing at all hahaha
@louisng114
@louisng114 5 ай бұрын
Fun fact: that song "Waiting For You" is sometimes used in horror movies/scenes in Hong Kong because of its old-timeyness and lyrics.
@amaravazquez8591
@amaravazquez8591 5 ай бұрын
The West does this trope as well. "Midnight, the Stars and You" in The Shining is one example. That should be a JJ video topic of its own: why is old-timeyness seen as "creepy?"
@rachel_sj
@rachel_sj 5 ай бұрын
@@amaravazquez8591That sounds like a perfect Award Winning JJ McCullough Halloween Episode!
@austinwiebe3801
@austinwiebe3801 5 ай бұрын
@@amaravazquez8591 Huh that's a really good point. Never thought of that. My first thought would be that ghosts are associated with old or run down things, like (haunted) houses and photographs.
@WadWizard
@WadWizard 5 ай бұрын
I think theres also something about the contrast of playing optimistic music in a scenario that is clearly sinister or doomed or destroyed, sometimes its not as creepy like in fallout it often lightens the tone with a little irony, but i think its often related to the way childrens laughter or voices or toys or dolls and such can be made creepy quite easily, these things perhaps are considered to be supposed to be "clean" but then are tainted by whatever the premise is whether its occult or sci fi or just neglect.
@gordonou7065
@gordonou7065 5 ай бұрын
I lived in China for 4 years when my parents were poor immigrants to Canada and I was raised by my grandparents. The candy apple things, I remembered, were usually sold by elderly and maybe retired men. The opera things used to be a tour of actors, going around to Chinese towns which usually started with a parade by the local high school kids. From what I’ve gathered, the town has seen gentrification by the government and is classified as slums and high density housing has replaced where I lived. My grandparents are now in the United States.
@zoanth4
@zoanth4 5 ай бұрын
Yeah, communism sucks
@dzhellek
@dzhellek 5 ай бұрын
When did JJ join an 80s metal band?
@lostcauselancer333
@lostcauselancer333 5 ай бұрын
Next JJ video should be a history of his hair.
@SOH-bl4mr
@SOH-bl4mr 5 ай бұрын
Ok is it just me or is there a sort of smaller mustache that JJ forgot to shave? Like look in the middle under his nose, im not sure it could just be the glare, but there's a smaller...let's just say it resembles a failed Austrian painters' mustache. Or I'm just imagining things here
@dzhellek
@dzhellek 5 ай бұрын
@SOH-bl4mr Adolf? I see the stache but it doesn't scream Austrian to me.
@SOH-bl4mr
@SOH-bl4mr 5 ай бұрын
@dzhellek ah it must be my imagination
@dzhellek
@dzhellek 5 ай бұрын
@@SOH-bl4mr now im imagining of adolf was in an 80s metal band. Sounds like Rammstein in my head.
@TheSecretPower
@TheSecretPower 5 ай бұрын
As someone studying Chinese language, culture, politics and history at university, my impression of why Chinese culture has had a hard time cementing itself internationally is a mostly cause of their smaller eastern neighbours, mostly Japan. While Japan was busy exporting its low cost, high quality electronics, technology and everyday objects, making household names of brands like Sony, Nintendo, Panasonic, Toyota, and Mitsubishi, and then later, exporting its culture way more directly via anime and manga. Japan was very much looked at similarly to today's China, being the old "Factory of the World", where companies sent production to cheaply manufacture en masse. Korea was a little later, with its own brands like Samsung, Hyundai, KIA, and LG, and just like Japan begun exporting its own culture more directly with K-pop, particularly its language. While the smaller eastern neighbours were doing this, China was busy being isolated on the world stage, in this phase, as you mentioned, China was both poor and running a crusade against its own traditional culture. Also worth noting that for most of contemporary history, the pioneers of Chinese culture and media was Taiwan (and Hong Kong, but I'm thinking about Mandarin language media), most big Chinese language movies and music before the 2000s was from Taiwan, and many of the staples of Mando-pop are Taiwanese artists. After Mao's death, China experienced a "opening up period" with economic liberalisation and a growing middle-class. China is very much right now going through the same phase that Japan and Korea went through. From poverty and isolation to a sudden mass industrialisation after opening up, taking advantage of the large labour pool to mass produce goods for other companies until later making their own domestic goods to export and then surpass the companies that originally hired them. Although Japan has for a long time cemented its place in many industries, like electronics, video games and automobiles. We are now seeing new emerging Chinese brands making their presence known in these industries, like the electronics brands Xiaomi, Huawei, and Oppo. Gaming companies like Tencent, and MiHoYo (who is behind Genshin Impact). Now Chinese auto brands are taking over the roads with BYD, NIO and Xpeng, while many pre established brands like Volvo, Lotus and MG have been bought up by big Chinese companies. To me, it seems like Chinese culture will soon grow in relevance and popularity, similar to Japan and Korea, but there is still a way to go to pass both of them, particularly Japan. Still, the Japanese cultural dominance can be seen with how Chinese characters are generally called Kanji in the west, which is the Japanese word for them, instead of the Chinese word for it, which Japan's word is based on; "Hanzi". The meaning is still maintained here "The Han (Chinese) people's writing/characters". It has very much resulted in most people assuming most text written like that to be Japanese writing, when a lot of the time, it is really Chinese. The subreddit "r/itsneverjapanese" was born from the trend of people asking for translations on various language subreddits of what they thought was Japanese text, but wasn't. The popularity of the Cherry blossom tree and flowers too, and their common synonym "Sakura" from Japanese. This plant is heavily associated with Japan, even though the exist in the rest of East Asia too, although they are cultivated to a larger extent in Japan. Their popularity also makes other culturally important flowers in Asia like Plum blossoms, Lotuses or the Bauhinia take a back seat to the ever-popular cherry tree. Till this day, a lot of what is originally Chinese is often mistaken or completely attributed to Japan, when Japan in fact borrowed most of these cultural, linguistic, or culinary traits from China. I know this is very much a long wall of text, and will likely fall on deaf ears, but i just wanna get my thoughts about this out and at most hope that some find it somewhat interesting. BTW, for future reference; consult Google Translate for better pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese, might be a little robot, but its way better than winging it and as a result buthering the pronunciation. C always makes a ch/ts sound, never a K sound. The vowels in words like "si" and "zi" is more like saying "sit", but cut in half, so the I isn't as pronounced. Shi is closer to saying "shirt" without the "rt".
@submarine1839
@submarine1839 5 ай бұрын
As a Chinese, I agree with your objective, fair and wonderful comment, and your comment deserve more people to see them
@theo7049
@theo7049 5 ай бұрын
Yes, wonderful comment and I agree. I absolutely think Chinese culture will emerge and grow in media and among people in the coming years and I'm excited about more people opening up to Chinese culture because I think we really need to start eliminating a lot of the bias among people unfavored of China. //another guy studying mandarin
@cobra-chicken
@cobra-chicken 3 ай бұрын
Another reason is culture and traditions are normally preserved by the educated part of the population , which means intellectuals and the well off middle to upper class. China pretty much performed a brain extermination through the cultural revolution by eliminating that part of the population and many ancient buildings and artifacts were also destroyed. My dad's side of the family were wealthy and all university educated before the communist takeover and most of the family with an education were sent to labour camps as counter revolutionaries. During the cultural revolution the family further burnt hundreds of old photos and destroyed almost all of the remaining family heirlooms in fear of prosecution. Now I can only piece a small part of my family history together by the handful of photos that remained and stories told by the remaining relatives. Japan never had that problem. Arguably they kept more aspects of the ancient Chinese culture that they adopted than mainland Chinese people today.
@ewantaylor2758
@ewantaylor2758 5 ай бұрын
I think that politics is probably the main reason China doesn't have as much influence on the west as other Asian countries. But I think another reason might be that orientalism isn't fashionable anymore. In the past people loved Chinese culture but specifically while viewing it as something ancient, magical and mysterious, but looking at Asia that way today is seen as either racist or at least disrespectful. And other Asian countries have developed more rapidly over the past century China has had a more complicated time, so more of Chinese culture is still the more ancient and traditional things. and since having a mythologized orientalist view of China is rarer now and looked down upon, it's harder to appreciate those ancient things than it is to appreciate more modern things, where other countries have an edge.
@menonalevi6984
@menonalevi6984 5 ай бұрын
I think is just because the west is afriad of exporting chinese culture to the west because China is ruled by a socialist governtment. The US has a large history of red scare propaganda which is still alive today.
@soupladle3237
@soupladle3237 5 ай бұрын
I think a part of the reason Chinese culture is less discussed in the west is because China doesn't have too many exports of art and entertainment. Japan has anime, Korea has K-pop, Hong Kong has action films, even Taiwan has a fairly large film industry. China in comparison didn't get a large movie industry until much later because of the hardline communist government cracking down on art and the lack of funds for such an endeavor. Though China does have a massive film industry now that has many billion-dollar hits, they're mostly only consumed by people living in China. Though China's "Full River Red" made almost $500M more than Japan's "Godzilla Minus One", you'd be hard pressed to find someone who has even a passing familiarity with Full River Red while you could certainly find a fan of Godzilla with barely any effort.
@lajya01
@lajya01 5 ай бұрын
Same thing happened to Russia. Pretty much anything from Russian culture known in the West comes from the pre-USSR era. The big exception is probably Tetris.
@2712animefreak
@2712animefreak 5 ай бұрын
It seems that gacha games is the entertainment niche they're trying to settle into, though it remains to be seen how big that will get. There are also two factors that complicate Chinese cultural diffusion today. One is political, and that is that there is a semi-permeable barrier between Chinese internet and the rest of the internet. As a person that is somewhat skilled at finding stuff on the internet, there is no greater horror for me than having to download a mod or an asset from a Chinese website. The second one, where politics has no influence on, is that China just has an unfathomably large population, so you can run many kinds of businesses/services domestically that just can't be done in almost any other country. As a result, even ignoring the internet barrier, a lot of Chinese businesses can decide that one bird in hand is worth two in the bush and only cater to domestic audiences. One of the reasons Japan can have anime is that it's a country of 120 million people and therefore has a large enough audience and a large enough talent pool to fill the domestic animated entertainment market mostly by themselves. China has ten times the population. Their entertainment industry has even less need to project outside.
@crediblesalamander8056
@crediblesalamander8056 5 ай бұрын
​@@lajya01 it's kind of a shame, because there was still some groundbreaking art made in the USSR, especially in film and animation.
@FlorasHormones
@FlorasHormones 5 ай бұрын
the thing is, China has an abundant of dramas - especially historical dramas that are quite popular now. + people are giving more attention to Cdramas than before but due to China's censorship of specific themes and such in the dramas, Cdramas cannot be produced to their potential. but also, a lot of people just don't seek out for Cdramas unfortunately and look towards Kdramas, albeit i prefer Cdramas.
@Default78334
@Default78334 5 ай бұрын
As much as China wants to be a pop culture exporter, government policies exert a heavy hand on the content of their entertainment industry and leave it heavily directed towards the domestic market and to lesser extent, the diaspora community.
@lossinsauce
@lossinsauce 5 ай бұрын
On Shanghainese music, I can't say it's very popular at all now. For those that grew up during the cultural revolution, it was considered "bad music" in that it contained suggestive themes. You were lucky if they didn't confiscate your phonograph as well. The funny thing is that the fashion then is suddenly celebrated again, which demonstrates the sort of strange dichotomy communist governments have. On another note, Shanghai has such a unique history because of its connection to western society. The 20s was much like the flappers era in the US in that music (swing and big bands playing jazz), dancing, new clothing, and film were at its peak.
@ricenoodles632
@ricenoodles632 5 ай бұрын
That makes me think of the Darkie toothpaste with the blackface logo. They only changed the Chinese logo name ("black person toothpaste") in 2022. The packaging for the Bee & Flower soap and the cough syrup also reminds me of the olden days.
@Miki_Azy
@Miki_Azy 3 ай бұрын
it's still quite popular. And many people that grew up during the cultural revolution likes these songs as well.
@Detah_
@Detah_ 5 ай бұрын
That hair is slowly absorbing his head.
@LazyCat010
@LazyCat010 5 ай бұрын
Beats the alternative
@bobjones2959
@bobjones2959 5 ай бұрын
9:07 - Responding from the perspective of a diaspora member, I can say that my grandfather (who along with most of my family, still live in the PRC) is very into Peking Opera. When I went back to visit, it was playing on TV at dinner every day and he'd watch it with my grandma. Don't think anyone else was really into it though. Among my parents' generation there's a general idea that it's important and good as a cultural artifact, but they don't seem genuinely interested in it for its own sake, moreso it's about its value as a specifically Chinese thing. An interesting thing to note is that the opera form apparently received a slight bump in interest among the youth after the game Genshin Impact featured a modernized(-ish) form of it in a story cutscene. With regard to Go, I can't really say either since I can't play it, but I have read that it's "computationally" more complex than chess because there are usually a larger number of unique moves a player can make on any given turn, which might be why it took a bit longer to develop a computational algorithm that could beat a champion-level player. Or at least some combination of that along with the fact that Go is way less prolific than chess so work on the program likely began a lot later than with the chessbot. Back to Genshin impact though, the fact that the developers chose to release it overseas by its Japanese name rather than its Chinese name, coupled with its very strong anime influences and the fact that a lot of casual folks likely assume it's Japanese at a glance is kind of telling of something else here - I think there is a severe deficit of Chinese cultural "clout" on the world stage, especially considering its size and the far more culturally relevant countries right next to it. I'm not sure how far awareness of this fact goes within China, but at the very least I know that there are certain companies in China which masquerade their products as "Japanese-made" because they know the connotation of "made in China" is anything but positive. This overall awareness of this cultural "deficit" and the desire to overcome it is, I think also an ever-present aspect of the culture. Or maybe I'm projecting my own insecurities onto a cultural that isn't exactly "mine." Who's to say? (I do love the sound of the dizi though, as well as other Chinese instruments like the erhu).
@FrothingFanboy
@FrothingFanboy 5 ай бұрын
While to my western ears the style of singing in Peking Opera is awkward and grating, I really have a thing for the percussion used during intense/action sequences, particularly the sharp cracks of the bangu drum and the gongs that produce a one-of-a-kind pitch bend.
@LL-bh6bt
@LL-bh6bt 5 ай бұрын
The developers are very aware that attempting to launch a massive game as overtly Chinese is not very marketable - not many in the West are familiar with Chinese fantasy, and it practically made way more sense to use the perception of a "Japanese game" to get instant good will. As an aside, this is a point that is very well understood within China. As an example, grocery stores will draw attention to products not made in China as special, or desirable, and give them the best shelf space. Chinese people are very aware that the products made here can be of questionable quality/safety (i.e. the baby formula disaster) and even though that perception is changing with "guo chan" (natively made) goods being of a much higher quality now in things like phones, cars, fashion, etc. this is still a nagging insecurity/reality that everyone is very conscious of.
@Wei_Radula_Regiment
@Wei_Radula_Regiment 3 ай бұрын
I’m glad JJ saw your comment about WeiQi. I was going to post one before seeing yours. Even though each piece is the same and they don’t move once placed, there’re still more permutations of how a match can go. Something neat about WeiQi is that unlike chess, it’s not a “war of attrition” game and rather emphasizes economy of moves (encircling your opponent with as few moves as possible) so much that conceding defeat when you see you’ve been out maneuvered is a big part of the game. This kind of structure can teach things like “the sunk cost fallacy” and other less rigid ways of thinking. I saw a news exposé sometime between seven and seventeen years ago interviewing mainland Chinese people who looked down on Chinese goods. They were surprised to find out that China even has any luxury brands. This explains why the Chinese people who are affluent enough to travel overseas and spend on name brands often flock to Japan during holidays in such large droves that Tokyo, especially their department stores, have taken special measures to try to accommodate Chinese consumers, such as help desks manned by Japanese who can speak Mandarin and printouts that have Hanzi in the simplified form that China uses (Kanji in Japan hasn’t gone through as many simplification revisions) According to a documentary I watched about agriculture in America, somewhere in the northern part of the middle of the United States, they grow a lot of ginseng which they almost exclusively sell to China. According to the farmer giving the documentary crew the tour, ginseng grown in America is highly prized for its quality and purity. Apparently Chinese think so little of Chinese goods that they would rather American ginseng than what is grown in China. I’m ethnically Chinese, as well. From what I’ve seen, Asians, but especially Chinese seem to be quite insecure about their things, sadly. I’ve lamented that Chinese things don’t have as much clout, popularity and social currency as Japanese things and South Korean things do, so I’ve tried to introduce some cool Chinese things to people I interact with online, such as sharing interesting mythology ranging from Sun WuKong to JiangShi, idioms like “JiaYou”, philosophical concepts like “Wei Wu Wei”, elegance of traditional Chinese martial arts weapons (ranging from jian to the other jian to liu xing qiu to the GuanDao), Chinese songs and more. While writing this comment I put the beautiful song “Grain in Ear” by Mang Chung on repeat, a song I love sharing with others and explaining the cultural references. I highly recommend this song to anyone who sees this comment.
@Wei_Radula_Regiment
@Wei_Radula_Regiment 3 ай бұрын
I made a typo. The song “Grain in Ear” is by a production group called “Yin Que Shi Ting” / “Interestingcn” and performed by Zhao FangJing.
@MilkyWayWasTaken
@MilkyWayWasTaken 5 ай бұрын
New jj hairstyle👀 Possible new culture video idea: South Asian cultures with their own videos (Like Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, etc.. and all the cultures in these countries that make them unique)
@thelibyanplzcomeback
@thelibyanplzcomeback 5 ай бұрын
he may have just gotten out of the shower
@BrandonPoirierBlair
@BrandonPoirierBlair 5 ай бұрын
Just go outside you'll see plenty of it
@MilkyWayWasTaken
@MilkyWayWasTaken 5 ай бұрын
@BrandonPoirierBlair wdym? I'm simply requesting a possible video idea And I don't see plenty of it here in the states, rarely even in my own household
@thelibyanplzcomeback
@thelibyanplzcomeback 5 ай бұрын
oh no here we go
@AndrewZhang-o4x
@AndrewZhang-o4x 5 ай бұрын
@@MilkyWayWasTaken theyre referring to the fact there's a large influx of canadian immigrants from south asia - albiet with a slightly racist tone lol
@porcelaincrown
@porcelaincrown 5 ай бұрын
As a Chinese person from Australia there are parts where this doesnt feel accurate ngl but hey we all have our different opinions. Just for reference however the cultural revolution really didnt destroy as much as we're lead to believe. Chinese culture is well and alive and rich in China. The government contrary to before does go to extremes to preserve it, and the cultural revolution is widely and even officially accepted as a mistake. Its a shame that weve been poor for so long that we really havent had a chance to export it but hey.
@aroonsubway2079
@aroonsubway2079 4 ай бұрын
For folks who are really into China's cultural revolution (1966 to 1976). Please take a look at some real hardcore statistics from WorldBank: Chinese population grew from 700 million in 1966 to 930 million in 1976, and its GDP grew from 80 billion USD to 153 billiion USD (almost doubled) during the cultural revolution. People called that a "catastrophe". You are welcomed to search and do a fact checking on these figures.
@JordanToJericho
@JordanToJericho 5 ай бұрын
我自己是一个白色能说中文的美国人, 和我觉得大部分的外国人(不华的人) 不太喜欢中国的文化因为他们不知道中国的真是的文化。比如说他们知道笛子的声音但不知道三国。他们听过 孙悟空,和 孙子兵法, 但不知道 西遊記 和 中国的哲学。 当你问一个美国人关于中国 特们会告诉你 John Cena 和 毛主席, 或者 功夫熊猫, 和 Orange Chicken. 还是我很感谢您为中国的文化做了一篇视频。
@hayabusa1329
@hayabusa1329 5 ай бұрын
Have you lived in China before? How come you know Chinese?
@Flyingsearat
@Flyingsearat 5 ай бұрын
@@quantumchadit’s about China though so who cares if someone’s typing in chinese + there’s other chinese commenters
@vokay
@vokay 4 ай бұрын
@@quantumchadno one asked your input, you’re mad ‘cause theyre pushing themselves to practice their Chinese writing, while you couldn’t get passed HSK1. All your comments are strangely extremely negative towards anything Chinese, including pushing misinformation that pictographic imagery in Chinese Hanyu is “western orientalism.”
@Flyingsearat
@Flyingsearat 4 ай бұрын
@@quantumchad It’s giving projecting , if you are typing Chinese with all pinyin and not even tone marks I really don’t think you get to speak
@Flyingsearat
@Flyingsearat 4 ай бұрын
@@quantumchad “”laowai”” ur also the one on KZbin !! aka an app mainly used in the west and not china
@kribstek1155
@kribstek1155 5 ай бұрын
Hello JJ. A Chinese Language teacher (of non-native students) from Hong Kong. Long-time viewer & enjoyer. Your videos have been much insightful in offering me perspectives in learning about cultures of the world, as well as the standing of my native culture among them.🙏 The following are some cultural knowledge common among Chinese people (I'm no expert in many of them): 6:24 秦始皇 Qin-shi-huang (the First Emperor of the Qin dynasty, r. 221-210 BC) founded the first “great unified” Chinese empire by conquering the other 6 Warring States. He is credited for UNIFYING (among other things) the various Chinese scripts into the first standardized form “小篆 Small Script”. However, we were taught to credit its origins otherwise: 1️⃣ Folk mythology credited the creation to 倉頡 Canjie, an ancient sage who worked for the 黃帝 Yellow Emperor (r. 27th-century BC?). 2️⃣ According to modern archeology, the oldest surviving scripts are in the 甲骨文 Oracle Bone Scripts from the Shang dynasty (13th-11th century BC). (“Nobles carved words on ‘turtle shells’ 🐢 & heated them 🕯️ to crack for divination i.e. to ‘talk’ to the gods” -- a TLDR explanation for my students) 6:58 楷書 Kaishu (“regular script”) is the standard way of WRITING Chinese (esp. when using a brush🖌️) & is also commonly used in printing (esp. in textbooks). The red text on the left is in a “non-serif font (黑體)”, most common in modern printing esp. in most digital platforms -- what you would mostly see in any website or mobile apps. 12:05 The Terracotta Warriors were originally not brownish, but painted in COLOR, as studies found the residues of the paint on them. (kind of like the idea that dinosaurs might actually be feathered) The paint might have evaporated because of the excavation, and thus further excavation of the 1st Emperor's gigantic Mausoleum was stopped to prevent unexpected damage to the relics. 19:40 {TLDR, FYI: Each Chinese character is made up of different components. Most characters contain a “radical (部首)”, which is TYPICALLY semantical (that SUPPOSEDLY indicates the character’s ORIGINAL “elemental character”). For example, [日☀️ ] [月🌙 ] [火/灬🔥 ] [水/氵💦 ] [木🌲] [人🚶‍♂️(person)] [女💃(female)]...} Most interestingly to me (a geeky teacher) is that “竹🎍 (bamboo)” (𕫗 in reduced form) is a VERY common radical (element) by its own. Examples include: - 笛 flute - 管 tube; manage - 筆 pen - 籃 basket - 箭 arrow - 算 calculate - 等 rank; equal; wait (in line) - 節 section; festival The etymology of the above characters tell us their “bamboo-related” history in China: some were instruments made in bamboo; some were functions performed with the said instruments (imagine the use of bamboo sticks to calculate算 or to rank等); some were features of the bamboo (a bamboo is in sections節).
@TheMbmdcrew
@TheMbmdcrew 5 ай бұрын
The terra-cotta statues originally being in color reminds me of the Roman statues from Italy. We used to think of them as just pure white marble statues when we first dug them up, but archaeologists have later found that during the Roman Empire days, they were painted in color. It’s weird how we assume ancient civilizations didn’t have access to paint. XD
@wingchan7076
@wingchan7076 5 ай бұрын
THANK YOU! Chinese is a beautiful language and from my perspective as a Chinese, it's harder to learn languages that is based on how they sound vs. how each word means. It's difficult for me to memorize how each word sound and mean. In traditional Chinese, each words is made with different components with different meanings - they combine together to form a new meaning. e.g. the word "love" in traditional Chinese is 愛,with a roof/ home, heart in the middle and a friend at the bottom; cook "煮" has fire at the bottom, etc. They looks scary but each component implies something. Even if you've never seen the word before but knows the basic, you can guess what that means and sounds through these components. Simplified Chinese still has an element to that, but not all the time. My partner who's currently learning Chinese actually finds traditional Chinese easier to recognize for that reason. He said it's like decomposing a lego.
@bigbigdog
@bigbigdog 4 ай бұрын
The Terracotta Warriors lost their color due to oxidation from contacting the air.
@stopsign606
@stopsign606 5 ай бұрын
Using the peak of Chinese consumerism to talk about Chinese culture feels like the most J.J. thing to do
@BigBoiiLeem
@BigBoiiLeem 5 ай бұрын
7:20 note of clarification: Chinese characters can be read for meaning, they aren't solely abstract. Chinese characters are made up of "radicals", each of which carries specific meaning that can be used to decode the larger character. Your average Chinese speaker would do this for characters they don't recognise, perhaps without even thinking about it.
@JJMcCullough
@JJMcCullough 5 ай бұрын
But that doesn’t always work
@BigBoiiLeem
@BigBoiiLeem 5 ай бұрын
@JJMcCullough works a lot of the time though, so still worth clarifying
@max642fitz
@max642fitz 5 ай бұрын
@@JJMcCullough By this logic is English a not a phonetic language, since sounding out words does always work. Things like knight.
@JJMcCullough
@JJMcCullough 5 ай бұрын
@@max642fitz no, because phonetics is the defining characteristic of English. Obviously exceptions exist. Reading Chinese is not a primarily phonetic practice even if some exceptions exist.
@greenhawk6839
@greenhawk6839 5 ай бұрын
@@JJMcCullough Actually the majority (possibly 80-90%) of characters work on the phono-semantic principle, where they have a phonetic component that is shared with other characters with a similar pronunciation and a semantic component, which helps disambiguate characters by giving a hint about their meaning. If English used characters, you could imagine writing aye (the exclamation) and I (the pronoun) with the an image of an eye, with a mouth and a person beside them respectively. This works a lot better in Chinese because of the number of homophones. Although there has been some phonetic drift over the years this system still allows speakers to reasonably look at the phonetic component in a novel character, made an educated guess about the pronunciation and match it back to a word they already know in the spoken language. The more characters you know, the more your knowledge of the components is reinforced and the more you can rely on it to guess the pronunciation of new characters, reducing the burden on memorisation. Also as an aside, although alphabetic scripts like the Latin alphabet do have a more direct letter-to-phoneme correspondence, most readers recognise word shapes rather than processing each letter individually. It tends to be only struggling readers (and small children) who have to sound out common words, though (somewhat like withthe characters) it's a skill that people might fall back on when they encounter an unfamiliar word. This also explains how English speakers handle our fiendish spelling system: we have effectively memorised the appearance all of the most common words with exceptional spellings since childhood and so we no longer notice how they're inconsistent with other rules of the spelling system. There are differences between each method but ultimately both written Chinese and written English rely on a combination of knowledge of the spoken language and memorisation for someone to be functionally literate.
@hannah.b_765
@hannah.b_765 5 ай бұрын
My childhood best friend was a girl who was adopted from China. Her white parents took her to Chinese school once a week so she could connect to her roots and whenever I visited her she would tell me everything she learned and I was very fascinated by it. There was also a children’s show that came on in 2008 called Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, and it was a like Chinese Dora. Taught kids about Chinese culture. I’d say those two things really got me into Chinese culture as a white girl, it always fascinated me because it was so different from western cultures, it made me open to cultures different than mine in general.
@TheMbmdcrew
@TheMbmdcrew 5 ай бұрын
Oh, I remember Kai-Lan! That show was so cute! It got me interested in Chinese culture when I was a young girl.
@hayabusa1329
@hayabusa1329 5 ай бұрын
Where are you from?
@Cassandra03
@Cassandra03 5 ай бұрын
Slightly tempted to send this to my Chinese sister in law to verify its accuracy.
@kevinw4267
@kevinw4267 5 ай бұрын
No need, accurate
@3434-c1t
@3434-c1t 5 ай бұрын
kzbin.infop77oW3zP-z0?si=8G2WWvqsfoNUMB1V
@niccage6375
@niccage6375 5 ай бұрын
I'd show this to my Chinese sister in law but she was raised in st louis with a white mom
@vincentwang1988
@vincentwang1988 5 ай бұрын
Chinese here, 9.5/10 accurate
@bm6632a
@bm6632a 5 ай бұрын
@@vincentwang1988 yah tiger isnt the 2nd highest ranked zodiac sign, and dragon isn't the first, Rat is first because he hid in Ox's ear when crossing to the jade emperor, Ox was second, and then Tiger came third after racing Rabbit.
@shanelocsin9906
@shanelocsin9906 5 ай бұрын
As a Filipino, I can say that we do have some amount of Chinese influence in our culture. We even have the oldest Chinatown in the world here in Manila. We have people here who believe in Chinese superstitions(myself included), have Chinese bloodlines and we also somehow celebrate the Lunar New Year and it has became a special holiday in the country. I am guessing that the reason why some people here in our country didn't like Chinese culture was because of the politics. Given that we are having some territorial issues with China, some Filipinos would have negative impression of the country. It is also worth noting that Chinese culture has been very influential and has been the structure for other East Asian countries like Japan and Korea. I think that we should have some sort of appreciation still towards other countries' cultures if we really are interested in learning so at least we can understand their past and present.
@jojokong3128
@jojokong3128 5 ай бұрын
我们中国不仅和菲律宾,还和周边很多国家都有地缘摩擦,毕竟牵扯到自身的利益在里面,很难不让人去惦记这些地方。当然了,国家影响力总是伴随着实力的崛起而传播,要知道在四十年前,我们中国人还在为吃饱饭而发愁,而那个时候,欧美日韩这些发达国家的人民早已经载歌载舞过着开心的生活了。到了今天,中国也逐渐慢慢的追了上来,人们虽然工作也很辛苦,但毕竟不会在吃穿用这方面发愁了。所以,中国共产党才逐渐打开国门,让稍微有些自信的中国文化流向世界。只不过,我们离发达世界还有很远的路要走。作为一个普通中国人,我还是希望我们两个国家不要发生战争,和平稳定的向前发展自己国家的经济更为重要。只不过,菲律宾作为美国的一颗棋子(也许你并不这么认为)。如果美国一旦发起代理人战争的话,那么,菲律宾和中国一定会是在亚洲的第一场战争😢(我真心不希望发生,但没人能阻止的了)。所以,作为一个普通人,我们还是好好享受现如今来之不易的和平时光吧😊😊。
@arthuruppiano3211
@arthuruppiano3211 5 ай бұрын
As a result of taking several Mandarin courses in college, I was exposed to a fair bit of Chinese culture, and I personally appreciate it a lot. As you touched on, I think geopolitics is the main reason why Chinese culture hasn't had quite the same purchase in North America as Korean or Japanese culture; the fact that Korea and Japan were invaded and occupied by American forces in the mid-20th Century forced an "opening up" and encouraged cultural exchange at a time when modern American culture was itself taking shape, whereas mainland China was distracted by its own internal conflicts and then shunned by the West until the 1970s. Anyway, some pieces of Chinese culture that I particularly like are moon cakes, Xiangqi/Chinese Chess, and the animated series Scissor Seven (highly recommend).
@luoleizhao5216
@luoleizhao5216 5 ай бұрын
I wonder if the relative obscurity of Chinese culture will change from the rise of Chinese Video games. I feel like games like Genshin Impact, Zenless Zone Zero, Arknights, etc. are the most significant Chinese cultural export to make it out of the country and become popular overseas. They're not explicitly "In-Your-Face Chinese" games, but I feel that does make them more approachable and less "exotic" or foreign, which could potentially make them more powerful as a cultural influence.
@JJMcCullough
@JJMcCullough 5 ай бұрын
I would hope they would include some themes of middle-class Chinese life, and not just anime-style high fantasy. I learned a lot about Japan from the non-fantasy elements of many of their games.
@lancergt1000
@lancergt1000 5 ай бұрын
meanwhile Wuthering Waves, is most definitely an "in-your-face Chinese" game 😂
@lancergt1000
@lancergt1000 5 ай бұрын
​@@JJMcCulloughArknights is way too concerned with pastiching the culture of other countries to bother, Genshin is a bit too high fantasy for the references to middle-class Chinese life to stick unless you already know them, but Zenless Zone Zero is perfect for gleaming middle-class Chinese life
@ivy4360
@ivy4360 5 ай бұрын
These games are still more anime, thus more japanese pop culture then chinese, maybe games like Black myth Wukong will change that though.
@ivy4360
@ivy4360 5 ай бұрын
Danmei is very popular too
@Song-TheNiceGuy
@Song-TheNiceGuy 5 ай бұрын
Well, you can't talk about Chinese culture without talking about Confucianism and Taoism. There are some very good intro videos about them on the ReligionForBreakfast channel. These are some of the most important foundations of Chinese society. Also, I believe that one of the main reasons why you see fewer Chinese cultural representations in the Western media is that Chinese pop culture in the mainland only started to get serious momentum after the early 2000s. Therefore the industry (in mainland China) as a whole is only about 20 years old. But in the new age of video games, short-form videos, and live streaming, Chinese pop culture is doing much better these days. I'm pretty optimistic about the future; it is only a matter of time before the next Jacky Chen pops off. Lastly, if you want to explore more about Chinese culture, there is a very good channel to start: Little Chinese Everywhere. This is a very good traveling vlog all over rural China. If you are a fan of Chinese culinary culture, I highly recommend the Blondie in China channel. Edit: Love and peace and no politics please, it's too tiresome.... All we need is ordinary people talking to each other in a normal way about normal life.
@jakekuo7562
@jakekuo7562 2 ай бұрын
Yes, and they also revitalized traditional 漢族 clothing.
@teucer915
@teucer915 5 ай бұрын
What you say about Kabuki and Peking Opera being mostly for the artists these days is probably true - but the West has ballet. Most ballet companies rely on people who think seeing the Nutcracker is an important Christmas tradition to pay to keep the doors open the rest of the year. When was the last time you went to a ballet performance?
@TurtleMarcus
@TurtleMarcus 3 ай бұрын
Yeah, I think most cultures have these kinds of things. In most Western countries, there are traditional folk dance, song and art traditions mostly kept alive by government-funded cultural programmes. I don't read JJ as criticising Kabuki and Peking Opera. It's just the observation that these are cultural artifacts which people hail as culturally important, while not really engaging with it in ordinary life.
@KmTangi
@KmTangi 5 ай бұрын
Comments: 10% Chinese Cultural talk 90% JJ’s hair
@kepliu
@kepliu 4 ай бұрын
There are a lot of exaggeration about damage of the culture revolution period 1967 to 1976. I started my elementary school in 1968 at the age of 7. We had calligraphy class and abacus class in school. We read classical Chinese novels at about 11 or 12 when we learnt enough characters e.g. Water Margin, Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West
@kepliu
@kepliu 4 ай бұрын
China reprinted those classical novels in around 1971. They were available in book stores in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai
@sinoroman
@sinoroman 5 ай бұрын
1. Communist Party didn’t support the cultural revolution, it was mainly led by Mao. He was the chairman so the party couldn’t do anything to stop him 2. Republic of China wanted to simplify Chinese but was preoccupied by Japan’s invasion. After fleeing to Taiwan, ROC gov ditched language reformation
@sirloinofice
@sirloinofice 5 ай бұрын
​@@quantumchadwell Mao had actually fallen out of favor with the rest of the party due to the failure of the Great Leap Forward. The Cultural Revolution was mainly an attempt by Mao to use populist rhetoric to convince the people to rally against his opponents in the party. It eventually back fired for him as people started to realize that a lot of what Mao was saying about the rest of the party also applied to him. The rest of the Cultural Revolution saw the PLA and Red Guards engaging in armed skirmishes. Mao's choice for successor, Lin Biao, would die in a plane crash, and Mao became convinced that he had been plotting with the Soviets. Mao would then die and the Gang of Four took over. Deng Xiaoping and the GO4 would then engage in a brief political skirmish. Deng came out on top and had the GO4 arrested. It's worth noting that Deng Xiaoping was quite prominent in the party during that brief period where Mao was out of favor with the party.
@menonalevi6984
@menonalevi6984 5 ай бұрын
@@quantumchad Commusnism bad bot detected
@omnomnom5359
@omnomnom5359 5 ай бұрын
@@quantumchadhe’s right though, if it’s not for mao and his Gang of Four there would be no cultural revolution. Most party elites are against the whole thing, but they can’t do much to stop mao due to his influence
@miguelpadeiro762
@miguelpadeiro762 4 ай бұрын
@@menonalevi6984 What does this have to do with anything, communism IS bad, Mao's ideologically-driven reforms and the misery and death it caused is due to communism, well, Maoism. After his death, China embrace the free market under a tight leash of the government
@aroonsubway2079
@aroonsubway2079 4 ай бұрын
For folks who are really into China's cultural revolution (1966 to 1976). Please take a look at some real hardcore statistics from WorldBank: Chinese population grew from 700 million in 1966 to 930 million in 1976, and its GDP grew from 80 billion USD to 153 billiion USD (almost doubled) during the cultural revolution. People called that a "catastrophe". You are welcomed to search and do a fact checking on these figures.
@TheMightyMcClaw
@TheMightyMcClaw 5 ай бұрын
JJ you know I love you But uh These are some very creative takes on mandarin pronunciations
@JJMcCullough
@JJMcCullough 5 ай бұрын
Every pronunciation was correct
@zacharysee9786
@zacharysee9786 5 ай бұрын
@@JJMcCulloughEh no, your tone for much of the Mandarin will be off-putting to us, sorry to say. Better than most westerners though
@xavierputh6942
@xavierputh6942 5 ай бұрын
@@JJMcCullough Not exactly, “笛子“(dizi) is not "dai+zu", it's just "dee+tse"
@RaymondHng
@RaymondHng 5 ай бұрын
@@xavierputh6942 And 花椒 (Hua Jiao) was mispronounced as "Huao Jiao"
@DarkBlade37
@DarkBlade37 4 ай бұрын
@@JJMcCulloughThat’s nonsense.
@knightshade2654
@knightshade2654 5 ай бұрын
I took Chinese as my language class in most of middle and highschool and, despite never doing well, I adore Chinese culture and even hosted an exchange student as a freshman. I think that Chinese culture is still popular; for example, you even said that the bamboo flute needs no introduction, and concepts like lion dances, caligraphy, and even go are known by the vast majority of Westerners. The issue is with China itself; after a fittingly described century of humiliation, the country was ran by a madman who tried to destroy so much culture; tombs of ancient (even per-Imperial) royalty were plundered and destroyed. Deng and his successor's have reversed this, but China has been increasingly seen as a geopolitical rival to America and the West at large over my lifetime. This does not need much explanation, but the Chinese government and businesses themselves are also really bad at establishing anything close to the soft power. There is a good video by a lady Aini on this, where she explains how it is not only anti-China sentiment but the Chinese elites' struggle to decide how to become a world power and also promote itself as one of, if not the, oldest societies in history.
@TombaFanatic
@TombaFanatic 5 ай бұрын
This was my thoughts. China's fall coincides with the rise of the west. By the time the US began developing California, China would be the victim of a series of civil wars and invasions that did not stop until the end of the communist revolution, and then spent another few decades trying to erase its past and being blacklisted by the west. My impression is that they have only had the opportunity to even have a pop culture since 80's (and don't market it to the west). Their pre-modern history is interesting, but the typical consumer doesn't make purchases because the Ming Dynasty was a golden age of art (unless you figure out how to make them want to know about that)
@JulieQ-qf5ho
@JulieQ-qf5ho 5 ай бұрын
We chinese extremely admire chairman Mao so be cautious. You could say whatever you want but be aware of the impression you will leave us by saying that he is a madman.
@roycampbell586
@roycampbell586 5 ай бұрын
​@@JulieQ-qf5hoI don't think any world leader should be revered to the point they cannot be critiqued. I hope your warning is in good faith.
@baikeiast5255
@baikeiast5255 5 ай бұрын
China doesn't want western weeb comming into their country😅😅😅😅
@bobjones2959
@bobjones2959 5 ай бұрын
@@JulieQ-qf5ho that's only a product of government policy and media. I was in China back in the early 2010s, and my grandfather (who adores Mao) wanted me to wear a badge with his face on it. All my other relatives went against it, saying I'd be laughed at if I was seen wearing that. So I'm sure there is (or at least was) a segment of society that wasn't so hilariously sycophantic about him.
@hellokitchen
@hellokitchen 5 ай бұрын
The Peking Opera that appears in the video is a segment from "The Locking of the Unicorn Bag (Suo Lin Nang 锁麟囊)," which is actually not an ancient folk tale but very new (first performed in 1940). The core of this play is very modern and very touching; it is a story about girl helps girl in unpredictable life, rescuing others from suffering property and flood disaters, and ultimately reaping the rewards of good deeds. This is also a representative work of the Peking Opera master Cheng Yanqiu, and it should available be on KZbin (probably w/o English subtitle, unfortunately). Interestingly, another play that appears is "Duan Mi Jian 断密涧," which is about a rebel general who surrenders and kills his princess wife, but he ends up dying as well.
@JungleRice
@JungleRice 5 ай бұрын
Hey, Jay Jay. I'm half chinese/Puerto Rican and white born and living in Texas, went to uni at 川大。In regards to chinese opera, I have some old tapes from my 爷爷 that have recordings of chinese opera that I like to listen to. Its very festive and happy sounding to me. I also would go and see opera in person when I lived there. Loved seeing the face changers.
@tanjoy0205
@tanjoy0205 5 ай бұрын
Do Indonesia or Singapore next!
@JJMcCullough
@JJMcCullough 5 ай бұрын
I would love to
@tanjoy0205
@tanjoy0205 5 ай бұрын
@@JJMcCullough OmG ,did not expect you to actually reply,it would be a great video on the multiple cultures ability to exist and mix .(Chinese,Malay,Indian,White) If you are going to do a video ,you should dive into the nervous attitudes of Singaporeans .It’s called being “kaisu” .There is even a book about kaisuonomica which explain the more commonly talked subjects which surround money in Singapore .
@lancergt1000
@lancergt1000 5 ай бұрын
@@JJMcCullough hi there, if you need any help with Indonesia you can ask me, I'm native Indonesian
@professionalevilrker
@professionalevilrker 5 ай бұрын
I am not the kind of person to ask for this kind of thing, but i would like to see a video about the cultures of places like the horn of africa. Or the indian subcontinent. Not necessarily one country, but comparing and contrasting a area with similar(?) countries in smaller denominations than continents I always felt like china was sort of the "unrecognized/unloved" culture of the orient trio/quintuple. Definitely not as trendy as japan or korea to like nowadays. It sounds weird to say when chinese food is effectively a institution now imao
@ThatViralVideo
@ThatViralVideo 5 ай бұрын
Can’t believe you went a whole video about China without mentioning the Han.
@itsdachief
@itsdachief 5 ай бұрын
As China continues to get richer and more influential, there are even more examples of cross-cultural exchange. Temu, Shein, TikTok, and Genshin impact are all becoming household names
@JJMcCullough
@JJMcCullough 5 ай бұрын
I didn’t know GI was Chinese
@emmanuelincrease1996
@emmanuelincrease1996 5 ай бұрын
It's Chinese but it looks very much like Japanese animes u would would not know
@romanr.301
@romanr.301 5 ай бұрын
(原神)Genshin, in Chinese, would be read as Yuanshen, but it uses the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese characters that make its name because the developers were likely aware that having a Chinese name would turn off overseas, and maybe even domestic, consumers, who frequently associate "Made in China" with poor quality.
@きくちよ-p3v
@きくちよ-p3v 5 ай бұрын
@@romanr.301 I believe it is because the developers are weebs.
@ivy4360
@ivy4360 5 ай бұрын
@@romanr.301 Hopefully we can make that games that have a Chinese identity rather then create anime games that live in the shadows of Japanese pop culture. I hope people can enjoy Chinese media because of its origin, not despite of it. Black Myth Wukong looks promising to do that though.
@Conaman0
@Conaman0 5 ай бұрын
You have quite a knack for explaining the essentials of a culture, I learned a lot. I can't speak for Chinese opera's general popularity, but "biàn liǎn" (face changing) is a common sight in Chinese malls, where a brightly dressed opera performer shows up in restaurants and quickly changes his mask as a magic trick. Everyone seems to enjoy that. You hit the nail right on the head by choosing Minions as the vehicle for culture - China is completely obsessed with these guys. You see them plastered over phone ads, wall art, and even government propaganda (all of dubious authenticity and legality). I would also say China is obsessed with Lotso from Toy Story 3, a bear you can find all over backpacks and bumper stickers and toys. They might be villains in the West, but they're just full of cute appeal here. Cheers from Sichuan!
@stickjohnny
@stickjohnny 5 ай бұрын
JJ you are getting closer to that big 1M!!! I couldn't be happier, you deserve it!
@meowtherainbowx4163
@meowtherainbowx4163 5 ай бұрын
Fun fact: Stone lions ("shishi") feature prominently in the poem "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den," written to feature only the syllable "shi." With each of its four tones, it can represent dozens of words because Mandarin Chinese has a lot of homophones. A speaker wouldn't know what it's trying to say just from listening, but it makes sense in writing.
@MrC0MPUT3R
@MrC0MPUT3R 5 ай бұрын
Came for the Chinese culture; stayed for the pronunciation
@notablemind
@notablemind 5 ай бұрын
My favorite thing about Chinese culture are the proverbs and idioms. For example: 飛象過河 - Elephant flies across the river - we say this if someone has done something so incredible that it is hard to believe OR, they blatantly broke a very important rule... because you know, elephants cant fly across the river before the invention of planes and helicopters 花拳繡腿 - flowery hands embroidered legs - meaning it's all nice and showy but lacks any real substance or practicality 敬酒唔飲飲罰酒 - won't drink to toast must drink to punishment - meanig either you're my ally or you're my enemy, or I extend olive branch but you spit in my face. Or if you don't want to do the easy way, then we'll do it the hard way and go to war.
@retrotwo28
@retrotwo28 4 ай бұрын
When I was in China, It was very clear that Cantonese Opera was very important in the area I was in. I met many locals that were seemingly huge fans of the performances. I'm unsure if its the same in northern china, but in Guangzhou it was clearly very beloved.
@remiliascarlet4412
@remiliascarlet4412 5 ай бұрын
Corrections: 7:16 JJ’s statement that one could only learn how to read Chinese through blunt memorisation is but wrong, since more than 90% of the characters are the accords a radical and a sound part. The former provides a clue to the meaning, and the latter tells the pronunciation. So if you know something like a thousand characters you can learn the rest quite easily, through associating them with other already familiar characters, as there is a certain pattern one can spot, in addition. Simplified characters however disrupts this process and in turn makes it a bit harder to trace the pattern. For example, 螞蟻 (ant) is read mǎ yǐ, the radical 虫 means worms or insects, and 馬 (horse) and 義 (justice) are read mǎ and yì respectively in modern Mandarin, and obviously the meaning of these sound parts have nothing to do with the original meaning in this case. 6:38 “Caoshu” - whenever the letter c appears alone it is supposed to be pronounced as “ts”. 6:44 These are “Xingshu” or half-cursive because the strokes are still visible. Caoshu is supposed to be abstract and hard to be deciphered. Plus the one on the right is just a modern version which to some extent isn’t even traditional calligraphy. 6:51 If you ask me, that thing kind of looks like “Lishu”, or clerical script, which is much older compared to Kaishu, because the strokes are more rectangular. (Or rather a compromised version between the two) Plus 6:57 this is Xingshu and 6:59 the one on the right is Lishu and the one on the left is just a generic computer sans-serif Gothic font.
@remiliascarlet4412
@remiliascarlet4412 5 ай бұрын
12:16 call me a nerd but it should be Qin Shi Huang instead of Qin Shihuang, since this is not his personal name but rather his title, which means the First Emperor of the Qin. The names of Chinese emperors are taboos and should not be mentioned (not even the characters which form them) while they reign, and Qin Shi Huang as the first ever Emperor of China is certainly also revered in that fashion even as of nowadays. Hence the rendition of his title shall not be mistaken as his name, and that no emperor of China is traditionally known by their personal names (perhaps apart from some of the peculiar ones like Li Shimin, Liu Bei and Pu Yi).
@remiliascarlet4412
@remiliascarlet4412 5 ай бұрын
16:39 This is a Japanese painting, evident from its style as well as its era name 寬永 (Kan’ei). The Japanese concept of a guardian lion is different from that of China’s, since they’re not deemed lions, but something called 狛犬 (komainu), which is ironic since the two are supposed to be counterparts.
@remiliascarlet4412
@remiliascarlet4412 5 ай бұрын
19:00 I know this sounds ridiculous but dizi here is pronounced as something similar as “deez” as in deez nuts.
@peterthegamer9334
@peterthegamer9334 5 ай бұрын
I’m not normally a sensitive guy when it comes to westerners trying to depict Chinese culture. Most of them do their research well. But for this guy I can’t help but feel a little offended. Lots of his explanations and comparisons feel at best poorly researched, or at worst maliciously oblivious.
@tranquoccuong890-its-orge
@tranquoccuong890-its-orge 5 ай бұрын
the process of learning Chinese words could be better described as modularly figuring out how simpler words can stick together to form more complex words of course, the simpler elementary words still require memorization, which could be the initial barrier to foreign learners
@alextsatsos212
@alextsatsos212 5 ай бұрын
Rando white girl here! I love Chinese opera! It’s such a vibe! I don’t know why but the sounds and spectacle is so amazing to watch and once you learn what all the costumes and makeup mean it’s pretty easy to follow if you can’t understand the singing
@hexwolfi
@hexwolfi 5 ай бұрын
Have you heard of the Hanfu movement? There's been a recent trend among Han Chinese to consciously re-adopt old cultural traditions and fashion, especially millennials and Gen Z. Some scholars have suggested that the movement has a nationalistic undertone (I admittedly used to think this too), but it seems like most people are just doing it for fun and enjoyment. It's interesting to me that a subculture centered around the traditions of the past is flourishing the way it is after the generations that lived through the Cultural Revolution.
@ThisCommentWroteItself
@ThisCommentWroteItself 5 ай бұрын
I am happy to say that before this video, I was not aware that the Minions had names
@undolf4097
@undolf4097 5 ай бұрын
South Korea and Japan are countries politically orientated towards the West these days, leading to the cultural exchange we love today. China remains separated from the West, even if it is a major trade partner. The CCP especially clouds China both from importing Western culture and exporting their own. Chinese media gets limited play abroad and Western media gets limited play in China. I think China’s complicated relationship with its own culture contributes to this, as traditional customs are still frowned on by certain parts of elite Chinese society if not in the name of communism, than in the name of modernization.
@dunnowy123
@dunnowy123 5 ай бұрын
Bingo. It's the clearest example of how politics, specifically GEOPOLITICS, affects culture. Westerners see Japan and South Korea as cool, because our governments have great relationships with each other. This encourages economic and cultural trade, tourism, immigration etc. China is, by and large, seen as at best a competitor and at worst, an enemy of the West. So, just like the USSR of old, there seems to be skepticism and even fear of being interested in Chinese culture or acknowledging its vast impact on humanity. I know this because I vividly remember how different it was back in 2008, when China-US relations were at its peak, and China was seen quite positively for the most part.
@otanakugaming3357
@otanakugaming3357 5 ай бұрын
It was also important to see which part of China we are talking about. There had been quite a bit confusion on the direction the central government was approaching from. Compared to other East Asian countries like Japan and South Korea, China had a broader regional or even cultural variance within the country, and the government seemed to only focus on certain region, which resulted in foreign Chinese diasporas may not found familiar with if they were not from the same region (For instance Cantonese culture could be very different from the one in Beijing)
@dunnowy123
@dunnowy123 5 ай бұрын
@@otanakugaming3357 Yeah, there's a level of cultural diversity, even amongst Han Chinese, that is incomprehensible compared to Korea or Japan.
@aroonsubway2079
@aroonsubway2079 4 ай бұрын
Typical western mindset, as if political ideological bs is what China is all about ...
@johnnyboi5941
@johnnyboi5941 5 ай бұрын
Chinese person here. This is a pretty great video and I particularly like the notion of a minion doing stereotypically Chinese things as a representation of where Chinese culture is at now. I would just like to add a few comments here and there that I think might be interesting to people. 1. I didn’t know pop mart was Chinese, I thought it must’ve been Japanese. Actually I think a lot of current Chinese exports get mistaken for being Japanese (for example Miniso and Genshin). Maybe China is still finding its footing under the shadow of Japanese exports before it can fully develop uniquely Chinese cultural style 2. Most stone lions I’ve seen are usually cheaply made and the stone ball in its mouth doesn’t move around freely. I definitely would played around with it as a kid if they actually did that tho. 3. Chinese opera isn’t all that popular amongst the public especially the youth and it’s just kept on life support for cultural purposes. JJ is absolutely right that it’s more for the artists than the audiences and it’s a similar situation to Korea or Japan. I’ve seen two such performances my whole life: one Shanghai opera on a field trip as a student and one kabuki show in Japan as a tourist and the venue was likewise filled with students on a field trip who couldn’t care less. 4. On the topic of the spring festival, in recent years there’s been increasing complaints about the lack of holiday spirit even for the traditional festivals as they make way for more work hours at the office. This year’s Chinese New Year’s Eve didn’t get a day off and was a work day, and people are veritably pissed. Kinda funny how a tradition once threatened by communism is now threatened by capitalist greed.
@jimmartin5065
@jimmartin5065 5 ай бұрын
I feel like you could have mentioned the Sinosphere and how Japan's and Korea's cultures are largely based on ancient Chinese culture
@djexpo6655
@djexpo6655 5 ай бұрын
This was a great video. I'm going to share it with one of my favourite colleagues in Australia who is Chinese. Before her, I viewed China as "the enemy" and with suspicion. Then she opened my eyes up to the wisdom and grace of Chinese people. I grew to especially appreciate their love of allegory.
@AmbiKarma
@AmbiKarma 5 ай бұрын
Jackie Chan Adventures taught me everything I know about Chinese culture, take that as you will.
@epicsouththeoduskiangamer
@epicsouththeoduskiangamer 5 ай бұрын
I think one of the major reasons Chinese culture doesn't export well is that is really doesn't need to. Where Japan and Korea went all in on cultural products that worked well in the west, China has a giant billion-man domestic market at its fingertips, and products that can go both international and domestic are few in number. A few examples though might be cdramas, video games like genshin, and uniquely chinese internet memes
@nr655321
@nr655321 5 ай бұрын
Yeah, right 😅
@epicsouththeoduskiangamer
@epicsouththeoduskiangamer 5 ай бұрын
@@nr655321 supply and demand
@freddytang2128
@freddytang2128 5 ай бұрын
Gotta say, not sure if intentional but JJ's hair reminds me of a 50 year old Chinese auntie
@yuio823
@yuio823 5 ай бұрын
In the age of cold steel arms, each Chou ( 10:52 ) weighed 25kg, and the way to attack the enemy was also very simple: hit the enemy's body hard. Even if the enemy was wearing armor, he would be seriously injured or die due to ruptured internal organs.
@susankay497
@susankay497 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for this intro to Chinese culture - so interesting!! Also, I DO think our western fear of "communism" is at the heart of why we have been and are exposed to so little Chinese culture (so small-minded IMO).
@aroonsubway2079
@aroonsubway2079 4 ай бұрын
Yes, due to the political ideologies, most westerners don't even have the gut to try out a Chinese cultural product, no matter how great it is.
@avgft3419
@avgft3419 4 ай бұрын
If you’re an avid fan of Korean and Japanese cultures. You do get tidbits of Chinese cultural aspects. It’s not like there isn’t any Chinese cultural influence. Sometimes it’s very subtle though.
@Anastas1786
@Anastas1786 3 ай бұрын
As a non-Chinese person with a strong interest in Chinese culture, I'm personally developing a specific interest in the different forms of Chinese opera... but it _has_ been slow going. The extremely old and traditional musical styles are definitely acquired tastes for someone who grew up steeped in _Western_ musical tradition, and these days even _native Chinese_ kids are growing up steeped in Western musical tradition and thus have to acquire tastes for old Chinese music too, and from what I hear, China's parents and teachers seem less concerned with encouraging respect and appreciation for traditional Chinese opera _as a true, living art form_ than they are with instilling respect for it in a more _abstract_ way as a piece of Chinese heritage, like a kind of animated museum piece, metaphorically presented under glass and surrounded by "Do not touch" and "No flash photography" signs. Also, the forms of the Chinese language used in opera are often extremely regional and/or archaic, so even if you've learned to like the music and they're falsetto-ing in a dialect you can technically understand, catching the plot still requires you to, by analogy, understand Shakespeare, or maybe even Chaucer.
@godlaydying
@godlaydying 5 ай бұрын
Until recently, I vaguely had the idea that the Taiping Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion were the same thing, which is roughly like thinking that World War Two and the Vietnam War were the same thing.
@crystal2082
@crystal2082 5 ай бұрын
Just wanted to add some things if anyone is interested! 1: Tanghulu is not actually a method but more just describes the food itself (to my knowledge). Tang means sugar and hulu is a type of gourd, referencing the shape of the candied haws. Another common street food (and my favorite) is Tanghua (sugar painting). Typically there's a list of choices or a wheel you can spin to decide which design you want and the vendor will draw it for you (basically a lollipop). 2: A lot of people will decorate their doors with Chinese calligraphy, usually to ward off bad spirits. Most of the time it is for a holiday like the spring festival but some people will keep theirs year round. In regards to Chinese characters, there are ways to know characters without actually learning them. For something like 灯 (deng1- meaning lamp/light), there are two halves of it, one that tells the meaning and the other the pronunciation. The left side, 火, means fire while the right side, 丁, is pronounced ding. So, with this, we know the character has something to do with fire and is pronounced somewhat similarly to ding. 3: Personally I have not met anyone really interested in Peking Opera but I do think a lot of the imagery and history is quite well known. I will say that karaoke is very popular in China. 4: I don't really see chuei in media often. The only times I have really seen them are in the 2019 film NeZha, where one of the main characters Ao Bing has them, and a Popmart figurine I have from the Lulu Piggy Journey to the West box (Bull Demon King). 5: There is a Chinese nursery rhyme to the tune of Frere Jacques where they describe 2 running tigers and they are missing various body parts (typically one is missing an eye and the other is missing a tail). Please tell me if this is unique to China or not cause it's kinda demented and probably referencing the poaching or hunting of tigers. 6: Guzheng is also a very classic Chinese instrument. I think it's less common to have stans of Chinese culture as it's not considered "aesthetically pleasing." It also doesn't help that China is such a diverse nation with different dialects between provinces. There feels to be less of a sense of unification in China compared to Korea or Japan. In addition, I feel like China has a pretty bad reputation in the West, especially in recent times, which prevents it from being a more popular culture. I'm pretty surprised that there wasn't a mention of historical C-dramas as those are really popular (my mom watches them).
@_TehTJ_
@_TehTJ_ 5 ай бұрын
I think one of the sad things about Chinese culture is that when they attempt to export something it's often met with suspicion at best, and frequently outright xenophobia. When China exports a video game, movie, etc most people focus too heavily on the idea of it being a "rip-off" even if the ripping-off is mostly coincidental. One of the biggest examples is calling Genshin Impact, the biggest Chinese game in the west, a Legend of Zelda rip-off mostly because it has similar climbing mechanics. Ignoring that the main gameplay loop, plot, style of game, etc are different. Or when Chinese comics are published outside China people often say it's ripping off manga, ignoring both manga's own inspirations from the west and the fact that many anime tropes are Chinese in origin. If a Chinese person draws a stick figure, it won't be long for some Reddit weirdo to say they're just ripping off their friend Gus' stick figures.
@JJMcCullough
@JJMcCullough 5 ай бұрын
That’s true. I mean, obviously counterfeiting is a big problem in China, but you’re right that a stereotype has grown that all Chinese people are basically uncreative, unimaginative, etc.
@_TehTJ_
@_TehTJ_ 5 ай бұрын
@@JJMcCullough Really sucks too because a lot of Chinese stories/comics/etc (I'm talking modern post-Deng stuff, not just ancient stuff) is really good. Obviously Three Body Problem is the main one going around these days, but there's a really good time-travel cartoon called Link Click, it's kind of like Stein's Gate but the similarities are so minor that it's more genre convention than anything else.
@TrickiVicBB71
@TrickiVicBB71 5 ай бұрын
A very racist stereotype that has gotten hold and probably won't leave for a long time. I like naval military history. And people say China copied USA's Nimitz and Ford Class. But there isn't really too much thought into looking what a modern carrier is. Just look at WW2 aircraft carriers, for example, from all nations. A big rectangle with an island on the right side in the middle.
@ricenoodles632
@ricenoodles632 5 ай бұрын
Even the name of the game itself shamelessly rides on the reputation of Japanese culture, just to mask the fact that the game is a Chinese developed game so to get more people to play it for the first time thinking that the game is Japanese. There's just too many instances where this happens even when Chinese ppl market things to themselves, like making a packaging appear more Japanese or Korean because those are the cool and trendy countries that can also be trusted better with their quality.
@TheOtherMwalimu
@TheOtherMwalimu 5 ай бұрын
Look up Shanzhai. It's more complicated than a racist stereotype or "rip-offs."
@maneil9297
@maneil9297 5 ай бұрын
One of the most popular Chinese philosophies is to "live their own lives, NOT to impose their own philosophies on others." I guess that plays a factor in not exporting culture to other places.
@SeruraRenge11
@SeruraRenge11 5 ай бұрын
To be fair, part of the whole "China does not export its culture abroad" thing was because historically, it didn't WANT to. For much of Chinese history there was always a kind of wierd, almost chauvanistic obsession with the idea that the Middle Kingdom's (which is what the Chinese word for China, Zhongguo, means) culture basically belongs to them and them alone and the only way you get to share in it is if China conquered you, which very rarely happened as China historically fought so many wars against itself that it didn't have a lot of time to fight its neighbors. It's kinda hard to imagine today in a world of globalization the idea that you actively don't want to share your culture with others but China wasn't a fan of interacting with the outside world outside of trade for most of its imperial history, and even then they generally didn't trade for anything other than silver. Part of it was arrogance, part of it was China didn't really NEED anything else as it could produce it domestically, but a lot of it was because the easiest way the imperial court kept an iron fist on its populace was to deny them the outside world. After the Imperial system went away, China only very recently managed to pull itself back up from the hole it fell into and is just now kinda catching up with the whole, "you share your culture with the world" thing.
@asj685
@asj685 5 ай бұрын
China was hardly isolated from the world as you so wrongfully assert. An essential part of its ancient history was the silk road connecting China with the outside world. Silk merchants traversed faraway to Rome as early as the Han Dynasty.The Tang Dynasty capital was the most cosmopolitan of the time with influx of settlers from the middle east and central Asia. A Chinese monk travelled to India to learn Buddhism, becoming one the major religions of China. Fourteen Japanese cultural missions sailed to the Tang capital to absorb all aspects of Chinese culture to recreate in Japan. Their cities of Nara and Kyoto were modeled after Tang capitol Chang'an. Cultural arts such as weiqi, penjing are now better known by Japanese names of go and bonsai. Aristocratic japanese ladies were heavily influenced by fashion and makeup of Tang court ladies. References were made in Tale of Genji of a Tang emperor and his favorite concubine Yang Guifei rumored by Japanese to have found her final resting place in Wakayama prefecture. A mirror gifted by empress Wu Zetian can be found in one of their museums.The cultural impact from the Tang to Song dynasties was undeniably deep and profound in Japan. Before China turned inward around the latter part of Ming Dynasty, Chinese fleets sailed as far as Africa for trade. Unfortunately, the steam ran out of ancient chinese soft power coinciding with the 19th century rise of western colonial gunboat diplomacy leading to a century of degradation until recent rebirth from ravages of civil wars, foreign invasions and embargos.
@SeruraRenge11
@SeruraRenge11 5 ай бұрын
@@quantumchad Yeah basically. The primary way China expanded its territory was >X group (usually some kind of steppe horde) attacks China >they conquer a swathe of it >the Han slowly turn their enemies into them >the one time this simply did not work, the Yuan dynasty who were Mongols, they were eventually just kicked out after a couple centuries >every time they absorbed their conquerors, "China" became larger. That isn't to say China hasn't TRIED conquering neighbors before, they just aren't very good at it, what they're better at is as you said, internal conquering. There used to be at least 22 unique ethnic groups in the territory currently known as china. One by one all were erased and replaced with Han. Also another reason it fought so many wars against itself was because unlike in Japan where people simply fought for whose daughter married the Emperor and thus their grandkid would be the next one, the Imperial Throne in China was basically up for grabs for whichever dynasty could unseat the current one.
@KaijinD
@KaijinD 5 ай бұрын
This is one of my favorite videos you have done. I have lived in East Asia and have advanced degrees in East Asian history and politics. But that's not the reason I like this video so much. It's because you found an interesting way to present the information with toys and symbols that never would have occurred to me. I've not seen anyone approach cultural analysis the way you do, and I really respect it.
@nemesis962074
@nemesis962074 5 ай бұрын
I remember watching a video about Chinese Mainlanders and their interactions with the historic Chinatown in Vancouver. There was a bit of irony since the community was saying that the area was becoming too pricy and gentrified and that this historic Chinese community would have to find housing elsewhere, while a big factor as to why housing was rising in this area was all the rich Mainlanders buying up property. In turn the Mainlanders argued that the Chinese culture promoted by these organizations wasn't really representative of China, and that it was tacky and backwards. I think that this disruption in Chinese culture has something to do as to why Chinese culture hasn't caught on as much, since a lot of what was traditionally Chinese was erased by the Great Leap Forward, and now what is Chinese isn't as deeply rooted in their historical culture as you could argue other cultures are.
@mengvictor8
@mengvictor8 5 ай бұрын
The part where the mainland Chinese do not feel Chinatown as representative might also be due to the diversity of Chinese people. A lot of Chinese that first came to North America were from Southern China Guangdong region (a lot from Taishan), their culture would not be the same as northern Chinese (e.g. Beijing). An already regional culture from a specific time period came to North America and evolved independently from there. How much would it be the same for someone that is not specifically from that region of southern China to come visit a cultural imprint differing from geographical origin and evolution through time?
@thelakeman2538
@thelakeman2538 5 ай бұрын
I mean diasporas have a tendency of freezing their culture in time to back when they came to their new home, since they're more protective of what makes them unique while their country of origin changes over time and diverges from their view of it. Add to that regional differences exist in like every country and immigration waves to the new world even from the same country usually tend to come from particular regions, it's quite likely that over a century there would be many differences between the two groups.
@antonycao
@antonycao 5 ай бұрын
Most Chinatowns are objectively tacky. You can't talk about Chinatowns in North America without talking about racism and the risk of displacement. The Chinese residents made Chinatowns look like Disneyland to attract tourism and save their neighborhoods. In San Francisco, the architect Paterson Ross for Chinatown isn't even Chinese. The resulting architectural collages were drawn from various Chinese traditions as well as American ideas of what China should look like. You can't blame the Great Leap Forward on this. Vox did a great job telling the story of this historical and less well-known event if you want to learn more.
@krgoodrich1
@krgoodrich1 5 ай бұрын
We studied traditional Chinese culture at church as kids in our missions programs (along with a variety of other international cultures). Looking back as an adult, I find it was remarkably well done. Since it was for kids it was not overly politicized and very positive. It was part of the reason I still enjoy learning about other cultures as an adult.
@MrMuel1205
@MrMuel1205 5 ай бұрын
I do find it interesting how compared to Korea and Japan, Chinese culture doesn't appear to have the same level of resonance for Westerners, not withstanding that China essentially is to the East what Rome is to the West. I play a Chinese-made game, Honkai Star Rail, and I've noticed that despite it being entirely produced in China it is popular among Western players to play the game in the Japanese dub. I can only assume this is due to some tendency of Western audiences raised on anime to conflate all Asian "nerd" culture with Japan.
@zero-pl3tt
@zero-pl3tt 5 ай бұрын
Hong Kong cinema was huge from the 70s til about the 2000s, but other than that, yeah, Japan and Korea dominate.
@avgft3419
@avgft3419 4 ай бұрын
I am Chinese Canadian and can speak and understand mandarin pretty well just to give a perspective. When I played genshin impact, it just felt kind of uncanny when I played in CN. Japanese also rolls off the tongue a lot better in my opinion.
@schatz_burg
@schatz_burg 4 ай бұрын
The Japanese have totally succeeded to become the pioneer or forefront image of Asia’s animations. This we can’t deny, plus their very positive soft power image compared to Chinese, who just built it very recently. We just need to give it some more time.
@Roibeaird
@Roibeaird 5 ай бұрын
Regarding Go. The main difference between it and chess is the abstraction of the game to a real life counterpart. Go is about capturing territory more than enemy pieces, as both players have unlimited pieces (or at least more pieces than there are spaces on the board) and no piece is unique or special. Whereas chess is about taking enemy pieces, thus effecting their ability to fight and gaining favourable positions to force you opponent to concede. I always think of them as a tactical vs a strategic view of a battlefield. Defeat the enemy, and take losses, or nullify the enemy without committing to battle.
@Scorpiotide
@Scorpiotide 5 ай бұрын
All the main western media platforms and social media are banned in China. It significantly impede the cultural footprint Chinese creators can have that achieves widespread influence. 李子漆 (Li ziqi) is one of those that went viral on KZbin through making videos of her cooking in a rural house with produce from her garden. If there were less obstacles, I would have imagined more creators will be interested in producing cultural content that goes beyond a Chinese audience.
@act_sion
@act_sion 5 ай бұрын
you mean American platforms
@Scorpiotide
@Scorpiotide 5 ай бұрын
@@quantumchad I don't think she initially started as backed by the government, but the gov gave her a lot of media exposure after she already got famous? She was signed to a MCN (Multi-Channel Network) agency that produces influencers, and eventually had to go on hiatus because of a shareholding dispute with said agency.
@ollieyang4613
@ollieyang4613 4 ай бұрын
Peking Opera used to be super popular and everyone was singing it back in the Cultural Revolution, because the state ordered the artists to modernise it, adding 'Western ' string instruments, removing archaic pronouciations, increase the pacing, use 'normal & realistic' costumes, and writing new modern (revolutionary) stories. This policy revitalized Peking Opera for a while, but after Cultural Revolution ended these innovations were seen as unorthodox so it stopped evolving, regressed back to the old forms and its popularity died off.
@royliu1409
@royliu1409 5 ай бұрын
As someone born in Beijing, I've only been to a Peking opera once when accompanying an American tourist. And I've been to more opera than Peking opera. Some older folks used to listen to them on the radio in the park but I don't know a single person of my age or my parents' age who would voluntarily listen to it, I don't think anyone particularly likes it and the common attitude is 'it's something worth protecting but not worth watching'. People would rather listen to modern music infused with some traditional elements.
@desu8990
@desu8990 5 ай бұрын
While some of it is politics, I think it’s interesting to compare the situation to Korea’s cultural influence in the west right now It’s only really grown in the last few decades, and is largely being brought over to youths on the internet before being disseminated to other demographics. With this in mind it’s not hard to extrapolate that China’s “Great Firewall” may be just as influential as its opposition to the west in preventing a wider appreciation of its culture here
@VonTurtle8282
@VonTurtle8282 5 ай бұрын
JJ's metamorphosis into Chantal Hébert is moving along nicely it seems
@troywhyte9103
@troywhyte9103 5 ай бұрын
As an American there is absolutely no reason I should understand this reference. (But somehow I know of M. Hébert) So Plus One for your CANCON.
@TheEnergeticPanda
@TheEnergeticPanda 5 ай бұрын
As someone who lives in Taiwan it's interesting to see the growing popularity of Taiwanese music. Sure it's not K/Jpop but it's growing and has a very unique sound to it. Even within the sinosphere, here in Taiwan, Chinese music isn't actually that popular. It really struggles to have international appeal even in Chinese speaking countries.
@Anything_USA
@Anything_USA 5 ай бұрын
I got to visit China in early 2019 with a group of people from my high school. It was a really good time, and if geopolitics were what they are right now, I would love to go back. The people were very friendly (minus the surprisingly high number of people taking pictures of us without asking, lol). Anyway, Chinese culture is really fun to immerse yourself in as an American because of how different it is from our own. Great video as always J.J.
@JJMcCullough
@JJMcCullough 5 ай бұрын
What’s surprised you the most?
@wzeng6043
@wzeng6043 4 ай бұрын
Hey I’m a Chinese guy living in Shanghai rn and I’m really happy you enjoyed your time here in China! Part of the reason why some local Chinese people might take pictures of you without asking is most likely coming from the older generations of elder Chinese people that are fascinated and curious about foreigners touring around and probably would just assume that you don’t mind them taking a picture as to them it is an innocent causal thing 😂 That same experience was the same for me and my friends when we visited the city of Xi’an as part of our school’s organized “China Trips” and a lot of elder people were also taking pictures of us to probably share to their relatives as something interesting that happened during their day 😅
@MrMultiPat
@MrMultiPat 5 ай бұрын
I liked this video, I like all your videos focusing on specific countries in Asia. You do a good job of getting to the big cultural pieces.
@Conor1_23
@Conor1_23 5 ай бұрын
3:52 actually the minions are french, hence why they were in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony
@FilipPopovic-oj2fz
@FilipPopovic-oj2fz 5 ай бұрын
What!?!?!
@Conor1_23
@Conor1_23 5 ай бұрын
@@FilipPopovic-oj2fz yes really, you can look it up if you want to
@cinnamondan4984
@cinnamondan4984 5 ай бұрын
The word at least is.
@RaymondHng
@RaymondHng 5 ай бұрын
@@cinnamondan4984 Illumination Studios Paris is the creator of the Minion characters.
@elaeka3685
@elaeka3685 5 ай бұрын
Traditional opera experienced a trendy resurgence recently after the Chinese game Genshin Impact featured it in a cutscene. Artists across asia were making covers of the song, and domestic Chinese interest in the art spiked too.
@sirsmokeefortwence25
@sirsmokeefortwence25 5 ай бұрын
In the 80s/90s I feel like a lot of kids were Chinese culture fans. Not sure if it's just a growing appreciate of other Asian cultures or a rise in anti-chinese propaganda that's changed it.
@soupladle3237
@soupladle3237 5 ай бұрын
I feel like they might have been less fans of Chinese culture and more fans of Hong Kong culture (which were separate entities politically until 1997). Hong Kong had a lot more cultural exports, and Hong Kong action movies staring Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan got very popular in the west in the 70's and 80's.
@ricenoodles632
@ricenoodles632 5 ай бұрын
Kung fu was big back then in US/Canada. I would say huge as a cultural export from China/HK. Even in the 2000s Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee were still huge names, and then we had the newer wave Jet Li in the late 90s-2000s who was also making waves in Hollywood.
@daltongalloway
@daltongalloway 5 ай бұрын
*anti-ccp propaganda
@hayabusa1329
@hayabusa1329 5 ай бұрын
True. I remember Chinese culture was quite popular back in then 70s too, it was viewed pretty similarly to Japan now (except not anime) and it was considered a popular tourist destination
@hayabusa1329
@hayabusa1329 5 ай бұрын
​@@soupladle3237Hong Kong is Chinese
@stevestiles811
@stevestiles811 2 күн бұрын
I took a semester elective in 12th grade about the "History of Modern China" - it was an excellent choice, insofar as broadening my cultural horizons and providing me with a deep respect for Asian traditions. Took this at a Catholic high school no less lol.
@FozzyBBear
@FozzyBBear 5 ай бұрын
Chinese cuisine has gone through some variations over time. The Western-style Chinese food was brought by miners and railwaymen in the late 19th century, and focuses on tenderized meats, with breading, and sauces, with rice or noodles and assorted local vegetables. In the 1960s home-cooking was virtually eliminated in China when everyone was forced to melt down their cooking pots and utensils and eat at commercial kitchens.
@JulieQ-qf5ho
@JulieQ-qf5ho 5 ай бұрын
That is called commune canteen, not commercial at all.
@FozzyBBear
@FozzyBBear 5 ай бұрын
@@JulieQ-qf5ho A slip of the tongue or autocorrect, I meant communal, not commercial.
@JulieQ-qf5ho
@JulieQ-qf5ho 5 ай бұрын
@@FozzyBBear no worries. Just to correct the information because there are already too much out there on the internet
@TrashTrackers
@TrashTrackers 4 ай бұрын
Going through all 13 Minions activities for a video was absolutely genius! Great work on the video JJ!!
@TheSugarholicProject
@TheSugarholicProject 5 ай бұрын
The fight to define Chinese Culture can also quickly become political, as "tradition" has often been used as a tool of populist nationalism or, in Falun Gong's case, a tool of right wing fearmonger. This discussion will ramp up in the next decades or so, as China and Chinese abroad fight for a clearer idea of what being Chinese really mean and what about the "traditional" culture we should change or keep.
@aroonsubway2079
@aroonsubway2079 4 ай бұрын
Most westerners have a very strong political ideology in their mind.
@pernielsen7510
@pernielsen7510 5 ай бұрын
20:06 "It's wild to think that over 2000 years ago minions were playing the same instruments as the do today" im dead hahaha
@BagMonster
@BagMonster 5 ай бұрын
JJ entering his No Haircut Arc. I would also mention that Chinese culture is relatively less influential partially because they just haven't made as much effort to export it, even after they got rich. K Pop, for example, has has extensive backing from the South Korean state to improve their reputation abroad, while Chinese pop culture isn't even very influential in neighbors like Myanmar.
@starmaker75
@starmaker75 5 ай бұрын
it also weird because china spread it culture alot in it imperial era . so when they were trying to modernize, I guess japan and korea took china place.
@ricenoodles632
@ricenoodles632 5 ай бұрын
@@starmaker75 Much of Korean culture are just too similar to Chinese and Japanese which were what had already gotten big in America and Canada, and much more gradually so. Korean culture in the US/Canada was only blown up due to Kpop in around 2009-2012.
@leoc9154
@leoc9154 5 ай бұрын
wow, being one of the few chinese subscribers (I guess), super happy to see a topic about our culture. thanks JJ
@dstinnettmusic
@dstinnettmusic 5 ай бұрын
Loved hearing the NES Duck Tail’s “moon theme” for the Lunar calendar.
@act_sion
@act_sion 5 ай бұрын
Korea did not export highend products until the 2000 .
@jack.h99
@jack.h99 5 ай бұрын
The Chinese flute is pretty iconic but music played with the erhu just hits different. Look it up and you'll know what I mean.
@ricenoodles632
@ricenoodles632 5 ай бұрын
Erhu is real gangsta shit Flute is 10pm clips of Chinese scenery on CCTV-3
@jakekuo7562
@jakekuo7562 2 ай бұрын
古箏 is better
@zhcultivator
@zhcultivator 4 ай бұрын
I LOVE Traditional Chinese Architecture, I find it to be the best Architectural style in the World imo.
@Azec6Official
@Azec6Official 5 ай бұрын
Best hair era yet WOWZA
@tomhalla426
@tomhalla426 5 ай бұрын
I sorta think JJ is not in an involved relationship, as most people are superstitious and keep the hair and grooming style they have when they get involved.
@Reditect
@Reditect 5 ай бұрын
For that last bit, I'd imagine the Chinese execution act, isolationism, Covid, and many other forms of hysteria or anti-Asian sentiment played a role in how people view China as a country. Of course, there are positive things as well, such as media (music, movies, arts, etc.), that give Chinese culture a better image.
@joshvonterio687
@joshvonterio687 5 ай бұрын
THANK YOUUUUU JJ been waiting for this one for a while now!!
@Minty1337
@Minty1337 5 ай бұрын
as someone who has played go and chess, go is much simpler than chess fundamentally, however there is a higher skill ceiling, an easy to learn hard to master situation.
@drudgefood6207
@drudgefood6207 5 ай бұрын
One issue with Chinese culture not becoming as “powerful” as Japanese or Korean is that china has strict regulations around several artistic forms of expression that keep it relatively stale. Also, china has been mostly recycling the same old stories they have had generations. Every few years they do another Journey to the West retelling or similar style fable, which hasn’t found massive appeal outside of china. A personal story for my former point was when I was in China and saw people watching a drama series about the Sino Japanese war, I asked the name of it. A man responded that he didn’t know because there are so many shows about the same topic, that look the same, and have the same story, he didn’t know which one this was.
@JeffKing310
@JeffKing310 5 ай бұрын
Fascinating video essay. I’m sensing another award on its way. Thanks for the research and perspective JJ !
@cartoliravioli2391
@cartoliravioli2391 5 ай бұрын
I think politics might be part of the reason why Chinese culture hasn't blow up as much in the USA. With current tensions between the two countries, older people, conservatives, and those in power might see it as threatening or invasive. The TikTok ban could be used as an example. Just speculation though.
@aroonsubway2079
@aroonsubway2079 4 ай бұрын
Does your APP need to connect to WIFI to threaten our national security? LOLLLL
@japjeetmehton9921
@japjeetmehton9921 5 ай бұрын
I was just thinking about China and Chinese culture after seeing their performance in the Olympics.
@NicodemusT
@NicodemusT 5 ай бұрын
I love that JJ says Canada has no culture because it's just American culture but then puts a video about how Chinese culture is important, while showing Minions unironically and with no self awareness.
@HELLO_KORO
@HELLO_KORO 5 ай бұрын
I mean he's not wrong, alot of Canadian tradition is Repackaged American stuff
@NicodemusT
@NicodemusT 5 ай бұрын
@@HELLO_KORO it's about consistency. There's plenty of Canadian culture. Pretend that you think of the USA when you think of hockey.
@evanmaus4794
@evanmaus4794 5 ай бұрын
I appreciate this. I'm fascinated by Chinese culture as my great grandmother was from Hong Kong
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